Mermay 2023 – Day Twenty-Eight – Sailor

Mermay 2023 – Day Twenty-Eight – Sailor

I had a little bit of trouble with today’s prompt. My first idea was to have assorted mermaids spying or tempting a sailor. The problem with these is that one of my rules is to make it clear that these are mermaids. If you just see half of them with their tails nowhere in sight, they could be eccentric skinny dippers for all we know.

I eventually went with two mermaids pulling a sailor under. I painted it upside down because the downward pose I had would have all of the faces upside down which is hard to do.

When I turned it back right side up, the composition looked off. So, I kept it as is.