I haven't done an Official Glo-Up Post in a long long time so here we have it: prototype and final mermaids side by side. The prototypes look much lighter skinned but I think that was mostly due to the nature of alcohol markers fading terribly, they were more 'realitically' drawn as well, just normal mermaids with normal fish features at first. I recall being very dissatisfied with how they all looked very....same-y.
In the final design I punched the fish features way up and went in a much more cartoon direction. I love my grumpy mermaid gals!










