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LyrebirdJacki — Celestial Shaman

Published: 2010-06-02 12:01:16 +0000 UTC; Views: 2471; Favourites: 51; Downloads: 44
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Description A3 smooth arches watercolour 185GSM polychromos and acrylics

WARNING: bright colours may induce coma, i am sorry for going overboard

Ive been doing this over a loooong period of time during school, a few hours at a time so i can procrastinate doing what im actually supposed to do, the teacher is a slave driver.....that blue planet was supposed to be earth btw, but i thought there was enough colour as is

But its finished! its about time i did some more free fantasy stuff, lets me get a little loose with accuracy as you can tell by my terrible spheres The gryphon is based off of a sketch i did of a bearded vulture which i added tusks and ears, then gave it a mane and voilà!
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Comments: 51

LyrebirdJacki In reply to ??? [2011-01-15 16:41:37 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, i am not familiar with his art but i had a look at some samples on google, they are very nice

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Sun-like-Rain [2010-09-08 02:55:37 +0000 UTC]

my lord this is good O.O
i do wish you had tilted it and cropped it though D:

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Sun-like-Rain [2010-09-08 22:00:35 +0000 UTC]

im no good at photographing them and too lazy to crop, at least the picture is seen, but im glad you like it

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Life-ls-Beautiful [2010-07-10 04:03:18 +0000 UTC]

wow again. oh dear now i'm going to have to pick through your whole gallery D: (normally not a problem, but this means my work will have to be put on hold haha)

the colours look great XD not overboard at all!! no such thing as too much colour
I'm really in love with the eye, and the hair (just looks soo detailed and soft) and the claws! (they look exactly like my cockatoos feet, especially the smaller scales on the bottom). Just wow. And the spheres are not terrible at all! they look almost (and i mean 99.9% perfect) kudos to you, seriously. Your work is amazing.

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Life-ls-Beautiful [2010-07-10 07:15:17 +0000 UTC]

thanks once again, i like the claw the best too, was referenced from a wedge tail talon actually, tho i changed it a little. Its going in the show this year which is in a week a think, hopefully it will claim me a place along with the other ones im entering **finger's crossed!**

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Life-ls-Beautiful In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-07-10 09:16:31 +0000 UTC]

Great!! Good luck! Not that you'd need it! I think you will place, your work really is just amazing. So this is the Darwin Show i'm guessing?? I suppose that'd be the equivelant to our EKKA Good luck, and congrats for getting in!

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Life-ls-Beautiful [2010-07-10 10:52:39 +0000 UTC]

Yeah its the Darwin show, i entered last year and did quite well in both adult and student catagories, but ive improved alot since then so im hoping i do better yeah its just like EKKA, but im sure its alot smaller.

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Life-ls-Beautiful In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-07-10 11:46:44 +0000 UTC]

awesome
God i cant wait for the EKKA; it should be coming up soon.. its getting cold and windy, everyones getting sick. EKKA time !! woo!

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Life-ls-Beautiful [2010-07-10 12:22:25 +0000 UTC]

its in august right? i know that cos its like a month after the Darwin show, my cousin goes to queensland after the show to get a double dose of it

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Life-ls-Beautiful In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-11-21 11:26:59 +0000 UTC]

hahaha yup thats it!! It was pretty good this year, but the night show was a little dissapointing .. but the food was amazing compared to every other year! i even had okonomiaki (if thats how you spell it) which is this really yummy japanese savoury pancake. so much better than a dagwood dog.. just saying

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Life-ls-Beautiful [2010-11-21 12:53:24 +0000 UTC]

Sounds flash, long time since ive gotten a reply, so how you been? Finished school for the year yet?

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Life-ls-Beautiful In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-12-02 13:47:23 +0000 UTC]

i'm sorry I've been really late getting through all the comments .. i've been snowed under majorly with uni and by the time i got back to DA i had around 400+ messages Oo ..eep?

but yes, i'm all finished up for the year but i'm using these holidays to really get stuck into art again.. do a few paintings and i've been doing the 365 day photo challenge (but i dont upload them all or it'll get silly) and it's been pretty awesome

how were your last days of school and your holidays?? I hope you arent cooking too bad up there! its been hot here; so it's got to be nothing compared to the territory oh and i hope that if you had a much up day it wasnt as messy as some of the ones my friends have told me about on their prac!
o god i'm sorry this is such a pathetic message, i'm just tired to the point of being a bit illiterate

how are you going?

