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porll [2018-06-20 18:28:55 +0000 UTC]

Hello, I found your picture via ProjectComment

First of all I really like the overall mood of the painting, which is created mainly by the colors and values. The evil face of the character and very mysterious way in which light hits it, waves in the background and feeling of being surrounded by such a powerful element and a magical creature with unknown intentions is very intimidating for the viewer. And that's a good thing, art is meant to cause emotions in people looking at it

The most interesting part of this piece is the lighting on mermaid's body, two light sources meet each other on an organic surface of a character which is the main focus of the painting. And we can call it a success from the composition point of view, there's no way that anyone will pay attentions to anything else during first few seconds of looking at the artwork.

Even though the storytelling has its pros, as I mentioned in the first paragraph, there is also a con and that is in my opinion clearance of the surrounding and background. Maybe it's just me, but I don't really get it if character lies on the shore or is it in water, is this a shore with a gigantic wave about to hit it? Then it probably should have more foam and create some kind of a tunnel of a closing wave res.cloudinary.com/zinodavidof… Also the land and water look kind of similar, whereas water is way more reflective and smooth and ground/sand/rocks are very rough and hard.

I think it would be nice if the purple light was more defined, I mean it could be some spell, magical sphere, some kind of strange fire, some object or buoy? On the other hand it would distract the viewer from the character, which wouldn't work well most likely.

It's cool that you decided not to go with a stereotypical mermaid with hair and you added some sort of horns, however I'd like to uncourage you to experiment a little more with it, maybe use more references and try design some more complicated structures, let me leave this as an inspiration: s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/o…

To sum up I must say that there's a big progress in your work comparing to the previous version, keep it up, draw a lot, experiment and have fun!

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AmaterasuAmi [2018-05-14 10:39:54 +0000 UTC]

Hey Seeeks, I am here from project comment and want to give you some feedback on your evil mermaid ^^

I really like youre motiv, evil things are often way more fascinating and intriguing for the viewer. I took a look at your earlier versions and it is very nice how you improved already !^^

Lets start with your Composition:
In your painting is one main object that draws all the intention to itself, the mermaid. She on the other hand seems almost to dissappear in the cliff next to her. And the area around her is very low on details. That makes your canvas looks a bit empty. If you really want her souroundings to look like a dead dark place you could exaggerate youre main character. Give her a massive  tail that takes more place up in the canvas. She is a fantasy creature so dont bound your ow creativity to borders and rules like a normal human body. 
Give her a second arm, maybe it is  cratching against the walls like the other one but make her take room. I dont think that she needs hair it is cool how you created this creepy look with a bald had.

Anatomy:

To correct anatomy on a fantasy creature is not always easy, but there are some points we must watch on to make the character look like he could acutally survive with this body. Anatomy is fomed by use. The first thing I noticed is her very small head. In her head would be no place for a brain? So is she just a dump fish, but if you want to make her intelligent she needs one. 
Besides her small head she got a big upper body what also seems not very usefull for living underwater. The Mass of fishes and whales generally speaken lays in their tails and heads. If a  fish had a very small tail compared to his body it would need great strength for him to move.  Think about her moving underwater and maybe use some references from fishes and other sea creatures ^^
Also her neck is very long and thick. 

Light and Shadow:

You  were a big unsecure about this big Light area on her tail, but I honestly like it. Its is just like a giant sign that says"hey look here that thing is important", I would dimm down the forground to make her pop even more. But the direct area around her also should catch some light.  put a few soft lights on te rocks around her and darken the lesser important background. 

I hope my little review could help you best of luck !

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theJfluffy [2018-05-12 05:34:41 +0000 UTC]

Fascinating! 

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