Apparently all mermen are Asian. Either that or they look like Clark Kent underwater.
This one is quite sweet in a faintly Pauline Baynes kind of way but he seems to have a bit of a problem finding his assets.
There’s a faintly Victorian one here, but it’s by David Delamare, 2001.
I guess there’s no Victorian ones because neither Simeon Solomon nor the women Pre-Raphaelites and Symbolists turned their hands to the subject.
There are some depictions of mermen in Wikimedia Commons. There's also a weird cryptozoological specimen (warning: disturbing photo of dead merman) but it looks as if it's made of papier-mâché to me, or perhaps photoshopped.
3 comments:
Clark Kent:
Well, that's the model I had.
If someone had given me a picture of a blond guy skinny dipping instead, I would've used that.
I think my original photo reference was just happy he wasn't compared to Harry Potter this time. :)
Hello sarmonster - are you the author of the "Clark Kent" merman photo?
Hi there. Found your blog via John Coulthart. Another merman for your collection
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