Bonus points to whoever gets the reference in this comic's title.

I gotta go to bed but I'll update tomorrow with all the cool mermaid art I found while I was looking for reference.

There Will Be Blood is both amazing...and not quite. Hard to explain, there was no part I didn't like, but by the end I wasn't sure about it.

Fido on the other hand is fantastic. No reservations, go rent it.


Monday Update: here's my mermaid reference.

There's a restaurant down the street from me that has a drawing on their menu of a mermaid with two leg/fins instead of the traditional legs coming together to form a tail. I should have walked down the street to take a picture but I figured I could find similar stuff online, but this little knick knack is all I found:


I gave up on Google pretty quick and moved onto Flickr where I found this by tartx. I liked the texture and the layers and the general old timeyness.


Similar to that, I found a plethora of beautiful old timey layered textured mermaids by heyjupiter.


Planning specifically to draw a rubanesque mermaid I found curvygirl's adorable collection:


And about as perfect as can be I found out about a restaurant/bar in Zihuatanejo called "La Sirena Gorda" or "The Fat Mermaid." Here's a picture of their wall art, more courtesy of auntiem.



Unrelated: this might be the greatest thing to come of the Writers Strike.

Weeks later update: after I finished the space cadet pinup I wanted to go back to the mermaid and give her a bit more texture and tweak her color a bit. And add freckles. Here she is as I originally finished her:

Labels: comical, inspirado