Day two of Mermay: Surprise, Since it was definitely a surprise for me when @/mersaloon.bsky.social drew morag with one of his characters yesterday. Its only right I do the same. Go read his comic also, the artworks very good you'd probably enjoy it. Check back tomorrow to see what else is in store.

Its Mermay and I've got my own list of things to draw, Starting off with Day 1, Shore. I kept it simple to start with since its the start of the month. I also wont be revealing the full list since I like to keep surprises.

Happy first day of #mermay everyone! I'm not following the instagram prompt list this year. Instead I'm following my discord's prompt list. And today's first prompt is Day 1: Sing Featuring my lovely Catriona and the lovely Morag from @neojestar.bsky.social!

So recently I learned that ''Ren Fair'' was short for renaissance Fair and it blew my mind, I dont even know how I didnt put 2 and 2 together on that. So with that I decided to do a themed image for that, I then made another 3 because I liked drawing the outfits that much.

I dont really have a funny one liner or character trivia for this one I just thought the idea of a fish saying bait used to be believable was funny.

Despite Bridget being the most anxious of the cast she has never once been scared by horror movies/games, Media set on dry land especially doesnt scare her since she never leaves the water. By her logic she doesnt get scared by werewolfs since she'll never encounter a werewolf underwater.

It dawned on me I never made a reference for Fiona's land outfit, Fun fact its my favourite of the 3 outfits she has. There will also be a bonus post at the regular time today.

Nows as good as time as any to reveal the names of the manatee and clownfish mermaids, for those curious Aoife is pronounced ''E-fah''/''E-fuh''.

I recently found a copy of Legends ZA for cheap and decided to give it a go. Enjoying it more than I thought I would. Im not getting the dlc though, that gameplay loop combines timed challenges and resource gathering, 2 of my least favourite mechanics.

I realised that during that run of watercolors I forgot to do one for Maeve, so here she is sitting in her office

I wanted to try something slightly different and decided to see what Fiona and Morag would look like if they were Mermaid Melody style mermaids. Plus a little bonus image showing how a typical episode would go if Morag was in charge of singing the songs. This is just a one off thing by the way.

The ocean can be a dangerous place for those unprepared, Especially for Pirates who have the misfortune of being within Morag's throwing distance.

Bit late to the party on this one but I finally played Shadow Generations and it was pretty good. I liked 3D and 2D being split into their own acts instead of mishmashing the two like modern sonic's levels did, Also I find it really funny how borderline obsessed Black doom was with Radical Highway.

Been a bit since I've drawn the manatee mermaid, I knew that I wanted another air breathing mermaid to be a parallel for Fiona. Them both having grey tails however is entirely coincidental.

Maeve's main use for magic is her transformation spells, But she's also trained in general spells and specializes in water based spells, She can make ice/steam and manipulate waters shapes. She can also use magic to speak with animals but mainly uses it to speak with dogs.

Another addition to the ''something different yet still a half sea creature woman'' collection, Its Ren a character from my ''animated'' show. Its also not the first time i've posted a picture of her on here, scroll back far enough and you'll find them.

It was only a matter of time before Fiona got a water color, I've had my fun with it but i'll be switching over back to solid colors for now. I'll still do water colors here and there but I dont want to over do it. Its been a week of them now that seems like enough for the time being.

The 2nd of the wheel decided watercolours is Metal Sonic, Personally I'd love a game where metal gets to be the main focus again. He's such a wildcard character whenever he appears, He can go from nearly defeating the entire cast to getting one shot by batman.

The first of these 2 wheel decided watercolor images is @/muskrat15.bsky.social's Aurora out for a swim and coming across a new find for her human museum.

So since I forgot to set a cutoff on those suggestions I'll do that now since I've already spun the wheels, As for what went on the wheel there was 2 of my own picks, 2 suggestions from here and 2 that my irl friends picked. Today will be Aurora and tomorrows will be Metal Sonic.

I spun the wheel for the next watercolour and it landed on Saoirse, Been a bit since I've drawn her. I'll do maybe 1 or 2 more since filling in the colours is very satisfying to my brain. If theres any suggestions for what character to do I'll put their name in the wheel for tomorrow.

I wanted to try different brush types and I decided on water colours, I might do the other mermaids too since I liked how Morag and Bridget turned out.

Sometimes I have difficulty coming up with poses for these, especially since Fiona and Morag dont have legs 99-100% of the time so thinking up poses for the mermaid tails can be tricky. I remembered there was the little mermaid statue and figured that'd be neat to use for a one off picture.

Since yesterday was Mermaid Morag and Lamia Fiona it only made sense to do the inverse for today. Now things are perfectly balanced, as all things should be.

Sometimes I cant decide whether I want to draw Fiona and Morag as mermaids or as lamia, It only just dawned on me I can do both.

I've brought up some of my favourite characters to draw but in terms of favourite designs i've made then one of the top 5 has to go to Full Strike Cipher, A character I dont really show on here too much. No reason in particular for that I just use her in other projects mainly.

Happy Easter everyone, Heres a small comic to mark the day.

One pokemon I always was fond of was Aggron, ever since they stopped putting the full dex in games he's one of the pokemon I always look up to see if he's in a specific game. Im not a huge fan of his Mega form though.

I saw Mario Galaxy and wanted to give my thoughts on it and I also promised a mermaid picture yesterday so im combining these two things into one. As for the Movie im not spoiling anything so heres a nice concise review: It was fine, I enjoyed it.

I couldnt think of a good joke for today so instead I'll take the chance to actually have a post about my own mascot since its been like a year of me doing this and still havent done so yet. Enjoy some fun facts and tomorrow we'll likely return to your regularly scheduled mermaids.

Its mermaid day, I couldnt pick just one or even two of the cast to draw so the natural conclusion was all of them even including the new mermaids.

Phoenix wright has alot of weird and fun characters, If you had to ask me which is my favourite im picking Penny Nichols, A character who appears for maybe a third of a case in the first game. Maybe she appears in others ones I dont know I only played the first trilogy.

Having a giant snake tail would be cool, the main downside to being at least half reptile would definitely be potentially being cold blooded. You want to go outside that day? Better hope its warm out or you're going to run out of body heat.

Despite one of Maeve's main research goals being to give herself legs on command she still spends most of her time underwater, Her being unable to move properly out of water was mainly a pet peeve. Although she did have other reasons for wanting to go up on dry land I'll reveal some other day.

The theme for today is Random Fiona picture, But i'm doubling that offer for TWO random Fiona pictures! I wanted to try adding a little bit more detail to how I draw hair since it is one of the blander parts of how I draw, Naturally I tried it with Fiona with her short hair and her long hair styles.

I've shown before how Fiona shares some traits with regular dolphins, But what about the main ability echolocation? She biologically has the capabilities to use it but she actually doesnt know how to. Its safe to say screaming into the ocean is not the proper technique.

Sometimes I wonder where things start, phrases, traditions that kind of thing, The message in a bottles a weird one to me because my first encounter with it was mystery dungeon where sometimes you could get missions from them, I just thought it was a pokemon thing and not an actual trope.

Now that theres a clownfish mermaid in the mix it only made sense to pair her with Morag for a picture, Its just like that one movie where the clownfish and the blue tang team up and have to find the chaos emeralds or something. Im definitely not misremembering the plot, perish the thought.

Manatees and mermaids have well known history together so I've combined the two. What you might not know is manatees move so slow that algae can grow on their backs, Kind of like how sloths have moss grow on them.

If you've ever wondered who cuts Fionas hair the answer is simple, She's got a barber she goes to whenever it goes too long for her and she gets it short to get the most out of each visit. The average time between cuts is about 2 months

Im a man of my word and as such heres Morags latest purchase from Wally, or at least the aftermath of the event. They say fish dont do well in the air and its true in more ways than one.

Its been a while since I've drawn a picture with all 3 of my protagonists together so todays the day I fix that, What will tomorrow be? I dunno probably Morag buying another item from Wally she doesnt actually need.

Nothing too crazy today just a picture of Bridget enjoying some a swim underwater.

Theres something about sitting at a desk that just feels official even when you're doing nothing at all, the most official feeling thing I have at my desk is a framed picture of waluigi t-posing.

Double trouble today, It's been a while since I've drawn the goobers in their animal pyjamas so Morag gets to be at maximum comfort today. Fiona however is up getting some fresh air.

Its Mario day so why not do a themed image, At least thats what I said to myself while staring blankly into Krita. I've drawn the princesses before but todays for the man himself. If you're wondering which games my favourite its bowsers inside story without a doubt.

Todays something different in that the character isnt mine, Still half fish though that parts all the same. Its Flamshe from Legend of Mana, A really good game that it took me forever to figure out how to actually play properly and even now barely understand the story.

Morag's never found herself wanting legs but there were times where she came across the downsides of not being able to step over things, Luckily when Fiona was with there these were simple issues to solve with a little bit of teamwork.

Been a while since I've posted about my terraria calamity run so heres a little progress report, im in hardmode now and thats brought alot of new enemies. The earth elemental is the first time in a while i've gotten genuinely jumpscared in a non horror game and with foxy in the mix thats impressive.

Maeves main business model is turning land dwellers into merfolk but she has attempted to branch out into turning other fish into merfolk. The main problem with this is that the fish cant read the contracts, combine that with Maeve not being able to speak fish and it becomes a bad idea in general.