Looks great to me! great shading and lighting. it looks very realistic :)

Your art astounds and delights every time.

I can't confirm the accuracy of this tide but I must say that frog is tugging at my feels for some reason. Really like this piece. :3

XD i didnt notice the frog till you said something, now its my favorite thing! its already my skype pic XD

So peaceful❤

Absolutely gorgeous!

Love the little froggy peekin' :p

It looks great c: It's such a calming scene.

Tide can change pretty drastically, as can the amount of rainfall, so I don't see why this wouldn't be possible, especially in a year of little rainfall.

Frog! :B

Wow this looks even better when its finished. Very nicely done.

nice.

I don't think this is naturally accurate for a tidal formed shoreline.
But 100% natural for an eroded riverbank.
see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bank_erosion

Thanks. :3

The Frog!

I've seen river banks like this, so I wouldn't doubt it could happen at lakes, too.

One of the coolest exposed roots of a tree I've seen though, the roots went around a good sized boulder, and when the river had swept all the dirt away, it stood suspended by the roots about an inch and a half above the riverbed.

It should be low water, rather than low tide. Salt water would kill the tree. That said, awesome pic is awesome.

Good point.

Seawater would presumably kill the tree, but what about brackish water in an estuary/mangrove environments? Those really majestic and photogenic mangrove forests that have been featured in so many BBC Nature documentaries look kind of like this...

Mangroves can handle brackish and salt water they have some awesome adaptations like the ability to excrete salt from their leaves as well as prop roots (or aerial prop roots in red mangroves) and pneumatophores (in black mangroves only) which combat hypoxia caused by the anoxic soils they grow in. All in all it would be possible but the soil and tree would look different if it were a mangrove.

And now you know

(brought to you by a friendly neighborhood new biology graduate)

It does look friggin sweet though.

Totally forgot about the mangroves. Then again, there are no mangrove trees in Canada either (that I'm aware of). =P

Thanks for pointing it out though. =)

This is one of those pictures that accents one's mood quite well.
Cool image!

A nice pic and a lesson about tides. :3

This is really nice!

Red certainly has some of the most, fantastic ways of distracting herself from work when necessary.
My favorite character of yours by far

I used to spend a lot of time out on the lake...this is, indeed, a very good representation of low waters. There were plenty of trees at the beach that, during drought, you coudl see the roots sticking out of the earth and reachign into the water. Very accurate portrayal. =3

love it! the roots are very accurate to the scene. the frog is a nice touch too

I love the root system of that tree and how the water melds with the sky. Very tranquil.

Also that frog is adorable lol.

lovely, i love all the work that you put into the background. the water disappearing into the horizon of a hazy fog looks amazing!

Exaggeration in art only emphasizes the truth, making it look more truthful. I think you did a fabulous job!

That's very nice scenery work.

as a longtime georgia lake-goer, it's pretty accurate for a nondeveloped natural lake (not like a georgia power lake)

I love it!! Just looks so calming.

Beautiful piece :)

RIBBIT.

For a swamp or creek that occasionally runs low, it looks about right.

Dat icon. :3

It's from the first "Dirty Harry" movie. :3

Look how angry that fog is making Red. She must hate fog.

She has to be my favorite of your characters. :3 Love how this looks.

well if you went to the bay of fundy it would be more than accurate water level wise. but then you wouldn't have that type of vegetation. but theoretically if you had a bay of fundy shaped bay inlet with that vegetation in your lore it could work...

Reminds me of Jordan Lake in the drought season.

I love that background. It's simple yet very beautiful in it's own right.

Beatiful!

looks like she out again.

Dude, As your friend, by my guess, I say that this is awesome and that chapter
10 of ORIGINAL LIFE is almost done, can't wait for Chapter 11!

a wonderful illustration !

So before I leave my (anal)ytical comment, lemme just lay your commentary worries to rest, Fisk:

Your shoreline is naturally accurate!

