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Published: 2009-04-12 05:33:12 +0000 UTC; Views: 16845; Favourites: 791; Downloads: 261
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I've been doing concept art lately but beginning with b&w and sort of forming different shapes from what i had blotted out. I decided instead of starting off with b&w i'd try to start off with blots of colour instead. The process was quite different from working with b&w because I found that colour actually gives u feelings first instead of an illusion of an image.overall this came out which i'm quite happy with so i won't be afraid of using more colours to start off pieces from now on.
Photoshop CS3, painter
6 hours
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Ooh wow... this has to be one of my fave pics here ^^ Looks underwater and really beautiful!
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The texture really makes it look like she's underwater
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Wow! Beautiful Job! I love the idea; it's like a koi mermaid
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Gorgeous! xD Simple Gorgeous, I love koifish and you made them so beautiful!
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wow beautiful! Love how you incorporated the Koi into human anatomy too. Great job!
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dang so good! I love her fatty tail that looks like the koi
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All your art has so much movement and colour - It's really good
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wow brilliant. Just the other day I was thinking of making a merkoi myself xD
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wow im must say this an absolutly beautiful picture very well done ^_^
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Nice concept, I like the brushstrokes but I think the colors above the water are too bright and are taking away much attention from the wonderful koimermaid, just my 2cents, cheers!
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I love how it looks like the koi fish are circling the girl/fish/mermaid.... it really draws the eye around the whole picture and take in all the colors. Wonderful work on the scale details too!
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Ah, pieces like this are why I adore 
...without going insane. ^_^
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Holy snap crackers, this is stunning. I love all the bright, rich colors.
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Beautiful. The different textures and colors really pull it together. I love that It's the back view of her instead for the front. Kudo's to that!
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I like to point out how much the color scheme appeals to me. They've all got well established presence, but at the same time they do not conflict one another.
The details are really neat and visually pleasing too.
Something that stands out as weird to me though is that the light received by the central figure seems to be different to the ones for the fishes. It seems to me there's should be only a single light source behind the mermaid, but her back appears to receive light from the top as well.
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kukukuku u have a sharp eye ein comarade, i cheated and got lazy with lighting, i actually think the fish lighting was better than the mermaid lighting itself, but yes the mermaid has got a 2nd light source it's just not so apparent on the fishes since they dont have as much feature and they're so small as well. btw any bloody nips this year??
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Lol I didn't need to handle those since I was assigned to the stretcher team this year. If there were actually bloody nips it was someone else's problem
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hahaha pass the crappy job to the younger suckers, bwahahaha evil, man u missed out, sundays the day where everyone gives away free stuff.
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Oh my goodness!
This is incredible! It literally took my breath away.
Stunning quality here! This is the first time I've ever wanted to buy a print of something..(If I had money 
Anyways, keep up the fantastic work.
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omg...This is absolutely stunning! Truely amazing! I love it so much!
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this is great 
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This is so beautiful, I love the colours and the movement. I like the fact the mermaid is based of a Koi and not some generic mermaid. Beautiful!
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Very, very beautiful colors. I love how the image moves ina circular motion, as well as the water bubbles and the perspective on the fish. Lovely brushwork, too--I love the ambiguous background.
The only critique that I have for you, honestly, is the anatomy of the.. koi-maid (
Very, very beautiful work. A favorite, certainly, from me.
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Woooooooooooow!! O_____O This looks soooooooo amazing! The coloring is just beautiful. I love all the detail! Fantastic work!
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This is amazing! And I love the way you made it - I mean splatting the colors first. Yet I'm still not quite sure if the background wouldn't look better more monochromatic? Just a thought, though. xD
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this is so amazing! I love the texture and the bubbles are so cool.
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I enjoy the pixel effect that you have here. Nice paints.
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