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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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A3 smooth arches watercolour 185GSM polychromos and acrylicsWARNING: 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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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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my lord this is good O.O
i do wish you had tilted it and cropped it though D:
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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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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) 
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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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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
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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
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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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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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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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Sounds flash, long time since ive gotten a reply, so how you been? Finished school for the year yet?
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i'm sorry 
but yes, i'm all finished up for the year
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 
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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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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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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Nah dont worry, i passed early Feb with a different tester and now roam the streets
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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I like it!
Very nice and I think I might be slippin into a coma right about now...
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yeah, its very very bright!
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Haha very nice, the detail is immense X) Looks great. I love the reflection of Earth in his eye
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a shame the actual earth looks more like neptune
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its in the milky way still tho
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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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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
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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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i dont really like the planet much, it looks wonky shaped
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this is beautiful. I really love your style of colouring
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Wow thats mind blowing!!! you shoud do a tutorial on how you colour those awesome claws X3
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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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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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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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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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**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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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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God that is so unfair
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wow, it's awesome!
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an improvement from the first fantasy pieces i were doing a couple of years ago
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yeah, it's awesome
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Nice! Your griffin totally pwns mine, haha. The tusks are a nice and unusual touch.
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Ah yes i finally got myself to do one, but i still like your one as well
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His foot and claw are very impressive! Nice job on the texture and colors, very powerful and sharp looking!
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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
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