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Just kidding! ;) But, when I thought, one day, about "consequences" of a fertile creativity, I had this idea: a girl, reading a ocean tale book, before sleep, goes too far with her imagination and is carried to her own world of fantasy!!!
O.K., maybe the idea's a litttle crazy!!! But I really think it worked, haha!!! ;D
So, in this drawing, I also pretended to put together the cute (a girl with pink pajamas, holding a bear) with the terrifying (a sea monster getting out of the depths of a furious ocean), resulting, at least for me, in a weird, but funny contrast. C:
It was pretty hard to draw and paint some parts, especially the sea, its waves and the maelstrom, so I took, with my digital camera, many pictures of water, with the purpose to study it's behavior, observating how it flows and splashes. As I didn't find good pictures on Internet, I also watched Pirates of Caribbean - At World's End to get a sense of a more defined maelstrom; it was one of the best parts! :P
As for the sea monster, I used, as source of reference, some real deep sea creatures' photos and pre-historic animals' pictures found through, mainly, National Geographic website (they have a great collection of marine animals' photos). I tried to mix some parts of weird animals starting from the bone structure of a creature that really existed on Earth, called Thalassomedon (it looked like the Nerse Lake Monster, but about 15 times bigger); lots of textures from different reptiles (f.e.: iguanas and snakes) were used during the process as well. :)

In the end, excluding the fact I didn't touch this picture for almost a month and it was an on-off work, I think I did spend a total of about 160 hours, maybe. But I'm very satisfied with the result!! :D

I really hope you like it!!! I'll post close-ups soon but, meanwhile, you can see some W.i.P.s on Addictive Hobby Forum. ;)

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