Original sketch, references and sourcesPlease, please, please view full for full effect :DGood luck to everyone playing!!!
Model was purchased on dreamstime model released. originalsourcesI'm sorry I do not have a sketch. This started as an experiment and kinda went it's own way. The sources should show you how much is drawn and painted over (almost everything! The lights, tentacles, skin, hair, fishies are drawn from skratch)
Sketch and sources
Photos used and as always I started with chaos and took it from there :/ some steps (animated GIF)
"All hail king Neptune and his water breathers, no snail thing to quick for his water feeders" Pencil sketching is so much easier than sketching digital! Good luck everyone.Sketch and Sources
SourcesHair brushes by gorjuss-stock and bubble brushes by wyckedBrush, both on Deviant Art.Original SketchA giant THANK YOU to Jenny for her most excellent critique and for sharing her tricks of the trade <3Good luck to everyone in the contest!
Pencil drawing painted and enhanced in photoshop. Animal skeleton from robivesFish, and all other players were drawn.Drawings and sources.Good luck to all!
Thanks to E. for being the best critic in the world. You see things that I can not. ("Look at this" - "What's wrong with it?" - "It's too dark/bright/long/short/big..." - "Oh, ... really?"). Love you.And thanks to the greatest underwater photographer Zena Holloway. This breathtaking site was a great source of inspiration.And, of course, thanks to you worthians for pushing my limits. I hope you like it. Good luck to all in the contest.Be sure to view full size. Really. Do it! (The first one who find Nemo and Dory will get a cookie :) )And here are sources, sketches and a goodie
sketchhttp://rookery9.aviary.com.s3.amazonaws.com/7401500/7401911_a218.jpg
Sources and sketch .Models are painted over, hair, tail and background are painted, fish are paint-enhanced. :)