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Edit: Ive updated the size which will be better for prints and I've redone the bubbles according to critiques ^-^

Some minor Edits made. Now up for Print!

"...and he will be mine, and he shall be my squishy..."
Dory, Finding Nemo


My very own Mermaid ^-^

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Critiques


:iconmonicaweasley:
Overall this is a very nice peace which reflects lots of potential for easy improvement in future works. :nod:

You show an incredible sense of lighning with this work, which is not an easy thing to do when the character is in a dark environment. :clap:

The textures are also pretty good. Usually most of the works we see of mermaids show a uniform textured tail or 2 parts completely different from each other that seems we copied some random material and pasted there (I can tell, made this mistake in a work of mine =p), which you didn't do here: we can see that the last part of the tail (sorry for my lack of english technical terms ^^;) is really thin and fragile, though it's still consistent with the opaque part of the fish tail.

Also, you created here a clear context of movement, not only with the floating meshs of hair, but also for the pose choice, as well as the bubbles near the tail.

Maybe you could have chosen not to paint so many meshs of hair, though, or maybe to concentrate them more in one of the parts of the painting. I feel the hair is getting more attention than the action or the character herself - her left arm is a little bit hidden from it and it gives the impression that the anatomy of her chest and right arm is not correct, which is not true if we look carefully. Also, I think you are perfectly able to do more realistic bubbles than those. :D

Anyway, keep up the great work! :blowkiss:
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:iconlepermessiahx:
Very nice work. I love the scaling effect on the fish-part of the body.
:iconbeccanlargo:
DORA! I have a sculpture of her, Love the mermaid it's lovely! "Just keep swimming, Just keep swimming,swimming....." Keep on making awesome artwork.

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:iconbeccanlargo:
dory..that is! =^_^= my bad still awesome though!

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:iconnixity:
Thankyou :love:

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:iconnixity:
:giggle: Dora. Wd for correcting yourself thar.
Thankyou very much :D

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:iconantithesis-series:
The delicacy with which the mermaid is painted is very beautiful, both with the intensity of the blues against the dark background and the way that she's reaching for the little jellyfish- there's something rather sweet about that action, giving it an air of almost childlike innocence. The gorgeous flowing hair is painted in an especially lovely way, lending it a great sense of movement. I also like her semi-transparent, shining sort of look, rather like the jellyfish she's reaching for. I've always thought there's something both very ghostly and very beautiful about that elegant, transluscent appearance that jellyfish have.

Striking and nicely portrayed. :+fav:

--Melloni

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Wow, Shes beautiful, I adore the scales, they are just...Wow, for lack of a better word.

Her hair flows really well, it suits the underwateryness of the picture ^__^

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Thankyou for this wonderful critique :aww:

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:rofl: Thankyou muchly sweetie! ^-^

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