Secret Santa 2009: Mermaids

Originally Posted December 29 2009:

Whoo here it is - late but finished. My secret santa gift for s exchange. I got who wanted herself and her friend as mermaids!! I worked so long and hard on this until Santa decided to bring my whole family norwalk virus for christmas (YAY >.< ) We had to take my son to the hospital on Saturday but suffice to say we're all on the mend now so I was able to finish this up tonight.

I really wanted to challenge myself with this picture and I'm so very proud of all my digital paiting - especially the scales and the hair and even the skin - oh god and those everloving bubbles - each one is done by hand thank you very much. Anyways, I hope it was worth the wait and I hope you had a lovely holiday

Happy Holidays to the rest of you and please let me know what you think - I think my subscription to Digital Artist magazine is really helping! XD

Materials:
Pencil, steadler pens, wacom graphire 4
about 10 hours in photoshop.

Pose References:
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Tutorials:
BG bubbles - [link] by
Underwater BG - [link] by

*sigh* I still love the colours on this but I HATE the lineart... DX