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January 11, 2013
Little mermaid got her legs by =AnaDalle
Featured by deshrubber
Suggested by SaloGuardione
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Little mermaid got her legs

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Description

Personal interpretation of the fable of Andersen (nothing to do with the Disney's version)
in Art Nouveau style.

Mixed media,
pencils, ink, digital textures and retouch.
Image size
2592x3952px 1019.93 KB
Make
SONY
Model
DSLR-A390
Shutter Speed
1/40 second
Aperture
F/5.6
Focal Length
18 mm
ISO Speed
100
Date Taken
Jul 25, 2012, 10:35:00 PM
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:star::star::star::star: Overall
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Vision
:star::star::star::star::star: Originality
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Technique
:star::star::star::star::star-empty: Impact

Congrats on the DD.

Personally, I think there is way too much going on here. I don't really know where to look, it starts to look like a melange of pop culture "artsy" things. Details like the flower in her hair, or the mexican style skull, and even the fish distract from the skeleton that you have superimposed on her body, the art nouveau back ground, and the fact that you made her sash a wave. That stuff is really cool!

I'm going to hit the art nouveau bg now. If you were going to go for art nouveau, that really would have been the place to get wild and creative, but it seems like you just kind of slapped it on there arbitrarily. just as an "oh hey" to art nouveau.

You have good technique and there were a lot of great ideas but you either trivialized them or didn't carry them out to completion. This deviation did catch my eye and I like it, despite my criticism, just to make that very clear.