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Please download for full view!

If anybody would like me to turn my original artworks into prints, please let me know by comment or e-mail (mailshadowfire@gmail.com) and provide the title of the artwork.

Please go to my art site, LightWater [link] to view more art works of mine as well as some downloadable goodies.

I'm not really assuming that people will really use my art, but just in case.

1. You must link back! It would be great if you link back on the page the art is used, but a credit page would do.
2. Do not submit them to any site unless you can personally display a credit link with the art work!
3. You are allowed to make them into graphics (cropping, changing colours, etc) and put them on your site for other people to use as long as you give credit.
4. You are not allowed to use any artworks or goodies for profit!

Basically I just ask for you to give credit if you use them. Don't submit them to sites (especially galleries).... I've seen a lot of nasty forum threads dubbing "Bad fanart" and crap. =_= Don't do that, please.

ANYWAY, here are my comments from 2011!

I don't know how I got the idea of a half eaten mermaid crawlng on the floor, but I've had this idea swimming in my head lolololol pun for over a year now. I finally did the sketch some time in October and started the CG the following month. But because I'm an ass, I kept taking 2 week breaks in between and ended up rushing it so that it'll be done before 2012. (Very evident in the piece of crap background)

There are many different interpretations of this piece, but the main concept behind it is the selfish and monstrous acts of humanity. Humans just do what they please, ignorant or careless of the results of their actions--as long as it benefits man, the hell with everything else. This piece specifically refers to people just taking what they want and leaving the rest to rot, such as cutting off the fins of a live shark than throwing it back in the water. While killing a shark just for its fin is no where close to necessary, all that seems to matter is that it satisfies man's selfishness.

I wanted to draw a classic (or stereotypical mermaid) where the human and fish parts are very clear. The majority of the tail is consumed and the rest that is unwanted is just left there. Another idea is that man justify their actions because humans are the "superior being". So in this case, because the human part is left "undamaged" so nothing wrong was done.

The only thing that was easy in this one was the hair (including the eyebrows and eyelashes). It didn't really prove as a challenge but everything else was hell. I was attempting to make the body as real and anatomically correct as possible so that took about half of the entire time I spent on this. I was kind of worried of how it would look after I drew the iris but I'm actually pleased (and relieved) with the result. This was the first time I attempted at drawing a spine and though I initially thought it was really hard, it turned out pretty well. As for the tail.. well, I was pretty much beat by the time I got there and it was surprisingly tough. Overall, this piece is quite decent in my opinion but didn't turn out as good as I had evisioned it in my head. Ah well, I need to work on more artworks anyway. (This is my first fullbody mermaid, though I don't think I'm going to be doing any in the near future!) This is officially my last artwork of 2011!

Character © ShadowFire
Art © ShadowFire
Started - 11/11/06
Finished - 11/12/31
Time - 100 hours
Ref Used - Myself, chewed salmon , fish spine , fish spine , dead fish

Description
Please download for full view!

If anybody would like me to turn my original artworks into prints, please let me know by comment or e-mail (mailshadowfire@gmail.com) and provide the title of the artwork.

Please go to my art site, LightWater [link] to view more art works of mine as well as some downloadable goodies.

I'm not really assuming that people will really use my art, but just in case.

1. You must link back! It would be great if you link back on the page the art is used, but a credit page would do.
2. Do not submit them to any site unless you can personally display a credit link with the art work!
3. You are allowed to make them into graphics (cropping, changing colours, etc) and put them on your site for other people to use as long as you give credit.
4. You are not allowed to use any artworks or goodies for profit!

Basically I just ask for you to give credit if you use them. Don't submit them to sites (especially galleries).... I've seen a lot of nasty forum threads dubbing "Bad fanart" and crap. =_= Don't do that, please.

ANYWAY, here are my comments from 2011!

I don't know how I got the idea of a half eaten mermaid crawlng on the floor, but I've had this idea swimming in my head lolololol pun for over a year now. I finally did the sketch some time in October and started the CG the following month. But because I'm an ass, I kept taking 2 week breaks in between and ended up rushing it so that it'll be done before 2012. (Very evident in the piece of crap background)

There are many different interpretations of this piece, but the main concept behind it is the selfish and monstrous acts of humanity. Humans just do what they please, ignorant or careless of the results of their actions--as long as it benefits man, the hell with everything else. This piece specifically refers to people just taking what they want and leaving the rest to rot, such as cutting off the fins of a live shark than throwing it back in the water. While killing a shark just for its fin is no where close to necessary, all that seems to matter is that it satisfies man's selfishness.

I wanted to draw a classic (or stereotypical mermaid) where the human and fish parts are very clear. The majority of the tail is consumed and the rest that is unwanted is just left there. Another idea is that man justify their actions because humans are the "superior being". So in this case, because the human part is left "undamaged" so nothing wrong was done.

The only thing that was easy in this one was the hair (including the eyebrows and eyelashes). It didn't really prove as a challenge but everything else was hell. I was attempting to make the body as real and anatomically correct as possible so that took about half of the entire time I spent on this. I was kind of worried of how it would look after I drew the iris but I'm actually pleased (and relieved) with the result. This was the first time I attempted at drawing a spine and though I initially thought it was really hard, it turned out pretty well. As for the tail.. well, I was pretty much beat by the time I got there and it was surprisingly tough. Overall, this piece is quite decent in my opinion but didn't turn out as good as I had evisioned it in my head. Ah well, I need to work on more artworks anyway. (This is my first fullbody mermaid, though I don't think I'm going to be doing any in the near future!) This is officially my last artwork of 2011!

Character © ShadowFire
Art © ShadowFire
Started - 11/11/06
Finished - 11/12/31
Time - 100 hours
Ref Used - Myself, chewed salmon , fish spine , fish spine , dead fish