#early mermay

[mayday396]

I may have a crush on the Soviet Russian Mermaid

[thebeingmerf]

Did my MerMay planning early bc I procrastinate too much

[lil-lemon-snails]

✨ fish moon 🐟✨

Dropping this very silly magma doodle here for your consideration (thank you @daycarefriendpickup again for hosting!)

This was a weird one akjfhgds @lurking-loaf and I couldn't decide what to do for this weekend's magma session so we ended up drawing each other A Shape (tm) to work off of! Which means any formal complaints regarding this piece can be forwarded to him lol /silly

[skumhuu]

✨🦈🔱 MERMAY BINGO 2024 🔱🦈✨

HAPPY MERMAY!! Use five prompts in a row for a bingo! As always, no pressure to participate, complete, or share any works. Sketches and drabbles all count. You may combine prompts, complete the sheet, and adjust the sheet however you want to! As long as you're having fun!

Anything, even the other prompts, may be used for the free space in the middle for an automatic win. If you don't have any energy, the free space is there for you to use <3

[vasira96]

this was supposed to be a comp for a traditional piece, but turns out i still like this version better than the one i traditionally painted

[sinnabee]

here are most of the mermaid au doodles from the stream!! we've got baby sun and moon, aka guppy sun and minnow moon, teen sun and moon, and then on the last page a compilation of the rest, featuring TRAUMA and - at long last - mer eclipse!!! :D

[kollapsar]

What better way to celebrate MerMay than macking on one?

[b4kuch1n]

What is this for, love? Home, or glory?

[poorly-drawn-mdzs]

Jellyfish Prince 💙

[youkaiyume]

Mermaid Bowser and Princess Peach sketch practice.

YOU KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS DON'T YOU????

smut. it means smut soon.

[clairebearsparkles]

Mermay came early this year, and of course it’s sapphic ofmd because it’s my lifeblood

[canarydraws]

May I offer you all a low-res wip in these trying times?

[mossypidder]

MERMAY 2024 MAIN CAST- look at my stupid, idiot little children, I love them so much. If I can keep up, this year is gonna be fun; I have angsty plots >:3

Relative size reference and anatomical ramblings below cut.

Here’s a vague size comparison thing for all of them. And a human for perspective

I really, desperately want to make an illustrated guide to my merfolk lore, because it’s extensive and I’m really proud of it. But that sounds slightly overwhelming, so idk, but here are some random scraps that pertain to these four. My fish mers aren’t allowed to have hair; they have a variety of different fins on their head to mimic it instead. Oviparous fish (e.g. remora) lay their eggs and their mer counterparts do likewise, and therefore don’t have nipples and/or breasts. Eggs of ovoviviparous fish (e.g. manta ray) hatch shortly before giving birth and do not consume anything resembling milk, so their mer counterparts do not have nipples and/or breasts. Viviparous fish (e.g. lemon shark) essentially nurse when in the womb, so their mer counterparts nurse after having given birth and have nipples and/or breasts. Mammals (e.g. monk seal) are self explanatory.

Also most animals hatch or are born with navels, because even in eggs, there’s a cord from the embryo to the yolk sack. Oviparous and ovoviviparous creatures just tend to be better at healing the scar. However, I’ve decided that mers are not as good at healing the scar, and thus, have bellybuttons.

Thanks for coming to my TED Talk.

[acrylcii]

ineffable mermaids babyyy

[just-a-drawing-bean]

Drops this mer eclipse design early for mermay I like the design but at the same time it doesn’t feel like it’s working for me so I’ll likely redesign or rework him

The main idea that I’ll keep no matter what I end up changing is that he lives in areas of near pitch black darkness and therefore was born blind.

The luminescence helps attract fish to him and he hunts with echolocation using very high pitched clicks outside of human hearing. So you won’t hear him coming.

The frills around his head help with his echolocation as they are very sensitive to vibrations. They can fold back like an umbrella when needed.

Not sure if I’ll keep the transparent look or not but well it would help him look like a bunch of smaller glowing fish instead of one big fish with patterning. So his form would meld into the bag but I’m not sure I captured the transparency the best I’ll have to experiment more with what I wanted there.

I hope to make mer content this may like silly comics or something but no promises <3

[jamalambbamm]

hey what if tango was the merman