So yesterday I took my mum to the dentist and waited in the park while she had her procedures. She's fine by the way. Anyway, I went for a walk around the lake. It is Lake Jualbap and it's quite good for birds and shelter if it rains which it did, I sat down at a picnic table which had a shelter and started to draw on the little complimentary notepad that Pelikan gave us at the Pelikan hub.

I had my Pilot Diplomat loaded with one of the Inkvent inks from Diamine which is called Grotto. It is one of the ink vent inks that I got recently but have not used much. I also had my Conklin pen filled with the lovely Cosmic glow from the Inkvent inks. So I started drawing a serpentine dragon to play with the inks and fill in some time. The diamond looks like a rusty brown but has a greeny gold sheen in the light.

There were a couple of mothers at the park with their children having a playdate and soon I was surrounded by very interested intelligent 6-year-olds who were thrilled to see someone drawing and interested in the ink and everything. The mothers admired my patience with them but I said I know that when I go home they won't be there. I admired them because they don't get to escape. The children were so enthusiastic. It was quite heartening to see them enjoying someone not using a computer to make an image. They were very thrilled and we all had a great time.

I've just put the finishing touches to it and here it is for everyone to enjoy.

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Just a quicky in poor light winding down from the first day at #swancon2025

This Mermaid was drawn using a dip pen, and Diamine's Upon A Star Chameleon shimmer ink.
The Chameleon inks are really hard for me to photograph, they're sparkly, but very tiny sparkles,
and on a rainy day like today there's no sunlight.

My phone light does bring them out, but without bringing out a real camera it's probably a lost cause, and I would rather just get it posted. If you look at the close up of the tail you can see that it's got quite a sheen going on, and also I did manage to capture a tiny tiny sparkle. There's more there, really, but I just can't get it to show.

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That Cosmic Glow from Diamine sure has a great sheen! It's pretty with a wash too. Drawn with the Conklin and a lovely time I had of it too.

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Found this in my sketchbook I think from last month. It might as well be for today!

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Sailfin guy. Drawn with a bunch of Kaweco Sports, Pelikan Twists and a pass Congklin with whatever they had in them. So Oster, Diamine and Van Diemen's Ink from memory.

There's some bright but hard to capture sparkle and Sheen in there.

Another super busy day, so just a quick one with the Robert Oster signature Barossa in a LAMY.

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Just a merbloke with a big tail
I like big fins and I cannot lie! I'm super busy today, so just a quick Merdude done in the Pelikan Golden Lapis and Rose Quartz. The Lamy ABC and the Twisbi Eco respectively.

@rdm wrote this short story a little while ago - https://aus.social/@rdm/113932602027808564

and caught me as I was going out to MerMay and and suggested it as a prompt for today's drawing. You can read it and see if I caught the mood. Drawn with a water brush and three fountain pens. The rashy is done with Memory Lane, which is a shimmer, also seen Golden Lapis and Azure Kingfisher, and for the skin tone it's Robert Oster Terra Fuego I think.

Is it still #Drawingwithoutanet if I've drawn an actual net?
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Filling up this page too, aren't I? I used a brush with some diluted Cosmic Glow I'd saved from a clean to create the silhouette. Then I used Cosmic Glow and Golden Lapis to sketch in the other details.

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I put some of Diamine's Cosmic Glow into the Conklin to draw this Cecaelian like person.

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Drawn with that nice wooden LAMY ABC and the gold lapis Pelikan gave to us at the #PelikanHub

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A mermaid tests the sharpness of the narwhal mer's horn.
Drawn mostly with Kaweco Sports and the Conklin until it ran dry.

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So this one is revisiting the VanDiemen's Ink Azure Kingfisher which has that purple sheen and gold sparkle.

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So the Best Wishes Ink from Diamine is both a sheen and a shimmer, I caught some of the sparkle, and you might see a red sheen on this dark green, almost black ink.

This narwhal mer is pleased to meet the deep sea mer. They've had some fights in their past, and all they have to say when asked about the scars was that they survived, and it wasn't all from other narwhal mer.

Drawn with the same nib you saw yesterday, this time it's Diamine's Spruce. It's scented, so sniff the screen hard and you might get a soapy pine fragrance.
I wouldn't though, it's honestly not that pleasant.
I am very tired due to Eurovision being 3am my time.