digital comic in a cel shading style, with nine panels, featuring Felix and Jeongin. Jeongin begins explaining why he is here, first saying that he and others found out a male sirean was becoming quite proficient in luring hunters. Felix, still sweating hard and shaking, internally freaks out more upon realizing Changbin really should have killed him instead of being caught when they met. He begins to panic, telling himself that it's all his fault, while Jeongin continues saying that the run by hunters to catch a male sirean (who are exceeding valuable for profit) has increased the danger to all of their islands tenfold.

Solmare pg64!!

Questions questions answers answers👀

And it may look like Lix and Merbin's first meeting was more complicated than they thought😅

And the repercussions from it...

#solmareAU #skzAU #webcomic #fancomic #skz

digital comic in a cel shading style, with nine panels, featuring Felix and Jeongin. Felix is breathing fast in a near panic attack until Jeongin pulls him out of it asking if he's alright. Felix lies, saying his nightmare just gave him a headache. Felix then clams himself and asks the question he's been so cautious about. What makes Changbin's capture so important that Jeongin would risk his life by turning into a human? Jeongin is immediately aggressive in a warning, but Felix is insistent. Notable visual change in last panel of Felix - Felix's lips have gone much paler and he has more of a yellow-green tint to his face.

Solmare pg63!

Can you handle it Felix? Can you?! Also, how you doing there? You're looking a little pale👀

Things are about to get exciting/intense/informative soon!

#solmareAU #skzAU #webcomic #fancomic #skz

digital comic with eight panels in a cel shading style featuring Felix and Jeongin. Jeongin glares at Felix, who lowers his eyes and apologizes for yelling at him. Jeongin rolls his eyes and answers Felix's question on how Changbin's colors could be how they are. Felix's body is starting to shake and sweat harder as time goes on. When Jeongin asks his next question, Felix's mind starts to reel, with two voices (one in normal font, another in a script font). His normal thoughts lists off reasons why Jeongin was here, the other voice is entirely focused on Changbin, that Changbin must be protected, that Changbin is all that mattered, etc etc. Felix's shaking increases as he grips the blankets over his knees tightly.

Solmare pg62!

Felix's head is definitely not being nice right now😅Why? We shall see...

One of the biggest things w/ these pages has been figuring out how to visualize everything. Hoping it all makes sense, but if you have questions, feel free to ask🩵

#solmareAU #skzAU #webcomic #fancomic #skz

digital comic in cel shading style with nine panels featuring Felix and Jeongin. Jeongin asks Felix what colors the sirean is that they have, saying that hunters lied before, so Felix needed to prove what they had. Upon Felix telling him, Jeongin looks confused but asks where the sirean was caught while Felix, now more curious, asks more questions about Changbin's colors. Jeongin gets annoyed at Felix's "silly questions" spurning Felix to yell back in anger saying he should've asked Jisung since he knows more than him.

Solmare pg61!

Hey Lix, maybe not yelling at the sirean in the room would be a good course of action. Also, "young"?🤔

Sooooo many sequential pages in this section! But there's a lot of important stuff in here, so I want to make sure it's all there😊

#solmareAU #skzAU #webcomic #fancomic #skz

digital art of Merbin on a blue-grey background. Merbin is curled into himself, eyes closed with his tail curved all the way to his head. Around him the words "We fight back against those who mean to destroy us..." are above him while "...we fight to exist" are under him

This was made a while ago, but I'm posting it again

I feel like this is not only relevant to the story of Solmare, but to many stories throughout history and especially for the reality many people, as well as most living things, have today

#solmareAU #exist #mermaid #skzfanart #skz

Full colored character sheet Changbin’s mermaid design. Turquoise and pink body, white chest and stomach, dark blue stripes and hair. Left side view, color swatches and hand details, right side view, shade and highlight layer types and rest version of tail, front view, top and bottom of hip fins, back view

Lineart character sheet of Changbin’s mermaid design. Left side view, color swatches and hand details, right side view, shade and highlight layer types and rest version of tail, front view, top and bottom of hip fins, back view

Side-by-side comparison of original mermaid Changbin design with high fin details and fully rendered shades and highlights, and new mermaid Changbin design with simplified fin design and cel shade rendering

Only just realized I haven’t posted the updated design for Merbin🩵🩷

So here he is!! Full color, lines, and side-by-side comparison with his old design

Hope y’all like!💙

#solmareAU #skzfanart #skz #fanart #mermaid #charactersheet

Digital comic in cel shading style with eight panels featuring Felix and Jeongin. Felix, still terrified from his nightmare, spins around, grabs the flintlock pistol on his side table and aims it at Jeongin. Jeongin doesn't react except to say and show that he'd already disabled the pistol, so Felix's treat is useless. Felix asks why he is there. Jeongin immediately asks what they have on the ship

Solmare pg60!!

bum Bum BUM!!!

