Red Tide: Insomnia

Media: Pencil sketch digitally painted in photoshop
Eyyyy my illustration thesis for OCADU!
Red Tide: Representing menstruation symptoms through mermaids to show how society dismisses menstruation as fairy-tale like.
As someone who has problems with sleep I feel like I captured that being aggravated that you can’t sleep perfectly. Also thinking about how a mermaid would make a blanket was a fun experience.