If I am doing human like underwater creature, the first appearing idea is, of course, mermaid. So I've decided to explore little bit this direction as well. Mermaids were mythical, but people mostly pointing on Belugas, or sea cows  like a source of these stories. Belugas are beautiful! Their silhouettes and some body parts trully resembles humans underwater. I was curious how difficult would be to transform human figure into this white whale. I made it on Ps by typical photo editing/painting techniques to explore transformation process which could help me with my idea searching.

During the research I've found many interesting ideas. One of the most fascinating is the story of whales in our ocean. As some of you know they were actually terrestrial animals with 4 limbs, as you can see in this picture where I collected many examples of transformation. That could help me with the design.
 Our symbol of evolution is coming from the water to the ground but these creatures made the opossite step and came back to the water to became the biggest organisms in our known history. That's a progress right! :D
So even if I don't plan to make whale type character, this "opposite" evolutional approach would be very strong and symbolic feature for my "alien". It's gonna be something like human-mammal which took different direction and that's why it's alien. But in the way like a mirror reflection of our selves.



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I've decided to make something again.
This time I will focus on underwater/alien-girl type character. I am starting with research - watching some animal documentaries, collecting reference pictures and making these wild scribbles. I need to fill my mind with usefull information and transfer it into lines and shapes of ideas about the character.

Recently I've done batch of time lapse videos. I was wondering it would be nice to make little compilation for tracking my progress and sharing the creative process with others. So here is it - Enjoy the video! :)

Check the works on Tumblr > http://javoraj.tumblr.com/

I am searching ideas for little, local exhibitions with egyptian theme... I would like to do something not traditional and popart like, because egyptian style is used in pop culture very often - it's almost the cliché. Don't you have some crazy ideas?

Hi guys - I made a new moving test - environment this time! Soon I will release the time lapse of painting it. :]