Water Creatures - Photoshop Contest [15 entries]

According to various myths and folklores, the seas, rivers or oceans are populated with different kinds of creatures, whose presence has not been proved yet. In this contest your goal is to create a visual representation of any of those creatures using Photoshop.
You can create one of the "existing" creatures or make up your own, this is up to you.

In case you lack inspiration, here is a list of such creatures.
Good luck !

( suggested by: Lamantine )

Most DiscussedMost VotesMost FavsMost Views
Grindylow has a friend Picture
33 comments
Evil Siren Picture
968 votes
Grindylow has a friend Picture
14 favs
Evil Siren Picture
6669 views
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15 entries submitted in this contest:


Grindylow has a friend - created by langstrum


Grindylow has a friend
Votes: 968Favs: 14SBS: 29Hi: yesRank: 1/15Score: 64.5%4751 views

A grindylow or grundylow is a folkloric creature that originated from folktales in the English counties of Yorkshire and Lancashire.
You can see this creature in Harry Potter movie ;).
This image is about the last lonely Grindylow, take a look on the content then you can guess what's happening.

Thanks to: falln-stock, l30n, salsolastock, bugalirious-stock, mind-matter, angelmoon17, titoff77, rhabwar-troll-stock for the stock images and brushes.

To construct Grindylow I used 7 different sources (you can see the details in SBS)
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/1295009
http://www.flickr.com/photos/96051197@N00/164259543/
http://l30n.deviantart.com/art/fish-stock4-76536073
http://salsolastock.deviantart.com/art/Leucistic-Alliagtor-paw-77194436
http://bugalirious-stock.deviantart.com/art/veiled-chameleon-4-44773999
http://mind-matter.deviantart.com/art/Water-Dragon-Full-Mind-Matter-157920721
http://www.sxc.hu/photo/386268
(1 year and 192 days ago)




Evil Siren - created by jadedink


Evil Siren
Votes: 968Favs: 13SBS: 8Hi: yesRank: 2/15Score: 61.5%6669 views

In the classic version of the siren, they were depicted as half bird, half woman. but after searching the link, i found that they were also depicted as evil versions of the mermaid, set out to lure sailors to their deaths.

i took the concept of the siren and i made it my own. instead of a lovely maiden, i reflected their evil nature in their looks.

Special thanks to Linzee777 @ deviantart for the mermaid tail resource, Sinned-angel-stock for the model. (1 year and 193 days ago)




Catfish - created by RickLaMesa


Catfish
Votes: 857Favs: 9SBS: n/aHi: yesRank: 3/15Score: 61.3%4027 views

(1 year and 189 days ago)




Leviathan - created by CorneliaMladenova


Leviathan
Votes: 907Favs: 2SBS: 11Hi: yesRank: 4/15Score: 60.3%2770 views

No sources or references. The image is mainly created with Photoshop. To make the scales used CorelDraw and Illustrator (1 year and 189 days ago)



Sea Surprise - created by Zakfuego


Sea Surprise
Votes: 934Favs: 3SBS: 11Hi: yesRank: 5/15Score: 59.8%3576 views

The bubbles were done with a BUBBLE BRUSH... not from a source image.

The credits for the brushes go to http://lordandre.deviantart.com/gallery/?offset=24#/d1b4naj (1 year and 190 days ago)