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LyrebirdJacki β In a Parallel World
Published: 2010-06-30 18:03:45 +0000 UTC; Views: 3677; Favourites: 59; Downloads: 430
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Arches watercolour cold press A3 185 GSM, watercolour paint, acrylics & polychromos colour pencilsMy first attempt at a hippocampus! He's a mix between a white tipped shark, orca and a horse of course, to sort of give him the gypsy vanner look
im really liking my sea serpent too, just had to squeeze him in there. Only refs used were for the fish, hippocampus patterns and coral/anemone stuffsI actually only started this drawing cos i wanted to draw clown fish at the time, not the orange ones, the (false anemone fish) badass black ones
Then i started doing coral, and then wanted to redraw a sketch i did on a school camp at Depot Creek which has huge rocky gorges that towered where we slept 
I quite like this, but am not amused with the terrible face on my stallion there 
and that greenish yellow stuff is my attempt at algae, im not so sure about it atm, i guess i'll get used to it
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Wow, this is amazing! Haven't talked to you in ages!
I love the watereffect. And the serpent. Is awesome!
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Thanks mate, yeah its been a while, hope you havent been getting yourself into trouble missy
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Welcome, and would I ever? 
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gotta keep me eye on you now and confiscate the booze (for myself...)
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hahaha, nee way! It's all mine
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The Darwin clown fish look good. The whole picture looks great but you should really try cropping out the background peeping out from behind the picture. It will make it look all the more better.
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im not good at taking pictures that exclude all of the outside, and my computer gets really slow and sometimes freezes when i try to crop/edit things so i dont do that often. I love the darwin clownfish, the orange ones are nice but i just love the black ones
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If your computer crashes with your image editing program maybe scale your picture down first (try >1000px). I had problems with photoshop on my old computer. It would reliably crash with anything over 1,000 x 1,000px. Everything had to be scaled down before it could be tidied up.
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i could try that next time if i remember to or have time to kill and need to do something, thanks
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Wow =O you have quiet a hand when it comes to colouring XD it seems to real, and of course that Sea Serpent is just perfect there XD I think your algae is quiet good.
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thanks, i think the serpent is the best part of this picture, ill have to do a full body of him sometime
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Well he does fit in well there ^^ Yes that would be interesting 
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i cant seem to give many of my creatures decent bodies, sort of why i try to avoid them
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oh really? yeah I thought the snake guy would have had a simple design, body, thing XD
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Extremely impressive in concept and execution! I especially like the sinister looking eel in the corner
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thankyou, the eel-serpent made my mum gasp because she thinks it'll eat the sea-horse
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wow this is pretty phenominal!!! you are really very, very talented! Its amazing that you managed to get the hippocampus to look so .. real? (pathetic description there, sorry). Its just amazing that its movement looks so fluid and the light and the muscle tone and the proportions are just so well done. And yes those false anemone fish are inredibly badass. honestly this is just amazing.. just looks perfect to me
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thanks, its hard to get any fantasy creature to look "believeable" with the pegasus being one of them i think, since if you think about it, a horse would need massive wing to be able to get airbourne, and need the joint of the wing to the body really large to support the wings etc, which is why i havent drawn one yet cos i cant even figure it out
Thank you for all the comments, all apprechiated (mind my crappy spelling btw)
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Very true .. even if they had hollow bones they'd have to be stick thin to have a hope of getting off the ground too >< God i've been in love with pegasus's ever since fantasia :3 God i havent drawn one of those in years.. maybe if i catch a breather i'll have a go. make the wings massive and try and find a way to make it anatomically correct as possible :/ hmm.. god i need time!! damn you, uni!
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it would be an acomplishment for someone to make a pegasus anatomically correct, the best way ive thought of was to eliminate the front leg to make it more bird like so it has enough joint muscle to give support to the wings, but then it just looks weird. and perhaps change the hooves to talons? I have no idea, i think it might be better to stick with the pretty anatomically incorrect pegasus.
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god you're right there.. i hadnt thought of all that (though i guess that's why my drawings are completely dodgey). i also imagine the wings would have to be beyond massive to support the weight of a horse (even if it had hollow bones like a bird and next to no weight on it).. Yes, I think I totally agree. Anatomically incorrect pegasus it is!!
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and the joint muscle+bone of the wing to shoulder would have to be massive to move those big wings
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god yes.. well .. even thinking of cockatoos; their wings are pretty massive and they arenβt all that big at all (compared to eagles or horses!).. even the tiniest Pegasus would need wings, muscle and breastbones of a ridiculous size.. unfortunatly I'm lacking in the physics department to even have a guess at how big they'd have to be Oo i'll just go with "freaking huge."
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That's crazy good. I like the algae, not too sure on that beam of light shining through, it looks a little solid? I dunno, but regardless still really good!
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yeah i guess it is a tad solid there, i actually only put it there so i didnt have to do anymore rocks
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Hahah fair enough 
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beauty, amazing just haven't words !!!
sea horsie :3 is incredible
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Well done Jacki, it's awesome!!!! Love the sea serpent. Hahahaha..... black fishes! Madness!!!
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i like the serpent more than the horses
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Lol. You did a fantastic job! All the creatures look great. The serpent just happened to intrigue me that little more.
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i like the serpent, i remember i made him up by looking at a snake skull and a skinned blue tounge
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Holy shit Jacki, this is most WOW worthy. Your sea serpent is so cool and I love the way you're drawn the light through the rock, also those clown fish are the most badass mofos of the sea I've ever seen 
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i started it like 4-5 weeks ago and working 1 or 2 hours on it a week because i was doing it at school, then i just picked it up yesterday and finished it all in one hit
It was funny when i showed mum cos she said **gasp** "the horsies dont get eaten do they?" then walked off and continued what she was doing 
im glad you like it
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hahaha yay procrastination! That will be me next year
How's the major work going?
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oh you shouldnt be procrastinating next year! thats bad, like me with school
I havent gotten back to it, havent had any big inspirational motivation to do it atm
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I dunno how your mum can find things wrong with your art... she's crazy
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she's a tough critic
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I think we start it in term 4, which will be term 1 of year 12, and we have 4 terms to finish, as far as I know. I really want to paint/draw a series of parrots, like, really brightly coloured ones, using various mediums and scales and I want to draw the alexandrine parrot in my msn dp to a huge scale because I think it looks so intimidating
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you could do the different varieties of conures
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But you still managed to make it epic! I think it is in big enough scale, it's from here somewhere I think... I love how many conure species there are, but I've found some amazing macaw shots and stuff as well. I'm so excited I'm getting my conure soon! But have to wait till September because the breeding season is over :\ I totally forgot to take that into consideration.
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oh cool you have convinced you mum finally? thats going to be so awesome
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haha you bet
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mine are still deciding on their gender, atm they are both females, they get up to some kinky lesbian budgie action like usual
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haha, dayum those budgies and their kinky behaviour! My budgie Pringle died the other day, she was 8 and it was crushing
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