Mermay!
 

A month long celebration of fish people?

You know I'm on board for that.

Have a fish dolphin hand crafted by me:

https://tolin.trisphee.com/art/peace_dolphin.png


It would make me happy to see other people make stuff too, but tbh I just wanted to show you that. :D

Wow, that looks great! Nice work! I love the background too.

Thanks! :D I'm very happy with how it came out~

:D AH!
That looks amazing Toho! Awesome Mer-dolphin and background! Wish my art looked that good! <x3
<x} Mer-MAY???! That sounds absolutely grandtastic! Now I want to contribute and do a art! Mnnphhh!

:D Thank you!

Mermay is the best art theme month, no question! Lotsa nice pics come out of it.

>w> Really tempted to doodle myself as a pretty pre-devastating death, mermaid...
and also as a really cute and lazy post-devastating death mermaid. xD

That's it....time to make mer-animal plushies this month...
>.>

Sh-should...should I post it here?? >.>;
Or in my own gallery???

Either way works, really! :)

And that aside, I made another one. :D (Actually I made 3 others...)

https://tolin.trisphee.com/art/come_closer.png

Oooh, all of those are wonderful, Toho!
I'd like to write a mer-themed fanfiction but I have other stories jostling for attention, so I'm not sure if I'll manage to write something for Mermay.

I think I might do a thing once I get back home, where I use a random character generator in combination with random ocean life and draw really weird merfolk.

That sounds like a good plan to me, Espy. :D

.3.
Ocean life is pretty frickin' weird.
One day you're picking a fight with an otter over their numerous crimes and because they stole the kelp from your roof,
the next, you're up and swimmin' around, feeding the same sharks that took a bite out of ya.
<X}

I'm not 100% certain what happened in your post there but... Yeah, seems legit.

And I made another one.

I swear this isn't all I'm doing these days, lol.

https://tolin.trisphee.com/art/lil_dolphin.png

that is SO ADORABLE and the human's face is literally this kittymoji: :f-veryhappy:

Hey yeah, it is! lol. Thanks. :)

how are you, Toho?

https://i.imgur.com/4aRW4UL.png
I swear, I'm workin' on my doodlin' for merMay. <X]
I just take my time, even if it don't look great. >w> But I just don't know when to stop sometimes, so exhaustion is fairly commonplace.
Have a short doodle of me workin' hard in the meantime. <xD

Take all the time you need, Skelly~ A nice little doodle there. :D

I’m doing well, thank you. You?

Gosh, really tempted to try a mer doodle myself. Could use the paint shop practice.

Definitely do it.:D it’s fun~

<xO Gahh! I'm almost finished with both doodles, but now I wanna draw some of my mermaid OCs! Hrgrgrgrgh!! 8C May is halfway over!! <x'O

Pre-mortem Me
Post-mortem Me

OH, that's pretty cool, Skelly. :D I like it!

Thank you! ^-^
I think I'll doodle my OC Jasper next.
>w< I based him off my PS2 and his cousin, my other OC Tomtom on a PSP, so they're cousins. <X]

Jasper is however due to his love of the deep ocean and criticisms of the surface world, a merman, so he qualify for Mermay. <xD
and Tomtom is a snowtrooper from the Star Wars BattleFront PSP game that he loves so much, but also is an avid disco lover. <X'D So he and Jasper will be talking about May the 4th, and Mermay in a classic cousin rivalry debate.

I did another thing..
https://i.imgur.com/wclCYxP.png

Is that merman putting on a show? :O Very nice

He's Jasper. He explaining to his cousin TomTom there that Mermay is a month long and is relevant for more than two days.
And TomTom is arguing that May the Fourth and Revenge of the Fifth are just as relevant and he's dressed in his imperial snowtrooper uniform. x3

Those are some awesome mer pictures!

Aha, I see! I saw some combo May the Fourth / Mermay pics that day.

Inspiration always picks the worst time to strike....it's not "art" per say, but it hit me at work that I should have made a mermaid tail blanket for Derpy for Mermay. XD

@ Death and Toho: Thank you thank you! ^_^
Mine is VERY late, but better late than never.

@ Kaderin: <X3 Awwhh, I bet Derpy would have fun snuggling up in a mer-tail blanket!

Derpy and I could have matching mer-tails! (I think I still have some yarn left from my first one!)

Instead I started a mer-dragon last night. So far it just looks like a slightly longer than normal dragon though and idk what I did with the second skein of yarn I need for it (to make the head and possibly a couple fins). Or my good yarn needles for stitching it up so it may not be finished this month. XD

:D Sounds cute! I'm somehow imagining either sparkles or sequins. <x]

Sparkles or sequins for the...blanket? Or mer-dragon?

Unfortunately no sparkles or sequins on either. At least not this time. XD
The yarn I used for my original blanket is a pretty one with pastel shades of purples, blues, and seafoam green. I probably have a pic of it somewhere...
And the mer-dragon is gonna be primarily medium to dark purple with a blue belly and seafoam and magenta accents (basically just using yarn cakes in a lovely self-striping gradient of those colors). Though I could possibly do sparkly/glitter eyes on it.
I've found that really sparkly yarns tend to be much harder on the hands. I actually had a pretty ladder "yarn" that I was working with one time that left me with cuts on my fingertips.

Yes... <x]

ahh, too bad. The pastels though are just as appealing though. ^-^ Pastel is an aesthetic. O.O and it'll be hopefully fluffy and soft and not so savage on your hands. Ouch.

Plushy mer-dragon does sound cute. :D