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Cephalort
@cephalort.bsky.social
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🖌️Artist & mollusk 🦑 Nintendo enthusiast 📚 D&D nut

Contact, portfolio, and links👉 cephalort.com

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🐍 drop some SNAKES 🐍

🐍snake! 🐍snake! 🐍snake!
A drawing of Cala, a snake woman with a large, choppy ponytail, a necklace made of animal fangs, and a robe embroidered with constellations. She poses with one hand on her hip and her tail twisted about behind her. A large, graphic representation of a two-headed snake ring fills the background. A drawing of cala the snake woman. She is "sitting" on the ground with her tail twisted tightly around her like a bean bag chair. One elbow is resting on her snake body. She has python-line patterns on her tail, and constellation embroidery on her robe, which she wears low off her shoulders. A sketch of Cala the snake woman showing off a set of black leather armor. It is made from and modeled after a displacer beast from D&D, with the feelers draped around and tucked into her belt and cat-like ears on her hooded capelet.
September 22, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Mermays 28 and 29, 🧙‍♀️Wicked Gemini🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️

This is a comfort zone piece for me for sure.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a pair of identical mermaids in witch hats, swimming in a spiral pattern and reaching towards each other. The radially-symmetrical composition is a bit like a playing card, and it's rendered with simplistic, flat shading.
May 31, 2025 at 2:22 AM
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Mermays 24 and 27, watercolor oasis🏝.

I've always wanted to learn how to use digital "watercolor" brushes, but I still don't feel like I mesh with them very well.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A rough drawing of an oasis with fluffy clouds, palm trees, and a pair of mermaids in the water. One lounges in the sunlight, while other chats with a traveling woman modeled after a gerudo from Zelda.
May 28, 2025 at 4:33 AM
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Another twofer, 🐠Aquarium and ♻Redraw. This was originally from the 2020 Mermay.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a small neon tetra mermaid napping in a round fishbowl. The fingers of one arm peek up above the water line, her tail hangs out of the bowl's opening. Aquariam plants fill the empty space of the bowl, and provide the mermaid a modicum of modesty.
May 27, 2025 at 12:09 AM
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Mermay 20 🤡Clown(fish)

I'm sure lots of people did this, but I'll not turn my nose up at low-hanging fruit.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a mermaid girl in simple clown makeup with a ruffled collar and cuffs. She leans forward with at big smile and wink. Her lower half is, predictably, a clownfish.
May 23, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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Mermay 19, 💡Bioluminescent

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a gently luminescent jellyfish mermaid against a dark background. She has a large mantle about her waist like a dress, and a smaller one about her head covering the upper half of her head. Long ribbon-like tentacles make up her "hair" and "legs."
May 21, 2025 at 11:54 PM
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🧜‍♀️Abracadabra✨

Still a little behind, but I'm enjoying leaving these as rougher pieces.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a mermaid in a white shirt, low-cut vest, and short pencil skirt. She presents a magician's hat from which a school of fish flows out.
May 20, 2025 at 2:18 AM
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Eccentric💫

I started out pulling from a harajuku outfit, but turns out frilly pants look pretty normal as an eel tail.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of an eel mermaid with big, round glasses and an iridescent spaghetti-strap dress. She wears a cute, dorky grin and her long tail with frill-like fins loops around the page.
May 18, 2025 at 3:43 PM
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Beach ⛱🖤 Goth

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a gray mermaid with deep black hair and lipstick wearing a simple black bikini and a dark sheer cover. She sits on the sand under a dark umbrella, with one arm raised to further keep the sun off her eyes.
May 17, 2025 at 3:46 PM
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Mermay 15, 🍑

I've been wanting to do a mermaid Peach basically since her game came out, so this was a good opportunity.

#mermay #mermaid #princesspeach #art
A rough drawing of mermaid Peach from Princess Peach Showtime, holding her arm up and presenting a peach (the fruit). Iridescent scales are drawing all the way down her tail.
May 16, 2025 at 5:20 AM
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Brave!

I messed up my layers on this one and decided to call it sooner that I would have liked. Don't tell anyone

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a giant angler-fish-woman with glowing crazed eyes and a wide grin full of crooked, needle-like teeth. She holds up a clawed hand beneath the silhouette of a much smaller, more typical mermaid carrying a spear.
May 15, 2025 at 2:38 AM
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Mermay 🧜‍♀️🧜‍♀️, guard.

