Admin Post: Drawing Challenge #70 (Mermay & Marine) - Round-Up Post

Jun. 1st, 2025 01:03 pm
mific: (Blue mandala)
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A bonanza of art this month! Congrats to those who took part in this challenge!

Drawesome Challenge #70 - Mermay & Marine. Blue banner, white drawings of seaweed and fish or merpeople tails.

Entries submitted for Drawing Challenge #70 - Mermay & Marine: As usual, this challenge as well as all of our previous challenges will remain open, so you can continue to submit entries to the community any time after the Round Up date. Be sure to tag your art posts with the challenge name, so that it can be added to the list. --- Thanks to all who participated in this challenge! A new one will be issued shortly. :)

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Ruler

Jun. 1st, 2025 12:04 am
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Ruler
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Serene in their power.
Content Notes: So this was drawn in fairly poor light in a hurry at Swancon2025 at a bumpy table. Still it's not terrible. Drawn with the Conklin mainly.
 
A regal merperson
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Rainbow Mermaid

May. 30th, 2025 04:06 pm
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Doing my stretches

May. 29th, 2025 04:02 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Doing My Stretches
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Dip pen mermaid
Content Notes:This Mermaid was drawn using a dip pen, and Diamine's Upon A Star Chameleon shimmer ink.
The Chameleon inks are really hard for me to photograph, they're sparkly, but very tiny sparkles,
and on a rainy day like today there's no sunlight.
 
My phone light does bring them out, but without bringing out a real camera it's probably a lost cause, and I would rather just get it posted. If you look at the close up of the tail you can see that it's got quite a sheen going on, and also I did manage to capture a tiny tiny sparkle. There's more there, really, but I just can't get it to show. Click on the images to embiggen.
 
 

inkstand


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Cosmic wiggle

May. 28th, 2025 02:43 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Cosmic Wiggle
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Wiggle merperson from above.
Content Notes:That Cosmic Glow from Diamine sure has a great sheen! It's pretty with a wash too. Drawn with the Conklin and a lovely time I had of it too.
Merperson top view
Merperson Top View with sheen
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Frisking

May. 27th, 2025 06:21 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Frisking
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Cute merperson
Content Notes: Found this little thumbnail in my sketchbook probably from last month, it might as well as be today's!
Probably dilute Cosmic Glow. Click to enlarge.
 
 

 
Cute merperson
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The Keepmer

May. 27th, 2025 02:43 am
mific: (Blue mandala)
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Title: The Keepmer on AO3
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Teen
Fandom: Stargate Atlantis
Characters/Pairings: The Keeper (Wraith queen)
Content Notes: Part of a cracky series for Mermay, where I shoehorn "mer" into various characters' names. This was inspired by Panisdead's story Ascension World: A Place for Children where the nasty possibility of aquatic Wraith is raised. So here's an AU version of the Keeper - the Wraith queen from Rising.
Summary: The last thing any diver wants to find is a Wraith Queen lurking in the kelp.

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Sailfin Guy

May. 26th, 2025 02:18 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Sailfin Guy
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Diving merbloke with a big dorsal fin
Content Notes: Sailfin guy. Drawn with a bunch of Kaweco Sports, Pelikan Twists and a pass Congklin with whatever they had in them. So Oster, Diamine and Van Diemen's Ink from memory.
 
There's some bright but hard to capture sparkle and Sheen in there.
 
 




 
Merman diving down
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Maze of twisty little scales all alike

May. 25th, 2025 08:20 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Quick twisty merperson
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Just a merperson with a really long twisty tail
Content Notes: Another super busy day, so just a quick one with the Robert Oster signature Barossa in a LAMY.


Angled photo of a long tailed merfolk

Long tailed merperson
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Quick merman

May. 24th, 2025 04:36 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Quick merman
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: Merdude
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Just a merbloke with a big tail
Content Notes: I like big fins and I cannot lie! I'm super busy today, so just a quick Merdude done in the Pelikan Golden Lapis and Rose Quartz.