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Life-ls-Beautiful [2010-12-02 15:04:14 +0000 UTC]

Ive only just restocked on art supplies to get started with art, havent done anything big yet, only small sketches and doodles which wouldnt be worthy (or cant be bothered) to be put up on DA, but ill get there in a moment. Need to look for a new job as well which would mean less time for art

Its hottish but raining alot (wet season) which has lowered the temperature while raining. but the humidity ARGH!

Im doing pretty good so far, not happy with my driving tho, i failed my second driving test (for my P plates) and the wait for my next one is february! i cant wait that long. hopefully someone pulls out of their test and i can get in earlier, i apparently failed cos i touched a curb, but i honestly didnt feel it, the tester yelled alot in the car so im guessing it wasnt his day

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Life-ls-Beautiful In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2011-02-16 10:19:22 +0000 UTC]

argh god i can totally relate .. freaking driving testers can be just awful! they totally overreact and throw you off when they freak out like that.. i had one do something like that to me when i wasnt even doing anything!

i hope you got a better one?

(and i'm sorry for such a late reply - the messages start piling up and then i was without a computer for ages and argh ><" i'm sorry!)

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Life-ls-Beautiful [2011-02-16 13:49:48 +0000 UTC]

Nah dont worry, i passed early Feb with a different tester and now roam the streets He seemed a lot less "got something up my arse" as the previous one.

I hate it when the messages pile up when away for a while, just sit there and think to myself "hmm ill read those later".

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amorousdino [2010-06-23 06:39:44 +0000 UTC]

I like it!

Very nice and I think I might be slippin into a coma right about now...

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to amorousdino [2010-06-23 08:05:33 +0000 UTC]

yeah, its very very bright!

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Defonthana [2010-06-08 16:26:41 +0000 UTC]

featured here: [link]

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Defonthana [2010-06-09 05:00:39 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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Dahnza [2010-06-04 13:54:16 +0000 UTC]

Haha very nice, the detail is immense X) Looks great. I love the reflection of Earth in his eye

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Dahnza [2010-06-04 23:21:33 +0000 UTC]

a shame the actual earth looks more like neptune Its a decieving reflextion

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Dahnza In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-06-06 04:05:44 +0000 UTC]

Nyuk nyuk nyuk

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FATRATKING [2010-06-04 11:39:07 +0000 UTC]

HOLY CRAP! THAT IS OUT OF tHIS WORLD!

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to FATRATKING [2010-06-04 12:42:17 +0000 UTC]

its in the milky way still tho

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mooing-duckerberry [2010-06-04 06:38:29 +0000 UTC]

I like the idea of a beaky creature having tusks. May I steal it sometime? I don't know if I ever will but, y'know.... just in case. You're right about there being a lot of color, but I like it. It does overstimulate at first, but it sort of drives the whole "massive incredible" point home once you get looking at it. Good job you.

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to mooing-duckerberry [2010-06-04 09:53:25 +0000 UTC]

i tried to balance the colour out such as having the little red planet on the left to make sure the gryphon didnt get all the attention, but i like it anyways despite alot of colour, some of my pencils i never use got used so its good (you know those colours that last forever cos you dont like or need the particular colour?)

Yeah ive been putting alot of tusks on my bird creatures in many of my sketches such as that owlephant i did a while back, looks awesome in my opinion but i dont know how they'd be very practicle in the wild maybe turfing up the ground or bark for insects?

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MajesticalIllusions [2010-06-03 07:59:33 +0000 UTC]

Hey Skip, looks great! I actually like the way the earth turned out. It's like the Shaman is looking into a crystal to fortell the future!

