I Will Always Be By Your Side

I would first like to say that this is not yet complete. I am uploading this because there is a sale, and I want to buy art for myself, family and friends.

Now about the art:
I have been working on this on and off for 3 months now. I had given up when the water had become impossible for me to paint ( which then looked like fog, and gave me an idea to lower the water level, and turn it into fog because it looked more eerie that way), the rocks ( which I turned to grass and flowers) turned out impossible to do and lastly, because drawing scales was getting tedious.

Back when it was in it's infancy, I sent it to my friend who asked me who they were. Since then, I was trying to think up a background to these two characters and names. I had 5 possible ideas when I just dropped them and asked myself, "Why does it matter?" I find that this way, you can make up your own mind as to what is happening. I even found it hard to name it for that reason.

I had sketched it out one day when I was feeling down, which is why the mermaid is unhappy. But I drew the dragon smiling so I believe he or she is there to make her happy.

The sketch can be found here :[link]
Re-appearance of these characters can be found here: [link]

And thank you for looking at this page, even though it's not complete. I am extremely proud of of this work, and I have put a lot of time into it. Please enjoy!



Edit: Wow. DA Killed the quality a bit. I'll have to upload closeups of the details when I upload the finished product