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Published: 2010-12-16 14:22:19 +0000 UTC; Views: 2356; Favourites: 67; Downloads: 41
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Description In the murky still waters, a warrior waits.
The Undead, eater of flesh. She adorns her hair with the trophies of battle - the pearls of her people, the shells of the defeated, the skull and bones of the eaten.
In the murky still waters, the warrior waits.

Zombie Mermaid ^.^
Made whilst waiting for bits and pieces of other things to dry (consequently taken me a while to complete her!!)
Hair is inspired by artists like Luis Ryo, glittersniffer and geishas mostly - I've always loved the look, and the notion of a zombie with bones in her hair was just amusing ^.^


tail, wounds, bone leg and hair bones are all Magic Sculpt. She has had a slight repose so that her NDS front leg isn't touching the ground
Tail fin features multiple colours of microbeads
Airbrushing and detail work all done with artist grade acrylics, tail has coats of various coloured irridescent paints.
Sealed with Dullcote, modpodge gloss and triple thick.
Accessories include pearls, shells, chains, leather and a cute skull bead.
Rehaired with Daiquari Ice, Arctis Frost Water Nixie, Forget Me Not, Bobby Blue, After Midnight - all Dollyhair nylon

Pony Base © Hasbro
Design © Me
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Comments: 18

MqvzaAndGx [2011-04-11 17:49:52 +0000 UTC]

How the F*** have you made this! It´s just freaking amazing. Wow you´re cool.

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to MqvzaAndGx [2011-04-12 04:54:56 +0000 UTC]

**giggles** This one took a fair bit of time - first she was baited and chopped up, then I sculpted everything - her wounds, the bone leg, and her tail (where each scale was added individually). Then she was airbrushed in lots of different colours to give her a dead mottled effect.
Then I rehaired her and painted all her details - the eyes, wounds, bones etc. and glossed her. Afterwards she got some irridescent paints added for that shimmery fishy look, and the styling was done - so her hair, hair ornamentation (some of it is hand sculpted, the rest is put together by hand just for this piece)... She was a very intensive labour of love ^.^

And thank you

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x-eevee [2010-12-19 03:53:44 +0000 UTC]

as I said on the arena, this ROCKS!

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to x-eevee [2010-12-20 00:32:31 +0000 UTC]

Thanks ^.^

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flesheatingmermaid [2010-12-19 03:05:14 +0000 UTC]

Zombie Mermaid.... the best of both worlds. Love it!

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to flesheatingmermaid [2010-12-20 00:32:56 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^.^ I must confess to having a soft spot for her

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flesheatingmermaid In reply to DeepDarkCreations [2010-12-20 22:42:11 +0000 UTC]

*laughs* Well, I wouldn't object to seeing some friends for her. Well done.

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to flesheatingmermaid [2010-12-21 00:37:30 +0000 UTC]

Thank you ^.^ Hadn't thought of new friends for her... but now thats a possibility

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DarlingV [2010-12-17 22:38:05 +0000 UTC]

That's got to be the best merpony I've ever seen. And okay, looking at her for too long makes me feel a little queasy, but WOW. I love your attention to detail; there's never a part of your customs that looks unfinished. Even her fishy tail looks like it's been resurrected! And the bones? They are amazing.

Zombie cannibal merponies just beat the heck out of regular merponies.

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to DarlingV [2010-12-18 02:08:40 +0000 UTC]

**hugs** Thank you hun!! I've been working on her for ages (usually while doing your girl... because HER details have frustrated me, so I work on other things while I decide if I likey or not)
And I think its good to feel queasy around her... I wanted her to be unique as far as merponies go, and what better than a half eaten zombie mermaid warrior?? ^.^

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DarlingV In reply to DeepDarkCreations [2010-12-20 19:33:07 +0000 UTC]

Well, I think it was definitely time well spent. Just looking at this custom is enough to see that a lot of time went into it (and sorry she's giving you troubles!).

She's definitely unique! I'm not much of one for merponies, but you've gone in the opposite direction of every other merpony out there. Oh! The other thing I love about your ponies? They're *just* right--not underdone as if they aren't quite done, not overdone in a way that distracts from the pony.

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to DarlingV [2010-12-21 01:14:05 +0000 UTC]

**hugs** Thank you - I try really hard to make sure my ponies are "balanced" like that... and honestly its hard to stop sometimes **she says as she looks at the pile of other bones she made for the hair**
I've never been a huge mer fan to be honest... I'm pretty picky about things like the lines and tapers of tails, and scales and where bodies meet tails... so I spent lots of time making sure those things were right on this (and have I mentioned this is my first adult sized scaled merpony?? All the others have been baies or smooth bodied)
I really wanted something unique and different and figured hey, why not create a zombie? I do them so well, why not add that to a mer? ^.^

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LightningMana-Crafts [2010-12-17 20:04:33 +0000 UTC]

Holy crap that's the most awesome mermaid custom I've seen. XD
It's not all standard and common like the majority I come across... you really added "life" to this. (Pun intended.)

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to LightningMana-Crafts [2010-12-18 02:10:53 +0000 UTC]

Thanks Mana I wanted her to be different to all the other mers I've seen and figured I should give her a lil undead flesh eating edge ^.^

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LightningMana-Crafts In reply to DeepDarkCreations [2010-12-20 03:45:19 +0000 UTC]

The bones and the "under sea" theme just go together so well. It's like a perfect match. A lot like ghost tales and piratey art.

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truevampiress [2010-12-17 01:48:57 +0000 UTC]

oh wow, not sure if id want to run into this pony in the water lol, but beautiful design, i love the bone leg xD and the hair/ornaments

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DeepDarkCreations In reply to truevampiress [2010-12-18 02:11:10 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much ^.^

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SourKiss [2010-12-16 15:26:49 +0000 UTC]

cute

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