![Vector illustration of a young, white child with long, braided hair standing on the edge of a lake in a snowy landscape. In the lake is a mermaid-creature with a seal-tail. The selkie is almost completely underwater only the top of their head is above the surface. There is an eerie glow coming from the bottom of the lake.](https://blog.jfml.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jfml-TheSelkie-WinterMorning-14-01-Snow.png)
![The same illustration but it's not snowing.](https://blog.jfml.eu/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/jfml-TheSelkie-WinterMorning-14-02.png)
I really enjoyed #JonKlassen’s #book „The Skull“, so here is a #hommage with a #Scottish twist* ^__^
The #braids almost killed me, I’ve struggled with #drawing braids before and can totally understand when people just draw a bunch of wonky circles (like Klassen does ^__^) but this time I wanted to understand how to do it and it probably took twice as long as all the rest of the illustration. I think the dramatic shadows on them fit the eery glowing light that’s coming from the bottom of the Selkie lake, no idea how I’d do it in „normal“ circumstances …
Not sure about the #snow, I personally love it but I got #feedback on another piece that it makes it the composition very restless, which I totally see.
Snow or no snow, what do you think?
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Selkie
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