Art Nouveau Mermaid - Step by step Illustration

Here's a little bit of a tasty treat for you all. I've been working on it for a little while. It started out as a tattoo design idea, I haven't decided whether or not to add a Art Nouveau "halo" around her upper body or not. I quite like it the way it is so I'll be experimenting with it a bit on my spare time I think.

Anywhoot here is a short and sweet step by step of the creation process.

1. The original pencil drawing:

2. The digital line art:

3. Flat color and home made texture:

Hope you enjoyed it!

Until next time,
Anita K. Olsen Støbakk

Contact: anitaolsen.illustration@gmail.com

Website: www.anitaolsen.daportfolio.com

The dryads are coming!

Or well one dryad actually, there is no plural here. I recently entered the latest ArtOrder "Nymph" challenge. "What challenge was that?" you might ask. Well, I could tell you but you know what instead of me doing a second rate job of it and skipping important details (because I'm whimsy and a bit forgetful) I'll just link it to you instead! Go here! 

Even though I did not win the challenge I had a lot of fun working on this piece. Dryads are cool, I'll have you know( waves passionate finger about). I also struggled a bit for sure. I started the challenge in a sort of creative dry spell. Originally I wasn't going to do a portrait style image at all, but  no matter ho hard I tried my other idea just didn't work out at all. So this was sort of the emergency plan. 

As you can see I made the image look like a comic book cover, the title is just something I made up on the fly. Below you can see the image uncluttered by letters. 

If you want to see the other entries in this challenge then you can check out the ArtOrder blog here!

Until next time,

Anita Olsen Stoebakk

website:
www.anitaolsen.daportfolio.com

Contact:
anitaolsen.illustration@gmail.com