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©2007-2009 ~TehTwi
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Two pictures in one day? Its a record for Twi!!!!

This picture was a massive learning experience. I think I tried about ten different new ways of shading, adding highlights, inking, etc. I'm really quite pleased with the overall look, though at some points I had my doubts ^_^;; It sorta was looking as if I was trying to smash two styles together, but then it all seemed to mesh at the very end....

This is Gallen Marcuss by the way. Ocelot/Dace Fish combo, for the Island of Doctor Moreau art contest on Gaia. Credits go out to the shop owners and the character's creator.

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:icondragonsmist:
Wow...I love the feet/fins. :D And the fish are adorable! The lighting is very well done too. :D
Now I must :+fav: this. :)

~Lily

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holycrap.
this is amaaaazing.
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oh wow.

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:iconmeiastar:
OMG :omg: It is really amazing, Twi! :excited:
:iconmeihua:
OMG. the coloring and texture on this is sooooo gorgeous. I think this is your best work yet. :D

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:iconnekokelly:
Twi, this is amazing. Not only do you rule textures, you now rule lighting and water too. I wish I improved at half the rate you do.
:icontehtwi:
Thanks :3 The lighting is probably the part I'm most proud of.
:icontehtwi:
Thanks Neko <3 Water is fun. Its pretty much the only background I'm good at though XD
:iconmechanicalkat:
Man, the first thing I thought when I saw this, was, MAN, the colors! :D Oh my god, they're so vivid, andandand...8D That's something I really like by default. The face is adorable (It's snacktime!), and....XDD The angle's pulled off really well. It looks like it was really hard to draw. *can't even try to imagine drawing this type of pose/angle at the moment, uwah* He really does look like he's floating :D

And whoooa. D: All the underwater texture boggles my mind. D: It looks great! Especially on the arms, and the tail, and the fish, it almost looks real in some spots. *is really, really impressed* How did you do that? ;3;

Good luck in the contest! <3

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:icontehtwi:
Thanks for the lovely comment and the fav Ghost :3

The pose actually wasn't too hard for me for some reason. It only took about two sketches for me to be satisfied.... I wish I could say the same about my purely animal or purely human drawings XD For some reason anthros I always find easier. Weird....

As for the water, the basic concept is to create some sort of texture, then run a chrome filter over it. This isn't the tutorial I learned by, but its basically the same concept: [link] Then you just experiment with color, types of layers, sizes, transparency, stretch/skewing it, etc.

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