#mermaid art

[ancelle-art]

Mermaid!AU with merman Astarion and pirate Gale who was shipwrecked 🏴‍☠️🧜‍♂️

[thisnoah]

Time to combine my favorite things to draw in childhood and currently! Pretty mermaids and big shirtless men :D

[twulfs]

mermay 🫧

[tripaaabattery]

A compilation of the mermay sketches!

[mimimar]

♡the peach mermaid paper doll♡

you can get her on my patreon

[mlim8]

"Did you say Mermaids"? - Part Five

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR | PART FIVE |

PART ONE | PART TWO | PART THREE | PART FOUR | PART FIVE |

Finishing off Mermay 2024 with another installment of this Merman AU... I have ideas for Part 6 and 7 but that depends on how busy I am lol... I hope you enjoy this part that has not a lot of mers in it considering it's Mermay 🤣

I also didn't have room to add this - but Clark and Lois are divorced and Jon spends half his time with both of his parents, Kon doesn't LIVE with Clark or Lois but he does visit occasionally or more than occasionally when there's a cute mer that's closeby...

Also the Bonus was a part that I originally wanted Kon to flashback to when he thought of how to bring up mers to Clark, but @allthatsentimentalcandyfloss suggested him just thinking of the Time They Spend Together instead uwu

[korolekart]

Mermay👊🏻👊🏻👊🏻

[kay-i]

aeriseph merfolk AU

[ironladders]

merleena 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

this was gonna be mermay art but i didnt finish before may ended ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ i guess it's a pride month post now since mileena's bi

timelapse under cut:

[mochiimocha]

Last mermaid of the month!

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It was super fun to see so much mermaid art this year

[nazrigar]

Mermay 2024: Merfolk Currency and Tidbits of the World of Urvara

This Mermay has a lot less content than usual as this was a MAJOR May event, with a lot of artwork to do for patrons, but I still managed to hash out some stuff for Mermay worldbuilding!

Primarilly, it's all about currency, because I always wanted to explore littler details like "what would Merfolk exchange with one another besides bartering?"

For the singular images, one focuses on the Sea Lord, specifically his final opponent. The Titan, a Titanichthys merman that was considered THE force of nature to beat.

The other focuses on freshwater refugees, as river systems and lakes become landlubber territory, and thus harder to keep hidden. A giant stingray mermaid may be the biggest fish in her old homeland, but she is still dwarfed by the likes of say, a Mer-Manta man. While "Greenwater" folk are immune to the deadlier aspects of moving from fresh to saltwater in comparison to their wild animal counterparts, it's a long and resource intensive acclimation process.

[luxudus]

Merfolk in the Trail of Cryptids (for @jennywolfgal)

woah hey i wasnt expecting to have participated in mermay bet here i am now. This is for @jennywolfgal and her project the Trail of Cryptids which i talked about awhile ago with her dragons. enjoy!

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Another group of species endemic to this alternate earth are the legendary Merfolk. Trident wielding Half-man half-fish people of the sea of the myths in our world. The merfolk here aren’t humans or hominids, nor are they even great apes. But instead they are a sister-clade of the family Cebidae. They are related to the Capuchin monkeys of central and south America.

They split off 10 million years ago with a similar evolutionary history to the cetaceans. Allowing an evolution of similar extremeness akin to the time between Pakicetus and Dorudon.

Icthypithicids contain a variety of aquatic monkey species. True merfolk belong in the genus Meralosapiens. With some species inhabiting the mediteranean, coast of east Europe, and their ancestral ground the Caribbean with a leaner build adorned in less fat.

To start off physically, They are like Cetaceans, kind of. their tail extended to an extreme degree to swim. Unlike cetaceans and like some ancient artwork of mermaids of our earth. Their legs still remain useful to swim and hold onto partners. Their arms freed up, remain as manipulators. They remain folded to reduce drag. Which lets them hold onto large objects and young merfolk when breastfeeding.

Uniquely they have a full head of hair like humans in spite of the drag created. This hair is maintained and kept healthy through grooming with the aid of two serrated claws on the lower half of their hand. Their teeth are tipped with canines and slowly become more trident shaped further back. Which they use to flush water out of their mouth. And Lastly their nostrils can completely close like a seal, and are at the very front of the face to ensure they breach the water first.

Ecologically, they are mostly carnivorous. They eat a wide array of fish, squid, and other small marine life. They take a particular liking to seaweeds and copepods, which they use their trident teeth to filter them out of the water. They take so much of a liking to copepods they will even follow their vertical migration.

They are quite social and live in family pods. Like mentioned earlier they will groom each other to strengthen social bonds. While most Icthypithicids are comparable in intelligence to their capuchin cousins. Meralaosapiens are fully sophont organisms that have the capacity for understanding and creating art and complex language. Technologically they are comparable to neolithic humans. Most populations use stone tools or other organisms slightly bred for more cooperation, living tools if you will. While other populations scavenge for more advanced tools left behind by humans.

Overall they are neutral to humans. Often keeping their distance or outright hiding from humans. Some more aggressive merfolk will attack or even hunt humans as a source of preyluring them in with their locks of hair. Which is believed to have arisen from a few merfolk cultures going through famine and growing desperate for food, eventually looking to their cousins beyond the water.

And of course there are others naturally curious of their terrestrial relatives and will frequently come up to human divers, even attempting to communicate with them. The future is uncertain, but hopefully the humanity of this earth will treat these people with respect and maybe even lend them a hand.

[sunnydazesky]

A little Muskellunge mermaid for the last day of mermay :) this piece is digital mixed w photo collage!

[twulfs]

mermay ‧₊˚✩彡🔮

[tripaaabattery]

A compilation of the mermay sketches part 2! Some ancient boney fish!

[knuckles-junior]

Here’s my own proper way of wrapping up my mermay. :3

I drew these last night and posting it now for late top hat Thursday. Once again, this doesn’t mean I’ll stop drawing mermaids after mermay is over.