Quick sketch
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Deal

May. 23rd, 2025 04:44 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Deal
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist
Rating: G
Fandom: Based on this story by [personal profile] rdm https://aus.social/@rdm/113932602027808564
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: A mermaid offers a deal
Content Notes: [personal profile] rdm caught me as I was going out to MerMay and reminded me of a short story he'd written a while back, and suggested it as a prompt for today's drawing. You can read it and see if I caught the mood. Drawn with a water brush and three fountain pens. The rashy is done with Memory Lane, which is a shimmer, also seen Golden Lapis and Azure Kingfisher, and for the skin tone it's Robert Oster Terra Fuego I think.
 
 

A mermaid with crabs





Tail showing glitter





Mermaid close up showing sparkle hair





Pen and inks on stand
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I'm a beach comber

May. 22nd, 2025 06:28 pm
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Did they see me?

May. 21st, 2025 10:17 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Did they see me?
Artist: [personal profile] leecetheartist 
Rating: PG I guess
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Green mermaid with a secret
Content Notes: The ink isn't quite Appletini - it's what you get if you can't be bothered cleaning out the dregs of the Pelikan Malachite and fill the cartridge with Appletini. The pen is a Pelikan Twist, always fun and a super comfortable draw.
 
This merlady seems like she'd rather be somewhere else. What's that she's got?
 
If you'd like to see the pen you can wander over to aus.social if you like.  
 
 

A mermaid flees with a spherical object

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She is so Blue

May. 20th, 2025 10:03 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist

Title: She is so Blue
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Blue mermaid
Content Notes: A mermaid, with her hair tied up and floating in the water. First painted as a silhouette in diluted blue, then details sketched in with high sheen and sparkly inks.

Blue mermaid with a bit of sparkle

Scales
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Steve MerGarrett

May. 21st, 2025 12:17 am
mific: (Blue mandala)
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Title: Steve MerGarrett on AO3
Artist: [personal profile] mific
Rating: Teen
Fandom: Hawaii five-O
Characters/Pairings: Danny Williams/Steve McGarrett
Content Notes: Made in Procreate. Part of a cracky series for Mermay and the current Drawesome prompt, where I shoehorn "mer" into various characters' names.
Summary: "I don't swim, Steven."

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I'm not interested in your voice

May. 19th, 2025 09:47 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: I'm not interested in your voice
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: A Squid like merperson
Content Notes: I put some of Diamine's Cosmic Glow into the Conklin to draw this Cecaelian like person. They're modelled on squid. Click to embiggen the image.


Squid like mer person
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Dolphinmer

May. 18th, 2025 09:50 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Dolphinmer
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: A blue with gold sparkle mer inspired by dolphins.
Content Notes: Drawn with that nice wooden LAMY ABC and the gold lapis Pelikan gave to us at the Pelikan Hub
Click to embiggen the images.

I do have a more detailed, less superficial drawing that I'm working on as well as these daily quickies, but that's taking a bit more time.

Blue and sparkly gold dolphin like mer.





Head detail





 

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I get your point

May. 17th, 2025 04:13 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: I get your point
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: A multicoloured mermaid tests the pointiness of the narwhal mer's tusk.
Content Notes: Just a mix of Kaweco Sports that are loaded up, and running dry the Conklin with the green.

Click to embiggen the image.






Multicoloured mermaid
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Hey There!

May. 16th, 2025 04:41 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: Hey There!
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: Spotted merfolk
Content Notes: So this one is revisiting the VanDiemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher which has that purple sheen and gold sparkle.

Click to embiggen the images.




Spotted merfolk

Spotted merfolk

Tailfin
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High Fives all round

May. 15th, 2025 04:17 pm
leecetheartist: A lime green dragon head, with twin horns, and red trim. Very gentle looking, with a couple spirals of smoke from nose. (Default)
[personal profile] leecetheartist
Title: High Fives all round
Rating: G
Fandom: N/A
Characters/Pairings: n/a
Summary: This mer is based
Content Notes: So the Best Wishes Ink from Diamine is both a sheen and a shimmer, I caught some of the sparkle, and you might see a red sheen on this dark green, almost black ink.
This narwhal mer is pleased to meet the deep sea mer. They've had some fights in their past, and all they have to say when asked about the scars was that they survived, and it wasn't all from other narwhal mer.


Click to embiggen the images.



Merperson based on a narwhal




Close up to show the glitter.


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