#selkieseptember2021

[glitchingicarus]

Another selkie, this one for the prompt “Found”.  

[tinydragononfire]

Selkieeees! Here are this week’s five Selkie September drawings! The first three feature a selkie and her mermaid girlfriend! The prompts are as follows: Curiosity, Found, Tide Pool, Family, and Mischief :3 I’m having such fun with these! 

Next week’s prompts are somewhat more ominous...I’m excited!

[sparklemaia]

I’m learning how to color digitally, and this is my very first attempt at an illustration that’s not just spot color or achromatic shading! It’s Morgan and Keltie from the YA graphic novel The Girl From the Sea by Molly Knox Ostertag, which is a very cute queer summer romance featuring a loveable selkie, a tightly wound gay teenager, and a little bit of ocean magic.

I, uh, went off-prompt for Selkie September, but since Keltie is a selkie, maybe it counts?

[snail-legs]

a couple days late, but a selkie-themed character for selkie september!  loosely based on the grey seal <3

[glitchingicarus]

He was tall, and slender, with pale skin and long, jet-black hair. He dark coat was long and loose enough to hide most of his frame, but it couldn’t quite hide the way he carried himself, or the way he moved. Graceful, steady, and strong—impossibly so.

And Jon—small, soft, weak Jonathan Sims, couldn’t tear his eyes from the coat he clutched in his free hand.

“Jonathan,” Leitner pleaded from the floor. There was blood on his face, and his left eye was swelling shut. “Jonathan—run, get security. He’s stealing it—he’s the one who stole from me before, hurry!”

Gerard looked down at the coat, then back at Jon. “This is yours?” he asked. “He took it from you?”

“No!” Leitner cried out again. “No, I’m keeping it safe—Jonathan, tell him.”

Gerard held it out, carefully and at arm’s length, so that Jon didn’t have to get any closer to take it than absolutely necessary. Jon stared at him, waiting for the catch, waiting for hope to be snatched out of reach again.

“It’s fine,” said Gerard. “Just take it. Sorry you had to deal with him.”

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Another one from @pitviperofdoom’s selkie au fics, this time a scene from “as the clouds roll by”.  I thought this would be a good (belated) fill for the prompt, “stranger”.  

[glitchingicarus]

Behind on the few things I have for selkie September, but here’s one for the prompt ‘gentle’, based on/inspired by @pitviperofdoom’s fic “and I won’t let you choke”.  Just really love the idea of Jon carefully tucking his coat around Gerry or Martin as a way of offering comfort and affection. 

[glitchingicarus]

A while back I did some selkie!Jon sketches based on @pitviperofdoom ‘s fic, “as the clouds roll by”. But upon revisiting it, and chatting with pitviper, I realized my design for his coat was a little more generic and a little less fic specific, as he was intended to be a harp seal in that story. 

Harp seals (from what some googling has gathered) get their name from the distinctive wishbone or ‘harp’ shape of the male’s patterning (females tend to be spotted).  I was also playing around with the idea of Jon having a sort of birthmark type shape on his back that mimics the patterning on his seal coat, cause that seemed like a neat idea.

[glitchingicarus]

Because I couldn’t help myself, here’s another selkie design! This time based on the crabeater seal.  Crabeater seals apparently do NOT eat crabs, but do have specialized teeth for filtering krill, which the DO eat (leopard seals apparently have similar teeth for similar reasons).  So where my harp seal selkie design kept the wishbone marking in his human form, this selkie keeps the weird teeth in their human form.