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I got very, very, very distracted yesterday. I started off trying to make a divider and ended up doing something else and here's the end result.

This isn't even anywhere near what I was planning on doing lmao but nevertheless here he is.

Ooh! Fan fact: Jelani's outfit is pretty much identical to Clementine's outfit in the last season. Huge fan of that. Weather here won't really let me wear something like that cuz I'll boil to death so I thought I'd give it to Jela + it makes sense since he feels a lot more comfortable completely covered up (same, buddy).

laudanda colors down! honestly, despite the role she plays, she is just so much fun to write and draw and think about and just adore... oh how i love my terrible women.

honestly, it's fun to compare her to miranda and bellanda, because while she has the average body quality for a merfolk (still regularly beefy + fat), she is also at the far end of how big merfolk can get before they cannot go on land without being crushed under their own weight.

bonus height comparisons because i don't lie when i call her a big lady:

merfolk cheek "fluff" is one of those details that i'm deeply in love with but find a hard time bringing it up or mentioning it. in essence, it's the same structure as the larger "fin" (really a modified external gill), just without a "quill" that it branches off of. they're very thin, very delicate strands of skin that develop around the base of the fins and lead into them, helping to "smooth off" the area as it transitions and provide more detailed sensory information. they aren't as mobile as the larger fins, but they can still rise and fall and modify the shape of the fin, and can be used for some finer merfolk expressions.

being modified external gills and covered in delicate skin that's capable of a minor role in oxygen exchange, they're fairly fragile. merfolk beauty standards in the past have prioritized whole, undamaged fins, but in the modern era, risk of damage is much easier to avoid, and damage that is obtained is easier to heal. still, considering the amount of nerves in the same area, merfolk will be highly choosy in who they allow to touch the "fluff", and being allowed to do so is considered a high mark of trust.

that said, it does feel nice when someone scratches just that right spot.

woaw wonder who this is.

doing some studies for a thing, maybe.

another miranda sketch as i start to realize that maybe the kind of sketch style i want is just removing a lot less of my construction lines. maybe that's it.

let the mermaid examine you with her tongue.

Self indulgent drawing of my Guardian. She's called Pétale!

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finally made a miravi sketch again and dear god i'm out of practice. i actually made a colored version of this too but ended up hating it so badly i just went with the sketch + shading. also trying out a new sketch style with this. fun times.

in other news, i drew this while listening to a nope review, and i have to say, it's very funny to draw miranda and aaravi together while doing so. like i don't notoriously base how i write both miranda and merfolk as a whole off of large animal attacks and human/animal interaction.

Drawing the Pokédex 110a - Galarian Koffing What a dapper gentlemen. This is the last art for a while, I need to get some real life stuff done.

Dragonfly woman I drew for an art telephone game me and my friends did :D My friend drew a human, I designed a furry version of her, and then another friend drew a human version of that, so on so on.

startled!

Cygnus and Kalmia

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