Looks like Felix is more scared than we thought and Jeongin with that master level intimidation🤭

Get ready for some BIG info drops!

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart #fancomic

Digital comic in cel shading style with six panels featuring Felix and Jeongin. Felix jumps from sleep from his intense nightmare, panicking and grabbing his head before Jeongin's voice shocks him out of it. Felix's eyes rush to the corner of his bedroom at the inn to see Jeongin sitting there next to a candle

Solmare pg59!!

That nightmare was intense to say the least😅

But what could've made it happen? Could Merbin really be capable of that after all this time? And why the hell is Jeongin here?!

Luckily answers are coming👀

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart #fancomic

Digital comic in cel shading style with six panels featuring Felix and Merbin. Felix is sinking into an endless ocean when Merbin appears over him and gently puts his hands on the side of his face

Digital comic in cel shading style with eight panels featuring Felix and Merbin. Felix opens his eyes, sees Merbin above him in the water, and gently moves a hand to touch one of Merbin's on his face. Merbin's claws then suddenly dig into the sides of Felix's head. Felix screams underwater before Merbin gives a deadly glare and rushes him, fangs bared

Solmare pg57 & 58!!

Let me tell you, I AM SOOOO EXCITED TO FINALLY GET TO THE NIGHTMARE SCENE!!!

We did switch from meeting Innie to here quick, there are reasons, but mainly its just bypassing unnecessary filler. So much plot coming!

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart #fancomic

Digital comic in cel shading style with seven panels featuring Felix, Jisung, Chris, and Jeongin. Jeongin surprises the group and introduces himself enthusiastically to Felix and Jisung. Both are on edge and when Jeongin and Chris walk away, Jisung signs to Felix that Jeongin is a mermaid just as Jeongin glances back to them over his shoulder with a smirk

Solmare pg56!!

Enter Jeongin!!! And ooooooooo new mer in the building🧜‍♂️👀things are definitely gonna get interesting soon!

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart #fancomic

Digital comic in cel shading style with five panels featuring Felix, Jisung, Chris and many background characters. Chris leads them to the inn, asking pleasant questions, while Felix and Jisung whisper to each other about being careful and not say too much

Solmare pg55!!

Oh Chris you sweet summer child. Woooo the wake-up call he's about to get😅

Another new character coming next!!

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart #fancomic

Digital comic in cel shading style with six panels featuring Felix, Jisung, Chris, and a few background characters. Jisung pulls Felix excitedly to a market booth full of shells. Felix says they should be looking for the inn so they can find Marquet's nephew when Chris shows up and introduces himself as the person they're looking for

Solmare pg54!!

Enter Christopher! Sooooooo excited to be getting more of the boys in here💙

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart

Digital comic in cel shaded style with seven panels featuring Felix and Jisung. Felix jumps off the rowboat into the water at the beach, then Jisung comes up behind him excitedly, asks how it feels, then they look toward the town

Solmare pg53!!

And here's the first page in the new style!

As with anything, time and practice will help me refine things, but so far I love how things are turning out! The final goal is to have every panel look like the screenshot of an animation💙

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart

Digital comic with six panels featuring Felix, Minho, and Jisung. Minho is comforting Felix and ensuring everything will be alright, then Felix and Jisung climb off the ship and start riding the small boat towards land

Solmare pg 52!!

And with this page, this arc is done!

Next page onward will be in the new style and start us off on land! Super excited with how the new style is working out!

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart

digital comic page with six panels featuring Felix, Jisung, and Minho, and an OC, Captain Marquet. They are arguing about Felix being forced to leave the ship

Solmare pg51!!

