[ID: A digital reference sheet of a Sea Butterfly-themed mer design for Sun, containing various poses. In the top left is a full-body drawing of Sea Butterfly!Sun. He has a big smile with a tooth gap, red cheeks, white eyes, and orange tentacles that mimic sun rays around his head. His body is mainly blue and translucent, and his chest, arms, and tail glow yellow and orange. He has his arms spread out, showing off his blue, translucent wings and fins. To his left is another full-bodied drawing of Sun, this time from a side view. He is swimming horizontally to the right with his left arm reaching forward. In the right corner is a small reference photo of a sea butterfly on a black background. Underneath all of that is a drawing of Sun being cradled in a pair of light gray hands. He is hunched over, facing slightly left and looking up at someone off-frame. He has a nervous expression and he has his hands up, seemingly in protest. To the right of him is a speech bubble that reads, “F-Friend… You shouldn’t go swimming after dark.” The background is a light gray. END ID.]
I'm over the moon and I'm not coming back, I'm so happy these two came back for the conclusion of Song Fish! They hold a very special place in my heart♥️
I drew @pure-plum's design for fisher y/n cause I loooove them so much!
Fanart of @naffeclipse's fic, Song Fish Amid the Stars.
too excited to NOT post this, check out the wips from stream!!!! a big chunk of it was making myself a little ref and figuring out how i wanted to draw him, and getting his colors and gradients down. it ironically took me MUCH LESS TIME to work on the mischievous guy beckoning you towards the water ;)
@naffeclipse i LOVE HIM. and i LOVE apex polarity holy shit. the second pic is a wip - i WILL be working on him more in order to attack u with him. (i gave him a little heart on his underside because i noticed one of my reference pictures had a little splotch there. a little heart for eclipse;;;; as a treat)
Ok life cycle of a jelly mer is a GO. I’ll stick it under the cut in case anyone doesn’t want to see the lil development/newborn stuff
BUT before that since I know at least a few people are going to ask; yes, you can hold tiny baby medusa Neil, it can’t even sting you yet. Just a lil tingle
(Shout out to @the-tortoise-lady for the idea of baby Neil with no common sense or self awareness being very certain it both can and will eat that thing it found wading in the water near the beach (fisherman Andrew))
So normal jellyfish polyps grow into what looks like little stacked saucers or plates and when one breaks off it grows into the actual medusa we all know. So like. I’m just imagining the upper body/human part of the mer grows inside more like two cups stacked together, and there’s only one per polyp (i don’t even know if regular polyps have multiple discs break off tbh).
But according to some v quick research and not being able to find specifically Sea Nettle reproductive cycle, I am declaring their polyps the average size of Small (about an inch/3cm or something close) and their baby medusae have A LOT of growing to do :D
Coming in at the tail end of May when this was sent at the beginning of the month, but here it is!! @monsoon-of-art ‘s Ingo and Akari from their mer AU!
Read this cute Mer fic last night called Ripple by @starryeyed-queer
I had to draw the watercolor painting that reader makes of Sun because it was written so descriptively and I could just see the image in my brain grrrr. Tried to mimic watercolor best i could but i am not a watercolor artist haha. Love this fic, very wholesome cant wait to read the next chapter <333
Here I go with my anatomy lessons again! Because @naffeclipse asked this:
The big claws on Eclipse's second set of hands are technically his pinky fingers! So they're claws, not spurs. They act and look like spurs though :p
These pinky fingers are stubby and not very flexible, but they're very strong and equipped with long and sharp claws that are used as weapons when fighting other mers and hunting large prey.
His second set of hands are overall more animal than the other set, they're not as graceful but they are way stronger. Eclipse can still use them the same way he uses his more human like hands, they're just a little bit more clumsy.
I was gonna answer Naff's question simply and without sketches attached, but one thing l led to another and now we're here X3