MerMay 12 and 13

Keeping on without being able to be up at the day

MerMay 11 Steampunk Periophthalmus argentilineatus

Periophthalmus argentilineatus is a little fish a.k.a mudskipper because of its habit of go out the water and spend some time in the mud. For this peculiar fish I imagined a steampunk mermaid and drawed it in crayons, pantone, and coffee spreaded by a make-up brush since in my new home I didn't brought my watercolour brushes at the moment.

Higher Ground

The day after, I'm definitely still in Eurovision Songs Contest hangover. I loved particularly Denmark's song, performed by Rasmussen (but hey: Austria, Italy, Hungary and Moldova you're in my heart too), and I couldn't help drawing a quick viking themed sketch.

Here there is my trubute all in pantone and ball-point pen to Higer Ground (if you click on the name, you can listen to the song).

Dancing betta splendend

Today my MerMay 10 is setted in Cambodia: a betta splendens siren drawed in pantone like a Cambodian dancer.

Tribute to Galicia: Octopus Mermaid

The today marmaid is a tribute to the land that is my new home: Galicia, where eating octopus is pretty common.

Here there is my Octopus vulgaris mermaid for MerMay day 9

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