Cephalopod mermaid — October 9 sketch

October 9, 2026

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Cephalod mermaid.¹ Yes, she’s queer as fuck. (Yes, she bites.) A being from the depths for day 9. This week is tentacles, and this is who wanted to come out to play.

Bonus view: original colors

I’m presenting the sketches for this month in stark white-on-black, but I want to show this one in the original colors as well, because I feel her expression reads slightly differently. Here she is again, as she appeared as I was sketching her:

Sketch of a cephalopod mermaid in the water. Tentacles form the lower half of her body, and her arms are multiple tentacles, too. Instead of a human mouth and nose, she has the beak of a cephalopod. Her ear is pointed and curved like a shell. Her eyes and eyebrows are generally human in appearance, and her face has a fierce expression. Her hair is fanned out behind her. Where her tentacles are turned up, suckers are shown on the undersides. This is a simple sketch, with sketchy black lines on a white background. — Cephalopod mermaid sketch, white background with black lines

She definitely bites. And this is definitely not the last we will be seeing of her. I have a couple of WIPs going at the moment, but she has also now entered the queue.

or rather, merperson. or merfag. perhaps she is not a maid. ↩

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Illustration of budding flowers emerging from seeds as roots reach out in the soil. The flowers are red with sketchy black outlines, the soil is black, and the background is dark gray. There is a circle-A for anarchism among the flowers. This image is a detail from Glowing: CalendsOfApril.com/glowing.

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