I spent 2 Hours 49 Minutes annnd 1 second on this picture (according to the Oekaki board's timer!) I attribute about oohhh... 49 minutes to an hour of that to distracted talking to my hatsukoi and other friends, as well as chasing the cat around the house trying to get him back outside >.> I stayed up waaaaay later than I intended (until after 1 am!) trying to get her to look *just right*. I took advice from comments my mermaid image and softened some of the lines as best I could (which made the flowers look a lot, LOT better!) Special thanks to Cerpher for suggesting the hair color and Yuki-chan for helping me decide what the skin color would be (Cerph-kun, the hair turned out GREAT! And Yuki, I agree wholeheartedly that the brown was the best color out of all of the others). Drawn/Colored in an oekaki board. (for those who don't know, oekaki boards are like advanced MSPaint tools on online message boards/forums. The general quality is yucky depending on whose board (I'm guessing) and how big the file you're uploading is and how many colors you used... so I screencapped and pasted it into Adobe ImageReady and saved it as a JPG from there at a MUCH higher quality than the original oekaki version. The board I use is at wayrift.com under PaintBBS)