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Made for the freestyle graphics competitions at the gathering.

It's based on H.C. Andersen's story about the little mermaid. I'm planing on making a series of illustrations from that story in different mediums. The one on the right is "the little mermaid". This scene is supposed to be from when she was young, although she doesn't look very young the way I drew her =P The story says she a princess and the youngest of several sisters. She loved these red flowers and had a garden full of them. I imagine that she was shown these special red flowers by an older sister. But they only grew in one particular place far away from their castle. She grew really fond of them, perhaps because they had the same colour as her own hair, and wanted to keep them near her home, so she made the garden. I took some liberties in my intrepretation, though.

Anyway, I worked so long with this pic X/ but in the end I got really fed up with it. Still feels unfinished, colours are strange, the flowers rushed and lots of details was skipped. Maybe I'll muster up the strength to finish it someday...

Edit: After waking up from my TG induced trance I'm gonna change "feels unfinished" to "holy macaroni unfinished as h***". =P
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SassyTriniKARS's avatar
Very nice concept and I definitely can relate on pieces that take alot to finish, it's like come on, i should've left it in black & white