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Published: 2007-09-12 22:33:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 11447; Favourites: 310; Downloads: 787
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For my fantasy and folklore class I chose the native american tale of The Wendigo. The story is such that an Indian warrior leavs his starving family in the heart of winter to go find food. While hunting he encounters The Wendigo, a shape shifter bent on eating him. A fight between the two ensues and the man is victorious...Done in watercolor and ink.
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hello mostlymade.
I have a publishing company and we are making a book on Wendigo, written by an italian writer.
We would use your picture as cover of this book.
Please contact me on cristiano.repetti at parallelo45edizioni.it
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My only comment for the dude; "Run, random guy who appears to be a member of one of the Water Tribes in Avatar: The Last Airbender! Run!"
Also great pic! Wendigo is defiantly one of my fav cryptids!
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The wendigo is supposed to be the embodiment of famine and starvation.
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As the wendigo is often described as a spirit or a ghost, I really like the direction you took with this, as well as the fact that what little you can see of him is this giant gnashing mouth.
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those look like birch trees wounder how they manage to survive the cold winters, up here.
there bark is like paper,
thin. . .
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but they have many layers of it 
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yeah! ! ! !
that makes sense 'cause you alway's see the trees shedding there paper like bark when it get's to many layers,
the wind will just blow it away.
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When I think of the Wendigo legend, that is the creature I imagine: an ethereal presence with a gaping maw moving through the mist. Very nicely done!
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OH MY GOD LOOK BEHIND YOU!
Teehee, great work. It's such an awesome legend.
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love it, sorry to say it was actually the starving people that turned into the Wendigo.. but amazing concept, reminds me of a story i heard a long time ago about a man who went hunting and his starving wife ate her own flesh until she was a skeleton then chased him, until he shot her and she fell into a pit; where she tries to claw her way out of til this day.
but i digress..
once again great job
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It's how Marvel turned it in a classic Hulk comic, where he was into Quebec, and he was asked help to save some lost guys...
"And I saw him.. who.. was.. eating..."
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I've featured this piece here in my journal: [link]
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Thanks for the features!
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The first original wendigo was once a Indian who resorted to cannibalism and ate his own eyes and mouth. He still wonders the earth as a evil spirit....
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Great Job i love the Wendigo it is an Awsome Creature
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Great job with it! I love this story and often wonder what it would look like
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i always pictured the wendigo as a shadowy figure like the auditor from the madness combat series
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I wonder how the man was able to defeat that thing--for starters, it's a lot bigger than he is.
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The wendigos remind me of the Hidebehind my great grandfather told me about.
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I kind of curious now what this 'Hidebehind" story your G-Grandfather told you is about. If you got the time, send me a synopsis!
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He basicaly just said that the Hidebehind was a thing that was so fast that if you try to look at it it hides behind a tree or close behind your back so you cant see it.
I looked it up on Wikipedia. It didn't say much but it did say about the Wampus Cat my great grandfather used to talk about to scare my mom. But it said very little about the Hidebehind.
I wish I could tell you more, but all I know is that its practicaly invisible becouse all you feel is a sense that somethings always waching you.
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Wow, you should make this into a print. It's VERY good.
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Maaan - sorry to flood your inbox, but I'm fav-ing this one, too. xD I love watercolor paintings, and you created such a cold, forbidding, perfect atmosphere for the story. You're definitely one of my top favorite artists on this site.
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Wow, that mouth is just so... wow. I mean, the entire picture is amazing, but I'm really fixated on them chompers.
Wonderful job.
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Fantastic! I love the feel of the picture. It's really beautiful.
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Totally awesome. Don't see enough interpretations of the Wendigo.
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