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Published: 2014-08-17 22:41:23 +0000 UTC; Views: 1715; Favourites: 30; Downloads: 0
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I kinda wish for an instant "Perfection" button. I have to remind myself of what my very first renders looked like, I guess. More practice with Painter 12 and my Cintiq.Anyways, tried a different colouring technique and failed miserably. This looked better as lineart actually, if you ask me, maybe I will revisit it later.
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Awesome Merman pic he looks Amazing your a great Artist XD
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OK... I am looking at this and wondering why you've decided that it's a failure. You've got some nice lighting effects, with the water shading towards white towards the surface, and even a shaft of sunlight in his hair, which I think is very well done and a clear success. Good colouration on his torso as well. The tail starts well - you can see the sparkles of light as the sun shines through the moving water. The fork of the tail - hmmm, OK, I'll grant you that that really doesn't work. I can see that you're trying for a similar lighting effect, but it does look a bit likeΒ watercolourΒ brushwork that's been half-completed.
Even so, what you've got here is a partial success with some elements that didn't turn out as you were hoping. Calling it a miserable failure is pure nonsense, especially considering that it's an early experiment with an unfamiliar technique.Β
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We already talked about this in Yahoo so I'll just leave a 
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this looks good - i really like the shading here
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Me not so much but thanks, dear
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Hahahaha 
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Wasn't supposed to come out this way but did... my obsession with Ariel won XD
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The wish for an instant perfection button (in my case it was a magic cookie, I love eating more than technology, it seems) reminds me of my first attempts... I even made a forum post asking for advice on how not to suck any longer. My only advantage was that this was on another account and I wasn't already famous, hahaha.
In fact, this is way, way better than I could have done after so short a time. Why, the face looks even human and has a recognizable expression
Well, while you're still experimenting, perhaps give a try to the fecking easiest method of shading known to the lazy man.
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Thanks for the tutorial
Famous... Β
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Perhaps it works for you ^^ Does for me
Yep, famous. How many poor little bloggers out there would give their right front appendage to have 1200 watchers
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Hm, okay, I see what you mean *lol* I remember the days of my short lived Internet fame when Nate went viral on Tumblr, Reddit and Twitter. Hah, fame is fleeting I tell you... (Seriously, it was like 3-4 days and two interviews with an online game magazines and then the next big thing came along, heh)
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Yeah, those days... Well, if my art went viral on tumblr, people would probably flame me to death *g* Better remain an insider joke ^^
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Well I suddenly got like 100 favs a day on an ages old piece of Nate - and that made me wonder. And soon I found some ofΒ those pieces all over the net, mostly uncredited, and got interviewed by a Polish web magazine and an Australian one
When the people behind the MMO Guild Wars 2 started twittering about me I was about to faint... well, it all died down again rather quickly and nobody was much interested in any of the other Nate pieces. The crowd's love is feeble, my friend, they quickly toss you back into the gutter whence you came. *dramatic gesture*
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Yeah, GW2 sailed spectacularly beneath expectations... they're probably trying to find out how to lessen the failure instead of thinking up new games with smexy Nate *sigh* The last MMOs I tried made it impossible to create an even halfway smexy male player char... instead, you could make a FUCKTON of impossibly big-breasted, wide-hipped ladies...
Dramatic gesture aside, your gutter seems quite a luxury version of one 
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A bit of a change in direction, eh?
You do amaze me with your talent...
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this a gender-bender of dinsey's little mermaid?
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Actually not, I'm a huge fan or hers but I didn't plan this to come out like this. Once I had given him the red hair I realized I had to at least make the tail blue *lol* Guess that wasn't enough
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either way hi's still a hot piece
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*smirk* Thanks a bunch. I feel like such a noob with these.
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