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Fear world: Valaheri found her watercolours.
After more than 15 years.
Scared?

Ink 0.05 + watercolours
Since the last time I coloured with this media I was a child, I decidedly felt the need of a little help so I did a quick research on DA and found a nice, clear tutorial: [link] thank ~mirrew, it saved me!

What I’ve learnt:
First: I’m a coward of the colour: I’ve not the bravery to use it in “the real world”.
Second: I will not leave the digital media and my beloved Photoshop.
Third: in the real world there isn’t the “undo” command, neither the History tool.
Forth: my esteem and respect toward those who use normally watercolour as first media (and here, between watchers and friends, are a discrete number) is ENORMOUSLY increased.

Question to the more experts: the total lack of brightness can be due to the ultra low quality of the watercolours I used (and their ancient age) or just to my lack of skill? I had to use the contrast to make the drawing a little more of “impact”…
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~lonelynightrain Jan 28, 2013  Hobbyist Writer
Whoa....amazing.
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~CommentOfTruth Jan 7, 2013
i really like how this shows the original depiction of mermaids they werent always Arial and Lucia ya know ^^;
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Mood: Love ~jess1982 Nov 10, 2012
This is a very dfferent piece of mermaid art, very good, it does go to show that there maybe evil lurking in the depths of our oceans, they sing a song of love and promise, lure you in and eat you for dinner
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~mordu0209 Sep 15, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
kelpies and mermaids just can't give us a break can they? lol good job!
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~valaheri Sep 24, 2012
Beware the little mermaid: you know, she can be more lethal than the shark in "Jaws"
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~mordu0209 Sep 24, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
yea and that's what makes her cool! lol
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Mood: Wow! !MariaBlossom Mar 29, 2011  Student Artist
OK I love the picture but the dead merman scared me little :)
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~HeroesRain Feb 15, 2011  Student General Artist
I remember in art class last year after working in on the computer so long I actually though of pushing an undo button automatically whenever I got something wrong, but sadly there was none. The kelpie and the mermaids look really cool.
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~armoured-armadillo Sep 18, 2010  Hobbyist General Artist
Too gorgeous for words, I love this so much! Beautiful painting, especially on the contours of the kelpie's body and muscles. I really really like the concept behind it too.

One question: are they underwater? if so, I wish you'd painted the mermaids' hair all floaty too :)
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~valaheri Sep 26, 2010
thank you VERY much for the kind comment: this is a pic that I enjoyed very much while working on it, so I'm particularly glad if people like it.

Caught! Yes, they are meant to be under water and you are totally right. I too realized there was something wrong with the "wet", not floating air, but it was a bit late since I had already inked it!
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