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@Dima-Eichhorn Thank you so much... (I see errors)But, I also see a huge prompt list, so I'm gonna work there first!

Laurasketches

MerMay sunfish.jpg
MerMay day two: "rascal" and the very weird "sunfish" Is it a rascal move to sunbathe on a living creature while planning your next adventure? Please give critiques... planning to watercolor paint when I have a bit more time.

MOO

I've decided to use this challenge to practice my figure drawing skills. I'm taking the proko class and still having trouble with the robo bean so thought I'd try and find some resources and robo-bean it and then try to build around it. I know these won't be great (I'm a little embarrassed by them) but I would LOVE some draw overs and tips to improve as I go. I won't post yesterdays. Just starting with day 2 I see problems but I would love feedback, PLEASE! (I'm including the resource I used) If anyone is a pro robo bean drawer I'd love to see how you would do the top half, especially. Thanks again!

![mermay resource 1.JPG](/assets/uploads/files/1556827696152-mermay-resource-1.jpg

Here's another try. More proportionate, I think. Especially the head. I'll try a different pose tomorrow.

Washu

Day 1 Goby. I chose a panda goby.

CukiArtist

Here is my second Mermay. Based on Aquamarines with the extra prompts of feathers, stars, choc chip cookies and cake.
With these I'm experimenting with a brush pen but I feel it's feathering slightly on the watercolour paper which my normal mircon fineliners don't do as much. I'm also experimenting with using watercolour pencils for the colours but so far I'm not sure if I'm happy with the results.

MOO

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen

Another try. I think the head is more proportionate but I don't care much for the colors and my blurry cell phone pic...it might be that my eyes are blurry. Not sure

Dima Eichhorn

Day 2

andersoncarman

Day 3: Sturgeon

Laurasketches

MerMay rockabilly.jpg @andersoncarman You picked some tricky fish!!! I was stumped with a solution for the combo of "rockabilly" from Tom Bancroft's official mermay list, and your fishy prompts....especially because a sturgeon looks so mean (great solution from you with your warrior merman!) - I considered sturgeon merman gangs (think west side story) for a minute then gave my rockabilly mer-chic a tatt. I seriously need some free time to paint all my sketches....

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MOO

So, here's another attempt at using this challenge to practice my robo bean and figure drawing. I have a long way to go and would REALLY appreciate draw overs and tips to help me along. Hoping to improve by June I twisted the merman top half a bit so I could keep the arms on the page for the most part.

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Dima Eichhorn

MOO

Not feeling too well today so I just did a quick one with a pen.

Dima Eichhorn

Heather Boyd

@Marsha-Kay-Ottum-Owen I hope your feeling better today. I like your sketch -means even more that you drew it in spite of how you were feeling. Your mermaid empathises with you and I empathise with her -been a tough week.

MOO

I should probably be redoing all these so that I'm doing the extra 80%. They're all pretty rough.

MOO

Thought I'd try and do a more careful one so day 5 again. In my journal notebook so the other pag ecomes through but...good practice anyway.

MOO

and resource (I think I could have made the pose a little more dynamic and it would look better but, not too bad for me.

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andersoncarman

I had a crazy weekend at Free Comic Book Day doing sketches and selling comics so I had to do some catch-up today.

Day 4: Hagfish

Day 5: Blobfish

Day 6: Viperfish

Laurasketches

I'm behind on my MerMay drawings.....ARGH! I had other commitments that pulled my attention... But, here is my May the Fourth (Star Wars Day) sketch. I did it in ink, then added value in photoshop. Prompts: "Star Wars" and "Hagfish"(which might be the scariest animal I've ever seen...Yikes!) I imagined the Falcon crash landed on an ocean-planet where the cockpit provides a refuge for a hunted mer-person.

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Laurasketches

Cinco de Mayo MerMaid.jpg "Cinco de Mayo" and "blobfish" as prompts for day five (almost caught up!) Blobfish has the distinction of being voted among the ugliest animals on the planet, but, I think they are pretty cute as members of a mariachi band.
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