Now the picture to me could've used a back ground...Even a sort of low-on-detail, high-on-artistic-touch kind of thing, lots of lines and shapes of a horizon even but no heavy detailed stuff, yanno...Cause fog and such! :p

I believe the water would've seemed more serene and calm had you added some reflections to it, food for thought more than a comment.

The girl sitting against the tree trunk is perfectly set in the picture(Some other pictures which shall remain unnamed that I've seen which have mild similarities to this setting always try to emphasize the key point of an image by making it seem unnaturally present). I like how you've not really gone above and beyond the call of duty to make the girl in the picture stand out more, it gives a more natural and free feel to the image, which I also think was the point.

I'm also kinda relieved you didn't make this NSFW, that wouldn't have fit at all to me X3

That's about it. So for artistic feel, pretty much no issues that I can personally spot, and because of the flipping amazing frog in the water surface that made me giggle? I give thee 5 hearts, Fisk.

♥ ♥ ♥ ♥ ♥

mmm.... looks foggy to me.
Been out on lake pontchatrain on days like this, you just can't see clearly past any real distance. also as far as the NSFW comment, why not?
I mean, there is just something about knowing the fog will hide you. You can hear an amazing distance, the sound of a boat motor or even paddles is easily heard. I have a few friends who enjoy going out nude if the weather is slightly chilly when it's foggy. The feel of the breeze across skin that is usually covered, knowing that nobody will see you, but they might gives it a thrill of the naughty without any real danger. The light mist leaving tiny pearls of water all over the skin. No restrictive clothing.
it's a very intimate form of 'me' time.

eh, not that I've done it myself. Or would admit to if I have.

Why not? Because it wouldn't fit the picture to me. + I feel that there's 'WAY!!!' too much NSFW furry art out there, no wonder most people have the notion that furry =/= Sexual deviants no matter what, when that honestly isn't true(To some extent anyway.)

And I felt that since you have artistic freedom, you are allowed to bend, or even break the laws of physics if it makes your picture more like what you intended it to be...Such as making the fog slightly thinner to make the back ground more interesting than just a gray solid wall.

But you know, to each their own.

no, i completely understand that NSFW thing. in this pose though, it wouldn't be sexy, or even degrading. hell it wouldn't even be porn. Just a woman relaxing. the moment isn't so much intimate as personal. so.. I guess it's not so much the NSFW as it is the smut I don't approve of. And most of it badly done.

as far as deviants, i've seen more real world photos of 'artistic nudes' than i have furry. I completely agree. another misconception is that nude is porn. Hell, chewbacca never wore the least bit of clothing.

Looks a lot like drought season.

Le Frog~

Red always appears to be in deep thought. . .

Frog indicates fresh water, so we're looking at the lower reaches of a river that the tide affects. Quite realistic.

Where is reflection on the water ?

Good work and especially the shore is well done!

Having grown up on a lake, this brings back some fond memories.

u r AMAZING

Stranded?

Quite peaceful. ^w^

Lil froggy. O3O

It does look a little at an angle, but still looks great.

I hope you do not mind that I am currently using this as a desktop wallpaper at the moment good sir. If you do in fact mind inform me and I shall remove it post haste!

This is so awesome!

yup very accurate fisk and very nice rendition of red and the landscape. very nicely done! =^.^= i miss red shes my fav

Very ominous and nebulous. I like the atmosphere!

Very much breathtaking!

This is a lovely setting, would make an excellent poster imho.

I used to dislike Red because she wanted Fisk to cheat on Elizabeth, but my opinion of her changed after reading her back story. She's one of those girls I just wanna give a cup of hot coco, my jacket, and a nice long snug. I know she can take care of herself, but I wanna tell her "its OK" and I just wanna hold her and make sure no one will ever do what her father did to her again. Now she's one of my favorite Naylor characters.

Mr. Naylor you're great at making characters that I've become emotionally attached to.