Here's the complete list for #mayquatic2025
Which one was your favourite?
Which one was the most challenging for you?
The Leafy Sea Dragon and Ribbon Eel almost made me rage quit XD

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #wildlife #nature #aquatic

Bonus: Blue Dragon Sea Slug
Time: 1h 3min
Okay I'm done. Time to release me from my art prison.

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #seaslug #bluedragonseaslug #wildlife #nature

Thank you to everyone who took part in the #mayquatic2025 challenge! Whether you did all of them, some of them, or only one. It was real nice seeing all the different art styles. I did not expect so many to take part. I'll definitely be bringing this back next year!

Mayquatic day 31: copepod
Well here it is, the last day of the challange. Thank you so much @kesterpanels.bsky.social for creating it and for the support! 💚 I learned so much and had a ton of fun even if it was hard sometimes.
#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #mayquatic2025 #aquatic #copepod

Mayquatic day 27: peacock mantis shrimp
I didn't have time to finish it, but here is the WIP. Will do more when I come back from vacation and start seriously working on the final illustration :D

#art #artwork #digitalart #wip #mayquatic2025 #ocean #marine #aquatic #shrimp #mantisshrimp

last two prompts of #mayquatic2025

this was a fun challenge to do and I am much more comfortable using my markers now!

#art #MarineLife #copicmakers #ink #coloredpencil

#MayQuatic2025 Zebra sharks (Stegostoma Tigrinum) are born with black bodies and white stripes hence their name. As they mature, the stripes fade away and the sharks develop a spotted pattern resembling a leopard!

#ZebraShark #Shark #SaveTheSharks #SeaLife #BskyArt #Art #ArtYear

Day 31: Copepod
Time: 28 minutes
If you don't know what this is, you will when it steals the Krabby Patty Secret Formula 👀

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #copepod #plankton #wildlife #nature

A Blue Sea Dragon, a nudibranch/sea slug. A head with protrusions, with the neck flowing into two arms on either side, at the end of the arms are long "feathers" in gradient size (with the longest at the tip). A long body that gets thinner as it narrows to a tail. The rear "legs" are very short and also have fronds flowing off the ends with the centre one being very long. The tail just past the rear legs also contains fronds, from which the rest of the tail emerges and continues on to a long point. Its colouring is a white base with cobalt blue striped running along the body and on the fronds.

An art installation on a wall in an alcove in a hallway. An arrangement of watercolour and ink drawings and paintings of the life in a coral reef. Swimming up high, above the reef are a manta ray, a great white shark, a bottlenose dolphin, a leatherback sea turtle. Lower down at the top of the reef are grouper, wrasse, angel fish, puffer fish, clown fish, etc. At the bottom are corals, anemone, seaweed, urchins, a giant clam, a moray eel, peacock mantis shrimp, blue crab, starfish, sea snails, nudibranch, and more. Hanging in front from the ceiling is a mobile containing more small reef fish. The Blue Dragon Sea Slug/Nudibranch is visible on the edge of the red coral towards the bottom right.

May 31 and the bonus creature for #Mayquatic2025 is #BlueDragonSeaSlug

Glaucus atlanticus - a #watercolour version I did for a coral reef installation

#Artist #ArtShow #BskyArt #ArtYear #SmArtist #WildlifeArt #Painting #watercolor #Sealife #Nudibranch
@bsky.art

Mayquatic day 30: caribbean reef squid
Wanted to try a new technique today, painted everything in grayscale, then painted in the color and final details (intentionally coloful ref). Any feedback is welcome ☺️
#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #marine #aquatic #squid

this squid can apparently change colors 🤩

#art #mayquatic2025 #MarineLife #copicmarkers #ink #coloredpencil

Day 30: Caribbean Reef Squid
Time: 42 min
I'm so glad I saved the easier ones for last 😆

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #squid #caribbeanreefsquid #marine #aquatic #wildlife #nature #shiny

#Mayquatic2025 Sockeye Salmon (Oncorhynchus Nerka)

#SockeyeSalmon #Salmon #Ocean #Sealife #AnimalArt #Wildlifeart #bskyart #artist #art #artyear

Mayquatic day 29: black sea devil
Cursed potato of the deep

#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #marine #aquatic #deepsea #fish #seadevil #anglerfish

Ink doodle white on black. An angler fish with a huge mouth, sharp crooked teeth, blue eyes & a blue glowing esca is having a wonderful swim.

