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Published: 2010-12-05 15:20:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 1509; Favourites: 111; Downloads: 18
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Description This painting started in July as a quick sketch in Photoshop. I didn't have any plans for it, I just needed to ease my mind for a while.
I've doodled on it for about a month. It became an experiment. Painting underwater scenes are very new to me, so it was fun :3

Should I flip it to the other side? What do you think? [link]

And here is an old preview, after about 1,5 hours:


TIPS for the curious ones: Use hard brush when painting in greyscale. Only use soft brush if absolutely necessary.
Make sure to flip the image horizontally every 10 min or so to detect flaws in anatomy and composition. Then add colours on top on a new layer by using the layer option Hard Light.

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Painted from scratch in Photoshop 7.0 with Wacom Bamboo tablet.
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Comments: 8

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e-pona [2013-09-23 06:10:03 +0000 UTC]

Cool design  And yeah, nice shading.  Personally I like it flipped to the right, probably because in english you read left-right, so if it faces right you see the face last, then want to look where its looking, which is a nice clear space and so it seems more open-ended.  With it facing to the left you end up in a more compositionally dense bit of the painting, so there's no room to wander off and imagine what else is out there.  Just my opinion and bias

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Jmorgan07 [2012-11-02 22:15:33 +0000 UTC]

I love the colors you used, so dark and pretty

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serialzero [2011-05-12 02:40:15 +0000 UTC]

AWESOME detail and construction on the head. XD

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YelZamor [2011-01-08 22:29:19 +0000 UTC]

Saw this in the thumbshare forum.
By way of critique, I really can't see anything that needs improving.
You get the shadows and light reflections right and the background is nicely populated.
The only thing that did jump out, was that it doesn't look like it's a scene underwater... it looks more like we are on an alien planet with dense cloud.
To make it appear more underwater, you could add more light shafts breaking through the surface... blur or make the background elements less clear. Adding floating debris (with a shaft-like shadow cast below them through the murky water) would help too.

Nice work!

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tehuberkami [2010-12-05 22:28:21 +0000 UTC]

My Attempted Critique; I didnt realise until I saw the light coming through the surface in the top of the picture that it was supposed to be underwater as the image is so crisp and clear, although distorting/blurring it would lose the fine detail I guess Although I think the effect of the glowing face-tentacle bits works very well and does look like light underwater
Either way, excellent as always!

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Galidor-Dragon [2010-12-05 22:12:39 +0000 UTC]

awesomenesss I like the colors and the shading! also the tips you gave are helpful thank you Sakie! I missed your art a lot

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bauw [2010-12-05 17:08:05 +0000 UTC]

Amazing work as always!!! Totaly totaly amazing... Have always been a big fan of all your art!!! Great work!

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