I do believe Felix is angry about being forced to leave😅

Hopefully Minho fares well down in the hold while they are "having fun" running around on land

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart

Dark lit digital art piece of Merbin crawling dangerously across the floor towards the viewer, claws and fangs out

Dark lit digital art piece of Merbin crawling dangerously across the floor towards the viewer, claws and fangs out in a deadly snarl, covered in blood

Dark lit zoomed in digital art piece of Merbin crawling dangerously across the floor towards the viewer, fangs out in a deadly snarl

Dark lit zoomed in digital art piece of Merbin crawling dangerously across the floor towards the viewer, fangs out in a deadly snarl, blood dripping from between them

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!🎃

So I’ve been wanting to do a truly scary Merbin piece for a loooooong time, and I decided that Halloween was the perfect time to do it!!

…this is basically the last thing people on his bad side see💀

Enjoy
#solmareAU #halloween2025 #skzfanart

My most recent MerBin piece🩵🩷🌙

It was for an amazing collab on insta and I just had to join in. I had so much fun on this, even if that splash nearly drove me insane😂

#solmareAU #straykids #changbin #merbin🩵🩷

Solmare pg 50!!!

Felix’s questions poured out of him enthusiastically. Jisung and Minho tried to answer them the best they could, but when questions started turning into terrifying theories, they turned the conv. quickly. Then Marquet came into the picture

#solmareAU #skzAU #skz #straykids #fanart

Made another one🩵🩷

Don’t make the MerBin angry. It may be the last thing you do

#merbin🩵🩷 #solmareAU #straykidsfanart #skzfanart

Practicing with things😂🩵🩷

#solmareAU #merbin🩵🩷

Solmare pg48 & 49!!

The Winged Lady sails into port, her sheer size impossible to ignore

All is going smoothly, but ominous undertones lie under the bright morning sun☀️
#solmareAU

*also…surprise cameo!!!!💙

I made a cute…💓💓💓💓💓

#solmareAU #seadwaekki #MerBin🩵🩷 #dwaekki

Solmare pg46 & 47!

Lix's enthusiasm when he saw they were nearing land surprised him. He shouldn't be excited, especially after what Minho said could be waiting for them there

Luckily, Bin's encouraging smile brought this excitement back, at least until Lix was out of sight
#solmareAU #MerBin🩵🩷

Sirean (sai-ree-uhn) anatomy diagrams
- Basic Muscles/flexibility
- Basic Skeletal

The internal organs/reproduction diagram plus an additional 5k+ words of species info is up on Patreon (mild🔞 but if y’all really want to see it, I can add it to the thread)
#solmareAU #creaturedesign
#mermaid

Solmare pg43-45!

They reached the hold just as Hn hit the floor, soaked from a huge splash sent by Bn over the top of the tank

Lx couldn’t keep up after that. 1st he was scared, then surprised, then worried, then angry, then…

Then those eyes found him and it all faded away
#solmareAU #MerBin🩵🩷

Solmare pg41 & 42!

Lix wasn't expecting to have new clothes thrown at him the second he opened the door, but he definitely wasn't expecting to learn just how rare Bin truly was and just how much danger they were sailing into

And then there was Minho's reaction when he voiced his fears
#solmareAU

Solmare pg40!

Lix was so excited that he initially didn't register the surprise & uneasiness coming from Han when he came down into the hold, nor the angry annoyance from Bin when he was told he'd have to leave them alone

Why was there still so much animosity between them?
#solmareAU

Solmare pg39!

Lix's awed stare only broke when Bin's clawed hand came up to his lip, pointing to the place where Gunin had struck Lix

Lix tried telling him to not worry and that it meant nothing, but what surprised him more was how Bin responded
#solmareAU
Hey look! Smiles!😁💙

Solmare pg37 & 38!

Of all things Lix thought he’d wake up to, looking up and seeing Bin’s face mere cm away from the glass staring right at him was not one of them

What followed was annoyance, joy, caution, fear, then just sheer awe
#solmareAU
I love that last panel so much😭😭😭💙

Solmare pg36!

Minho's words were those Lix didn't want to hear, but they were what he needed. Even if he was willing to risk his life trying to free Bin, he wasn't willing to risk those of his friends

He would have to try to keep his distance. No matter how much his heart didn't want to
#solmareAU