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*Full View Highly Recommended*Painted in Corel Painter 9 - Touchups in Photoshop CS2
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Ever since I was a kid my dreams have been filled with wolves, I'm not exactly sure their meaning, but to me I've always felt a strong connection with them.
Thanks for viewing, and comments are always appreciated.
Trevor Costello
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Reference Material:
[link] - Old Man in robe
[link] - Wolf
[link] - Background
***Updated with a larger version* Submitted into Oibyrd's DD's Blue Theme contest found here: [link] ***
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Comments: 77
CryptFiend In reply to 4kidsgirl [2006-05-01 18:40:59 +0000 UTC]
hehe thanks..it took a while to get this one the way i'd envisioned it..would have been easier with a wacom tablet...soon...soon i will have one
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Crazdude [2006-03-10 22:30:05 +0000 UTC]
Wow...you need to draw more wolves...This is awesome! The textures, the lighting, the anatomy...you're too cool!
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CryptFiend In reply to Crazdude [2006-05-01 18:55:38 +0000 UTC]
thanks man! as soon as I get my wacom i'll be back at it
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CryptFiend In reply to Pantoja [2006-03-04 03:12:42 +0000 UTC]
Thank you! I'm really glad you liked this one!
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o-LJ-o [2006-03-03 04:37:07 +0000 UTC]
Oh wow!....cant believe I havnt seen this before!...totally gobsmacked, and that dont happen often!...well done!
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CryptFiend In reply to o-LJ-o [2006-03-03 04:43:12 +0000 UTC]
Aww thank you!!!! You are too kind!! It's ez to get overwhelmed with pics in our devwatch, especially when it's during a spree of fractal uploads
We fractal artists are notorious for that! HAHAHA!
I'm still playing catch-up! I've been out and about a lot these past few weeks!
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ChaoticGoddess [2006-03-03 01:12:39 +0000 UTC]
Voted for you in Oibyrds contest Good luck
Great work
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CryptFiend In reply to ChaoticGoddess [2006-03-03 02:39:39 +0000 UTC]
Awwwww thanks so much for the vote and I'm so glad you liked this one!
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oibyrd [2006-03-02 21:18:14 +0000 UTC]
Congrats! You have been chosen one of the ten finalists in my Blue Theme contest
Voting is at the link. Please click it and tell your friends!
[link]
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CryptFiend In reply to oibyrd [2006-03-03 02:45:05 +0000 UTC]
OMG I'm soooo excited!!! You and the judges just made my day!
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Thank you!
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oibyrd In reply to CryptFiend [2006-03-03 17:28:04 +0000 UTC]
This was a pick from ~oibyrdsMan ....he's all about the wolves and shadows and mystic devs.
! I wish you lots of luck!
xoxo
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CryptFiend In reply to oibyrd [2006-03-04 03:09:34 +0000 UTC]
Awwww tell Delon that I am so happy he likes it, I sent you another message saying that I'm sending you both a few prints when that account is setup in a week or so. Luff you both
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oibyrd In reply to CryptFiend [2006-03-04 16:15:05 +0000 UTC]
awe, that's so thoughtful thanks hon!
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SergioKodemo [2006-02-22 11:59:28 +0000 UTC]
Great composition and mood. Scene seems to be lighted only by the moon. "Sorcerer" reminds me of Gandalf, and ahhhh...wolf...totally fascinating much more than meets the eye creatures!
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CryptFiend In reply to SergioKodemo [2006-02-22 15:21:52 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much! I am really really glad you liked it! I was worried about painting on a beard, I might do that down the road again because it didn't exactly turn out the way i wanted lol... I might just have to go back to a certain snapshot and rework it! I'm gonna be setting it up as a print down the road, and I may actually paint it out with oils as well.
Thanks again!!!
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SergioKodemo In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-22 19:01:02 +0000 UTC]
You're most welcome! . Yeah, digital painting is quite exciting. Should do much more about it...we'll see. An oil painting would vaguely remind me of the album cover of Jethro Tull's Aqualung.
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CryptFiend In reply to SergioKodemo [2006-02-23 20:38:00 +0000 UTC]
Ohh I haven't heard his music in ages... Thank again so much for the comments and favs!
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SergioKodemo In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-24 17:26:07 +0000 UTC]
You're very welcome! . Yeah, listening to that group every now and then is cool, specially their first 5 or 6 albums/CD's.
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CryptFiend In reply to SergioKodemo [2006-02-24 22:46:59 +0000 UTC]
for sure! It's probably been 15 years since i've heard Jethro Tull's music on my dad's old dj system He's got so many albums like supertramp/nazareth/pink floydd/rush etc and have always loved his music collection! He's got dozens of mik crates just filled with albums and a jukebox filled with old 45's. Not to mention cd's and tapes hahaha... i loved having music around as a kid!
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SergioKodemo In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-26 00:17:40 +0000 UTC]
Yeah, you are subtly saying that I'm an old ...and you are right!!!!
. Good for you that your father has such collection making the generation gap not so traumatic. Being a teenage during the late 60's and from a breakthrough generation, my parents like the ones of most of us then, were some kind of alien species, always part of the problem and never of the solution. Sharing our music with them and viceversa was largely unthinkable. Now instead, we can argue about tastes and musical values, but at least of the same or similarly originated musical genres!
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CryptFiend In reply to SergioKodemo [2006-02-26 16:49:08 +0000 UTC]
LOL I never said you we're an old fart! Calling you an old fart would have been saying my parents were born in 64 and 62 and I was born in 81, and made them grandparents in their late 30's.
