FebruaryChaos

Anyway, I'm Nonbinary and my pronouns are they/them. My characters are LGBTIA+ a lot of the time, so if that's not your vibe, please leave.

This image is probably too many bits. I remember the Barbie game for the NES. I loved the mermaid levels, but I also was a young child and thus, bad at games. I'm still not especially good at games, but I have fun. That's all we can ask for, really.

I wasn't really feeling this while drawing, unfortunately. The merperson isn't feeling getting hauled up either. 😂 'Yeah, yeah, sing yer lil shanty. I'm going to bite someone when I'm up there.'

I've never really tried drawing with my left hand, despite that, as a kid, I wanted to 'become ambidextrous'. I had some weird things I wanted as a kid. It was an interesting process and very different than with my right. Apparently it's better to draw from the elbow with my left hand, rather than from the wrist and fingers.

I've never been in Miami, so I have no idea what this means. Best approximation of what I think Miami vibes are? Pools/sea, drinking/drugs on the beach and boats, and palm trees. Sorry to any Miami people, but you're advertised as party central (derogatory).

I wondered what merpeople would like to collect, since a lot of things we collect wouldn't hold up in underwater environments. I ended up with glass bottles. The refracting of light would make for nice trinkets and they come with content sometimes!

Another theme that is both something I don't engage with and that I struggled to put a mermaid theme on. So I went with the 'books and water don't mix' angle. This mergirl is gonna be so mad at all books.

I had a poke around on the endangered species list for this. The Metriaclima Koningsi apparently only lives in one lake in Malawi, and due to their striking colors (blue for males and yellow for females) they seem to be an aquarium fish. So it's limited habitat and capture for pets makes it endangered.

I can hear this image...

I was a 90s kid and I barely remember my childhood due to the ✨Trauma©️✨, so most of my associations with the 80s are: Brown, everyone smoked, beehive hair, rampant s3x, dr*gs and STD's, music, spandex singlets everywhere with rainbow colors and now vaporwave city pop vids. I might be wrong in my assumptions, but that's what I think of. That aside, I like how this came out.

Also, what the fuck is up with the 'I need to contact you immediately, but keep error' copypasta? Is that the resident 'I do commissions, here's my discord' or 'Can I use your work for a project'? Not used to Tumblr culture quite yet.

#traditional #mechanicalpencil #sketch #mythology #charybdis

Frutiger Aero type shi...

I had a few MLP sets when I was little. I'm not sure if I asked for them or I just got them because I'm AFAB and like animals. I remember them being very different from the other old Ponies, which were very chunky and mine were taller and slimmer. Turns out they were Generation 2. I even had the computer game that came on a cdrom. Lol, I'm old.

I know that's not how radiation poisoning works. I grew up in the early 90's and this was more inspired by all the cartoons with heroes/villains who got into contact with 'radioactive sludge' of some kind. It gives a bit of Harvey Two-Face combined with the three-eyed fish from the Simpsons. And it was a good excuse to experiment with a bit more…horror-ish vibes? My style isn't really suited for horror, but I can freakin try!

I never really got into K-pop and I kind of concider it 'after my time'. People who are younger than me are into K-pop, but I know that doesn't exclude older people from getting into it. I also struggled to connect it to merpeople. So I guess people on boats are playing K-pop?

Now, I'm not too knowledgable on modern art movements and there's a lot of those in this year's Mermay. So this is my best approximation. It took like two weeks to dry. Dang oil paints. 😭 I probably used too much medium, but it was also my first time using some cotton paper.