New Portraits/Small Pics!

[manikus]

It would be cool. If she were swimming and the angle was right, you could get by without mach background detail to worry about.

[Uatu]

Yeah, drawing backgrounds sucks! (Then again, so does drawing scales... maybe I will default to sea elf instead (Legs are more fun to draw than fish tails anyway!))

[manikus]

Shoot, I was hoping for a piece of tail. (It had to be said. Really. )

Seriously, any big pic (or small pic) will be great to have.

[Uatu]

Ha ha...

Well, a mermaid swimming around would be a pretty standard big picture (hypothetically, you know )

[manikus]

Perhaps instead of a pet hippocampus, she could have a pet jellyfish...that seems easier to draw.

[Uatu]

Or just some limbless blob with eyes

[manikus]

Good ol' limbless blobs...heroes of a thousand battles.

[Dinonykos]

I am not that sure that a jellyfish is easier to draw than a hippocampus...
And a mermaid's fishtail could be easier than legs because you may have more freedom to design it (e.g. concerning the proportions).

[Uatu]

I think that in general, amorphous things are easier to draw than fixed shape things (because even if you mess things up a bit, things look okay). (Jellyfish transparency - well, that's another issue.)

As for legs vs. tails, well - legs are more fun to draw (i.e. more interesting (out)lines) than fish tails (fairly simple outline, but lots of repetitive scale-drawing inside)! Maybe I will just say the fish tail is of one of those fish without scales (or hard-to-see scales)...

[manikus]

Mermaids' tails may be more interesting to draw than regular fish tails. As mythological/magical creatures, it is not necessary to hold mermaids to all the same rules one would a carp, per se.