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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

It's MerMonday and I finally am all caught up with Invincible S4! Loving it so far. Anyone else have any thoughts for how a mermaid!au might work for Mark? #invincible #markgrayson #merman #mermanart #merpeople

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Some art requests I got over on Insta. There are always fun to draw; no pressure, just some digital ink on gray. #heracles #heraclesart #greekmythology #dragonart #merman #mermanart #commissionsareopen

Black and gray rendering of Heracles; he is massive, muscular, covered in scars, and looks a little drunk. He is holding a (relatively) tiny cup of wine.

Black and gray; two dragons, one much younger and smaller, have a play fight, beating their great wings.

Black and gray, Iamiq, a heavily scarred merman, regards the viewer with menacing disinterest, idly balancing a massive crystal knife on his fingers.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 09/10/2025

Brothers are difficult, Azere knows; the way her brother treated her was fair. Since her marriage, her new brother of the Mammoth Folk treats her very strangely, like he actually likes her and sees her as more than a tool for the crown. #DVPit #DVArt #YA #F #GN #WFH #comms #Illustrator #LGBT #ND #TV

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Raising his siblings after their mother disappeared, Iamiq has cut off every part of himself that doesn't support them. Hearing that his mother might be alive, far away, Iamiq decides to bring her home; he will do anything for family #DVPit #DVArt #F #GN #lgbt #NA #comms #Illustrator #WFH #comms

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Uneasy peace for the Tegizian Empire is sealed by the marriage of Princess Azere to the leader of the barbaric Mammoth Folk, but her new family is different from what she was told, and when war looms it could destroy them all. Unless… #DVPit #DVArt #YA #F #GN #WFH #comms #Illustrator #LGBT #ND #TV

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Especially during the war, Princess Azere was taught that the mammoths were evilbeasts made only for killing, but now that she lives among them and their human companions she knows it is not true. What else about her life was a lie? #DVPit #DVArt #YA #F #GN #WFH #comms #Illustrator #LGBT #ND #TV

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Hearing rumors that his mother might be alive, Iamiq crosses the Pacific to find her. However, his own mistakes are closing in on him as a rogue killer whale pursues him for revenge. #DVPit #DVArt #F #GN #lgbt #NA #comms #Illustrator #WFH #comms

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Life flows with the tides; Iamiq, the eldest, cares for his younger sisters as well as he can without a thought for his own needs, but when he hears that their mother might be alive he will cross the sea to find her and heal their family #DVPit #DVArt #F #GN #lgbt #NA #comms #Illustrator #WFH #comms

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Io lives in the depths of the Imperial City, avoiding notice and working odd jobs, until he meets Aiko and falls in love. Unfortunately, Io's past is hunting him, and anyone who gets in the way is an acceptable casualty. #DVPit #DVArt #SF #SFF #R #NA #GN #LGBT #Illustrator #comms #WFH

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

After years of struggling to raise his sisters alone, Iamiq, a young merman, jumps at the chance to cross the Pacific and find his missing mother, hoping to heal their broken family. #DVPit #DVArt #F #GN #lgbt #NA #comms #Illustrator #WFH #comms

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Meira always tried to stay beneath Imperial notice, but after she manages to tame a wyvern she and her friends have the power to free their homeland... or burn it to the ground. #DVPit #DVArt #GN #F #LGBT #YA #WFH #comms #Illustrator

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Top secret bio-enhancement is a new, inexact science, and the patient is left with chronic pain. Ask Io how he knows. When he meets someone who makes the pain bearable, it makes the possibility of Io losing him too painful to consider. #DVPit #DVArt #SF #SFF #R #NA #GN #LGBT #Illustrator #comms #WFH

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

Princess Azere served her father's will, but after her brother is killed & she is married to his killers, the barbaric Mammoth Folk, she has to learn to balance her two families or else war will consume them all. #DVPit #DVArt #YA #F #GN #WFH #comms #Illustrator #LGBT #ND #TV

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 08/10/2025

#DVparty Day 6: Hype next WIP . I'm always cooking up something, but I think my next one will have to be a return to merfolk. The ocean always calls to me, one way or another, and I've been doing lots of terrestrial fantasy lately. So yeah. Mermaids. #mermaid #merman #merfolk

Black ink-lines on a gray background. A merman with black stripes lays down on rocks looking at a small fish.

