Inktober 2019 : Day 4 - Pentel Pocket Brush And Ink Wash

Inktober 2019 : day 4 - pentel pocket brush and ink wash

Lottie wears her hair over that eye for a reason.

This one also snuck past my 90-minute time limit, I think it took just under 2 hours. I’m not as quick with the brush pen as I thought!

Inktober 2019: day 7 - ink and water

Nettle is not renowned for her masterful control of her temper.

I wanted to have another go at blending only part of the picture like on day 1, but it didn’t work quite as well this time, it came out too dark and flat. In hindsight maybe spot colour would have been better, but hey ho this is how we learn.

Merm no. 30 is a pyrosome! Pyrosomes are actually made up of thousands of tiny organisms, so her head and arms are not real body parts. Who knows why this colony decided to take the shape of a mermaid? It’s a mystery. I’m quite glad I’m doing these late, because this one took longer than I thought and I would have been sad to rush it!

The last mermaid! It was already several days into June, so I spent a little more time on this one. I’m very pleased with her tail. This mermaid lives in a lotus pond, and may be more of a water spirit than a physical animal. Thanks for following my mermaids! I’ll be collecting them in a little zine, so watch out for that if you liked the series. :3

Day 21 is a friendly little vampire squidmaid! She’s appeared in a portfolio piece in the past. Be careful as you approach, she may try to hug you without considering all her teeth. I was messing around with masking fluid again (I learned it’s not as good with ink because the mistakes are harder to fix) and I tore the paper, so I decided to go in with the rubbish novelty pencils again and see where their limits really are! I still think they hold up surprisingly well? Don’t let cheap materials hold you back kids.

Day 17 is a pokemon mermaid, in honour of Detective Pikachu being the reason I fell behind. I never had a Milotic in the games, but I like the weird stained-glass-window look of its tail. I made a bad decision with this one though! I finally caught up on the previous days and just had this one left to do, but I decided to use masking fluid to do the background, and you can’t remove the mask until the paint is completely dry. It was so late at night by then that I had to leave it to dry overnight and fell behind again! *facepalm*