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The manticore (Baricos in Greek) is a legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot poisonous spines to either paralyse or kill its victims. The creature's feet may also be of a dragon. -WikipediaI got a monster book for my birthday which is pretty cool - except for the illustrations. So that's basically what inspired me to do my own
My concept was a particularly vile manticore guarding a secret mountaintop city or something. I went for a more beastly-looking face since I didn't like the idea of a human head on an animal's body.
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Love the face and the mane...no i love everything!
Looks gorgeous
Greetings from Germany
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I think I met this guy in Jamaica -- Β Great ---GipΒ
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Wow! Amazing work! Love it!
I was wandering if you could let me us this image for an Android game called "Kingdoms of Myth", it's turn based strategy game based on a fantasy World. You can find a little bit more info in this rough website made by my colleges [link] (Sorry for the bad English). Of course you will have full credits of your work and link to your webpage if you want
Lot of thanks for your time
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Thank you for the compliments! Unfortunately I can't allow you to use the image, sorry. I wish you good luck with your project though
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Hello,
thanks for answering, but our project is a non commercial project, we want to provide it for free on Google Play without ads. So by the moment we can't afford paying. Hope that at least we win some notoriety and for our next project we could afford paying illustrations to great artists like you.
Greetings and have a nice day!
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The best manticore I have ever saw. Good work!
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Good use of lighting; love the background. Manticore looks sinister against the light behind him.
He looks somewhat short, out of proportion, like the legs should be taller,
but that might also be because of the way you have him placed on the rocks.
Did you say you did this in Photoshop?
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It's funny, I did a manticore recently myself and whilst I've adhered to most of the same properties of the creature as you have the results couldn't be more polar opposites. I love it how everyone's art inevitably expresses the artist themselves. This is very good by the way
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Thanks! I'm glad you like my version
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Omg crazy face and your lighting is fantastic. Your colours and style is really nice - I especially like the crosshatching effect for the background. Great sense of atmosphere. The manticore itself looks very scary!
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Thank you very much! I really appreciate your comment
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I just wanted to let you know that I featured this in "Realms of Fantasy and Myth: Week 29 - Manticore", you can find it here: [link]
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Thank you so much for this!
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never liked the human head thing, but you made it look realy good
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Just the name Manticore has always scared me.
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Yeah, it's a really scary creature! Wouldn't wanna meet one O_O
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Frightening! Really cool interpretation of this creature
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Thank you! Glad you like it
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This is pretty much what a Manticore should "feel like". Indeed they are not only "human face" but "ugly human face", so your interpretation is right. By the way, this is the best Manticore interpretation i've seen. Thx for sharing!
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Glad to hear that! Thank you very much
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I like this a lot. It's just what I'd imagine a manticore to look like. That book wouldn't happen to be called "There be Dragons Here" or something like that? I have that book, and I wasn't too impressed with the pictures. They are mostly pictures of old paintings and artifacts, which is nice in a way, but not especially spectacular, if you know what I mean.
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Thanks
No, it's called "The Monster Hunter's Handbook". The pictures inside are all black, white, red and gray (which could look stylish but it doesn't) and kind of crappily drawn vectors or something (looks a bit like MS Paint too xD). So it's not that they're not spectacular, they actually suck >.<
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Amazing! I adore the shading and the colours, and the anatomy of the manticore is brilliant. Also love the background, astonishing work.
Keep it up!
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yeah, the detail on the rocks is mad good
did you do it all by hand or did you copy in part of photo and then touch it up?
lighting's great to
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Oh, and I used a lot of custom brushes!
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yeah, I'm especially curios about the rake-thingy-brush is that in the custom brushes of photoshop? I like that effect a lot
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It's a cross-hatching brush I made myself.
How to make it
(if you don't know how to make brushes, check this out: [link] )
The actual brush shape is 6 diagonal lines - just draw them like scratches from claws, black on white. Spacing is 37% and in Shape Dynamics I set the angle jitter to 27%. You can also play a bit with Color Dynamics, but that's optional.
Hope that helps
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Thank you!
I actually used a random texture and then tried to find shapes in that ^^
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Well done! I like the detail work, especially the rocks.
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