
More mythological creatures. This is my selkie man. The books I read say selkies in human form aren't much different than any other human, except they'll be walking along the beach for hours with their hems still wet and water and seaweed pooled in their footprints. This was hard to caputre in just a rough pencil sketch. I find water really hard to convey with just greyscale, and particularly with pencil. Maybe if I get a bit more spare time and inspiration I'll clean it up a lot and make it much more detailed. I also had some trouble with the angle. Forshortening from behind and all that. I'll have to use some photo references or make someone model for me if I do a full illustration of it. Maybe I'll add a selkie lass next to him with her skirt hems all wet as well.
2 comments:
Very nice face. Something about the perspective on the face and sense of the selkie almost, but not quite, looking back over his shoulder at the viewer.
Haunting.
Yay selkies! I like his pelt.
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