Mermaid Illustration Comps

"I was a boy when I met the mermaid, and, of course, no one believed me. It didn’t matter.
I was a solitary boy — lonely, actually — and had long given up on anyone
understanding what I said or how I felt. I had lived with my grandfather for three years,
and he was a kind and gentle man, but he could not see into a boy’s world and so could
not do much more than love me."
Cynthia Rylant. The Islander. (DK, 1998.)

These are fairly small sketches done for compositional arrangement in my Drawing and Design for Illustration class. I love this class, every day is so inspiring.