Underwater funk - MerMay 8

Slowly I'm catching up the date. Here there is my MerMay number 8: the Poecilia reticulata mermaid a.k.a. lebistes or guppy: the funky mermaid.

Free your mind...

Mermay 7

This time I choose an African fish: the Noceratodus forsteri a.k.a. dipnoo and gave her an art nouveau touch.

Hello Mr. Mom - MerMay 6

From wiki: "The male seahorse is equipped with a pouch on the ventral, or front-facing, side of the tail. When mating, the female seahorse deposits up to 1,500 eggs in the male's pouch. The male carries the egg until the seahorses emerge fully developed"

Hippocampus mermaid: Mr. Mom

MerMay day 5

Don't mess with the Lobster warrior mermaid.

MerMay part 1

Contrary to whatever is wise for a person with a handful of deadlines getting closer, I decided to take part to MerMay 2018.
Of course I'm a bit late, but I'm forcing myself to recoup the time lost, even if, at the moment, I just have 4 sketch out of 8 that should be today.
Since I was in need of a theme to get inspiration, I decided that to me this one is the 'strange fishes' mermaids month too.
At the end of the month I think I'll choose 12 of them to deisgn as proper illustrations.
But, for the moment, here there are my first 4 strange mermaids.

Torpedo torpedo Mermaid

Pterois antennata mermaid

Lactoria cortuna Mermaid

Lagocephalus scleratus mermaid

Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite!

I'm trying to add some new arts at my portfolio for kids and, in the meanwhile, to improve my collage style, so here there is a sort of re-draw (more properly a reinterpretation) of a very old illustration I made back in 2011 (you can see it here).

As you can guess from the title of the post, the idea is a tribute to a Beatles' song.

Art vs artist

My first artvsartist... look at my dumb face in the center -_-

NO!

Waiting for Maruxaina

Maruxaina is a blond haired mermaid who, according to Galician legends, uses to live in the Xan Vello cave in the Farallóns islands, alluring mariners with her beauty and her voice. 

Since it's being a while I'm planning an illustration dedicated to her, it's time for me to become a bit more familiar with merimaids' anatomy. So here there is a preparatory doodle that probably will be cleaned and coloured while I make my mind on how exactly I want to picture this blond fish-lady

O vagalume

Finally in my spare time I did this: "good night! I'm the firefly" it's saying.