Pencil sketch. A woman whose lower body is composed of octopus-like tentacles bends over to place a shirt over the shoulders of a naked, bearded man sitting on the ground.

When you're a deep sea fish, but an half-octopus creature transformed you into a human.

Work in progress for the cover of chapter 1 of the Comic version of FISH DON'T CRY.

#FishDontCry #WIP #Merfolk #MerfolkAU

Traditional illustration, done in ballpoint pen and pencil, of a dark-haired human child placing a shell necklace in the water. In the water, a young pistrix (a type of merfolk, but with characteristics similar to those of an oarfish) examines the same necklace the child placed in the water.

Lil' Augustine wants to be friends with a mermaid. Will throwing random objects in the water will be enough?

Illustration to accompany a little fic), both created for @perfworldweek.bsky.social!
Theme: Family/Childhood.

#TraditionalArt #Merfolk #MerfolkAU #FishDontCry #perfworldshipping2026

Chibi-style sketch of a diver in a wetsuit swimming next to a pistrix, a creature with a humanoid torso and an oarfish tail.

Pencil sketch of a tall, elegant woman with long hair, chatting and laughing with a much shorter man, also elegantly dressed and with a goatee.

Pencil sketch of two people, a man and a woman, dressed elegantly but a little bizarrely. The sketch is accompanied by the caption in Italian, "bellissime scienziate morte di sonno", literally "beautiful scientists dead of sleep" (it means they're very sleep deprived).

More sketches!
Cute things and... more cute things.

#FishDontCry #Traditionalart #MerfolkAu #FollowThePistrix #Chibi

A pencil sketch of three people singing, with the words "CEO karaoke" written on it. Musical notes surround them. The three people are two men and a woman. The men are tall, with medium-length hair slicked back and a beard that covers his jaw, but no mustache. The other has shorter hair, elegantly styled with a charming forelock, goatee, and mustache. The woman stands in the middle, between them, and has very long hair and an elegant dress with a shrug that leaves a small area of ​​her chest exposed.

Pencil sketch of a woman wearing glasses and dozing in front of a computer. Behind her, a man is carrying coffee.

Pencil sketch of a bearded man looking at a baguette. His eyes, abnormally bulging, are his only visible facial features.

Pencil sketch of a group of people: the Panorme family. All four sisters can be seen huddling around their very tall brother, Seraphin. In the upper left, a small chibi-style sketch of Seraphin is visible, asking "funds?" while looking up with large eyes.

Sketches from a story where Prof Sycamore and all the Team Flare Scientists are siblings, Rose and Lusamine are bff (in corporate crime?) and Lysandre is a fish that sometimes is also a guy that may or may not have a complicated relationship with bread.

#FishDontCry #MerfolkAU #Pokemon #Lysandre

Pen sketch of a pistrix, a creature with a humanoid torso and the tail of an oarfish, in the center of the page, surrounded by various characters: behind him someone very large, of whom only the round eyes and hands are visible, to his left a human in a diving suit and to his right a person whose inner body has no legs, but a tangle of octopus tentacles.

How much are we into this #FishDontCry project? There's a long story that we're writing (with @cactusdifuoco.bsky.social!),a blog, and now also... comics. So, work in progress for the comic cover for Fish Don't Cry! Just a sketch for now.

#WIP #TraditionalArt #MerfolkAU #FollowThePistrix

Black and white ballpoint pen illustration of a crossover scene: Lysandre from Pokémon XY kneeling and talking to Sangreal from Fish Don't Cry. Both have similar hair, and a very defined beard, with no mustache. The text in their dialogue balloons says: "YOU DON'T NEED THE ULTIMATE WEAPON, YOU NEED TO GIVE TO YOURSELF PERMISSION TO HATE THEM WITHOUT SHAME." "I NEED TO KILL THEM, I ALREADY HATE THEM, HOW CAN I CREATE AN ULTIMATE WEAPON CAN I BORROW YOURS" "YOUR TRUE HATE WILL REVEAL YOUR ULTIMATE WEAPON YOU DON'T NEED MINE" "YOU FOUND YOURS IN A  HOLE, YOU HAD JUST TO DIG" "FINE, I'LL LEND IT TO YOU, JUST BRING IT BACK..." "WHEN?" "IN A COUPLE OF MONTHS, I'LL NEED IT TO EXTERMINATE KALOS" "AH, OK".

More ballpoint pen stuff from our sketchbooks! 

Lysandre encounters... a version of him with fins, from another universe?
(We wanted to make him meet Sangreal!).

#Crossover #FishDontCry #Lysandre #PokemonXY #Merfolk #Pistrix #MerfolkAU

Digital illustration of an adult male merfolk, seen from the side. He is ascending and has one hand raised upward. While merfolk often have long hair, this one has short, dark, and very curly hair.

