I'm going to link to the fb album here: https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?...7072344&type=1 which will have all my sketches, progress images etc - I've set it to public (even though I'd rather it be friends only) so that you can all access it.

Firstly... Yeah I'll be doing some personal designs but my idea at the moment is to make a neoprene+sequin tail for the time being while I loose weight but I'm wanting to work on silicone tails... and I'm not just talking about for myself. IF people would be seriously interested, then I'm thinking of going into tail making for others as there are no euro full-silicone tailmakers that I know of. There is also a chance that in the not-too-distant-future I'll be moving to PA so I'm trying to make sure that if I am going to be making tails, that they're going to be something different.

so... first off, a personal design that I may open up to making for others (especially the fluke design) I was thinking black shadows with a purple highlight

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these ear prosthetics are to go with it.
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and now, for something completely different....

fresh-water or plant based designs:

(initial sketch inspired by this post: http://mernetwork.com/index/showthre...-water-mermaid )

"just an initial sketch and it's not coloured or anything (petals could be any colour, I was thinking a graduated rosy pink as I was drawing) and the 'scales' are leaves and fins could be made from leaves or half-fronds of fern."
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and then from there...

'beech' type leaves
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'maple'/acer leaves (was thinking a gradual blend of autumnal/fall colours)
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petal design (totally un-coloured or anything here, will be playing around with colour in photoshop shortly)
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and then inspired by Mermaid Melaina.. seaweed design sketches (done today using my phone to pull up reference images) most of these sketches are for flukes or dorsal fins but I was just too lazy today to mirror the fluke designs

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Please note that most of these have been done in the last few days while I've been really ill and stuck in bed or on the sofa going crazy lol

I've purposefully not coloured these initial sketches so that they are more open for other people to have ideas about colours etc for if they are interested in these designs

feel free to use them as templates to play around with colour ideas but please do NOT steal the base designs/concepts =)

Let me know what you think! *runs and hides*