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Well, this is a Yule gift for my Aunt. She's got a mermaid theme in her massage room, so I thought I'd do a piece.

This mermaid is based on a type of tropical fish I found on google image search. I'm not sure the name of it, all I know is that the photo of the fish was labeled Chrisdes. So, this mermaid's name is Chrisdes.

The mermaid was drawn and inked by hand with mechanical pencils, faber-castell pigment liners and maped ethic eraser.
The colouring was dnoe with a Wacom Intuos 3 tablet and Photoshop CS2. The bg texture are alterations from one of ShadyMedusa's stock textures.

The transition and lighting of the mermaid grew darker and darker as I was colouring her and I now worry that she'll be too dark for the light and relaxing mood of a Massage room. Regardless, I'm happy with how she turned out as a piece of art. Unfortunately despite all intentions to make it a legal paper size for ease of printing, when i was 3/4 done i looked at the canvas size and realized I'd never resized to make it a standard paper format. *shoots self in the eye*

Anyway... I'm really happy with how the whole thing came together, and it was a bit experimental in a few places, so hopefully you like it too~

((Download for full size. DO NOT replicate ro use in part or whole without permission.))
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*sandcastler Feb 3, 2011
This is one spectacularly exotic mermaid!! I love the extra fins and fingerwebs, and her colors are just striking!
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*tarorae Feb 6, 2011  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much! I wanted to base her off a real fish, and this is the end product~

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~chrispykreme Jul 4, 2009
very cool!

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If you are allergic to a thing, it is best not to put that thing in your mouth, particularly if the thing is cats. -- Lemony Snicket
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*tarorae Jul 5, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
thank you very much!

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~Jehkoba Nov 24, 2008
This, mu'dear, is absolutely breathtaking.
amazing job. :love:
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*tarorae Nov 26, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you~

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~sorskc Nov 24, 2008
Oh wow! I love the deep shadows and the colors are peaceful, even if it's a dark piece. Her design is really awesome, too.
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*tarorae Nov 26, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
Thank you so much! *loves on* I've missed yoooou~

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~sorskc Nov 26, 2008
Aw, I've missed you too~~ :heart: Glad to see you're still arting! :D
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*tarorae Nov 26, 2008  Hobbyist General Artist
oh, more than ever. I feel like I'm finally making progress.

We should e-mail or something to catch up~

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