MerMay 2026

I decided long ago I wouldn't be able to draw all 31 prompts for the MerMay drawing challenge, so I usually choose only one for each year. Thanks to @mermay_official, it's one of the most creative challenges of the year. 🧜‍♀️

This time it happens to be for the 28th day and the prompt is "ICON", which helped me a lot, because I desperately needed an inspiration. I found it in an 90's Eurodance icon, Amber and her hit song "This Is Your Night". The visuals from the video were amazing, somehow I knew I had to do something with the scene where she's singing in water, surrounded by lilly pads and wearing some kind of pearl chain mail headpiece. The pose itself is a combination of ideas from @theposearchives.

It also happens that this dance music icon celebrates the 30th anniversary of her album and the title song "This Is Your Night". It became a Top 30 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 and a Number 1 hit on the dance chart and it also earned a cult status because of appearance in the movie "Night at the Roxbury". Currently she's releasing the the 30th Anniversary Edition vinyl of the album, including new remixes.

I bet they'll be great, but as it usually goes with 90's music, I'm staying true to the original song, which is on my forever list so I usually listen to it a few times a week.

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