SF&F Picture 19 out of 31 by Gayle M. Bird.

SciFi and Fantasy Art: In Progress - MerGal

I love this woman. Love her. The pose was inspired by an image I found while stumbling around Elfwood. I had the pose stuck in my head all day and finally I doodled it during class that evening.

She came out so nicely I finally took her home and scanned her in - and used her as the base for this. I just brought it into Painter and started painting. I love the idea of naiads, and I think that's what she is.

This is why I love my Wacom tablet. Without it, this wouldn't have been possible - not just on the computer, but at all. Because I moved her head twice and I tried a tail, without ever destroying what I had due to layers. And I'm really really proud of the face and the hand.

So anyway, this is still in progress. I want your input. I need to make her hair slightly bigger above her left eye (a casualty of moving the head) and darken up some shadows; anything else? I want this to be my best pic yet!

Dec 13: I followed some suggestions and I think she's fabulouser! Whatcha think?


	Image censored due to its Parental Rating level (#4 of 4), as set by the artist...


	Categories: [Body Study] [Woman, Women] Techniques: [Computer Program]

Date	Name	Comment
10 Dec 2000	Amber A. Bay	Loading... I agree with what Eliza said. This picture seems just a tad too dark for me! My eyes have to work too hard to see the figure. But the pose is lovely and you've got some great colors going on! Wonderful pic!
14 Dec 2000	Marie. E. Bird	Loading... WOW, that IS awesome(even more than before) I agree that the highlights did the trick for sure, I can see the lovely skin texture much more this way and it really brings the girl forward from the background, now ahe's such a good focus! You rock(yet again) Gayle! Stunning! ^_^
19 Feb 2001	Tasha Kotraseva aka Isca Lox	Loading... Wooo... the texture of her skin is so nice! Love it!
6 Mar 2001	Yeechi Chen	Loading... That's a pretty nifty pic... you did good! I do like the texture/coloring on her skin. Something's funny about her left arm... maybe the shadows aren't quite right/deep enough... it looks like her left arm's in a weird twisted position...her arm's at a sharp angle so it'd have more/deeper shadow? Could just be me though. Dunno. Great pose, otherwise.
8 Mar 2001	Anon.	Loading... she is sexy, but u need to show more of the body!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! but overall that is a very gooooood drawing
26 Apr 2001	Elizabeth Vegh	Loading... Gayle, this is most beautiful. The color combinations are so visually aesthetic. Her hair and face are gorgeous. The webbed feet were a surprise. Good stuff. You should be happy.
29 Apr 2001	Ted Carranza	Loading... hi gayle.Hey I'm no elfwood artist but I do really love to draw and look at drawings and painting etc. of fantasy,Anime & RPG charectars and i have to say that I think this work turned out great. I know you said no more wow messages or whatever but I just have to cangradulate you on this one. I dont want you to take my advice and screw it up but her webbed feet might look a little better with a little more detail
10 Sep 2001	FAeRyGuRl	Loading... I love the colour of her skin, it makes an interesting turn out!
19 Jun 2003	Dinalcarwen	Loading... waouw really nice.The colours are beautiful her face is wonderful I love!
29 Dec 2004	Uniasus	Loading... Can you come up with a different background? This one justs looks so plain. Perhaps something with water.
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