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Hey guise! How many of you remember that game "Ecco the Dolphin" for the Sega Genesis? I know I remember playing it on my computer when I was little. It took us (my brother and I) forever to beat it, but we finally got it! Makes me wanna play it again for old times sake...

Anyhoo, I got this idea in my head the other day to draw Ecco as a merman. I thought it would be interesting, and I wanted to try my hand at underwater ocean backgrounds.

Speaking of that, I'm a INCREDIBLY thrilled with how the background came out! This was one of those pictures that I was so nervous about coloring, and I just took baby steps through the entire process of coloring the picture. But it was well worth it!

Okay, now for the real artist's comments XD

I colored Ecco and the gem first, and that wasn't so hard (the gem only took some patients) but it was the water and how the rock related with the coral/barnacles/etc in the picture. I started out by coloring the coral and stuff, then moved on to the tedious part of coloring the rocks. It was surprisingly hard to think of them as three dimensional vs. two dimensional. That, and shading/lighting is a little different underwater. Then I colored the cave, which came out a little darker than I intended, but that's okay. ^^

Anyway, next it was time to color the blue backdrop and I waited a long time before I did that because I was so scared of messing it up. But when I finally got around to it, I found that practicing it digitally (like on this picture: [link] ) helped me be able to pull it off better in this picture.

Then I used an eraser to do the rays of light coming down from the water and the reflections of the waves on the foreground: Ecco and the rocks and stuff. Finally, I used white-out to make the bubbles. =3

So yeah! That's that! Enjoy.

Ecco the Dolphin (c) SEGA
Art (c) K.C. Lexa

Oh! And P.S.... please don't associate this with that S.onic X Sh.adow fanchild thingy that I found all over the place when I searched for pictures of Ecco on here. Thanks.

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Hey guise! How many of you remember that game "Ecco the Dolphin" for the Sega Genesis? I know I remember playing it on my computer when I was little. It took us (my brother and I) forever to beat it, but we finally got it! Makes me wanna play it again for old times sake...

Anyhoo, I got this idea in my head the other day to draw Ecco as a merman. I thought it would be interesting, and I wanted to try my hand at underwater ocean backgrounds.

Speaking of that, I'm a INCREDIBLY thrilled with how the background came out! This was one of those pictures that I was so nervous about coloring, and I just took baby steps through the entire process of coloring the picture. But it was well worth it!

Okay, now for the real artist's comments XD

I colored Ecco and the gem first, and that wasn't so hard (the gem only took some patients) but it was the water and how the rock related with the coral/barnacles/etc in the picture. I started out by coloring the coral and stuff, then moved on to the tedious part of coloring the rocks. It was surprisingly hard to think of them as three dimensional vs. two dimensional. That, and shading/lighting is a little different underwater. Then I colored the cave, which came out a little darker than I intended, but that's okay. ^^

Anyway, next it was time to color the blue backdrop and I waited a long time before I did that because I was so scared of messing it up. But when I finally got around to it, I found that practicing it digitally (like on this picture: [link] ) helped me be able to pull it off better in this picture.

Then I used an eraser to do the rays of light coming down from the water and the reflections of the waves on the foreground: Ecco and the rocks and stuff. Finally, I used white-out to make the bubbles. =3

So yeah! That's that! Enjoy.

Ecco the Dolphin (c) SEGA
Art (c) K.C. Lexa

Oh! And P.S.... please don't associate this with that S.onic X Sh.adow fanchild thingy that I found all over the place when I searched for pictures of Ecco on here. Thanks.