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to MajesticalIllusions [2010-06-03 11:22:53 +0000 UTC]

i dont really like the planet much, it looks wonky shaped the shaman i have put as the overlooker of the earth, kinda like a God as you would put it, but its good to see what people come up with trying to figure out what it means I so wanna do one for each planet, but i would be stumped on what to do for Uranus....

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In-The-Distance [2010-06-03 06:35:41 +0000 UTC]

this is beautiful. I really love your style of colouring

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to In-The-Distance [2010-06-03 11:23:06 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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PhoenixPhyreFeather [2010-06-03 00:05:48 +0000 UTC]

Wow thats mind blowing!!! you shoud do a tutorial on how you colour those awesome claws X3

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to PhoenixPhyreFeather [2010-06-03 03:04:07 +0000 UTC]

i didnt take photos of the process unfortently, and ive got a very slow computer which takes ages to constuct tutorials :S But im glad you like it

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Ariade [2010-06-02 18:50:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh My GOD
I love the Colors and the way you use them!

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Ariade [2010-06-03 03:04:22 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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lord-of-the-pirates [2010-06-02 13:41:14 +0000 UTC]

you have potential to be a great fantasy artist! I wish we could collab on something one day...Dragons or gryphons or something of the sort ~ Even a sky full of pegasi...*dreams*

LOVE this pic! Enter it in the show. NOW. I want to see it in real T^T

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to lord-of-the-pirates [2010-06-03 03:06:34 +0000 UTC]

yeah this is the one i want to enter into the show, either that or the lion galaxy one i did. A collab would be awesome to do, should try a nice big picture so we can fit more stuff in.Thanks for the supporting words

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lord-of-the-pirates In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-06-03 07:35:20 +0000 UTC]

zomg. enter both! Then I can see all ~ A2 should be a nice big size. School has piles of A2 Arches smooth watercolourpapaer muha! I could nick one on the last day of school >w>

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to lord-of-the-pirates [2010-06-03 11:25:13 +0000 UTC]

**just finished hyperventilating** They hey arches smooth watercolour paper at your school? IN A2 SIZE? bloody hell im going to have a big word with CSC, they only have this rough fabriano stuff and a so called cotten paper which is also very rough. Im going to have to break into DHS to confiscate some of that

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lord-of-the-pirates In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-06-03 11:53:16 +0000 UTC]

We have billions of arches stockpiled. I found them all in the art stockroom. Theres 185gsm, 300gsm, 200gsm...A4, A3, A2...rough AND smooth!

I totally give you permission to steal any of it XD Its like it grows here 0_o

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to lord-of-the-pirates [2010-06-03 13:45:17 +0000 UTC]

God that is so unfair it wouldnt be stealing if i have permission

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lord-of-the-pirates In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-06-04 03:23:50 +0000 UTC]

snap.

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Chance-EXE [2010-06-02 13:20:34 +0000 UTC]

Oooo the colours are so preettyyy @w@

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to Chance-EXE [2010-06-03 03:04:50 +0000 UTC]

thank you

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SoLong-AndGoodnight [2010-06-02 13:00:51 +0000 UTC]

wow, it's awesome!
well done ;D it's very very very pretty.

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to SoLong-AndGoodnight [2010-06-03 03:07:13 +0000 UTC]

an improvement from the first fantasy pieces i were doing a couple of years ago thank you

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SoLong-AndGoodnight In reply to LyrebirdJacki [2010-06-03 13:33:38 +0000 UTC]

yeah, it's awesome welcome!

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isthider [2010-06-02 12:42:35 +0000 UTC]

Nice! Your griffin totally pwns mine, haha. The tusks are a nice and unusual touch.

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to isthider [2010-06-02 12:48:04 +0000 UTC]

Ah yes i finally got myself to do one, but i still like your one as well im glad you like it, i always put something weird into my mythical creatures, makes em different

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wynnesome [2010-06-02 12:03:25 +0000 UTC]

His foot and claw are very impressive! Nice job on the texture and colors, very powerful and sharp looking!

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LyrebirdJacki In reply to wynnesome [2010-06-02 12:05:39 +0000 UTC]

im glad you like it, i think he would have come out nicer with all his claws with small nails like the one on the end but i couldnt bring myself to erase the long ones thanks for the comment

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