Jellyfish

I could probably go on tweaking this for another week, but I think I'm just going to go with it's finished now. Mostly worked on it at a crap monitor and then when I saw it on the laptop it was like "woah, gotta fix that" and then several hours later I'm still trying to fix the brightness and values and siiiiiiiiigh.



Anyway it looks good now on my screen currently, which means it's way too dark on my work monitor. But I think this is closer to what would look good on the average person's monitor screen. Hopefully.

This was very fun for me because it combines my love of jellyfish and red hair. :] It's not supposed to be Ariel (though I know that's the response it's going to get but I'm okay with that) just a redhead with green eyes (not blue) who happens to be cool with existing with jellies in her hair. Cropped it because I thought it looked more interesting that way...hm.

Some process shots:





When I was drawing this I would lose track of what was tentacle and what was hair, ha. Thus the red pencil lead.

Anytime I post what I think I'm going work on next I end up lying. Not on purpose, but I'm easily distracted, art-wise. But I think I'm either going to work on a fan art of one of Garth Nix's characters, or a new goofy self portrait, or a mock up bookcover for a story I came up with off the cuff when I friend texted me asking for a bed time story with the only condition being it had to be "a fantasmical story of whimsical proportions". Yes. Fantasmical.