This new artwork is of a gothic style mermaid. It was inspired by the rugged sea cliffs and gothic connection of Whitby, a small coastal town in the UK. I enjoyed designing the character and setting for this picture. I like to give the hint of a story with many of my artworks and get the viewer thinking. Here I hope it is a little ambiguous. Is the mermaid mourning the loss of these dead sailors? Or has she lured them to their deaths to add to her skull collection!?
I usually paint female characters wearing a little more clothing, but traditionally mermaids don't wear any clothes and I am not a fan of giving them sea shell bikinis and such like. So I have made do with a see-through shawl and some well placed hair
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mjranum-stock and model Cordula, for the use of the photograph that I used as reference when painting the figure.
`ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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I'm one of the Sirenia's mexican fansite and I do a lot of manipulations for this, so, I hope you don't mind if I use it sometimes.
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