OCs as Mermaids by Dusk-Star17 on DeviantArt (original) (raw)

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Published: May 8, 2021

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Guys... guys... I just love drawing mermaids so damn much. I'm going to cry. They're just so pretty and swooshy and you can give them fun designs and colors and ignore gravity. I love it. So here are a couple of my OCs as mermaids. An opinion: mermaids are supposed to be pretty. Unless you're purposely drawing one of those man-eating, eldrich horror, siren-inspired mermaids, they're pretty. And that means giving your male characters pretty veils and fins, and glittery scales, and crop tops and colored hair, and jewelry, and telling gender norms to get the hell out. You can pry my pretty mermaid boys out of my cold, dead hands. But I like this drawing quite a bit. A friend of mine suggested doing a hand-made top out of sunken sails and ropes for the one character and I really liked that idea. And I know that technically, I should have done more color correcting so they look like they're underwater, but honestly I just ended up really falling for the color scheme and didn't want to change it too much. Trust me, I'll have more mermaids to share.

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I'm the friend mentioned in the caption. I came here to say

  1. F gender norms. Do what you want.

  2. Pretty mermen are the best mermen