#mayquatic2025 day 29: Black Sea Devil 💚

#Art #Ink #Krita #Aquatic #MarineLife

psa: keep your fingers away from this thing

#art #copicmarkers #ink #coloredpencil #mayquatic2025 #MarineLife

Day 29: Black Sea Devil
Time: 39 min
This list can't be complete without any deep sea dwellers 😌

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #fish #blackseadevil #anglerfish #deepocean #wildlife #nature #spooky

#Mayquatic2025 The Giant Oceanic Manta Ray (Mobula Birostris)

#MantaRay #Manta #SavetheSharks #SaveSharks #SaveOurSeas #Ocean #AnimalArt #WildlifeArt #BskyArt #Artist #ArtYear

Mayquatic day 28: leatherback turtle
Here's today's prompt. I'm still working on the peacock shrimp, it hasn't gone too well so far. So many details...hope to finish it in the next few days.

#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #marine #aquatic #turtle #leatherbackturtle

didn’t have the colors for this lovely turtle but still like how it turned out

#art #mayquatic2025 #copicmarkers #ink #coloredpencil #MarineLife

Day 28: Leatherback Turtle
Time: 47min
This took longer than it felt like. Time flies when you're having fun 😌

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #turtle #leatherbackturtle #wildlife #nature

A Leatherback Sea Turtle is swimming in a downward slant toward the bottom right on a background of blue ocean. The entire turtle is in shades of grey with black and white mottling, The shell has vertical ridges running head to tail; the front flippers are extremely large - almost the same length as the turtles body, the back flippers are much smaller and situated much further back than on a land turtle. The head is bluntly rounded.

May 28 prompt for #Mayquatic2025 is #LeatherbackSeaTurtle

Painted for my Threatened Species project. More info: anthropoceneofthecrime.wordpress.com/2021/05/30/leatherback-sea-turtle

#Artist #ArtShow #BskyArt #ArtYear #SmArtist #WildlifeArt #Painting #Acrylic #Sealife #Turtle
@bsky.art

#Mayquatic2025 Risso's Dolphin (Grampus Griseus)

#RissosDolphin #dolphin #Ocean #Sealife #AnimalArt #Wildlifeart #BskyArt #Artist #ArtYear

Watercolor mantis shrimp is all the colors of the rainbow.

#mayquatic2025 day 27: Peacock Mantis Shrimp 💚 🦐

#art #watercolor #ink #painting #aquatic #marineLife

Mayquatic day 26: shubunkin goldfish

#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #mayquatic2025 #aquatic #water #fish #goldfish

Is this a shrimp cosplaying as a lobster or a lobster cosplaying as a shrimp?

#art #MarineLife #mayquatic2025 #copicmarker #ink #coloredpencil

Day 27: Peacock Mantis Shrimp
Time: 1h 46min
It has a stronger punch than you and can see more colours than you 😎

#drawing #art #artwork #digitalart #digitalartwork #illustration #digitalillustration #mayquatic2025 #shrimp #mantisshrimp #ocean #wildlife #nature #colourful

A Peacock Mantis Shrimp - A colorful crustacean with a hard shell and vibrant colors (orange, green, red, blue), famous for its powerful punch.

An art installation on a wall in an alcove in a hallway. An arrangement of watercolour and ink drawings and paintings of the life in a coral reef. Swimming up high, above the reef are a manta ray, a great white shark, a bottlenose dolphin, a leatherback sea turtle. Lower down at the top of the reef are grouper, wrasse, angel fish, puffer fish, clown fish, etc. At the bottom are corals, anemone, seaweed, urchins, a giant clam, a moray eel, peacock mantis shrimp, blue crab, starfish, sea snails, nudibranch, and more. Hanging in front from the ceiling is a mobile containing more small reef fish.

May 27 prompt for #Mayquatic2025 is #PeacockMantisShrimp

Painted in #watercolor & ink for a coral reef art installation in art school - it was down in the reef somewhere in the second photo

#Artist #ArtShow #BskyArt #ArtYear #SmArtist #WildlifeArt #Painting #Drawing #Sealife #Watercolour
@bsky.art

Mayquatic day 25: blue mussel
Done with yesterday's prompt. Feel kinda bad for falling behind, but I'm trying to get back on track 💪

#art #artwork #digitalart #illustration #mayquatic2025 #ocean #marine #aquatic #mussel

Ink doodle of a plump Shubunkin Goldfish splotched in orange and black, having a happy swim.

#mayquatic2025 day 26: Shubunkin Goldfish💚

#art #ink #doodle #aquatic