Hi Ron thnks for the comments
I modeled a turtle shell, for a breast plate as i the original idea of having like an external rib cage, didn’t work in my opinion. but felt something should be there. So i follow with the threm of her using marine creature parts as armour and weaponry and Jewlery, the spear is modeled on tribal stingray spears, and necklace of shark teeth.
the whale is inteneded to be very large, in the sence that sailers would be fooled into thinking it where a real island. And yes yu are right with the that any part of her torso that would be out of water, would transform to a human form, I had thought about including another siren fully under water chasing a shal of fish, which would show the true form of the sirens head and another leaping out displaying your typical Mermaid apearance. But I felt this would make the image to busy.
With the hair, Intend to bring some locks into the water but need to work a bit to get that under water flow of hair look. I have also thought about adding maybe some wisps of seaweed tangled around her form.
ps. My sick mind at work…maybe a floating corpse somewhere in the water, partially devoured? Just a thought
Funny you should think like that:D Actually one idea i had forthis image was to go with a Sirens Wake. Where the Siren is leading a wake and the whale dragged a cradle with a siren corpse on. I also thought of bits of floating fish flesh, but again didn’t want to clutter the image up to much.
Ok my friend thanks again, and I will post some close ups later today.
S