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this was fun, not doing insects for once....picture revised and updated
Thanks heaps for the kind feedback, wow, being compared to JGurney? That's enormously flattering, - (note to everyone who's not seen the Dinotopia books, CHECK 'EM OUT!, and be sure to de-fluff your eyeballs after they've rolled around the floor)
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But references are not easy when the subject is entirely fictional..like this one -- a griffon.
Did it take you long time to master it? The lights and shadows?
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just collect images from similar animals, eg lion, tiger, eagle (for the wings), get ones with the same lighting, you can easily fill in the info gaps. Light and shadow mastering is a long process, never truly mastered except for the real masters!
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I was thinking more of an ibis-griffon hybrid, but you're onto something with the Egyptian ibis influence.
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I know D&D has a variety of sphinxes, all with the same body type but different heads en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sphinx_(…
Paizo publishing has expanded a great deal upon the culture of these beings and how the different types relate to each other
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thanks for the link, thats a lot of sphinxes
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I'll never be able to de-fluff my eyeballs after looking through a Dinotopia book... Never.
But now that you mention it, this does kinda remind me of it.
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I'm just standing on giants' shoulders
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But at least you stand well.
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indeed it does 
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haha yup! thts wht i believe as well
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I dunno what JGurney is. 
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Thanks Rimskye,- just to answer, if I may, - James Gurney is an outstanding (and visionary) painter, most famous for his Dinotopia book aeries, here's his wiki [link]
I hope I've led you to some great bedtime reading
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That does look like JGurney! Beautiful!
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This art is incredible. I can wait to finally get a tablet for myself! I'd love to make stuff like this someday :3
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HAHAHA!Seeing the thumbnail,I just opened this pic for telling you how much this reminds me of ol´Gurney and what a big compliment this actually was in case you wouldn´t have known him.
But a good thing you do so you can appreciate being at eye level with THE MASTER(2)(actually more than eye level but the poor old man only got oil paint,whaddayaknow).
After JamesG,being my biggest idol (alongside MASTER(1),of course) Deviantart is really mixin´it up more and more with every day.
I switch THAT far between "OHMYGODICANNEVERACHIEVETHISSKILLLEVEL" and "Hey!So THAT´s the way those pros do it,and it´s totally easy,let´s paint!" that I´m hardly ever painting,and after 4h of deviantart´s rollercoaster of motivation I´m eventually so exhausted I´m gonna have to play MWO for a while.Until I go to sleep for example.
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both of whom are in my top ten
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Well,in case of General McQuarrie,I guess that´s imminent to every concept designer.
I can´t imagine he and his work wouldn´t be an important subject somewhere while artschool..
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Btw.THE MASTER#1 is of course Ralph McQuarrie.
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This is truly amazing. You did a great job on both concept and execution.
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I especially like the amount of detail in the persons standing around.
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This amazing work has been featured in my journal: [link]
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Love it...! Very reminiscent of James Gurney.
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This looks amazing! I also love the armour and equipment of the handler! Very cool period of history.
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so beautiful (=^O oo O^
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