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Day 7 is a sharkmaid getting a nice tooth clean from some friendly remora.
Originally the remora were going to be mermaids too, but it just didn’t look quite right. I like to imagine mermaids based on a specific species would occupy the same ecological niche, so I think normal remora would recognise a shark mermaid as a cleaning candidate. My pens were misbehaving again, this time it was my trusty gel pens which are normally so dependable! I’m just not having much luck with ink this Mermay.
Fish-uary Day 10: Symbiotic Relationship (Great White Shark and Remoras)
At first I wanted to draw something funny with clownfish and anemones, but I decided to draw a shark and remoras. I wanted to draw Deep Blue in this piece, that's why the mermaid is an older woman, since Deep Blue is in her 60s. She would obviously have had remoras with her every so often and it makes me wonder, if fish could speak to each other, would they remember the remoras or cleaner wrasse or cleaner shrimp that have helped them. The idea sounds adorable to me, and now we're here!
I hope Deep Blue is doing okay out there. She might be one of the largest sharks on record, but she is getting up there in age and people haven't definitively seen her since 2019. I'm going to hope she's good out there.