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Published: 2006-02-19 21:46:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 1677; Favourites: 21; Downloads: 83
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This is an art trade for Cooley , and I hope she likes it
This was long overdue, but it's finally completed.The delay was caused from changing the concept from the original image I had in mind. At first, I had trouble decided whether or not to sketch out BladeWind in her wild form, or her anthro form. The first picture had the anthro BladeWind in flight with a dragon chasing her. But I scraped the idea as it was not the quality I desired.
In this art, I combined the two features; I love the wild BladeWind because she's primal and ferocious. However I like the physique of the anthro BladeWind. Combining these concepts led to this!
I had also wanted to include a type of blur to indicate speed, but it ruined the detail and didn't quite look right.
Enjoy!
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excellent use of traditional colours!
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uhuh! O.o yez, isn't bad!^_^ you also choose always good colors (
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Thank you very much! It's Cooley's creature, so I just used what she had for me to put her into flight.
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ehm! "feathers"! Not "wings", sorry!
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I agree! Expecially the grey wings are wonderful!*-* iiiih!!
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rockin mein of red hair he's got, horns are awesome. Great job again man.
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Thank you, thank you! Cooley has some great ideas when it comes to creating some gnarly creatures.
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Thank you very much
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Why can't I draw like this?! It just doesn't seem fair that some people get all the talent...
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Everyone has their own style, and each one looks great. We all have the art envy; I see some very, very talented traditional artists, I can't wrap my brain around how the heck they can do so well. Take Bobbyrock for instance - this guy is a million times better than me.
But you can think of it this way: looking at great art helps you to incorporate different styles into yours, and to brainstorm ideas
Oh, and thank you for the comment ^^- I'm quite flattered you think I'm talented.
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Why thank you
How's your rut progressing? Feeling any better about your art?
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Haha, not really. I was thinking about making a comic about me being a bad artist and fighting my art tools of doom, lol. I have a sketch of me throwing punches at a floating pencil... Quite interesting, lol. But, yea, I still don't know what to do... I think it's because I haven't watched any anime lately. Maybe I'll go watch some (I've got millions I haven't seen yet on my computer)
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I'm jealous! I really want to get some anime (undubbed...subbed is it?) to watch. Not this 4 Shame Entertainment crap.
I'm drawing an anime based drawing for my 4000. It's called "4000 Kiri'Ban' " haha get it? Ban? Kiriban?
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Hahaha! Oh well, I got all my anime for free (unlicenced anime, which makes it free)
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Even if you told me, I would have no idea what you're talking about lol
I used to go to a particular website that had anime on it - full length volumes and everything! Currently I think it's been removed for the time being. But there was this one series called Orguss: Volume 2 that was really out of this world. Very cool anime.
Landlock was alright; the plot is overused (a guy has supernatural powers, doesn't know it...meets up with his enemy who has similar powers....these people are after him for his powers, then a huge mecha monster comes along and tries to destroy the land etc). The art is grade C being cel-shaded and all.
I wanted to see the trailer for X, but my browser wouldn't load it lol.
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Oh, you should check out an anime called Mai-Otome! It's based off the anime Mai-Hime. And uhh, it's kick ass! In both series, they have the same characters, but each character has a different role in each of them. It's pretty cool! I haven't seen Mai-Hime yet, but Mai-Otome kicks butt!
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very cool, i like the claw splash, though the back ground doesn't seem colorful enough to match the palette of the bird. Very good for a new thing
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Thank you! There was an idea to have actual lake water reference, but that was green and brown - so it would have blended in way too much with BladeWind. This blue will have to do 
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your a poet and didnt know it!
hmm makes sense you'r right
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That is SO KICK ASS!!! It just looks awesome 
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Of course! BladeWind is a kick ass creature!
And thank you - I appreciate your kind words and encouragement
P.S. How's the rollercoaster coming along?
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Actually, she said she might do it
You're very welcome!
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OH MY GOSH, I LOVE IT!
I'm sorry it took me so long to respond and see this pic. I've been offline a couple of days...but man the wait was worth it! This is one of the finest art-trades I've been a part of. I love her position, I love the composition, the ferocity, and the way she is dragging one claw in the water.
I'm very VERY impressed! I'm going to be bragging about this gift for a while! Thank you so much Ace!!!
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Oh and I forgot to say: you're welcome ^_^ lol
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Thank you very, very, very much!!! I'm really glad that you love it! I put my best efforts into this, and was hoping you'd like it ^^
You can partially thank a fruit bat for the idea lol. I saw a picture of it skimming the water and got the concept for it.
Aw 
T^T I am not worthy
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A fruit-bat? Those guys are so cool! The angle is great! Thanks again!
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I know! Go fruit bats! You're welcome, my pleasure to do this with you ^_^
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Wow! Your works are awesome, as usual!
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OMGOSH!! That is REALLY good!! Did you use your computer to color it or did you you use something else?
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Thank you so much!
All of my work as you might have noticed, is half traditional, half digital (well, sometimes lol). For this one, I used Crayola colouring pencils for BladeWind. The water and the splash were done with a program I have. I had trouble deciding where to put this (category wise) but since I spent more time on the water, it was 60% digital
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So does that mean that the bird-like dragon-like creature was colored with colored pencils and the water was done with some sort of program on the computer? WOW! You're are really good drawer and colorer ^_^ lol I cant color or draw worth crap... But I try my best >.< I need to get some sort of program on my computer so I can make my drawings look pretty, I heard that PhotoShop is a good one and I remember having it on an older computer but for some reason dont have it on our new HP computer >=0 It doesnt even have a floppy disk drive!!! Anywhos what is the program that you're using to color the water?
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Aw thanks ^^- It's still a relatively new concept for me (digital work). I only started about a month ago.
Photoshop is good - it's the ultimate in digital art work. It costs mucho dinero though ;_;
The program I have came with my scanner, called Arcsoft Photo Editor 5.0 So it's supposed to be for photos but...lmao I work with what I've got
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Hmm... Never heard of it... Then again I never really heard of anything people tell me that has to do with computer o-O lol But I guess my dreams for photoshop have been shot down 
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That's the spirit! try new things, you'd be surprised what you can do ^^
This is actually a new style for me. I never draw avian dinosaurs much less regular ones, and I've never used this flight position before or the 'speed' water effect. And it turned out pretty good.
If you need any help with that type of style, I'm always here
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wow realy good man that water loosk really good you got to teach me how to do that ^^
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Thanks
The splash was fairly simple and I made it up on the spot XD I used something called a 'shape brush' where I chose a shape that would resemble a splash. Then I used that and overlapped a bunch of them. Then I used brush dots to do the little water drops.
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Thank you very much!
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The perspective on this is ABSOLUTELY amazing! Great! Great!
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Thank you very much! I'm glad you like it
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