things like this only look nice
until you realize how little emotion the owner of the artwork has given it...
and for the audience that would argue art to be personal, i can only pity you to think your emotions r simple enough to shed tears on this artwork...
i thus conclude an artist of your intimacy does not deserve credit if he/she will not put as much of himself/herself into the art as he/she does paint or pixels into it.
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photoshop...
is very intimate with its effects. these effects r very apparent, so it's delicate work. i thus conclude the mermaid hair is nice, yet your photoshopped skin is ceramic. too shiny and obtuse, too everything digitalized. i don't like those effects in particular.
it's better when you conceptualize to choose the ideal medium. mermaid hair may, of course, be easy to design and paint in photoshop and the like... nonetheless! art is never an easy thing... you have chosen your medium incorrectly.
this would only deserve an 8/9 had it been you'd given this artwork the liberty of maximum potential to shine (pun! lol)... :s
Medium incorrectly? Dang.
Of course, it is (not) easy to design and paint in Photoshop and the like. Remember, there's no magic "effects" button people push and it becomes something. I'm sad digital art gets a bad rep.
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