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Submitted: February 22, 2009
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Project ARIELby ~TheMinttu

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / Sci-Fi

This really hasn't got anything to do with the Little Mermaid anymore, but I called it Ariel while I painted it and I still do.

I wanted to redo Ariel the Little Mermaid that I drew about 1½ years ago. I was almost 16 at the time. Now I wanted to also make it darker in both theme and color - add more sea creature-like features, make it more creepy, more dramatic. I find tentacles creepy, therefore the silly fish tail had to go.

All in all, this was more of a personal project to see what had changed in my "style" and the painting process.

Photoshop CS, 2 days - those tentacles are bitches to draw.

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Given 2010-03-18

Project ARIEL by *TheMinttu
The suggester says: The creature seems to be imprisoned against its will, or was it made this way? One has to wonder whether its haunting eyes are pleading to set it free or is plain vicious. I am contemplating on whether to let it free and being an object to be torn apart by itself. Madness, viciousness all captured into an excellent drawing. Oh, and don't be lured by the title! ( Suggested by `phoenixleo and Featured by `gucken )