Ariel and King Triton!

One more Disney fanart today, and also one of Ariel, this time as a little girl, in her daddy's arms ^^

So to get inspired for this image I looked for stock photos of fathers with their daughters, and fell in love with this particular image:

So I sketched it out, using references from screenshots of Ariel's Beginning:

I then inked the drawing in SAI:

Laid down the flat colors:

And started shading it! Shading's one of my favorite parts!

Then, I worked on the background:

And finally I colored the lines so it'd look softer, and added a few lighting effects :)

Ariel and Stormy - WIPs and Final Image

Hello! Today I decided to look down memory lane a bit and choose a fanart I did as a tribute to my childhood hero, Ariel. I watched The Little Mermaid TV series quite late, but I thought it was awesome, and Stormy was my favorite episode!

I knew I wanted to draw a picture of Ariel riding stormy, as I was very inspired by a Princess Magazine picture of her on a large sea-horse:

I liked her general pose, but wanted to draw my beloved Stormy instead, so I used some screencap references from mylittlemermaid.com to draw him accurately. Here's my sketch:

Then I linearted the picture:

Flat colors:

Painted in the background (I love drawing underwater scenes!):

And finally shaded in the characters, and added some highlights:

Self Portrait Study

One more study, this time of myself, a photo I took myself. It was cropped horribly so I edited it a bit in photoshop sloppily before starting:

So I began with a rough sketch. Did some measurements, but certain elements were still placed rather poorly:

Then I did the usual thin lineart I use for realism pictures... the lines are soft and I paint over them, but even if I don't, they're not distracting in the final image:

Flat colors kind of to just isolate the painting areas...

Some building of the forms with color. Realized the eyes were unaligned and too far appart, doh.

Attemped to fix it:

The shadows were a bit harsh so I softened many of the edges, and added some semblance of a background.

Final edits, a bit of texturing, and reduced the eyes, which seemed to me to be too large. Final picture: