Sade Sayari

It's been a long time since I've drawn this OC of mine, and I felt compelled to try again today. For the record, the girl's supposed to have 22 Charisma, which is insane. Most siren-like creatures have about 20. Geekiness aside, she's supposed to just be pretty much the prettiest girl I can imagine, which is why I never really truly capture her just right :)

But anyway, here was my sketch of the day:

I started with flat coloring her, and figured I could clean up the sketch as I went along:

Then my computer crashed, and I was upset. I walked my dog to chill out, and whined about it to my best friend haha. Ah, the art process LOL.

Second attempt at painting it... I initially wanted to change the chromatics completely, but I decided I liked this molten lava look, so I finished it up as is:

And here she is, with her little familiar, Topi the Leopard Gecko :)

Mermaids of Nemaris Island

This was a commission for author J.D. Delzer, of the mermaids in his book, The Buccaneer of Nemaris. Please do check his website for more information on the book and characters.

So, I LOVE drawing mermaids. I was so excited about this commission!
Here's the sketch that started it:

This image basically just established the stony crag between islands where the mermaids tend to relax, and their basic shapes.

Added the foliage, as this area is supposed to be very luxurious. After a chat with my commissioner I realized that this looked more like a lagoon than a crag, and some changes were done to fix that:

At this point the sketch was done and I needed to fineline my characters (when painting semirealistically, I don't really lineart, but go over the lines softly so I can delimit my color regions)

Then, I placed down the flat colors for the image:

Sorry if this image looks way too bright, I tend to work from light to dark...
So then I added texture, color and shading to the surrounding rocks and the luxurious foliage:

And then had fun splashing waves into the water teehee!

The final step was shading in the characters, adding effects to each of them as I went along:

If you'd like to see a somewhat larger version of the finished image, check out DeviantArt.

DaMuro Progress Animations

The main reason why I sometimes use DeviantaArt's strange little online drawing tool are the lovely animations of your work which you can see :D

Click the Watch Redraw Button on the upper right. This was my first portrait with DaMuro!

Click the Watch Redraw Button on the upper right of this linked page!