Mermaid Illustration for Scurvy Dogs.  Inked drawing, colored in Photoshop.

Here’s the full finished version of this illustration!  What a cool, fun project to do — as much as I love drawing monsters and drawing ladies, drawing monster ladies is the bee’s knees.

As I mentioned in the initial post, I was uninterested in doing a “traditional” sexy mermaid design and went instead for something bestial — body based primarily off a frill shark, coloring based primarily off a dusky dolphin.  I wanted a bit of a texture on the back so there’s some tiger shark mottling.  Was going back and forth over adding a bit of bioluminescence, but then realized the tiger shark patterning would only occur on animals who hang out in more shallow water and bioluminescence wouldn’t make any biological sense, so it was left out.

This illustration was done for a card for the Scurvy Dogs board game.  It will only be available in the special edition version of the game, available here.