laid out skin color and began highlighting and shading
step 3 of 11
scale was made with small oval colored with two primary colors shading and highlighting
step 4 of 11
scales then applied in a shingle pattern over entire males tail then all scale layers merged, cleaned up, shaded and highlighted.
step 5 of 11
tail fin is done with colors pulled out with smudge tool, then a bar drawn on top and higlighting and shading added.
step 6 of 11
female tail is done the same with this as the scale
step 7 of 11
bra top s colored in, shaded and high lighted
step 8 of 11
Hair was done by using smudge tool dragging it through the chosen colors and then highlighting and shading
step 9 of 11
background color was added behind ind dodge tool used to create light coming from above.
step 10 of 11
I created the bubble with a soft round brush then erasing the center and highlighting with soft round brush. On another layer I added the colors and then turned down the visibility, merged, turned down visibility again and blurred. Then I placed the bubbles in different sizes on two different layers to put then behind and in front of the picture.
step 11 of 11
I drew a rock and colored it for shading and highlighting. I then added my merpeople and shaded the rock.
Great guide
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