( And with that, I think will be done with this silly challenge for now. This was a lot of fun and there were a ton more mermaids & critters I wanted to do but I've a lot of other things to do over the summer. But I might do this again next year, so save your mermaids until then! )

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I'm making new profiles for me and my characters and here's a near final draft of what they're going to look like.

I’ve already turned my amabie ocs into mermaids in a past Mer-May, so now I’m doing the opposite!

Throughout the month, at random, I’ll be turning someone’s mermaid oc ( or any other sea creatures ) into an amabie! A fun little twist on the usual formula!

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( And if anyone is new to what amabie are, they’re creatures of Japanese folklore that have the ability to heal or even bring good luck. Here are some sources on them for more information: )

 https://yokai.com/amabie/

 https://youtu.be/Ob8Bv8iDBXw?feature=shared  

Just a tiny update, but the next three Line-arts are going to grouped together into a single theme and posted on the same day next Sunday.

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Just a small heads up but the next line-art may be a bit late tomorrow.

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New preview of my new character emotes! Might make some changes, specially the head position.

( Each of these emotes is 160x160 px BTW. )

I'm back from my offline break! Hope I didn't miss anything too crucial while I was gone.

I did say I was going to get some new profiles done before the break was over… but I may have gotten sidetracked and made a bunch of emotes instead. Whoops… 🫠 No problem though, I can still make sure my Line-Arts are ready for March if I put my focus into them.

I'm going to be taking the the entire next week off simply because I am not mentally ready to hear everyone shouting about what Onaldday Umptray is going to do as he's taking the office. While I'm gone I'll be on my new profiles and other life stuff as well.

I think I'll also be getting my Line-Arts for my next Line-Art Lent this year ready ahead of time. Lent doesn't start until March this year, but I wanna make sure I Glaze/Nightshade all of those Line-arts and it's take a long time to do so. How long? I did the math & it's to be around 12 DAYS!

And yes I know I'm picking the slowest options here, but I wanna make sure those Al "artist" suffer from these poisoned samples. Really suffer. 😈

( Also, yes I know NewGrounds has rules against posting Al, but I don't know how their protections against the Al programs are, so this just a precaution. )

Something I wanna do for next year is introduce more Yokai OCs for my amabie to interact with. Here are a few I have in mind with some notes.

( And if you have now idea what these creatures are, you can look them up here: Yōkai.com )

I also wanna start having my Yokai OCs speaking their native languages so here is my solution to that.

( Keep in mind I'm using Google Translate for these for now. If you know of any better translators please let me know. )