Coffee Siren

~Pen Brush Sword~Bad Poetry~Tributes

Nov. 11

Written By Tiler 'Ti' Bradshaw

I had a lot of fun making this one.

This painting was still very early when I used to spend my nights camping out at Starbucks (the entirety of Bad Poetry, and then some) hammering out each of these every night, so I really got into becoming a partisan coffee drinker. This was a suggestion from one of the baristas, Jiko, who thought it would be neat for me to integrate the mascot into something amusing.

I did some cursory research into the matter, trying to determine if it was a mermaid, or an ancient Middle-Eastern queen or somebody's daughter... then I learned that she was supposed to be a siren, and part of some apparent crypto-zoological shenanigans. I determined that sirens are essentially like pissed-off mermaids who are not so well-put together and gleeful in their malice. Easy.

What I ended up with here came about rather quickly. Of course she'll be attacking sailors! Of course she'll be picking on a guy because of the kind of hot percolated beverage he drinks while violating her reef by fishing it and ruining his otherwise lazy and easy-going day! Of course she'll have her tits out and a trident in the guy's dumb face to add a couple points of ridiculopathy to the mix.

Overall, I didn't explore my techniques too much, but I really got into pounding out a quick composition for a novel reason.