Underwater Effects & Glistening Scales

Hello everyone, today it’s my turn to show some colouring, and I chose to do an underwater scene, using some of the Under The Sea digi images from the Make It Crafty Store.

I merged up a simple scene in Paint.Net featuring Mermaid Lola, and gave her a background of the Mermaid Castle nestled into the Sandy Sea Floor.

I have to say how much I liked these images – in fact I wished I had put a sea horse or 2 in the scene too! Mermaid Lola was great to play with - her tail was just inviting me to colour it! I gave it a blue-green colour, and shaded with greens to give the impression of shiny iridescent scales. I also dotted a silver pen over parts of her scales to give them some sparkle and make them glisten a little. The Mermaid Castle was really easy to colour – as the sand is white, it really only needs a bit of shading with some warm greys to bring it to life – likewise the sand on the sea floor.

The underwater effects are quite simple – although the photo hasn’t picked it up very well, I have graduated the background ocean colour from blue greens at the sea-floor level to blues at the top of the picture, feathering one shade into the next. As this produced visibly vertical strokes which I didn’t like, I decided to over-shade using similar-coloured pencils using light horizontal strokes – this covered up the vertical strokes a fair bit and also gives an effect like ripples. I also used several green pencils in upward strokes to colour in a patch of seaweed behind the sand in the foreground. 

And this is the card I made using the colouring:

Copic colours used

Scales: BG10, BG01, G12, G24

Sand: W00, W1, W3, W5, W7

Sea: BG09, BG05, B02, B05,

Skin & Hair: E000, E00, E21, E11, E13.  YR31, Y21, Y17

Make It Crafty products I used

Mermaid Lola

Mermaid Castle

Sandy Sea Floor

Make It Colour Blending Card

You can read more about this card, or see other projects of mine, at my blog HERE.

Thanks for dropping by! Happy colouring!

Carole

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