Inktober day 10 Winter in a Bottle

[eller]

With a prompt like that, what else could I draw but a mermaid in a tropical reef? This tiny mermaid is surprised and amazed to find an icy landscape in a bottle thrown from a ship. Also, I wonder what will happen to that ecosystem if she opens the bottle...

Comments

[acequeenking]

Your artwork is so beautiful! Honestly, this is so evocative and I love how you convey the movement of the mermaid in the water, from the bend of her body to the flutter of her gorgeous tale.

The plant life is beautiful too, and I love the clownfish (I think!) going into the anemone.

[eller]

Aw, thank you! :D ...clownfish would make sense, actually, although I was not actively thinking of them when I drew this. I was more like, okay, this reef needs a bit of life, let's make some vaguely fish-shaped ink blobs. I wasn't going for biological accuracy, but if they can be interpreted as something that really exists, that's good. :D