Usima the Guromescai By GantekaFuture Watch

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Ah, good ol' reliable Usima. Basically just a name attached to a few drawings that I've tried to assemble as a character. She originally was an ayawii, which I've mentioned before, but in later incarnations, I switched her over to a guromescai. What's a guromescai? Well, they're what happens when mermaids and ayawii crossbreed. It's a pretty rare thing, and you usually end up with girls. So, they're basically lithe fish-people.

Fish people are generally entertaining, and designing a suitable humanoid fish-like face was a fun task.



Photoshop 7 overtop a scanned pencil sketch. I had a lot of fun on the background for this, which sadly is mostly covered up. Also, instead of drawing fancy clasps, I drew zipper handles, despite that this is quite within the realm of Fantasy otherwise. Well, that whole costume is ridiculous, but she's supposed to be some sort of champion swimmer, so "fantasy wetsuit" was sorta the look I went with.



Update: Photoshop CS6. Did some cleanup and increased the image size. Not too much different from the old version. I don't even recall all what was done since I forgot to upload this from months ago.

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