love the detail! $5

beautiful!

nice!

ditto on the detail. awesome

showing the boobs was not necessary. I would like it if that wasn't showing

cool!

So beautiful. Nothing wrong with boobs.

her boobs are lovely. and so are you.

$5

Your line work is always, always so cool and unique.

5

im a fan of the ta tas. amazing detail! 5 all the way!

beautiful colors

boobs FTW! ;P

Great job, as usual!

ooo la la

Prettttyy.

well done! Beautiful!

Beautiful illustration! $5

Very nice!!!

super cool, check out mine
http://www.threadless.com/submission/199999/Abstract_Bird

Sweet lines! $5

Great!

thanks!

beautiful! 5$

I agree with not showing the boobs. The illo is really nice, but I doubt I'd wear it w/ the boobs showing.

wahahahah i love the mermaid: D nice

I would have no problem wearing a shirt that had a woman with boobs showing, as so many have complained. If I've supported The Kraken Feeds on Virgins and would wear that in a heartbeat, I'd support something far less exposed such as this.

That being said, I think there are some parts that need some work. To start, the mermaid's arms look really stiff and her hands, too petit. I have smaller hands and if I place the palm to my chin, my longest finger can reach right between my eyebrows. Her closer hand looks like it would barely reach the bridge of her nose. As for the arms, her back arm (closest to the actual octopus) is off. If you follow the line of her shoulder, that arm should hang closer to her butt/tail area than way out where you have it now. It looks horribly broken otherwise. The other thing is that her body looks incredibly flat compared to all the work you put into her tail, hair and the octopus. She could use something a little more, be it shadowing or line work. And, she's missing her ear.

I want to like it. I really do... and I think with a few tweaks, it would be great. Right now, it just falls short for me.

$5

it's art, a little top nudity is mild, grow up.

I have petite hands too... buuut this is 2d art. I'm sry, did u ask the mermaid to do the same little trick? it's all in perspective and style, art does not have to be anatomically correct. She is floating.. i think the arms can look a bit wonky. Maybe in DG's world mermaids have no luster to their skin, and who says mermaids have ears? don;t be so critical to another persons style or imagination especially with a mythological creature.. maybe if you had some good work of your own to back up your critic then it'd be taken more seriously.
If you don't like it and it's not doing it for u..
1. submission doesnt do it for u
2. click the next button
3. ????
4. PROFIT

Before I went around giving such lengthy critiques about proportions and stiffness, I would make sure that I knew how to draw a friggin pepper and a cactus.

As a matter of fact, my mermaid friend was the model for this design, and this is exactly how she looks. Right now, JadenKale, you're existence falls short for me.

love it, beautiful illo

nice and beautiful....

I love it! As stated by many, the detail is fantastic, particularly her scales.

If you're going to go ahead with that nipple, it would look better if it was more defined.

Also, an ear would be nice, though not absolutely necessary.

lovely!

This is great! Keep the boobs.

Natsumineko and Supertrooper: you two are taking this far too personally. Don't just look at a quick ass pepper sleeping under a damn cactus and assume I have no room to critique. I've done other work... just not for threadless. I'm actually working on something that I was able to put some time into to enter here. Hopefully soon... and I can't wait to see how you rip it to shreds. Because I'm sure you'll be waiting for it.

It's my own perspective on it. I didn't say it was horrible. I like the piece.* My thing is, I want to love it. I'm just thrown by the arm/hands primarily. It still received a good score from me. I just wish it could have a couple things tweaked so I could $5.

*And I see that before, I wrote 'like' before, instead of 'love'. That was supposed to say "I want to love it."

Love everything about it. Wouldn't change a thing. 5$

The arms are perfect. Just like this or any number of other classic movie scenes.

it's art, a little top nudity is mild, grow up.

I think that's a bit rude, she was only giving her honest critique, and it was a pretty good one at that.

same goes for you supertrooper, your post comes across as rude.

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As for the design, the only major problem for me is that her arms seem to be out of proportion, both with each other, and independently with her body.

I think their posts come off as defensive, not rude. I appreciate the defense, and I also appreciate the critique even if I may not agree with it 100%

thanks for the votes and comments.

Lol, that's brutal. I got a tee with an octopus also. :D

defensive, maybe, but in a rude manner. :)

yeah, well that tends to happen when being defensive. sorry for all of it

Awesome details!

Lovely design and details.

The octopus is totally right on & neat color pallet. Like I said in your critique: the merlady's body could use work, the tail could have had better transition from thick to thin, and the hair still looks like a mop. 3

DG, I just want to say, I am sorry for any drama here. I really do like the piece. And I am in support of the amount of bared chest, if that didn't seem to come through the first time. I just thought you might be able to tweak some parts, should you decide to work on it some more. I really do appreciate the line work though.

holy jebus this is amazing

The detail on this turned out AMAZING. 5$ woo hoo

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great line work! especially on the octopus!

Nice detail!

thanks

Great idea and draw!! Very good!! 5

I like the concept... instead of a woman being rescued from the water / a sea creature, the mermaid is being rescued into the depths by a sea creature.

nice one DG, it looks great on the tee!

beautiful drawing!!!SUPERRR nice!!!

Great illo as always!

WOW

thank you

Glad to see this; i was waitin fer it! Nice jarb as usual!

I like it, but what happened to her?

boobies! i'm too distracted to look at the amazing linework

thanks..

booda- I had an entire backstory in mind doing this design. The idea was that the mermaid used to be a

sorry.. used to be a figurehead on the front of a ship and when the ship sank the octopus took her away and she became real. :)

mmm I love it!

wow... so I read some of the comments above and jeez guys... It's art, not porn!
Peace

Good job DG!
and i don't mind the critique at all.
Some good points in there.

all the little details on this amaze me, great work

:)

mermaid power! Looks really good, love the details.

Awful shame when a mermaid drowns.