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Published: 2007-10-17 03:20:26 +0000 UTC; Views: 8380; Favourites: 138; Downloads: 111
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it always was disturbing, the flip side to the wholemermaid/siren myth... luring sailors to their watery
graves through songs and promises of sweetest
embraces...
really wanted to get that moment, that final moment
of consciousness... true love's first kiss, or dinner time
deeper below...
...this one i really like, and i really don't know if i'm
done with it yet... any thoughts?
pencil and p-shop
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Featured this in my newest journal [link] ^_^
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Excellent! Thank you very much!!
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I love the emotions in this. It's dark, eerie, sad.
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I featured this in my newsletter here: [link] please consider clicking the heart on the top left hand corner to add it to your favs! it helps draw attention to your work and the others featured. thanks!
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This is simply amazing! The water, the poses, the textures on the tentacles - I've tried to draw something along these lines many times, and you've put my efforts to shame.
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many thanks!!... but don't let me stop you, i was inspired initially by artists that were effortlessly capturing the underwater feeling in their art... I had to try this out for myself...it's very weird to draw floating, sinking, submerged elements...
for the longest time, i wasn't sure if it was finished.
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This is really amazing. I love the overall layout and color that blankets the entire piece. I'm a huge fan of the siren myths and so this is a wonderful representation. Its much prettier this way than some of the stories of sirens being big birds with the head of a woman feeding on sailors. XD
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thank you! The darkness of the ocean has always overwhelmed me... it's what you can't see, you know?
It was tough to deepen the colors, without getting too dark and without getting too blue.
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Well, you've seemed to have found that balance in there.
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Awesome! I never saw this one before...reminds me of Radiohead's "Weird Fishes". "I hit the bottom and escape..." Well, one can always hope, eh?
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...this sailor will tell ya, it happens on dry land as well (metaphorically speaking) !!
Great work!
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always worth it, though... thanks for visiting, i appreciate it!
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wow really haunting picture, you've captured that moment really well. amazing!
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Eerie and seductive! The further the eye travels down, the more cloistered and suffocating you can feel it becoming. Poor Bootstrap Bill...
(on explaining the Siren myth to another)
"Sailors would dream of dying this way."
"Sailors who dream of dying that way are better off dead anyways."
"..."
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great drawing!!!
if only drowning was really that enjoyable!
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I love diving...
this i grate art!!! 
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Awesome work on the mermaid myth, it's a great depiction of it
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thank you, its always been an eerie legend... a bit disturbing and romantic...
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Indeed...
The true mermaids of legend aren't like Ariel, these seduce men and kill them. It is creepy.
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Very strong image!
The idea is clear, the style works, I don't see any improvements there.
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many thanks, i was pleased with this one, too... i think the pencil was strong to start with, so
i tried not to bludgeon it with too much photoshop trickery...
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still the toughest thing to do... knowing when to stop.
of course, with me, i think i stop too soon
i'm not a very patient artist!
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Me neither. I ACTUALLY stop too soon, i.e. I don't finish what I started
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I love your artwork/style! It's so beautiful and yes, this theme is disturbing but you did a lovely job portraying the beauty and the horror of the ocean(it freaks me out...)
I love how you drew the clothes and hair...everything is so realistic and yet, it's comic-like
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thank you, very nice observation...
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ah this is great! i was working on a similar evil-mermaid-killing-a-sailor image before i got sidetracked. love your waterworks and choice of light effects!! if you spent some more time on it i bet it would be even better.
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thanks, yeah i was at a point where i was afraid of
over-doing it, and i am the WORST at spending time on art...
but its actually one of my faves...
you must un-sidetrack yourself, i'd love to see your take on the concept!
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Awesome work and great subject, those old stories and myths are very eerie, good stuff
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thank you! perfect for halloween, eh?
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I think it is done. The colors are perfect. It really has an errie effect.
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thanks! eerie is what i was hoping to achieve...
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Your welcome! I actually felt a little short of breath when I saw it, you really captured the mans face in his last moment perfectly. I think the picture even effects the viewer.
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Beautiful, I love your use of color here. Excellent job.
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thank you! ... i went outside my safety zone with color on this one...
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Heee... I totally understand. I'd have a hard time working with so much blue and not enough bright colors. Kudos to you. It totally works.
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I absolutely like your kind of fantasy
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I hate those promises of sweetest embraces that end up being traps *S*, so true, so true, I love the story in this one. It looks good. I guess, if you're not done, a suggestion would be to make the water even darker at the very bottom? either way great job.
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thanks... and good suggestion... i'm sorry i didn't make this piece really long... so the surface could be more hopeful, and
the bottom pitch black. i'll give it a whirl in shop tonight.
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