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Published: 2004-09-05 05:19:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 5950; Favourites: 203; Downloads: 856
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My mom commissioned me to do this for her former employer.She's of native american heritage, but my mom failed to recall either the people she's descended from or her spirit animal (she does, in fact, have a spirit animal).
We decided that it might very well be the bear.
I took this from part of a legend about a man who, in visiting with a council of bears is transformed into one himself. He dies in the end but... well... so do we all
(micron pen, watercolor)
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This is a magical piece of artwork. I absolutely love it! I have a social network called Ursa Freedom Project, which advances the agenda for bear conservation through story and art. Can I put this piece of art on the Ursa network to share with others? And I would like to invite you to join Ursa Freedom Project too. We have many artists who raise awareness about bears through their artwork.
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This is great
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wow this is awsome! i love the use of colours they make it look almost like a cave painting!
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i love the old stories and legends <3 those bears are so lovely and majestic
I woud to like to hear the story of the man who wanted to be a bear, so, is there any wepsites where i can read more legends like this?
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Ahh.. It's truly beautiful! I love it.
It makes me wish I could seat myself alongside there, listening to their conversation..
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This is very pretty. Vibrant expression, warm scene, good tones...wonderful. The style reminds me of the Disney bears in "Brother Bear".
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What a wonderful picture, the colour and the surrounding enviroment looks great.
I really love their feet!
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Beautiful... do you think it would've been kind of disrespectful to portray the bears playing poker?
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wow! i love your style! this is really great, i love watercolors!
~MAzzy~!
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wow! i love your style! this is really great, i love watercolors!
~MAzzy~!
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Oh, I know this myth. Good job illustrating it!
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i believe i've heard that legend..actually, i think i have it in a book somewhere here... ANYhow... very nicely done 
.maggie
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you can just tell that there is a story behind this painting just by looking at it. that is a very good thing. well done, very nice!
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Lovely and beyond! i love the watercolored detail and how much this glows with culture
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Dear is gorgeous... 
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That'd make for a good ice breaker in the spirit world. "How'd you die?" "Oh, it started when I was kicking it with some bears..."
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hehe, i love the one little indian dood hangin out over there ^^ i love all those stories when people become animals.. anyway, your bears totally rock! love the polar bear's blanket
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Very cool! The composition is very dynamic and I love how you achieved a sense of depth of field, and how it really puts focus on the white bear.. Very cool! All the gestures are magnificent and very expressive. It really makes you wonder what they're talking about and whatnot. ^_^ Bravo!
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this image realy speaks to me ,i once met the white bear in my luc1d dreams once or twice thought maybee it was my power animal ,hope u dont mind if i put it on my desktop
i realy love ur style its so free and alive uve got an amazing talent there ,,
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Aww, they're so cute! Especially the big white bear in the middle
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You've created really wonderful atmosphere in this piece. Love the white bear especially.. his costume, lighting and expression. I like the framing with the two silhouetted bears in the foreground, but I can see what Khylov is saying. I almost want to see more of them, thus framing the image and the white bear/fire more intimately. I think it would draw us into the picture more and enhance the mystical secretive nature of the meeting told in the story.
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This is so beautiful. I love the execution. I love pieces that tell a story. It all so warm and is indeed familylike.
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I wanted to do something like this for me and my sibs... there are six of us altogether. Except, we'd be wolves of cherokee descent. How much would you/did you charge?
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usually depending on size, complexity and medium i'd charge anywhere from $35-$55. But this was for my mom so.... i called it a gift
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Hah. This is the difference between you and I (aside from the talent gap) - you love your mother. Me? Not so much. She wants me to do a ton of caricatures for her. I'm charging her $40 for the lot of them. She gets a discount, not a gift.
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well, i was thinking of doing the discount thing, but then it occured to me that she is KINDA paying my college tuition, and covering all kinds of crazy expenses... it's really the least i could do.
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love the colors... i cant do watercolors at all... blah. But the bears look great! The claws and the fur are very good.
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Beautiful. The way you did the flame is just great, it's as if it's there, the center of attention, but also blends in to become one with the bears. Though not very detailed, I can tell you put effort into this.
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Awww! Very very very very cute!!! I love the white bair, it looks native!!! ^^
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Just adorable! The white bear's expression is just priceless! And the way the others are sitting is just awesome.
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Beautifully done. Reminds me of the movie Borther Bear.
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Awesome! I especially love the white bear! Well done!
Becky
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beautiful, i just cant find other words to describe it
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UNTRUE! I'm terrified of bears.
CONSIDER!
I heard weird sounds in the middle of the night. My sister, Chelsea, and I were terrified. We each assumed the worse.
My sister thought it was a ghost(!).
Chelsea thought it was a thief breaking into the house.
I thought it was a bear! After my sweet, sweet Cheez-its!
In conclusion:
This picture is awesome.
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You really know your way around watercolors. Big, white papa bear, there, looks awesome.
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You are so talented!!! I love watercolor and this piece is awsome... I'm going to give it a 
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absolutely goregeous! love the watercolors. trhe bears are magnificent, and the description along with it is adorable.
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Lovely. Nothing I can give constructive criticism about, since it's supremely awesome, so I shall just
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Very nice color, very nice brush strokes evident within the overall pic, texturing the background and the charaters. The bears' expression is very appealing; many lines and angles that you chose for the facial architecture really accentuate the character. I like the silhouetted bears in the foreground; they break the frame and makes one feel more involved within the piece, like it was a snapshot of an event taking place. I had a critique on one point, but it's pretty minor. This is a very good production style shot, and I'd think that a film studio'd kill to have something of this caliber for whatever production they'd be doing. It's pieces like this that really inspire a film to go that extra step to become a deeper piece of cinema. Good work.
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means a bunch coming from a film maker such as yourself 
out of curiosity, what was your one critique?
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Just a little thing at that: Positioning of the two silhouetted forms on the far right and left, the two bears who have their backs turned to the viewer. Perhaps having the one on the left or right a bit closer to the viewer, and pushed a bit more outwards into the picture, so as to catch more of the shape and form of their head and shoulderline. I only say this because the two back-turned bears are evenly spaced, which is cool in a way, seeing that it almost makes it a frame of sorts on the edges of the picture. But with the great feeling you have already of the viewer intruding upon the scene, it might add more to that "eyewitness" feel by placing one of the characters strategically in an uneven position relative to the other bears, as well as to the viewers' POV (if that makes any sense). Like I said, small potatoes. Hope to see more production stills like this one!
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They're very nice bears. The shading at some points seems a bit... off, I think. The angles on the white bear and the bear far to the right (the one not in silhouette) don't seem to match up with the lightsource. I really *like* the shading on the white bear, but it does seem off. (He also appears to have no feet. )
But very nice bears! And nice human, too.
-m
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light source? what's a light source?
feet? what're feet?
yeah, the lighting is off a bit. it was done in the wee hours, and kinda haphasardly. live and learn, it seems.
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this piece put a warm smile on my face.. i tip my hat to you for that
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