Black ink-lines on a gray background. A muscular merman, covered in scars, holds a long stone knife between his hands and stares at the viewer dispassionately.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

When he hears that the mother he presumed dead might still be alive, a young merman, Iamiq, sets out across the Pacific Ocean to find her and bring her home to heal the family he feels he can't properly support. Self-worth, identity, queer themes, romance, and adventure! #PreDV #lgbt

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Singing Each to Each: Night Hunt🧜‍♀️ Off the coast of Aotearoa, Iamiq struggles to balance raising his orphaned sisters and his own needs. This is a pilot for a much larger project I want to get published. Part 1/4 #mermaids #mermen #comics #art #ocart

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

I don't know how many of you have read Jackson's Diary on Webtoons, but it's very compelling. I do love a parallel. #fanart #jacksonsdiary #jacksonsdiarywebtoon

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

(Showing up a month late with Starbucks) I'm Zach, and I love working on fun, genre bending and character focused stories! I can do covers and interiors (see my work on QualityLand for both). My website/portfolio is currently under reconstruction, but I'm "scriptorsapiens" on all socials

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Mermay Day 27: Lucette Gray Korchak from *The Lost Voices* series (2011) I rendered the water well, but alas that I had to crop most of it. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #mermaidart #lostvoices #lostvoicestrilogy #thelostvoices #thelostvoicestrilogy #merfolk #merfolkart #merpeopleart #merpeople

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Mermay Day 24: The Mermaid of *The Mermaid Summer* by Mollie Hunter (1990) This was the only mermaid book in the tiny library of my tiny grade school, so I read it frequently. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaidart #mermaid #merfolk #merfolkart #merpeopleart #merpeople

The mermaid crouches low on her rock, ready to pounce. She is green, her face and upper body so pale she looks white, her tail and spiky fins wrap around the front.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Mermay Day 20: Emily and Jake Windsnap from *The Tail of Emily Windsnap* (2003) This series has its highs and lows, but I couldn't let Mermay pass without a tribute. #mermay #mermay2025 #merman #mermanart #mermaid #mermaidart #merpeople #merpeopleart #merfolk #merfolkart #thetailofemilywindsnap

Emily Windsnap, a young purple mergirl with green strips and fins, receives a fine golden chain necklace from her father, Jake Windsnap, a blue-purple merman with blue-green fins.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Mermay Day 18: Miranda from *Miranda* (1948) Miranda is a new movie (for me), but Glynis Johns' turn as the mermaid named Miranda will forever be iconic. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #mermaidart #miranda1948

Miranda, a yellow mermaid, sits on rocks in a calm ocean with blue skies and fluffy clouds behind her. She is smiling beguilingly at the viewer.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Mermay Day 16: Tristan Hart from *The Vicious Deep (2012)* by @zlikeinzorro.bsky.social Another merman, one of the first YA books I ever read that featured one. #mermay #mermay2025 #merman #mermanart #mermaid #mermaidart #merpeople#merpeopleart #merfolk #merfolkart #yalit

Tristan, a teenage merman, cuts his black hair with an obsidian knife. His body is pale blue with black on his back, but his fins and irises are vivid turquoise.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

Mermay Day 15: Cody and his mother from The *Thirteenth Year* (1999) This is my movie. It's not perfect, but it's mine. #mermay #mermay2025 #merman #mermanart #mermaid #mermidart #mermayart #merfolk #merfolkart #merpeople #merpeopleart #thethirteenthyear

Cody, a blue teenage merboy with yellow hair, and his mother, a mermaid with pale green marks blonde hair and a seashell-encrusted headband, embrace in the blue ocean

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Mermay Day 13: Alina from *Barbie: Mermaidia* (2006) Alina's fins are super pretty, I just gave her black scleras to add a bit of edge to her beauty. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #barbie #barbiemermaidia #barbiefairytopia

Alina, a pink mermaid with dark blonde hair, floats in the water, one hand supporting a necklace of glowing pearls. Her fins are pale with dark red intricate patterns.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Mermay Day 13: Melody from *The Little Mermaid 2: Return to the Sea* (2001) For a long time I couldn't watch the original Little Mermaid, so this was the best I could do. Fond memories. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #thelittlemermaid #thelittlemermaid2

Melody, a mermaid with black hair and red scales, rests on the belly of a walrus, playfully talking to a great auk. They are all on a glistening ice flow under the stars, fading as dawn arrives.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Mermay Day 11: Nori and Nalu from *Barbie: Mermaidia* (2006) I have never seen Fairytopia, but I saw Mermaidia on TV and I loved how Alina helped set up her frenemy with a prince. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #barbiemermaidia #barbiefairytopia