I was lucky to have young parents that were in their twenties DJ'ing and stuff, so musically there was no real gap. I listen to pretty much everything from their time up to mine! I got 31 days of music non stop on my PC thanks to the musical obsesion I have inherited. Honestly the odd part is all my friends are in their late thirties - mid fourties. The only gap i'd say is that my mom likes her french heritage music sometimes during holidays and it's not traumatising, it's vomitizing.
She'd kill me if she read this!
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SergioKodemo In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-27 15:34:10 +0000 UTC]
ROFLMAOOOOOOO!!!!!! 'bout the old thing!!. Yeah, having young parents roughly of the same generation as pals is great. OH, agree about your mom when she gets a craze for her French heritage, that music makes me
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too, my nerves blow up!!
. Yeah, hope she won't read this
. If she does, tell her I have a quite heavy French heritage too...really.
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CryptFiend In reply to SergioKodemo [2006-02-27 15:39:33 +0000 UTC]
HAHAHA Did you know that Gaston Julia and Benoit Mandlebrot from France are the minds behind fractals! So even if we both hate their music with a passion, and feel like chewing holes in our wrists when we are forced to listen to it, we must thank the french for fractals!
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SergioKodemo In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-27 19:41:37 +0000 UTC]
Why thanking them if they rottened our minds with those fractals, when we should be focusing on 3D for instance!! . At least Marc Townsend gave us a major breakthrough prog like Apo...yes I know...sigh...the French are behind also...
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MooseCall [2006-02-22 06:29:30 +0000 UTC]
ahhhh wowowowow! You have a talent with this pen on paper stuff. Or heck mouse on painter but still. Very wonderful.
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CryptFiend In reply to MooseCall [2006-02-24 02:51:24 +0000 UTC]
Thank you sooo much for your support! You are such a sweetheart
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oibyrd [2006-02-21 19:04:21 +0000 UTC]
This is so badass hon Dee is gonna FREAK when he sees it, this is right up his alley
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skydancer-stock [2006-02-17 03:57:23 +0000 UTC]
Very nice indeed. Much appreciation for your skills.
spirits bless,
Marion
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CryptFiend In reply to skydancer-stock [2006-02-17 13:13:59 +0000 UTC]
Thank you for checking it out, I'm glad that you liked my use of your stock. You have wonderful photographs that capture much magic and thought! I may use more of it for reference down the road, hopefully I will improve over time (I just got started with digital painting recently)
Have a wonderful day,
Trevor
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skydancer-stock In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-17 16:08:41 +0000 UTC]
Well, all I can say is that you are very good at what you do, and I can see that you are going to be an amazing fellow to keep an eye on. If I can get my mind in gear I have a great deal more material to upload.... sigh.. soon, very soon.
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CryptFiend In reply to skydancer-stock [2006-02-18 21:20:17 +0000 UTC]
Thanks so much! I'll keep an eye out for new pics too!
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ArtistInWaiting [2006-02-16 12:50:09 +0000 UTC]
Sounds like the Wolf is your spirit animal. Beautiful painting.
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CryptFiend In reply to ArtistInWaiting [2006-02-16 13:04:23 +0000 UTC]
I do think that there must be a link of some kind with wolves for me with the amount of dreams I've had. Thank you and I'm really glad you liked this painting!
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ArtistInWaiting In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-16 13:20:54 +0000 UTC]
No matter how much we study the wolf...they are creatures of mystery.
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LeonieZurakowsky [2006-02-16 07:24:39 +0000 UTC]
Something very different and interesting for you! BTW are you familiar with Wolfsorcerer [link] He does a lot of Apo!
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CryptFiend In reply to LeonieZurakowsky [2006-02-16 13:02:42 +0000 UTC]
Thanks Leonie I'm thinking of doing some abstract/surreal kinda paintings for a little while. I'm having fun experimenting and I was thinking of throwing together a project to create a tarot deck over the next year or so
I just checked out Wolfsorcerer's page and he's got quite the wicked apo's I'm gonna throw him on my watch.
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LeonieZurakowsky In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-17 04:04:02 +0000 UTC]
You're quite the busy guy these days! Lots of ideas flowing. Tarot idea sounds good. I only take it out every now and then and I'm usually disappointed with the results though they have been right many times!
Maybe times of indecision are not the best times - but then isn't all life like that?
Glad you like WS! Did you tell him I "sent you"?! LOL!
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CryptFiend In reply to LeonieZurakowsky [2006-02-17 15:59:21 +0000 UTC]
Yeah I'm all about ideas I was in a bit of an artistic block for a little while and the idea to do some paintings popped into my head and I haven't looked back hahaha! Glad you like them! Times of indecisions are rough but the good news is I had a telephone interview last night
I'll keep you posted on the results!
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LeonieZurakowsky In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-19 08:13:08 +0000 UTC]
Sounds all around great! Best o luck! Did I mention I'm down to Dallas in a month! Whoo hoo!
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CryptFiend In reply to LeonieZurakowsky [2006-02-20 01:42:34 +0000 UTC]
Ohhh Dallas!!! Hey why didn't you invite me along!
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LeonieZurakowsky In reply to CryptFiend [2006-02-25 03:02:07 +0000 UTC]
Let's meet there! You and your family and me and mine! Whoo hoo!
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CryptFiend In reply to Phoenixel-AB [2006-02-16 12:58:37 +0000 UTC]
Thank you so much! This painting thing is getting to be quite fun
Can't wait to get more done!
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