Remember the lil' tiny blue guy who didn't want to dress up?
This is him now.
Adult merfolk prince!

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #DigitalArt

Digital illustration of a young male blue-tailed merfolk. Above his head, the text "Dressing? Nevermore!" can be read.

Merfolk in the royal family love to... dress to impress. Their status is often communicated by the quality of their clothes.
But this young one, oh, he hates it!
(Like in the original fairytale!)

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #DigitalArt

Digital illustration of a sea warlock soaking in a bathtub while reading the newspaper. His torso appears perfectly human, but his purple, octopus-like tentacles emerge from the bottom of the tub.

Despite being able to breathe atmospheric air, sea warlocks still need water to not get dehydrated!

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #DigitalArt #SeaWarlock

Colored pencil illustration showing two scenes: in the top scene, a young merfolk is welcomed into the world with a loving family, by the hands of a king, and surrounded by princes. In the bottom scene, a sea warlock is crowning the now-grown merfolk with the crown he stole from the old king.

You WILL be king, my puppet, whether you like it or not.
Your crown will be stolen, your family usurped.
For the displeasure of everyone you love, my dear, you will be king for me.

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #TraditionalArt #Ballpointpen

Black pen illustration of a sea warlock using his tentacles to force a young merman's hands to his throat, as if to choke. The viewpoint is close, with the two characters barely visible up to their chests.

Not only your voice, little one... your freedom.
What your lips will say, will be my thoughts.
What your hands will do, will be my will.
(Haha, you get it? My Will?)

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #TraditionalArt #Ballpointpen

Small digital chibi illustration of a female sea warlock with blond hair and pink tentacles. Under her, in small letters, is written "sea witch Bedelia".

Chibi sea witch (back in the time we didn't decide yet that sea warlock was a gender neutral term for the entirety of their species) Bedelia du Maurier.
Aww, she got pink tentacles!

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #DigitalArt #SeaWarlock #Chibi

Illustration, in an orange and gray/green palette, of a sea warlock (a creature with an anthropomorphic torso, but octopus-like tentacles from the waist down) forcing a young merfolk to sign a contract.

Sign the contract, little one!Give me your freedom. You will be my instrument... and I'll make you encounter the human woman you love.
(This was a palette challenge!)

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #DigitalArt #SeaWarlock

Illustration, drawn in black ballpoint pen, of a male and female merfolk. The male has short hair, while the female has long hair and wears a sash around her breasts. They appear to be in freshwater, as ranchu, a type of goldfish, are standing next to them.

Margot Verger and Mason Verger as merfolk. Are they freshwater merfolk? Why did we draw ranchu goldfish with them?

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #Ballpointpen

Traditional illustration, drawn with ballpoint pen and colored pencil, of an elderly male merfolk with short hair singing to the moon while holding a small comb. Behind a rock, hidden and watching, is a human with dark hair and beard.

Preller (Brian Zeller x Jimmy price) but make it mythological! Jimmy is now a serene sirene singing at the moon, while combing his (short) hair. Wow, so majestic.

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #ColoredPencils

Digital chibi-style illustration of a male merfolk perched atop the head of a sea warlock. They are seen from above the water's surface, so the tip of the merfolk's tail is not visible, and only the tips of the sea warlock's tentacles are visible.

Chibi time! With tiny Merman Will on top of Sea Warlock Hannibal (not, not that kind of top, baka! 😳).
Lil' guy is now a hat.

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #Chibis

Digital illustration of a sea sorcerer (a creature with a human torso but purple octopus tentacles) holding a male blue-tailed merfolk. They are underwater. The blond sea sorcerer is wearing a tie and has his eyes open, while the dark-haired merfolk is wearing nothing and has his eyes closed. The words "your beauty is condemnation, punishment, and curse" can be faintly read in the water, repeated, in two languages: English and Italian.

Hey hey hey! Wanna see a little thread of old arts of our Hannibal AU (mainly featuring Will as a merman and Hannibal as a Sea Warlock?).
Here ya go!

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Hannibal #Underwater #Fantasy #HannibalAU #OdysSea

Illustration of a pistrix, a creature that (similar to mermaids) has an anthropomorphic upper body, with human-shaped arms and torso, and red "hair," while its lower body is long and thin, like that of an oarfish (Regalecus glesne). The pistrix is ​​sitting on an underwater rock face and gazing down into the black abyss, where its elongated body blends into the darkness.

Sitting underwater at the edge of a continental shelf, as his long tail stretches down, down into the watery abyss, with no end in sight...

Colored sketch (ballpoint pen + some digital) of Mer!Lysandre/Sangreal, created to answer an ask on tumblr!

#OdysSea #Merfolk #MerfolkAU #PokemonAU #Lysandre

Black ballpoint pen illustration of an adult pistrix with some juveniles. The juveniles are much less humanoid than the adult, with faces similar to those of a regaleco and only a pair of articulated arms like human ones.

