Cool, thank you for bringing the comic fact up, I was not aware of that. I'm guessing the comic is considered canon and a sort of continuation of the main movie? If so, I can't argue with that. My knowledge ends on the original animated film.
Again, with all that said, this is just fanart and it's not meant to follow canon 1:1.
I'm sure there are more accurate fanarts out there, ones that do Aquata justice.
Like you said - to each their own.
Oh why thank you! Lovely to hear you feel that way about my of portraying them
This art is quite old and I would do a few things differently now tho.
G1does deserve more love and quality art :D
Hey, sorry for the late response. Sure, I guess. As long as the credits for the cover are on the first page (as in any normal book) and your story does not consist any hurtful, misoginistic, sexist, homophobic or otherwise wrongful content and, in general, is written with taste.
For that you would have to ask the owner of the character. I own the artwork rights but Volodya belongs to https://www.deviantart.com/dragon-lady-nfld
If she's ok with it, so am I.