Hello dear friends, my...how has a whole month and a half gone by so quickly?! Well, sadly I haven't gotten much done lately due to working the Mother's Day rush at work and then getting the flu, so my short fairy tale story is yet unfinished. Good news though, I did get the drawing for it done and this long weekend I'll be working on the fairy tale again. And I'm sad that I haven't had the chance to start the blog for my book yet, so that's really delayed.
I am now Open For Commissions! My laptop is just about toast and before it dies on me completely, I want to replace it. But I need to save up a little bit more to get another one that I have my little eye on. Just email me if any are interested and I'll send you my price list, then we can talk further from there.
So this drawing here was a little tricky in deciding which colours would look best. I wanted something with a vintage look and feel to it, sort of like one of those watercolour illustrations from the 1900's you'd see in old fairy tale books. The Mermaid's hair was so hard to colour *laughs* as I had put in way too many strands of hair in the ink drawing. I wanted to look a little more blonde, but I added in a little too much brown highlights. At least with the water added she doesn't look like she's floating in space anymore. The prince looks rather crow like with all his black plumage on his helmet and his big black cape. The gold accents didn't come out so well in the scanner, and they almost completely disappear on his cape. I wonder if taking a picture of this, those would have shown up better. But I love this nonetheless.
Anyway, I look forward to getting part two of the story up to share with all of you. I'll become a much better blogger, I swear. I wish you all a happy, creative week. Cheers!