Dada (or is it mama? These creatures are complicated) with ten fries!
(Did you know that baby fish are called fries? And yes, of course pistrices are fish!).

#Merfolk #FishDontCry #MerfolkAU #Pistrix #TraditionalArt #Ballpointpen

Traditional illustration of a male blue-tailed merfolk (Will Graham) being trapped by the long, coiled purple tentacles of a sea warlock (Hannibal). The sea warlock has blond/light brown hair and wears a yellow and purple tie.

"Poor unfortunate soul", but make it Hannigram.Ballpoint pen + colored pencils. It's a very old work, from 2014!

#Hannibal #MerfolkAU #OdysSea #Merfolk

Illustration of a sea warlock, a creature with a humanoid torso but long, purple, octopus-like tentacles. This sea sorcerer wears a purple and yellow striped tie and holds a severed arm and the tail fin of what is implied to be a merfolk.

The reason for which sea warlocks eat other sentient creature is probably that... our first specimen was an alternative universe Hannibal Lecter XD

#Hannibal #MerfolkAU #OdysSea #Merfolk

Illustration of Will and Hannibal from the tv show "NBC Hannibal", but as fantastical sea creature: Will Graham is a merfman, with a blue fish tail, and Hannibal Lecter is a Sea Warlock, with strong purples tentacles that he uses to keep captured and entagled Will, from behind.

We started building the story and biology of sea warlocks years ago, for our Hannibal merfolk AU, in which (of course!) Will was a merman, and Hannibal the sea warlock that tricks him and steals his voice. (Yeah, it was pretty unoriginal)

#Hannibal #MerfolkAU #OdysSea #Merfolk

Black and white ballpoint pen illustration of a female sea warlock, a creature with a partially human appearance but with long tentacles instead of legs. The illustration doesn't show her entire body, but it suggests that her tentacles are very long. She also has very long hair.

In our merfolk story, Lusamine (for the fanfiction version)/Seras Alkahest (for the original version) will be a sea warlock, a creature that looks like a mix between a human and a giant octopus... but she's so, so much more than just that ;)

#Ballpointpen #PokemonAU #MerfolkAU #Fantasy #Merfolk

Illustrations, drawn in black ballpoint pen, of the courtship between a nixen (a female shark-mermaid) and a mersalmon (a male). The female is seen biting the male (on the chest, in this case) and then gazing at him lovingly, while he displays the bite marks on his torso.

There are known cases of mersalmon males who willingly accepted to undergo the torture of bites, typical of nixen courtship, and managed to produce fertile offspring with them.

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Xanafox #Ballpointpen #Nixen #Mersalmon #Fantasy

Black and white ballpoint pen traditional illustration of two male merfolk fighting. They're strong and muscular, and both of them have a goatee.

So, yeah, more mersalmon Xanatos and Vlad, sketched with ballpoint pen! They may fight, but they're friends. Like brothers. And maybe, yeah, real brothers too.

(They do this just for show. Y'know, to impress the ladies).

#merfolk #MerfolkAU #DavidXanatos #VladPlasmius #Mersalmon #Ballpointpen

Chibi style digital illustration of a merman with bright red lower body/tail/fins and green upper body. He also has a lot of black hair, with a white stripe in the middle, and red eyes.

Although it is rare, some male mersalmon (estimated one in four hundred) also exhibit a color change on the skin, which is pigmented green, with the ends of the upper limbs (arms and wrists) particularly dark (and called "gloves").

#Merfolk #Mersalmon #MerfolkAU #FishDonTCry #OdysSea

Digital sketch of a gigantic female pistrix, a creature similar to a mermaid but with a massive size, watching a little child that appears very small compared to her hands.

Sketch featuring Scylla the most massive pistrix.
We will re-do this with ballpoint pen, on white paper, and complete it (this is just a study of what we want to do).

The title is "matri du mari", that in Sicilian means "Mother of the Sea".

#DigitalArt #WIP #Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Pistrix

Wh... what is this? Is this the first chapter of the Merfolk AU fic, the one featuring mer!Lysandre and marine biologist!Sycamore???

(While we wait for the "official" post, I wanted to show you that we already posted the fanfiction version, yaaay! Enjoy it!)

#Writing #MerfolkAU #PokemonMerfolkAU

Someone (an anon on tumblr) said to us "i'm just imagining merman lysandre as post-redemption arc "L" ".

And here's our answer!

#DigitalArt #OdysSea #Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Lysandre #PokemonLegendsZa

Someone asked us "Sooooo how do pistrixes (pixtri?) procreate 👀?"

This is the answer!

#Merfolk #MerfolkAU #Pistrix #TheWayOfLegends #Sketch #DigitalArt