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artistyutaki:

Nurture
Very late Birthday Present for @tulpen-teufel of her boy Fridolin and my piece for #mermay (^0^)9
All likes and reblogs are super appreciated ❤

Additional Info about this Picture under the Read More! 😀

Birthday Picture for my best friend Tulpen-Teufel featuring her Merboy Fridolin 😀
It’s been finished for a few months but since I’ve been gone for a while and it’s #mermay2018 I thought I’d upload it now^^ Better late than never, right? (^0^)9

I’d greatly appreciate all shares, likes and comments, they really mean the world to me!

If you wanna know more about Fridolin I suggest checking out Tulpi’s drawings and her reference sheet of him, they are absolutely beautiful ❤ And since I love underwater scenes I pretty much knew from the beginning I had to draw him sometime, so choosing him for a Birthday Present was easy really, even though she has many great OCs^^
For some reason though I thought it was a great idea to make him a bit older in my picture since I really wanted to draw long flowy hair. That is until I actually started sketching it haha.
At least the rest of the underwater stuff was lots of fun and pretty easy ^0^

I tried a few new things in this picture, especially concept wise. A dynamic pose with a good flow line, a proper fore- and background and also I actually made an effort to color everything as being a part of their surroundings. Which meant using looooots of blue with all of this being underwater. That again made me scared that the color scheme would be boring, I hope I was able to avoid that.
What was also new here was my use of Masking Fluid which honestly… made all of this hell xD I had to start over after already drawing the Background 3 times because the Fluid had ruined the paper. That was already annoying enough, but since the sketch was so detailed it took over 1 hour to trace alone. At least I didn’t color Fridolin himself before adding the Masking Fluid or I would have given up.
By the way if you have any questions about how a certain part was made, feel free to ask^^

In the end I think I like this picture…? I certainly like the flowing hair and the body, especially since I don’t draw male characters all that often. The bubbles and the water surface also turned out well I think.
What I don’t like is the perspective though, I should have done something more dynamic here and as I said I’m really unsure about the color scheme. Also I need to force myself to actually draw everything as being part of the background (is there a term for this?). I already tried but I’m not happy with it. I always wanna make everything the color it would be if you took a photo with a white background with it but that makes it look like it doesn’t belong in the drawing. Does that make sense?
I’ll do better next time òvó9

Critique is very very welcome and appreciated by the way, be it long or just a small pointer!

Time: Since I scrapped it pretty often I really don’t know^^”
Materials: Ecoline & Dr. Ph. Martin’s Watercolors, Shinhan Postercolors, Copic Markers, Copic Airbrush, Polychromos, Hybrid Gel Pen, Copic Opaque White, Molotow Masking Liquid, Airbrush Stencils, Clip Studio Paint, Hahnemühle Sketch Paper Nostalgie
Fridolin (Character) © Tulpen-Teufel
Nurture (Art) © Me (Yutaki)


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