Monday, September 23, 2013

Challenge: 29 faces (Day 8, #24)


#24 Just above the surface

Since I finally caught up with the challenge, I felt that today I could just take it easy and spend a bit more time on one piece, coloring it properly. Again, this is a post-it sized drawing of...a mermaid. Notice that I have already two of them in this series....although I cannot say that mermaids are my superfavorite mythological creatures or that I particularly like the sea, they pop up in my works over and over again, at the point that I have a mermaid in the name of my only blog. I really can't tell you why. Maybe it's that I am a terrible swimmer and I wish I could zoom happily in the ocean unafraid and free to roam?

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  1. this is such an interesting angle to draw her, i love looking at it. the colors too are so appealing to me. plus her hair, love how you did her hair!

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    1. Glad you find the angle interesting. One of my problems is that I tend to draw people in the same frontal positions (because, as usual that's what I am comfortable with), while different points of view can make for more eye-catching and expressive images, I think. So, I decided to give it a try! ^^

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  2. Oh, She is so beautiful. I love her eyes, hairs, waves, all....
    If it have had more time You could paint all paintings about Mairmaid. What a serie!!
    Maybe it grows inside You a mairmaid. Soon she teatches You to swim very well.

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    1. I have hoped to learn how to swim well for a very long time and almost everybody I know has tried to teach me...it's just that I am terrified of water! I start breathing funny and I feel like my lungs are compressed...totally silly, I know...maybe what I need is really the spirit of a mermaid to get hold of me and cure me of my phobia!

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  3. Beautiful mermaid. I love the way she is looking up and the way you have painted her hair:)

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    1. Thank you so much, Sandra...I should have given them a little bit more depth...I'll try to fix that later. ;)

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