I may revisit this one later, but I've got catching up to do for now.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of three mermaids, two larger with hair tied back brandishing spears, and a small, wide-eyed, bushy-haired one between them. The guards look directly at the viewer with intense focus. The smaller wears lots of shiny beads.
May 14, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Mermay 10, lost and found. Since I'm behind, I just went with a polished sketch, but honestly I like that style so I'll probably do more of those.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A flat, sketchy drawing of a mermaid holding out a worn ship's wheel and admiring it. A dark silhouette of a shipwreck sprawls into the depths behind her.
May 11, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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Mermay 9🧜‍♀️

I am not practiced in cubism, so here's a mermaid painting a much lower res cubist piece.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a warm gray mermaid sitting on a stool and painting at an easel. She has a focused expression and a somewhat stiff posture. Rough, choppy, cool brushstrokes fill the background. On her easel is a painting of this image in a more cubist-inspired style.
May 10, 2025 at 3:45 AM
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Mermay 8. The theme is nominally "Atlantis," but I just took that to mean "underwater city." I feel like mer-buildings would be round for better pressure resistance and have all sorts of different buoyancies.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A rough, somewhat painterly drawing of an undersea city made up of spherical and pill-shaped buildings extending into the depths. In the foreground, a couple of mermaids sit outside a cafe that looks like it's made of driftwood. Small crowds of colorful merfolk gather and swim around between the floating structures.
May 9, 2025 at 4:07 AM
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Mermay 6 and 7 are a hybrid one, since I missed yesterday. Sweet Treat and Ghibli.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a little isometric diorama of a room in the bath house from Spirited Away. A mermaid lounges in a small tub with a giant sweet dumpling while chatting with a bath attendant. In an attempt to emulate Studio Ghibli styles, the background is painted with a watercolor brush while the characters are more cell-shaded.
May 8, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Day 5, drama(tic lighting). I'm learning that social media compression doesn't like narrow value bands very much.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a mermaid sitting in a dark space looking up at bright rays of light from above. She is mostly in silhouette, with only rim lighting to highlight her.
May 6, 2025 at 12:59 AM
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Mermay 4! Axolotl have legs, so I went back and forth on whether she should be a proper mermaid or just a salamander lady.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a woman in a tied bikini with curly hair and huge aolotl frills, fin, and tail. Her arms are held out in casual invitation, and a little pink axolotl floats in front of her. She looks at it with gentle smile.
May 5, 2025 at 4:19 AM
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Mermay 3! Hair!

I told myself I'd try to keep things simple for these, but I tried out a lot of little tools and tricks and definitely spent too long fiddling on this one.

#mermay #mermaid #art
A drawing of a sharky mermaid looking down with a toothy grin. Her dark hair drifts around her, with strands twisting around her torso, arms, and fingers.
May 4, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Mermay day 2. I feel like nautiluses have a pretty cosmic feel, right? This was a fun learning experience.

#mermay #art
A dark drawing of a nautilus mermaid sitting on a rock. The Milky Way and countless stars reach through the background, reflecting on the ocean below. The mermaid reaches one arm out in front of her, basking in the light of the stars.
May 3, 2025 at 2:50 AM
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It's Mermay! I'm going to try and follow the "official" prompts this year, and actually post with some regularity. I miss doing art, and it's as good an excuse as any to get back in the habit of it.

#mermay #art
A monochromatic drawing of a mermaid taking a mirror selfie with an old disposable camera and a large elliptical mirror. She has long flowing hair and a coy look on her face. Green seaweed nestles the mirror and fills the space around the frame.
May 1, 2025 at 11:13 PM
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Little practice sketch for New Years. Let's keep moving forward, and take care of each other

#art #witch #oc
A rough sketch of Mel the witch in a simple dress with poofy sleeves and a big hat. She holds a twisty wooden staff and looks off the to left, holding her oversized brim out of the way.
January 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
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If you see this, post a witch🧹✨

#art #witch
A drawing of a woman in a large, frilly witch hat adorned with a giant white lily. She has a long bob cut, a simple blouse, a high-waisted, buttoned skirt, and thick square boots. She carries a twisted wood staff in her left hand.
December 4, 2024 at 3:31 AM
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Some Shiori Experience fan art I had lying around. It's a real charming manga about a teacher possessed by the ghost of Jimmi Hendrix.

I also apparently look for any excuse to draw instruments.

#art #shioriexperience
A digital pencil drawing of the titular Shiori of Shiori Experience leaping into the air with her electric guitar. Her legs are bent beneath her, her left arm is ready to strike a chord, and her suit jacket is open and flowing behind her. She has a big, energetic smile on her face.
November 16, 2024 at 12:01 AM
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Something from the sketchbook. I know some folks like to do spidermans for wild pose practice, but I'm partial to Kat Gravity Rush, myself.

#art #sketch #figuredrawing
A pair of rough figure drawings of Kat from Gravity Rush. Both poses are twisted and floaty.
October 16, 2024 at 10:33 PM