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My angler lady and her two hubbies. Because I plan on inclusiveness with sexuality/desiring who to spend your life with on top of the "less-than-ideal" body types and disabled people too. I'm going to include all the people who don't normally get included without being stereotyped. And i'm going to use the fact that these "unnatural" states of being are natural by using the fact that such things do exist in the world naturally and with great success.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/84368.html

Revisiting an older character that I created about two years ago during this very same challenge, and gave her a hat. I've gotten a little better at drawing the endomorphic body type, though I'm still not to the point where I can do them confidently. In my mer world I want a whole slew of characters who have weight to them and to have it be considered normal and downright healthy. And even beautiful. Because being skinny is not healthy or beautiful for a lot of people out there, and representation matters.

I'm skinny, I'll always be skinny. I'll never know the bigotry that fat people experience every day. But I do see it. and I refuse to be a part of it. Will I screw up? More than likely, it's an insidious social disease that we're all born into. But I can at least try toreate characters who don't feed into that poison.

As for my Thuridilla lineolata mer? She's a singer and song writer of power ballads.

( And some personal stuff under the cut... )

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/84093.html

Jan Challenge Day 3: Siphonophore Mer

"Even when dancing by themselves, a siphonophore is never alone."

Since September I've had a very rough sketch of what a merperson of this animal might look like. Unfortunately the book I was using as reference is at my grandmother's house, so instead of any specific species, this is just a generic physonect-type siphonophore. And yes, I see this kind of mer still as a colony and thus having a form of healthy multiple personality as well. Always referring to themselves in plural and being offended if treated as a singular entity. Because why not.

And don't forget dear followers, that requests are OPEN.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/81457.html

Hot damn, Burgess Shale merfolk are fun. Going to have to do more once I'm done with my exchange stuff.

Hallucinogenia: The first one I'd drawn of the set, which is rather apparent with how sketchy it is. Probably explains why they're so pissed off too. Remind me to whip up a better one sometime, Ultharkitty.

Opabinia: Figuring out how to incorporate it's iconic mouth into a mer without making that mer into some sort of Lovecraftian beastie took a little longer than I would have liked. Still, I love her to bits.

Pikaia: Couldn't leave out what is very likely to be the earliest animal to have had a backbone, and a backbone so new that it wasn't much more than a thicker chord of tissue running through the animal.

And Charnia: Which actually doesn't belong to the Burgess Shale but is an Ediacaran animal Ultharkitty introduced me to during a discussion of merfolk and had mused whether or not it could be done. Well, there we go.

So far, they're all nameless. And I need to do some serious research so that they're at least somewhat accurate to their animal influences, before I can polish them all up. Right now, I'm really happy with the different body types, It's really nice to expand beyond your stand skinny Ariel. I'd like to do more again sometime, preferably sooner than later.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/80662.html

Needed to draw something other than the TF Gift Exchange piece for a change of pace. Wanted to play around more with lighting and trying to improved my shoddy work of such. And I need to kick myself into working on my merfolk world again, I'm slowly but surely fleshing it out.

One of the key elements I want for the world is to be inclusive of everyone. That is, I don't want to conform to the standard ~ideals~ found everywhere in characters, or to regulate minorities to secondary or even background characters. Blah. I can't think, I'll come back later and flesh out my thoughts better.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/80348.html

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Ahah ahahaha. Eheh. Ha. ...ohgod.

Like the animal he's based on, Xyni is almost totally blind.

*wanders off to go crash their head and not think about arts for a few blissful days*

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/79070.html

Final official day. And of course the goddamn computer froze while trying to upload the damn image. Agraergh.

Anyway, goosebarnacle merpeople. Yes, they're into each other. Yes, they're rooted to the spot. And yes, they will be able to do it. Barnacles have ah... *ahem* some of the longest equipment length to body size ratio of any animal. And again, I prove myself as one of those people,who care not a whit about the "standard binary" that most people enforce, because they're hermaphrodites and have both male and female sets.

Now to make up a picture tomorrow and I'll have completed my new year's resolution. Gah.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/78674.html

A couple more of my gastropod inspired merfolk, my other being the cone snail I drew earlier this month, though these ones are older in terms of when I created them. Played around with a simpler almost chibi style to try and cut down on their complexity, the exercise um... didn't quite work.

The one with the blue belly is Veoz, hie's a Janolus novozealandicus nudibranch merperson. I love drawing hiem but damn is hie complicated. As for the alternate pronoun, nudibranchs are hermaphrodites and Veoz has a slight leaning towards a masculine ID, I'll leave it at that.

Whereas Muscles is a green morph Chelynotus (or Chelyonotus, can't seem to find a solid official spelling) semperi, a species of velutinid. She's one of my merfolk that I've given the facial and body structure of a Black woman in my own pathetic attempt to keep from defaulting to whitewashing in my characters. Not happy how I lost some of those features in the way I drew her here.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/78288.html

One week in! And look, yet another merperson of mine. Been revisiting some of my old art, and found this one that I'd done nothing more than a physical design for them. Not even a name was given, much less a personality or anything pertaining to a life.

I might name her Maggie.

But cone snails are simply amazing. They hunt fish, with harpoons made out of their teeth. Or if harpoons don't do it for them, there's cone snail species that basically breathe a paralyzing agent on fish to catch them. And many have a toxin so strong that it can kill a human multiple times over.

(and look, a not so awful gradient background)

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/72658.html

( Image under cut for being larger than usual... )

Alright, from left to right we have a merman spikey oreodory with Oreo colors, one of my first mers who is based on the hermaphroditic tripod fish, an anglerfish lady with her two little husbands, and a dangerously skinny gulper eel.

