Somewhere In The Void

Day 20: leafy sea dragon

I’ve been drawing so many characters in like sea grass ponchos or just seaweed wraps that I was wondering what else could make clothing in the ocean. Apparently there is an extremely rare material known as sea silk. Not only is the art of making it nearly lost, but so is the creature it’s harvested from, the pen shell, being endangered. I thought clothing made from golden threads such as those would be fitting for a noble sea dragon.

Day 18: sea snake

Didn’t feel like drawing a mermaid so here’s my cat instead

(photo under the cut)

Day 13: Flying fish

Not as happy with the coloring on this one, though it was partially due to the fact I have a very limited set of colored pencils. I wanted to make him a pale blue but I didn’t have a light enough blue (or at least one different enough from the tail color).

Also has anyone else ever heard that flying fish move so quickly you could get killed from a head on collision or am I just making that up.

(Uncolored under the cut)

Day 12: umbrella slug

I realized that I don’t find pure sketches that interesting to look at so I tried coloring it this time. Considering it’s like my first attempt at coloring one of my drawings in years I’m pretty happy with it. Though it does make it more noticeable that I used a different shell than what goes with the reference for the body…

Pure sketch under the cut

Day 11: Walrus, sea lion, and jellyfish

Day 9: Fan worm

I was super unproductive yesterday. (Hence no day 8)

Day 7: manatee and sea urchin

How wonderful is it that we get to live in the same world as manatees? If they went extinct I think id kill myself

Day 6: krill

Day 5: king mackerel and humpback whale

This one took a bit to choose but I’m pretty happy with the result. I was thinking of doing elephant seal but I couldn’t really think of a way to make it not just an elephant seal with arms. Then the idea of a small king mackerel and a large humpback whale queen kinda thing popped into my head.

Through traveling and being sick I didn’t really have time to make an entry today so have this stupid thing for day 4

Mermay day 3: violet sea snail (and irukandji)

Not super happy with it tbh but I spent way too much time figuring out the pose to give up.