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arrsistable โ€” Mermaid in Mourning

Published: 2007-05-18 04:22:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 5354; Favourites: 53; Downloads: 0
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Description YAY, internets hooked up, USBs are fixed... and I'm so back in the game. Finally!


Aaah ok, so this is something I've been working on since I had my PC back and no internet to it. I'm pretty happy with it overall; I think the total time spent was around 4-5 hours or so.


Mermaid in Mourning, including a ghost ship and a fantasy, mid-evilish type castle. Yeehaw.



Stock credits include:
for the cliff and waterline.
for some water.
for some water.
for some clouds.
for some water.
for some water.
for the boat.
for the mermaid.
for some sky.
And my own stock & brushes.


The castle and shrubbery behind it I painted in myself, along with most of the birds flying around. The hawk by the mermaid is a brush I edited - I've had that one for years and lost track of where I picked it up from.

In the origional picture of the girl she has a cloth wrapped around her eyes; I pained the vel coming down from it and hanging over her shoulders, sides of her face, arms, etc.

Aaand the boat was origionally just a boat; the pole and tattered sail was also painted in by myself.




Here's hoping you like it and I haven't lost my touch too much.

Constructive comments definitely appreciated!!



Close ups: [link]




Please F U L L V I E W -- thank you for looking!





I give *Manipulators permission to post this in thier gallery.
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Comments: 63

doranobaka [2008-09-08 23:24:43 +0000 UTC]

This is so beautiful. I love the composition of all the different elements you used, and the color theme you used to unify them.

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Xtreme-Audrey [2008-07-30 12:03:35 +0000 UTC]

How beautiful...

a very emotional piece.

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tda777 [2007-11-02 05:43:59 +0000 UTC]

beautiful.

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arrsistable In reply to tda777 [2007-11-02 13:43:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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CausticStock [2007-06-28 16:45:07 +0000 UTC]

Really effective dev .. loving the attention to details on this one nice dev and thanks for the stock usage

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arrsistable In reply to CausticStock [2007-07-19 11:53:14 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for offering it!

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opheila [2007-06-26 20:00:29 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful angel

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arrsistable In reply to opheila [2007-07-17 20:43:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you darling!

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acornah [2007-06-02 00:50:19 +0000 UTC]

GORGEOUS, arrsistable! This picture has sooo much emotion, and you're tops when it comes to blending. Were you influenced by anything pirate-ey, like PotC3, perhaps?

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arrsistable In reply to acornah [2007-06-06 16:00:38 +0000 UTC]

Aww, thanks hun!

Nope! I just started blending water pieces together and it took off from there.

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confused-stock [2007-05-26 02:16:24 +0000 UTC]

Honey, this is stunning. I'm so glad you found use in my stock.

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arrsistable In reply to confused-stock [2007-05-30 14:22:30 +0000 UTC]

I'm glad you offered it up!

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BellaNotte-Stock [2007-05-24 03:05:29 +0000 UTC]

wowsies. So gorgeous, as usual!

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arrsistable In reply to BellaNotte-Stock [2007-05-24 14:36:47 +0000 UTC]

Aw, thanks cutie!

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BellaNotte-Stock In reply to arrsistable [2007-06-20 15:55:42 +0000 UTC]

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Hera-of-Stockholm [2007-05-23 21:13:53 +0000 UTC]

Nice, makes me think of some environmental message. Global warming warning perhaps...

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arrsistable In reply to Hera-of-Stockholm [2007-05-24 14:37:15 +0000 UTC]

I never thought of that aspect of it. Thanks for the different outlook!

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Hera-of-Stockholm In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-24 18:58:26 +0000 UTC]

A pleassure I guess I'm a bit saturted by the climate in our country, everyone seems to be preoccupied and worried about the environment, even those who used to not bother earlier. Global warming has scared the "#ยค% out of ppl

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arrsistable In reply to Hera-of-Stockholm [2007-05-30 15:02:50 +0000 UTC]

As it should! Here's hoping we're able to do something about it on a perm basis.

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Hera-of-Stockholm In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-30 18:05:06 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, so do I, and doing the right thing too and not waste time on pointless efforts. We have a dying sea outside out nation - the baltic sea, and instead of cleaning it up we fight with the Finns and Russian about fishing quotes and submarine pipelines for gas.

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hissylizard [2007-05-22 21:22:18 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I really like the mist and the tumultous background

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arrsistable In reply to hissylizard [2007-05-23 14:25:45 +0000 UTC]

Thanks sweetie! I was definitely going for that too.

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SkyesFantasy [2007-05-22 17:44:49 +0000 UTC]

Awesome work sweety!

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arrsistable In reply to SkyesFantasy [2007-05-23 14:26:08 +0000 UTC]

Thanks hun!