Seriously, I have even more merfolk that are based on deep sea life. (not to mention sea life in general) A couple are based off of a species of Tomopterid worm, of which are one of the bare handful of animals that can glow yellow. My new merman that's based off the sea pig, a Cthulhu version of your standard sea cucumber. My new mermaid who's based off the goblin shark. Um... There's more I swear, I just can't think of them right now.

Can't really think of much right now at all come to mention it, and I'm not even a week in. Haaaa. Need to also stop making these so complex that I keep getting right next to the wire. :\

Also, I reorganized my images in my photobucket account and wouldn't you know it, the site reassigned all the links and now none of my old image posts have images. I really want to keep things organized, but I also don't want to go back through all my posts to redo the links. Any opinions?

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/72129.html

Forgot to give myself time to type stuff up. Whoops. Anywho, here's one of my oldest merfolk characters, Co'ek. He's based of the West Indian Ocean Coelacanth, which are a naturally blue "fish" with white spots/splotches/splatches everywhere. In case you didn't know, the coelacanth group has been around since the Devonian, or about 400 million years ago. Back when fish were starting to really branch out, and do things like discover dry land.

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/71242.html

( Revisiting an old creature design I came up with in either jr high or high school, a what if birds never developed wings sort of deal. Not very original, I know, but they were fun. )

This was done a little differently than usual, I started with the darkest blue you see on the piece. The far inner calf and it's beak were what I put down as my solids first and then worked my way up with whites using various brushes. There are no other colors on this at all. And because my muse hates me, I kept everything but the line-art on one layer.

Now I just need to do my make up picture tomorrow from when I took a Day, and I'm done. It doesn't help that about a third of the way from being done with today's pic my eyes started to hurt bad enough that I had to put a cool pack on them while I rested them in the dark. Give me a migraine I can power through over this, at least I can work then.

*sighs* Just one more day, just one more day, just one more day, just one more daaa~aahahay.... *wants to be ded but has to wait*

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/69385.html

( A tall image for once, and a bit late because I was having technical difficulties getting stuff uploaded. )

Initially I was going for a created creature, but after the first couple of lines it wanted to go in this direction. Got as far as the lines for the heads and bodies before checking my book on modern (as in last several thousand years) extinct species and looking for a species that was close to the head and beak type that was already drawn out. None matched, though the Sylviornis was close it was still too long in the face, so I ended up with a created creature anyways. :/

Might keep them for later use somewhere in one of my original verses but I haven't touched any of those in far too long.

( And a bonus old picture of some TF OCs of mine. Because someone wanted to see them. )

Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/67632.html

( Stuff under here )
(Also, what's with the new posting set up? It's not very photobucket picture friendly. Or just posting friendly, it keeps messing everything up. I would be screwed if I didn't know some basic html.)

Current Mood: tired

( Art bunnies didn't really bite today... )

Current Mood: frustrated

It occurred to me today that I'm past the halfway point in this. I have driven myself to distraction and frustration getting all of these done. And because I can't seem to keep the drawings simple, it's eaten so much of my free time I've had little time for everything else I usually do. I'm going to have to do something really basic just so I can catch up with people's LJ posts I haven't had the time to read. Of course, I thought it'd be a good idea to participate in that friending meme so now I've got a bunch of new folks I haven't even gone and browsed the things they've had to say, despite their commenting and awesome attention for this new years resolution of mine. Sorry people! D:

( We're now femmes? )

Current Music: Project Pitchfork- Karma Monster

( Photovoltaic Pussycats )

I'm back. Thank you for the kind words of support you guys gave when I said I'd been hit by this bug.

( In which I announce my return through a bizarre comic. )

( ART DUMP!!! )

Now I just need to get to working on all that I missed.

Thanks to a recent article on

wtf_nature I was reminded of an old character I have. Soog is a goose barnacle merperson. (Get it? Soog, Goose? I'm so uncreative. :\) And I say merperson, because neither mermaid nor merman would work. Seeing as barnacles are hermaphrodites, that's right, they have both complete sets of parts. And yes, I did put that in my character. But anyway, the whole point of their post was on the unusual kinds of sex found throughout the world. I'm actually kinda of a prude, but this was too good to pass up.

( So have some barnacle pick-up lines. I take no responsibility for any brain breakage that may occur by you clicking this cut. )

( And for some real life stuff )

Current Mood: tired
Current Music: Ferngully's Toxic Love
Crossposts: http://ink-in-hand.livejournal.com/92648.html

My OC muses have been clamoring nonstop lately, some of it is fic which is all kinds of yay. Some of you may remember Drumlin, my Terra Bus neutral. But for those of you who are new, he was inspired by a Transformers of the World bunny on the bunny farm. (Of which I've had the most abysmal luck finding again) And I based much of his appearance on Inuit coats.

( Even if they've never used snowshoes. )

Current Music: Unto Ashes- Teach Me How to Drown

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Entries tagged with original characters

January Challenge 2014: Day 13

January Challenge 2014: Day 12

January Challenge 2014: Day 3

Three for the Burgess Shale and One Ediacaran

Because Art

January Challenge 2013: Make Up Day

January Challenge 2013: Day Thirty One

January Challenge 2013: Day Twenty Nine

January Challenge 2013: Day Seven

January Challenge 2013: Day Five

January Challenge 2013: Day Two

Day: Thirty: Quadraped Bird

Day Twenty Three: Giant Ground Birds

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