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Published: 2018-10-20 12:06:09 +0000 UTC; Views: 3547; Favourites: 281; Downloads: 0
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Its done. And I changed again.. everything The tail and lighting and hair was hard but I'm fine with it now.Thank you guys again for your advice on the process!
Here you can find my thoughts on the WIP steps:
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The light reflections on her body are amazing. I've also never seen a giant mermaid from the perspective of an insect before. That's really creative.
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A pleasure 
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Thanks, I'm glad the light seems to look correctly
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This is so nicely detailed! I love the reflective fish scales and the ripples in the water.
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Thank you
I'm happy you mention the details because they took me most of the time
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Thanks, I'm happy you like it
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Thank you, I'm happy you like it
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This is so sweet and lovely! I loved seeing all the process and I also love the contrast between the blue in the environment and the red parts. The effect on the scales is so beautifully done too!
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Thank you so much for your kind feedback Leila
I'm happy you like it! And its again a redhead - this becomes an obsession
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Redheads are well worth obsessing with XD
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Sehr schön geworden! 
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Well done. Maybe the caustics are tad too small but it's difficult to say. The effect on her hair makes it appropriately "fishy" and not normal, good job, maybe the tail itself could have been too a bit out of focus. That was quite quick, congrats!
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Thanks I have also the impression of getting faster
Hmm the more often I see it (without working on it) the more flaws it gets.. but I need to move on to the next piece so be it as it is
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Thanks, I'm happy you like it!
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Long live everyone who thinks even insects have the right to live! I don't know if you want some feedback but I'd say the hair is quite blocky in my opinion (obviously I don't know what mermaid hair looks like to begin with
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Thank you for your feedback, always appreciated
Concerning the hair, tbh I had quite a hard time doing it so I finally decided to leave it as it is and let her have some kind of jellyfish "hair" with a few tentacles Maybe it could be a little more transparent..
Oh and yes this was initially planned as a self portrait of me fishing out insects from the pool (because thats what I always do), but then I rather went to a fantasy character
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Wet hair and submerged hair are both really tough subjects, I can imagine having them both in the same image is not an easy challenge
Oooh so it's kind of a magical self-portrait! I love it even more now!
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hehe, well unfortunately she doesn't look like me at all ^^
Yeah hair can be hell.. wet or not I think it took me a year or so to achieve something I found acceptable But I think you will be way faster
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Who said portraits need to achieve a physical likeness
I don't really know about that, what I've done until now is pretty much just copying photographs... I've yet to be able to create something that doesn't exist and pull that off somehow! That's what I like a lot in your work ^^
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Youre too kind
I think thats how learning to draw works - once you have copied enough from nature, you'll be able to copy from brain and put things together in a different kind. Or in my case, as I'm not able to imagine things completely - use different references for every different part
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Honestly I just feel like I'm only getting better at copying images... I'll become a photoshop of my own I guess, copy-pasting stuff from different photos to make a new one :') there's people like Even Amundsen who never use reference while they work and learn all they need from doing studies, which I simultaneously admire deeply and don't understand at all
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but you already started - you did this very nice portrait of your friend as a study
Just keep going, I think youre on the right track - and I bet there was a time when even people like Even Amundsen (amazing art, just checked it out ) had to use references DA is great for checking that - just get to the galleries of some guys making unbelievable stunning images and scroll down and you'll see they all first had to find out how things look like
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Aaaagh I'm so sorry for being so damn slow at replying :')
But yeas it gives some hope when you find those people who you can see the improvement over time! Sadly I think that quite many start deleting their older work as they get better, luckily some of those gems still exist though ^^
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haha no problem, I don't expect people to answer instantly as I don't either
Yeah, you are right, such galleries are not seen very often - I did not even dare to upload anything until I came to a certain level But I admire people who do
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I admire them as well! Do you have some favorite artists that still have their old artwork up?
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hmm I guess I have but unfortunately forgot who
But there was a very nice DA journal about this topic, at least I found this:
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