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Mermaid Visionby ~joshparkinson

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This piece is a digital painting done in photoshop. It was inspired by the story of how sailors and pirates would get lost out at sea and mistake manatees for mermaids. Personally I don't know how this could happen but I thought it would make a fun piece. I really wanted to focus on a simple and elegant design and color scheme. Also after looking at many Rockwell Paintings I wanted to accentuate the poses of my characters and really bring them to life.
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~bloodonthemoon5 Jul 16, 2012  Student Digital Artist
featured! :heart:
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~uglygosling Jun 4, 2012
The guy looks like he has already had a few too many...
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~joshparkinson Jun 24, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Haha well he's having a good time though
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~Isra400 May 31, 2012  Student Traditional Artist
I always thought it was kinda ridiculous too, but apparently manatees make high pitched noises that sound like women? I like this piece a lot.
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~joshparkinson Jun 24, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Hmm thats really interesting, I'll have to look into that more, and thanks I think I'm going to do
some more illustrations based off historical facts. Let me know if you have any ideas!
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Mood: Joy ~ThatOneFriend May 27, 2012  Hobbyist General Artist
That's cool!
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~arianaglori May 18, 2012  Student General Artist
haha this makes me laugh , have you ever seen a tv series called how i met your mother they have a story called the mermaid effect
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~joshparkinson May 20, 2012  Student Digital Artist
Haha actually that is what first sprung the idea! I love how I met your mother, I was thinking about doing an info-graphic illustrating all of Barnie's rules
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~arianaglori May 22, 2012  Student General Artist
omg DO IT! i love the hanging inspirational poster in his office "conformity:being the odd man out leaves you left out in the cold" haha theres so many wrong things about barney that jst makes him AWESOME
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~ashimbabbar May 14, 2012
I heard a reason was, the female manatees have breasts like women.

Also they already knew the story of mermaids, so they expected to see some… at least they thought it was possible to see some.

I suppose those seamen who saw them closely told later, yes, there are mermaids in those waters, but they're real ugly even when you've been for months on a ship with no women. Like Marco Polo who saw rhinoceros in India and wrote, yes there are unicorns in India, but these are black ugly things.
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