Nalu, a green merman wearing a kelp bandolier, kisses the hand of Nori, a blue mermaid with pink markings and a pink tail

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Mermay Day 10: Zac Blakely from *Mako: Island of Secrets/Mako Mermaids* (2013) I was feral for this in college, but I lost interest after my favorite mermaid left the show. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #makomermaids #h2ojustaddwater

Zac Blakely, a blue merman, looks amazed at a glowing trident made of bone and shell set with a blue gemstone in the middle

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Day 9 of Mermay: Aquamarine from *Aquamarine* (2001) Controversial opinion, but I never cared for the film adaptation. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #aquamarine #aquamarinebook #aquamarine2001

Aquamarine, a pale blue mermaid with blue stripes and yellow hair, sits at the bottom of a pool looking bored, surrounded by uprooted, floating kelp and moon jellyfish

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Mermay Day 8: Marina Del Ray from *The Little Mermaid 3: Ariel's Beginning* (2008) Yeah, this movie isn't one I'd call good, but it is very entertaining, especially her. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #thelittlemermaid #thelittlemermaid3

Marina Del Ray, a mermaid with purple and white stripes, puprle hair, and pink stone jewelry

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Day 7 of Mermay: Elvira and Faro from *Ingo* (2005) Love me a brother and sister duo. I was bereft when I discovered my library didn't have the last book in this series. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #ingo #helendunmore

Elvira, a young mermaid, and Faro, a young merman, sit on the rocks in the ocean. They are pale gray with dark spots and blue and green fins.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Mermay Day 6: King Triton from *The Little Mermaid* (1989) His design in the original movie was a bit plain, so I had a bit of a time getting him into my style. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign #thelittlemermaid #kingtriton

King Triton, a muscular sea-green merman with long gray hear and a beard in elaborate braids, holds a trident made of bone and seashells.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Day 5: Pagoon and Pim from *Castle Swimmer* (2019) by @wendylianmartin.bsky.social I find it hilarious that my favorite characters in a webcomic are never the main characters. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #merman #merfolk #merpeople #characterdesign

Pagoon, a merboy, is affectionately teased by his mother, Pim, a mermaid. They both carry swords made from swordfish or marlin skulls and they are teal with yellow stripes and blue fins

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 03/05/2025

Mermay Day 3: Kappa and Siren from *Castle Swimmer* (2019) by @wendylianmartin.bsky.social in my style. I can still remember the first pages posted on tumblr, long before webtoons. #mermay #mermay2025 #characterdesign #mermaid #mermaids #merfolk #merpeople #merman #mermen

Two mermen under the sea. Siren is gray-blue with gill-like stripes on his body, a pink scar on his face, and dark blue fins. His teeth are sharp like a shark's. Kappa embraces him from behind; he is yellow orange and red in a striped pattern. His eyes have black scleras and orange irises.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

Mermay Day 2: Ursula from *The Little Mermaid* (1989) Queer art gods forgive me for touching such a great design, but I think I got her in my style pretty well. #mermay #mermay2025 #ursula #ursulatheseawitch #ursulathelittlemermaid #characterdesign #mermaid #mermaids #merfolk #merpeople #seawitch

Ursula, a mermaid sea witch, sits on a throne shaped like an octopus. She is fat, her skin is purple and striped with black, her hair is pale, and her finds are blue. Her ammonite shell necklace glows yellow. Her two pet eels, Flotsam and Jetsam, curl around her.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

Mermay Day 1: Madison from Splash (1984) I've decided to celebrate Mermay this year by drawing mermaids from my favorite media in the style of my mermaid comic. #mermay #mermay2025 #mermaid #mermaidart #mermaidartwork #splash1984 #splash1984movie #splashmovie #splashmovie1984 #merfolk #merpeople

Madison, a blond mermaid with pink skin, yellow chevron-stripes, and golden fins wearing a shell necklace swims, upside-down, around Allen, a human with pale skin, wearing an open white shirt, an untied tie, and black pants that float in the water. They are smiling at each other.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

It's #PortfolioDay so here I am! I'm Zach, I'm a queer American artist and I love to write/draw comics, design characters, and illustrate things from dinosaurs to mermaids. I'm pitching graphic novels, looking for work, and open for commissions! I'm on most other social media as @ scriptorsapiens.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I am very flexible and I am sure I can capture the vibe of your story with my art.

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Zach the Scriptor @scriptorsapiens.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?

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