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Artwork: The Perils of Undersea Exploration

The perils of undersea exploration: high pressures, hidden dangers, and entrancing aquatic beauties. It's still May, so why not another mermaid drawing?

Undersea exploration means that it's no longer necessary for mermaids to come to the surface to find prey friends. Here the mermaid from this post does something she often likes to do: press herself up against the viewing domes of submersibles used in marine research to say hello.

A drawing of a young scientist looking out of the viewing dome of a large submersible at a mermaid who has pressed herself up against the pressurised glass. The scientist has long, unkempt brown hair and is wearing a teal tanktop with a yellow coat slung over her shoulders. She's leaning forwards onto a railing inside the submersible and is staring at the mermaid with a vacant expression, her irises glowing yellow. Outside, the mermaid hangs upside down as she looks directly at the scientist; the mermaid has very long, very tangled crimson hair, has pale blue-green skin, and is partially covered in turquoise scales that grow thicker towards her tail fin.
"Please let me in."

True fact: dozens of undersea expeditions are lost each year due to mermaids compelling scientists to let them into their vessels. It's a big problem in marine studies.

And as a bonus, here is the same drawing again, from the mermaid's perspective:

An upside-down drawing of a young scientist looking out of the viewing dome of a large submersible at a mermaid who has pressed herself up against the pressurised glass. The scientist has long, unkempt brown hair and is wearing a teal tanktop with a yellow coat slung over her shoulders. She's leaning forwards onto a railing inside the submersible and is staring at the mermaid with a vacant expression, her irises glowing yellow. Outside, the mermaid hangs upside down (and so right-side up from the drawing's perspective) as she looks directly at the scientist, or possibly at her own reflection in the glass; the mermaid has very long, very tangled crimson hair, has pale blue-green skin, and is partially covered in turquoise scales that grow thicker towards her tail fin.
"It's so cold and dark out here..."

One difference (beside the obvious) in this version, is the restoration of the mermaid's reflection on the glass. I'd felt it a shame that the original composition didn't allow the viewer to see the mermaid's face, but at the same time I was concerned that the reflection made the centre of the drawing too busy. I felt however that by adjusting the focus of the drawing to the mermaid rather than the scientist (and ensuring that the reflection itself would be easier to parse by being 'right side up') then the reflection could be safely included.

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