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Published: 2018-05-29 21:41:01 +0000 UTC; Views: 658; Favourites: 31; Downloads: 6
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Looks like Trenton's got a guardian (fish)angel looking out for him!Β This is my favorite out of the series so far!
Materials Used: Prismacolor Premier markers, Copics, Illustrator Spectrum Noir markers, and Artist's Loft Markers
Cornelia and TrentonΒ©Capella336
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Comments: 33
This is by far your best one out of the whole series for sure! I really like the depth and perspective on this. The shadows you used really help with that. For some reason I also really like Cornelia's face. I'm still amazed that this was done at inks wow!
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Wow!Β Thank you!! 
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Oh no Trenton! What happened?! (Loving the open wet Mr Darcy shirt btw 
I also like the way you've drawn the blood seeping into the water- great work-I am enjoying how this story is developing. Will you continue it into June despite the fact it's not Mer-May any more?
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Pirates or mutineering crew...I haven't decided yet! lol
Thank you so much!Β I was initially going to set this at night like the previous picture, but I started adding in the blue shadows and liked it too much so daytime it was!Β She's been waiting a while to see if this guy will wake up or not...
Thanks!Β I don't typically do lots of bloody pictures, so this was fun. 
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Oh wow that angle is not an easy one to pull off at all - people lying down like that can either look weird or successful! (there is no inbetween) but I love it, and I also love the way you used the limited colour palette for this series, using blue for the shadows.Β Your back anatomy and Cornelia's hair is amazzzzing
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Lots of thumbnails were involved!Β I kept sweating over it too since I've seen plenty of Bird's Eye POV pictures done the wrong way and didn't want to add another to the heap!
Thank you!!Β I remember my high school cinema instructor saying that outdoors shadows are always blue (when he was teaching us to white balance), so it's always stuck with me.
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It's wonderful! They actually do look like they've got physical weight obeying gravity and not just...you know...floating. Lol but the heap is pretty confy with all those other pictures padding it out.
That's kinda true...you never notice it until someone mentions it, and I heard that if the light source is a warm tone, the shadow will always be cool. That is one very majestic back (I like drawing necks lol) and forearms for some reason...)
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I immediately started noticing how shadows are different colors depending on lighting when I started making my own films and taking pictures, and then it carried over into my art.Β It's not worth the time having to go in and edit all those photos/footage when you don't white balance! DXΒ Having everything blown out outdoors is the worst since you can't really fix it!
Necks are fun to draw especially when the person is yelling--tendons and veins everywhere!
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wow, really nice job! I like how you drew Cornelia's wet hair, and the blood oosing into the water.
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Thank you!Β I had...a lot of fun with this one... ;D
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How do you achieve these perfect shadows?! Gaah! Β Β
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...Most of it is just guessing!
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Oh my he's really bleeding out, I hope that mermaid knows how to apply a bandage!
This looks really good, I love Cornelia's pose. Looks really 3D.
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She's a resourceful merperson, so she has some healing tricks up her (nonexistent) sleeves!
Thank you so much!Β I'm extremely happy with how this one turned out!
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lol that's funny, she must be a 'mermedic'. XD
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Ooh look at her pretty little koi colors! ;3; Spotty-butt fish! :shot:
Poor Trenton XDDHe's fun to pick on, isn't he? Never can catch a brake, bro.
I love the perspective. ;3; Top-down views aren't easy at all- and with prismacolor c_x; omg I couldn't. Great job! ;3;
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I like it when they pop their heads out of the water and gape at you!
He's been through a lot of Character Abuse this month...I'm surprised I haven't gotten a restraining order from most of my characters! LOL
Thank you!!Β I went through two thumbnail sketches before tackling it.
The prismacolors are actually pretty easy to use once you figure out how to layer them--you just have to color really fast or else the streaks will show up! O:
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Yes XDD ...and I'm that person putting my finger in the fish tank because I like when they nibble. XD
Poor man >_>;;; It's a good thing they can't do that. I think we'd both be put away for several lifetimes. XD
You're doing great ;3; You improve with every pic!
I had some colored pencils by them- I loved them but I am not...very talented with them. XD ONe day I'll practice them again!
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I tried doing that with my betta and scared him. lolΒ I prefer it when you can see them nibbling you instead of being in murky lake water and feeling something trying to eat your toes! *SHUDDERS*
LOL!Β True!
Thank you so much!!
Oh, me too!Β I used to use colored pencils all the time but I whittle them away too fast (especially the black one), and markers tend to last longer and have richer colors...the switch was inevitable...
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Yes exactly XDDDD I don't want to swim in murky water >_> There may be something worse than fish in there...
No problem! ;3;
Oh yeah XD; I always have pencil-eating sharpeners. I don't like coloring without a nice tip and half the time the tip falls right out! $3 pencil gets maybe two pics in... and Markers are so hard D8 I've never been able to get them right. Super kudos to you!
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I've watched LOTR and Harry Potter often enough to make me think of hands feeling for my toes *NOOoooooo*
Ugh!Β Same here!Β You always sharpen it just right and then the little lead pops off!Β Playing around in watercolors helped me to understand markers more since it mainly involves layering.Β I will say that watercolors and pencils smell A LOT better than markers though! LOL
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Om nom nom toes XD
Oh man yeah I can imagine. Unless we're talking those crack markers that smelled like...grapes and stuff from grade school. What kind of person...made a marker that encouraged kids to sniff them!?
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Haha!Β My sister and I had a box of those Crayola ones!Β We'd color the paper and sniff our drawings. XDΒ When I first starting using white board markers as a kid I liked the smell, but if I used them too long they'd give me headaches so I try to use them in a well-aired room when I have to, like when I was studying for math tests in junior college and didn't want to waste paper...
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Oh man yes XDD I always found excuses to use purple because grape was always the best.
But...always make sure there's good air flow for those. Brown was the worst. c_x I learned not to do forests very quickly, I always felt woozy after those.
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The only time I use dry erase markers are in my dad's classroom now--it's ventilated enough! lolΒ Plus that huge whiteboard is just asking to be drawn on.
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Poor Trenton. I bet he's a pirate. Judging by the saber cuts on and bullet wound.
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Yikes! Trenton doesn't look good. 
But this art does!
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lol I enjoy beating him up a little too much!
Thank you!!
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... Now I'm scared what's going to happen in the comic. 
You're welcome!
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