A tempest is just a mermaid's bad hair day.I have been working on this piece on and off since summer. At one point I got so frustrated with it that I thought I would never get around to finish it. Hopefully it was all worth it...!I am trying to achieve an aspect closer to oil painting (while still working in my usual marker/ink/pencil combination). I quite like it, time-consuming as it is.Hope you like it!PS: closer shots can be seen on my Tumblr , and you can see a part of the process here in time-lapse video: