#md3origart

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Smaugust 2025, days 10-12.

8/12/2025. Sketched with Platinum Plaisir fountain pen, using Platinum ink. Colored with Copic markers and ShinHartArt Touch marker.

Referenced photos of a Komodo dragon, a crocodile, and an iguana.

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Something I think I'm noticing about myself.

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4/20/2026

Doodling mermaids.

4/20/2026. Drawn with Platinum Plaisir fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink, and no pencil underdrawing. Colored with Copic markers. Some fixes digitally in Krita.

Ever since MerMay 2025, I've found it really relaxing to doodle mermaids. Just making up OCs on the spot, alleviates the pressure of matching a character design with fanart. Drawing the repetitive scales is cathartic. And drawing random, swooping lines for a tail and fins is fun and so much easier than drawing the lower half of the body as human legs. These originally started out as chibi, so the faces and hands are super simple. But I don't think these proportions are chibi anymore. I don't know what they are. But doodling mermaids like this, even outside of May, is really relaxing.

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MerMay 2025, day 18.

5/17/2025. Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers. Some digital color adjustment in Krita, since my scanner messes up colors.

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5/3/2025, 5/8/2025

MerMay 2025, days 1-9.

Day 1: 5/3/2025. Pilot Petit fountain pen, using Monteverde "Charoite" ink. Colored with Crayola Super Tips markers.

Day 2: 5/3/2025. Artist's Loft fundamentals Watercolor pencil "Emerald green". Referenced Getty Images, Credit: PM Images, "Man Practicing Ballet Pose Looking Up".

Day 3: 5/3/2025. Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Crayola Super Tips marker. Referenced 3D Scan Store, "Male Pole Dancer Pose 57".

Days 4-9: 5/8/2025. Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers and Prismacolor Premier marker.

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9/30/2025, 10/1/2025

Mermaid warm-up doodles.

2 top mers drawn 9/30/2025.

Bottom-left mermaid drawn 10/1/2025.

Platinum Plaisir fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers. Minor clean-up digitally in Krita.

I needed subjects for warm-up doodles, and recently, MerMay and JuneBridesGrooms worked really well for me.

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MerMay 2025, days 20-23.

5/21/2025. Platinum Preppy fountain pen, using Noodler's Ink. Colored with Copic markers. Some digital color adjustment in Krita, since my scanner messes up colors.

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Smaugust 2025, days 17-20.

8/21/2025. Sketched with Platinum Plaisir fountain pen, using Platinum ink. Colored with Copic markers and ShinHartArt Touch marker.

Referenced photos of reptiles from Google Image search, including iguanas, Komodo dragons, and monitor lizards.