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No deep story to this one, I just wanted to paint a pretty girl and some radioactive glowy fishies

Soundtrack - "Clevermind" by Poets of the Fall

Bonus!
. the sketch
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I guess I'll see you on the other side
I will be waiting till you come and dance
I'll let the river know you're moving in
I'll let you tango with my pretty fin

I wanted to paint a mermaid/butterfly image ever since I first heard Pati Yang's Pretty Fin. While the sole meaning of the song is quite debatable, the part that actually inspired me is a part that doesn't appear anywhere in lyrics sheets (websites, CD booklet and such), but she still sings it... something about underwater butterflies and lilies looking scary from beneath. :]

Speaking of lilies, I took a stab in the complete dark on them - the perspective is probably horribly wrong.

Two days, no ref (should've used some for hands, I guess), lots of fun.


Close-up:
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Yet more birds and trees, wheee. This one was more or less random, I've been wanting to draw something more or less swampy looking for a while. Then these two popped up my mind and voilą.

To be honest, I never thought it would turn out like this. I wanted it to be a plain, cel-shaded, highly desaturated image. Then I asked some people for critique and before I knew it I was fixing little bits and adding more and more details. Heh, it was a fun experience

I hope you like it! ]]> Wed, 07 Feb 2007 10:36:55 +0000 http://d-na.cgsociety.org/gallery/386683

Something I sketched on my vacation in Greece that I simply had to colour.

I experimented with lineart and colouring a little and I think it came out okay. I tried to make the owl 'glow' with love, hence why it stands out so much; though I'm not sure if it worked so well :P Colouring the tree took me longer than I had expected, but I'm satisfied with the end result.



Here are some details that got eaten up when I resized the image:





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