[Forever Young] Naraku's water magic

For the AquaChallenge at AquaChallenge: Elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water)!!! IMPORTANT !!!, The deadline is extended for 1 month.New TIME to submit your artwork: July 31, 2021, 23:59 Central European Time (CET)*,Hello watercolorists! It's AQUACHALLENGE time!Yes, we need some art in our world...but not just any It has to be an AquaChallenge artwork! ,The THEME is:Elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water),Well, this time we won't have the 5th element tho. Maybe next time. COUPLE OF ARTWORKS,,,,,,Some KEYWORDS related to Elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water): Water: sea, water puddles, river, glass of water, swimming pool, rain etc.Fire: bonfire, dragons spitting fire, a magician creating fire magic, a fireplace etc.Wind: grass/flower/cornfield showing bend plants, hair blowing in the wind etc.Earth: soil, mountains, planting something in the ground, growing plants etc.The elements should be the main focus and shown good enough to recognize!You can paint only 1 element, two elements or all of them. How ever you wish. The only requirement is, that at least one of those 4 elements is recognizable.Be creative with the theme...Don't be boring as you know that there's also a creativity prize!,WHO can participate:  Any member of watercolorists can join the fun.  Donators are welcome to participate too!RULES about submissions (NOTE: Please read them carefully!):  Your work must be new - submitted on DeviantArt between May 1, 2021 and  June 30, 2021* in order to participate.  Only one entry per member.  Your artwork has to apply to our group's Submission rules - obviously it needs to be a watercolor or one of acceptable media! In case you're not sure if your work applies, please ask us directly.  Please mention the AquaChallenge in the description of your artwork so that we know it's supposed to take part in the challenge. WHERE to submit: Please submit to the AquaChallenge FOLDER. We will open it on May 1, 2021. TIME to submit your artwork: This AquaChallenge starts with May 1, 2021 and ends on June 30, 2021, 23:59 Central European Time (CET)*. To check what hour will it be in your time zone, you can use this page: Event Time from timeanddate.com PRIZES:,400 A diamond badge for the winning artwork (if you don't know what this badge is please read this)A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery,300 An emerald badge for the artwork (if you don't know what this badge is please read this)A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery,200 40 from @IronOnion32An emerald badge for the artwork (if you don't know what this badge is please read this)A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our Gallery,100 from @LualaDy100 from @Lotus105 45 from @ameshin A diamond badge from @LualaDy for the winning artwork (if you don't know what this badge is please read this)A feature place in our AQUA Challenge WINNER feature box at our watercolorists front page and in our GalleryThe guest judge will pick one lucky winner from all of the participants in this AquaChallenge. The winning artwork will be chosen based on creativity.,ALL participants will be featured in a group feature!,CALLING FOR DONATORS!If you want to help us with prizes (points, diamond/emerald badges, features, artworks, llamas…), we would be very grateful and happy. The more prizes we can collect the sweeter awards can get!If you can donate points, badges, artworks, features, llamas for winners, please comment under this journal or send a note directly to the group. You can also use the donation widget on TokyoMoonlight's page. (Please write that it's for the AquaChallenge),VOTING:  Depending on the number of entries we will make 2 semi-final polls simultaneously, each will have max. of 10 artworks. The artworks will be placed in those polls in the order in which they were submitted.  We will ask you to choose from both semi-final polls the artwork which you like the most. The first 3 artworks which receive the most votes in each semi-final poll will go to the final poll where the winners will be chosen. 1st SEMI-FINAL poll -> 10 (or less) artworks to choose from -> top 3 go to final poll 2nd SEMI-FINAL poll -> 10 (or less) artworks to choose from -> top 3 go to final poll -------------------------------------------------------------- FINAL poll -> 6 semi-final artworks to choose from -> 3 AquaChallenge winners  The time to vote for semi-final and final will be each 5 days.  In case there will be more than 20 entries, we will do as follows: AquaChallenge - HOW TO VOTE  Everyone has one vote - also the participants!,If you have any further questions, feel free to ask!   HAVE FUN, BE CREATIVE AND MOSTLY… BE A BOLD WATERCOLORIST!your ~watercolorists team..., the theme was to draw one or more of the four elements (Earth, Wind, Fire, Water)).

I drew a scene from 's book "Forever Young Eternity 2 - Heritage", where Naraku (purple-haired girl) is playing with the water in a fountain.

Next to her are Matsuru (brown hair), Shadowhunter (black wolf) and Mah-Lin (black hair).

Coloured with watercolours.

Scene from the book this drawing is based on:
In the garden, Naraku sat with her legs dangling in the water. She held her hands in front of her, while Matsuru, Blade, Shadowhunter and Mah-Lin observed her. With closed eyes, Naraku looked lost in trance.
With fingers glowing blue, Naraku carefully placed her hands into the water. She brought the hands together and carefully pulled them up again. Underneath her hands, the water followed, starting to resemble a liquid snake.
Mah-Lin was absolutely amazed by this, while the others were more used to Naraku’s gifts.
With her finger, Naraku guided the liquid snake into circles. At first, the snake stayed the same length, but then the snake became larger and larger. Naraku opened her eyes and smiled. The liquid snake stayed in the same position when Naraku’s hands went to the side. She put them into the water again and when she pulled them out again, there were ten streams of water on her fingers, just like the big liquid snake.
Naraku arranged the miniature liquid snakes around the large one like a true artist and even added single droplets to finish it all.
“Amazing...” Mah-Ling gasped.

My other Forever Young drawings:

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You can find the books here: www.ako.nl/catalogsearch/resul… or www.bravenewbooks.nl/shop/inde… (if you're not in The Netherlands, contact kittyocean if you want to buy the book)