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Published: 2012-09-26 03:27:52 +0000 UTC; Views: 4078; Favourites: 118; Downloads: 96
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Yet another one of my mermaid designs. I was really happy with how the foreshortening on the legs and arm turned out in my sketch of her, so much so that I decided to color it.----------------------------------------
Illustrator CS5
Pen Gradient Blend Pathfinder
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this is legit, sonnn. she looks almost like a zora. do those inspire your designs at all? :U
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When I was originally developing my design for mer-people, Zoras were a major part of the inspiration. Or course, I left room for my mer people to be much, much more colorful.
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i thought so!! still super cool, sir. c:
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They're unique organs that sense aquatic depth, assist with orientation, and sense vibrations in the water. Their ears are internal and behind the tendrils. Also their oilfactory glands are in their mouths.
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Wow you really think these thinks through. Roles reversed my answer probably would have been 'tentacles that look cool'.
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I also have descriptions for how they functionally swim fast, how they alternate between gills and lungs, how their society is structured, a good 700 years of historical lore, and of course -- why females have breasts yet no nipples.
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Haha that last one is actually a good point, given that I'd imagine they're sired from eggs as self sufficient creatures.
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They're warm blooded mammals that give live birth. Their breasts produce milk but the delivery method is different. When they're lactating, the front surface of the breast becomes porous. The larger "delivery space" is meant to accommodate babies relatively large mouths that Merkin spend most of their lives growing into.
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That's quite similar to nipples actually, they react to the sound of a baby crying and become porous. That's why you can get these little pad things for women breastfeeding, so they don't accidentally destroy their shirts while out and about haha.
Here's another question, are the large boned like a whale, smalled boned like a fish or cartilage like a shark or an octopus?
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Their skeleton is actually very similar to that of a human, the major exception being that their fins are actually supported by cartilage so they can "flow" through the water more easily. The flaring protrusions on through the sides of their skull are also cartilage.
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Yea that sounds most akin to the whale, other than the shape. A majority of their structure is supported by bones, but certain features like the dorsal and the tail on larger whales are supported by cartilage.
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Give her a name if you want.
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8D
Nadja
idk I looked through some German and Russian names. I Suck at naming awesome stuff, never think the names are good enough. .-.
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Ah. Sounds fine to me. Fitting for a mermaid name.
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