Day 21 Is A Friendly Little Vampire Squidmaid! Shes Appeared In A Portfolio Piece In The Past. Be Careful

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 12′s mermaid was inspired by the blue whale skeleton at the Natural History Musuem.

Day 15 is a freshwater pearl mussel! This mermaid is rooted to one spot. She can produce a pearl of rare size, but getting it from her will be tricky. I fell behind a bit on day 14 (I used my comic-drawing time to go and see Detective Pikachu, so I had to use my mermaid-drawing time to do my comic, and ended up with no time for a mermaid), so this one was lagging about a day behind.

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!

I forgot to upload the rest of my mermaids! I got super-busy towards the end of May, so I’m afraid I only managed 28 in the end. I’ll finish the final three when I have time, but these are the last ones drawn during May. I did have another go at the coralmaid, like I promised! I’m sort of pleasantly surprised by my own work for this challenge, more of them turned out well than I ever expected! Did any of you manage all 31 mermaids? Did you have fun?

It’s not May any more but I’m still drawing these last three mermaids! No. 29 is a raymaid (not a specific ray, some sort of weird mashup of every ray I know how to draw). I have a terrible late-night version of this one from the 31st as well, since messing it up was what forced me to admit I wasn’t going to get them done in May. I plan to print these in a little book, so I’ll put the first attempt as an inset on the page with this one. Only two more to catch up on!