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Meg Butler
The Little Mermaid
What would be the best way to draw the character who tries to convince Ariel to abandon her ambitions to laze around under the waves all day?
According to Disney it’s Sebastian the Jamaican crab who loves living underwater because it’s where you don’t have to get a job:
Up on the shore they work all day
Out in the sun they slave away
While we devotin’
Full time to floatin’
Under the sea!
And there’s also the big-lipped Duke Ellington fish and the black-face fish who hits the high notes. Coincidence or nah?
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