hi :tropical_fish:

here's a wiki when you can watch my mermay drawings. I use markers, colored pencils, fineliners and gel pens in an A5 sketchbook. I'm using references to draw these poses since I'm not the most confident in my skills.

EDIT:

by references I mostly mean photos of humans with different poses so I can help myself draw these better. I'm not as advanced to do that without that help. I get my references from Pinterest, where I save all of them on my board called "reference" (I'm "wervuio" there as well) so you can always check these out.

you can also see my works over on my instagram (@wervuio_)

disclaimer: I have no idea how to make wikis so sorry if there are any problems

mermay spread

it's rather simple and plain. I'm following the prompt list made by @tombancroft on instagram and here I'm marking ny progress. different symbols mean different things:

· "tick" is when I finish a drawing

· insta is when I post it on instagram

· insta with dotted line is when I share it on my instastories

· ghost is when I share it on snapchat.

day one #extravagant

I had no idea what I'm supposed to do so I drew a weird looking mermaid with crazy colours.

day two #rascal

my current favourite drawing. I know it didn't match the theme but again, I didn't know what to do. I was inspired by @timidite.art over on instagram.

day three #rockabilly

her neck gives me a bit of anxiety but well, I used a reference so I guess it's not entirely my fault?

day four #starwars

tbh I didn't watch any of the movies or anything and my friend told me the name of one of the races and I tried to make it into a mermaid. for references I looked at some of the races in star wars just to be a little accurate.

day five #cincodemayo

my creativity stops but you can see more pencils used I guess. she was supposed tp hold a taco but I gave up.

day six #tacotuesday

it's monday where I live but well. these prompts are weird and I'm waiting for something magical.

day seven #aquabat

I feel like it's unfair to put two photos but I wanted to show the sparkle :v

so my research showed that aquabat is a band (please forgive me if I'm wrong I've never heard of them) and a motorboat but i really wanted to to something unnatural. and I did and aquatic bat :v I researched some photos of bat wings to make her resemble a bat a little more.

day eight #squid

I had fun with her tail and I'm glad I choose one of my favourite colour combos for her.

day nine #frenchbagette

I was a little sick and couldn't do better. also, my camera hates my sketches :v

day ten #tropical

forget what I said about the rascal one. t h i s is the drawing that finally made me feel proud of myself and more confident in my skills.

it isn't the most tropical, but I've seen some fishes with similar tail and fins so there's the inspo I guess :v

day eleven #stretch

honestly I was too lazy to try and shade her properly :v

day twelve #mothersday

I get that it isn't the most mother's-day-ish drawing, but I wanted to do something different and I added flowers reminiscent of my mom's favourite

and gold shiny watercolour too

day thirteen #monday

I'm tired

so you can see I did 12 and a half mermaids (you know, the last one is just bad in my opinion so it's only a half). I wish I did more of them but some things came up and I had to take a break. I'm still glad I did more than ten :v