Mermaid

The idea? sometimes you cant see the forest for the trees or in this case, you cant hear the sea for the waves.

Birthday present for a friend's daughter (she's 4) but i wanted to do something that the mother could also appreciate...thus the INSANE amount of details...
i stretched it out over 3 days so it was actually pretty enjoyable

the original sketch here:[link]
it wasn't actually supposed to be this complicated but the more i did the more i felt like adding

a lot of research was done on sea life before i started