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Vimeddiee — Ningyo
Published: 2011-04-13 22:44:46 +0000 UTC; Views: 2175; Favourites: 65; Downloads: 18
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Phew! After about two years of research, writing, analysis and illustrating, I finally managed to finish my thesis.
Here's the result!
For all of the illustrations visit my website --> [link]
This is the Japanese mermaid, a little scarier than the others.
Photoshop CS5
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Comments: 23
i really like your work! i see that you didn't draw any of the fins, was it intentional?
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Hi there! Thank you! Yes, it was intentional, I only included a dorsal fin and tail fin
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Thanks muchly! I tried to make it as eerie as possible...
Actually, I based her off an old Japanese tale about a fish with a human face
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Extremely interesting.
I've never seen a mermaid quite like that. it's seems more realistic to me than the 'traditional' mermaids.
Very nice job on this
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Nice one...Not yr typical cute mermaid. Ariel eat your heart out
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It is still scary!
It was in the progress, it was in the thumbnail and it is now
but it probably means: Job well done!
I think she will bite....
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Yeah, she does bite *ouch*
This one was actually my favourite of the bunch
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Awesome! I heard about the ningyo in the YA novel Keeper, and it was described just like you've painted it--almost completely a fish's body, but with a human face.
Woah! Sudden insight! 
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Yeah, I was actually thinking about Ponyo while painting
Thanks for the comment!
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