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ardunt [2007-05-22 16:03:37 +0000 UTC]

Hey beautiful, very good work here, not that it could ever be sub-par, you put too much of yourself into it to be bad. Even with my current ogre eye, I can see all that it is and know it deserves some

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arrsistable In reply to ardunt [2007-05-23 14:26:49 +0000 UTC]

LOL, aww, I'm so sorry to hear about your eye. I hope it's getting better - I feel so bad for you.

I'm glad you like the pic!

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ardunt In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-23 15:01:03 +0000 UTC]

It is getting better, all the kisses and hugs have been tremendous for me!

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arrsistable In reply to ardunt [2007-05-24 14:36:12 +0000 UTC]

LOL, I see you've gotten a lot of them too. What a stud you are!

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ardunt In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-24 14:40:15 +0000 UTC]

Yeah right...just decided that for right now, the safest stock is what my friends have allowed and so I have chosen to honor them with manips. It is good for me, you are not safe either, you know, if I can find a pic of you somewhere.

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arrsistable In reply to ardunt [2007-05-24 14:53:57 +0000 UTC]

LOL. Good luck with that search - I don't have any pictures of me up on DA outside of my profile pic. That one would be tough to do something with too with the graininess and setup.

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ardunt In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-24 15:05:54 +0000 UTC]

Tell me about it That is okay, I respect everyones privacy too. After all a picture on the web is a picture for everyone it seems.

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arrsistable In reply to ardunt [2007-05-30 15:05:27 +0000 UTC]

Aww, I'm sorry. I'd give you something different but I'm camera shy on a general basis and there really isn't many good pics of me to give.

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ardunt In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-30 15:38:18 +0000 UTC]

No need to be sorry. I prefer to be behind the camera than in front of it.

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AF-studios [2007-05-22 13:13:34 +0000 UTC]

WOW...very nice.
I like the mist/fog that surrounds the mermaid,simply beautiful

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arrsistable In reply to AF-studios [2007-05-23 14:27:28 +0000 UTC]

Thanks much sweetie. I'm addicted to fog/mist... I have to make myself not use them sometimes.

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AF-studios In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-23 18:04:00 +0000 UTC]

Hehe,Im addicted to crows/ravens...i always use them

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M3-Productions [2007-05-21 13:57:14 +0000 UTC]

First off this deviation is very cool. I like the fog/mist surrounding the mermaid. The blending of all the water features is nicely executed as well. Thanks for using our stock.

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arrsistable In reply to M3-Productions [2007-05-23 14:29:40 +0000 UTC]

Thank you -- I had a lot of fun with the water, and your stock is most definitely a part of that.

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Cinnamoncandy-Stock [2007-05-20 03:41:51 +0000 UTC]

Nice work. Thanks for using my stock.

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arrsistable In reply to Cinnamoncandy-Stock [2007-05-23 14:29:55 +0000 UTC]

Thank you for offering it.

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WrenStormbringer [2007-05-20 00:33:20 +0000 UTC]

Very beautiful hun!

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arrsistable In reply to WrenStormbringer [2007-05-23 14:30:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you sweetie!

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ZeTravellingBeaver [2007-05-18 19:49:11 +0000 UTC]

I like. Excellent composition, I think. I can't comment on the photoshopping - I'm a photographer, not a graphic expert, LOL.

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arrsistable In reply to ZeTravellingBeaver [2007-05-23 14:32:54 +0000 UTC]

LOL, I'm not an anything expert. I just do my thing and post it to see what people think of it.

Just because, you know. Husbands and family/friends always say, "That looks good!" .. and while that's nice, it's not necissarily constructive all of the time.

Though my ego does love it...

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HiddenRelevance [2007-05-18 17:29:26 +0000 UTC]

Man this is gorgeous chica!!! Love the mood and the pieces fit together beautifully!

Jeeze.. the stories I could tell about this one!!!

And I can't believe I'm telling you this.. as I may be entering myself.. but ~ThornErose has a "Siren" contest going.. I think you might enjoy it!

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arrsistable In reply to HiddenRelevance [2007-05-23 14:34:19 +0000 UTC]

Aww, you're such a sweetie. Thanks so much for telling me about that. I'll definitely have to check it out, but I don't want to step on any toes.

I'm really glad you like this though - the mermaid irritated me something fierce.

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HiddenRelevance In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-23 14:35:21 +0000 UTC]

My pleasure sweetie! And yeah..it's always fun to have people you know enter too! lol

*hug*

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Stryder1234 [2007-05-18 15:25:41 +0000 UTC]

Nice work, though I would like to see the mermaid's face.

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arrsistable In reply to Stryder1234 [2007-05-18 19:23:24 +0000 UTC]

You didn't see much of the origional picture I used for the mermaid - [link] if you're curious to the stock image.


Thanks for commenting though; i haven't talked to you in a while.

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Stryder1234 In reply to arrsistable [2007-05-19 01:32:53 +0000 UTC]

I've been busy.

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