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Published: 2008-06-16 05:42:07 +0000 UTC; Views: 32841; Favourites: 1080; Downloads: 473
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"I left my pelagic brothers and sisters, seeking the still depths of the black ocean deep. Away from the angry rays of the sun I finally found a calm intense enough to quell my uneasy heart. The wise hermetic fish there were as clear as glass- as if yearning to desolve into the sea water itself. I followed their guidance"-----
This painting was featured in the magazine ImagineFX #65! [link]
I wanted to see how a human[oid] would look as a transparent deep sea fish type thing. I really like fish head scales, and used those inplace of a skull. I had no idea how I'd go about doing that but I am very happy how this turned out, for once.
This is actually a shapeshifter person from a new storything/idea I'm thinking of.
Photoshop.
*passes out*
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"The deepsea mermaids were often mistaken as ghosts of those drowned at seas by sailors who did not know their true nature."
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This is so cool! And the caption underneath is beautifully written.
Well done!
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It's actually really beautiful, I think, and very cool and different. I love it!
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Beautifully done. Now all it needs for survival, is a light to guide itself through the depths.
I love the scale plates for the skull.
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Okay, now this is.. ... I don't know. It's too amazing for words.
Such a creative way to draw a mermaid. So much cooler than the average half girl-half fish ones.
I can't imagine how much time it must have taken to draw those bones.
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WOW!!! this is the best Mer-oid I have EVER seen... you could not have better depicted what I envision a Mer would look like if you had crawled into the darkest corner of my mind and pulled it screaming from those depths... If only I had your talent.
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This. Is awesome. The concept itself is really cool - I never thought about deep-sea mermaids, and now I'm really dissappointed in myself for it - but the way you gave that concept a visage is even cooler.
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This crisscrosses the Uncanny Valley twice, just enough to be cool instead of squickie!
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Oooh this is brilliant! I love how fantastical it looks and yet, plausible! We know so little about the deepest parts of the sea that who knows, it may exist!
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I hadn't seen this since I faved it forever ago, and I still am in love with it...
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Hi! I love the quote you used in the description of the piece, is that from an existing work, or is it something you wrote? I am quite intrigued!
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it's just something I wrote for this piece
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its excellent! i would love to read the finished piece, if ever the opportunity presents itself...I would also love perhaps to someday collaborate with a writer of your caliber for some illustrations I have in mind.
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imagin swimmig at the beach and u dived under a wave and opened your eyes and saw that, SHIT!
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verry sick idea (taht means fucking awesome!!) i love it,,,its probbably real in another world/dimension XD
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great idea, and killer execution. no pun intended.
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The creepy thing is, is there's actually some stuff that kind of looks like this down there. You know, 'human shaped'. Like, there's this uh, I guess it's a jelly fish of some sort, but it's body is incased in what almost looks like a transparent ribcage with the main part of it pulsating in the middle like a heart. 
Love your work.
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that stuff like that exists I think is the coolest thing ever!!
and thanks! <3
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Wow -- STUNNING work!!
You might enjoy Peter Watts' "Rifters" series -- the first couple are available for free online:
[link]
-- A
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sweet, I love that you modified the neck to be shorter and more fish-like forward. It's exactly like the deep sea, grotesque but hauntingly beautiful.
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your work is awesome, reminds me of the artists Alex gray
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Hey, I love it! Looks like a human version of some hatchet fish I used to have in my aquarium. What program did you use to airbrush this?
It's funny about the humanoid as a deep sea fish thing, as I have a humanoid as an aquarium fish oil painting!
Anyway, nice job!
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It's done in photoshop. You can get hatchet fish for home aquariums?? kickass!!
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Yep, I wish I still had them! Little swimming skeletons, happy happy, joy joy!
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Bloody hell man!thats the most awesome thing i ever saw!
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