Ariel

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Drawing Disney characters in my own style & version is a lot of fun. I thought Ariel would be fun to draw and she was. I made her hair a bit darker than usual, because hair always looks dark when it's in the water. I purposely left the background a bit "streaky/watermarked" because the ocean is not one solid color of blue.

The actual (original) "The Little Mermaid" story is really sad. Disney tends to give fairy tales good endings instead of the original stories, which are pretty harsh.

Drawn with a Copic Multiliner (0.03) pen and hen coloured in with Copic Markers and Watercolours. The bubbles were drawn with a white gel pen.



Ariel & Flounder & The Little Mermaid © Disney

Original "The Little Mermaid" story © Hans Christian Andersen, a Danish poet and author who published the original story in 1837 as "Den Lille Havfrue".

Artwork © J.E.McNeese.

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