Challenge: Create a Buffyverse monster or a monster out of a Buffyverse character.

Info: This isn't quite a monster, but it fits the fantasy element, anyhow. I started with a picture of Buffy squatting. I added the tail from a mermaid painting, used a blue wave fill pattern for the water and masked out the parts I didn't want. I lasso'd, copied and pasted Buffy's hair, then changed the hue. I used a bubble fill to get a scaled look on her skin, tho it's not as pronounced as I had hoped. I used a goldfish tail from Gettyimages, changed it to greyscale, copied it and changed the hue to blue for the middle of the fin, then masked out the rest. That's her tail fin.

Finally, I copied the whole thing, pasted it and used the find edges command, inverted it so it was white, and reduced the transparency until I liked it. Then I pasted again, increased the contrast and added a g. blur, then again reduced the transparency. The font I used is Watson, and I added an elliptical fill, white to blue. Then I added a glow to make it readable. I converted it all to a gif and created a mask from some fish fins I found on Gettyimages, then added the mask and modified slightly.