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

[aliax_alexandre]

With a prompt like that, what else could I draw but a mermaid in a tropical reef?

... Obviously!

Also, I wonder what will happen to that ecosystem if she opens the bottle...

You monster D: !

[eller]

It's just what immediately comes to mind!

See? I can do gloom-and-doom! :P

[aliax_alexandre]

Uh-huh. You literal-minded you. Totally literal-minded.

Hey, you're the one who said you couldn't :P

[eller]

Only by accident! (And that applies to both.)

[tjoel2]

I like this one too!

[shadaras]

There's so much going on here! It's all very shiny and sparkly!

[leecetheartist]

Oooooh very lovely and what a great story seed!

[eller]

Thank you! :D

[eller]

Sparkly is goooood!

[eller]

Thanks! Indeed, the corresponding story would be quite fascinating, I'm sure.

[yhlee]

Aww! Your ability to convey sparkle is great!

[mific]

Oh noes, DON'T OPEN THE BOTTLE!

[eller]

Sparkle is easy. Just take a bristle paintbrush, load it with white ink, and sprinkle with your thumb. Like in kindergarten! :D

[eller]

Heh, indeed :D

[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

[fifty_fifty]

Ooh, this how picture is so beautiful. I love it!