work in progress

first of all i started with a ruff sketch of what i wanted to draw after all my research

then i started to draw the lineart and colour in the skin

once i had finished colouring in the bace colours for her clothes and hair i created the background. i tryed to make the background look like she was in water and the sun was shining through. and the way i created this look was i hade a layer of blue and ontop of that i made a layer with white lines were i whant the light to be. i blured the white lines with gaussian blur. and then after that i added a layer of black and then blurred it again and changed the opacity.

but then i wasn't happy with he desighn so i re drew her. i made her hair like this because it looks more different to other hair desighns, i also changed her dress and added pearls to it so that you could tell she was ment to represent a pearl. i also gave her a teara/head band to make her look important

then i coloured her in. i added shading to her clothes and hair by using a soft brush in a darker vetion of the base colour. i drew the lineart for the background  wich were ment to be sea wead

i coluored the shell. i added a rainbow tint onto the edge of the shell because when i looked at shells they had a oaple look. i did this by colourning a rainbow around the edge of the shell but on a seperate layer than the shell and i then lowered the opasity of the layer

and then finaly i colured in the background with a  round fan stiff thin bristles brush to make the plants in the background and then i added a layer of ontop of everything and changed the opacity to make it look like she was in water