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Just a quicky in poor light winding down from the first day at #swancon2025

Merperson with elaborate fins and feelers in blue and shiny purple.

This Mermaid was drawn using a dip pen, and Diamine's Upon A Star Chameleon shimmer ink.
The Chameleon inks are really hard for me to photograph, they're sparkly, but very tiny sparkles,
and on a rainy day like today there's no sunlight.

My phone light does bring them out, but without bringing out a real camera it's probably a lost cause, and I would rather just get it posted. If you look at the close up of the tail you can see that it's got quite a sheen going on, and also I did manage to capture a tiny tiny sparkle. There's more there, really, but I just can't get it to show.

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A mermaid, curving to fit the page space she's sharing with the other mermaid, raises her arms ahead of her. She has flowy fins and is drawn in a dark blue, which has been diluted for her torso as a wash.

A little Lego mermaid sits on a badge constructed of Lego, with 'LEECE' formed on it. To the rear an inkstand with a bottle of " Upon A Star" ink and a dip pen.

Close up of tail, with the odd sparkle showing.

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That Cosmic Glow from Diamine sure has a great sheen! It's pretty with a wash too. Drawn with the Conklin and a lovely time I had of it too.

Twisty violet and blue merperson seen from above.

Same twisty merperson, but this time angled to catch the red-violet sheen of the ink.

Shiny rainbow hued Conklin fountain pen with Cosmic Glow ink bottle on stand. In the foreground a LEGO mermaid sits on a Leece name badge.

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Found this in my sketchbook I think from last month. It might as well be for today!

Cute little thumbnail sketch of a merperson and a school of minnows and bubbles.

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Sailfin guy. Drawn with a bunch of Kaweco Sports, Pelikan Twists and a pass Congklin with whatever they had in them. So Oster, Diamine and Van Diemen's Ink from memory.

There's some bright but hard to capture sparkle and Sheen in there.

A merman with a great sail like dorsal fin dives. He has multicoloured scales, and a crest on his head.

Another super busy day, so just a quick one with the Robert Oster signature Barossa in a LAMY.

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Sketchbook photographed at an angle, a long tailed merperson coils in purple.

Seen from above a long tailed merperson coils, arms outstretched. Drawn I. Purple with guilt glitter.

Just a merbloke with a big tail
I like big fins and I cannot lie! I'm super busy today, so just a quick Merdude done in the Pelikan Golden Lapis and Rose Quartz. The Lamy ABC and the Twisbi Eco respectively.

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Super quick drawing of a merbloke bearded and with a big tail, drawn in Golden Lapis and Rose Quartz.

@rdm wrote this short story a little while ago - https://aus.social/@rdm/113932602027808564

and caught me as I was going out to MerMay and and suggested it as a prompt for today's drawing. You can read it and see if I caught the mood. Drawn with a water brush and three fountain pens. The rashy is done with Memory Lane, which is a shimmer, also seen Golden Lapis and Azure Kingfisher, and for the skin tone it's Robert Oster Terra Fuego I think.

Is it still #Drawingwithoutanet if I've drawn an actual net?
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Close up of Mermaid face showing very sparkly gold hair.

Close up of Mermaid tail showing shimmer

Mermaid in a purple rashy brandishing a bag of crabs hopefully.

Pen and ink stand with a bottle of Memory Lane ink, an ABC, a LAMY Demonstrator, and an all blue Parker. In front is a bottle of dilute Cosmic Glow.

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Filling up this page too, aren't I? I used a brush with some diluted Cosmic Glow I'd saved from a clean to create the silhouette. Then I used Cosmic Glow and Golden Lapis to sketch in the other details.

A mermaid, with her hair tied up and floating in the water. First painted as a silhouette in diluted blue, then details sketched in with high sheen and sparkly inks.

Close up of scales showing the violet sheen and the sparkly blue of the scales.

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I put some of Diamine's Cosmic Glow into the Conklin to draw this Cecaelian like person.

Drawn in turquoise and a blue purple sheen, this merfolk is modelled on squid. They have tentacles on their head, and their fingers are tentacle like. Their lower half divides into a mass of tentacles.

@Unixbigot to be honest I've only known about it for a few years, and this is the first time I've ever done it! Here's some of my efforts for the month, just quickies, ink straight to paper so any mistakes I just have to deal with, which is why I use the hashtag #drawingwithoutanet #MerMay #MerMay2025

A page full of many merfolk of different kinds, in lots of different inks.

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Drawn with that nice wooden LAMY ABC and the gold lapis Pelikan gave to us at the #PelikanHub

A merperson very much based on dolphin lines drawn in Pelikan's golden lapis

Close of the fin like hands, or are they hand like fins? Very sparkly.

Close up of the merperson head, showing the fine gold sparkle

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A mermaid tests the sharpness of the narwhal mer's horn.
Drawn mostly with Kaweco Sports and the Conklin until it ran dry.

A mermaid in brown, green and violet, and red tests the pointiness of her narwhal mer companion's tusk.

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So this one is revisiting the VanDiemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher which has that purple sheen and gold sparkle.

Spotted, quite reptilian merperson high fives two previous merfolk. This is a mix of blues, a sheen of purple, and very sparkly gold.

Head detail of a spotted, quite reptilian merperson high fives two previous merfolk. This is a mix of blues, a sheen of purple, and very sparkly gold.

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So the Best Wishes Ink from Diamine is both a sheen and a shimmer, I caught some of the sparkle, and you might see a red sheen on this dark green, almost black ink.

This narwhal mer is pleased to meet the deep sea mer. They've had some fights in their past, and all they have to say when asked about the scars was that they survived, and it wasn't all from other narwhal mer.

A merperson based on a narwhal format high fives the deepsea mer.

Close up of narwhal mer, the sparkly ink make them look like they have glittery mascara :-)

Diamine "Best Wishes" ink bottle in holder and a dip pen with a silver nib and still some ink on it.

Close up to try and catch the sparkle on the narwhal mer.

Drawn with the same nib you saw yesterday, this time it's Diamine's Spruce. It's scented, so sniff the screen hard and you might get a soapy pine fragrance.
I wouldn't though, it's honestly not that pleasant.
I am very tired due to Eurovision being 3am my time.

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A mer person is swimming, they have bars on their back and look like they're enjoying their swim. Drawn in very dark green.

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A quick odd deepsea merperson drawn with a dip pen in Diamine's Serendipity. Which has shimmer and sheen which it steadfastly refused to demonstrate in this light.

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