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Published: 2006-04-17 18:37:22 +0000 UTC; Views: 7821; Favourites: 211; Downloads: 209
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This is not necessarely a finished piece yet.Some details might be added later.
I'll decide if it's done later, sometimes it's hard to see that.
Hardly any references were used for this one.
Might use some so I can add extra details for the seal, which would be possible to improve further..
Never drawn a seal before
Hope you like. Took me about a week so far on and off.
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I LOVE you choice of color in that water oOo And the sky is just incredible!
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you should name this peace "playing with food" becuase that what it looks like its doing ^^
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While the technique may be great and all, I find it kinda disrespectful.
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Thanks for the comments
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Nicely done, I thought it was a photo at first from the thumbnail. Very realistic. 
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Why thank you so much!
I'm glad you like it
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Thanks!
Yeah, they are lovely.
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Beautiful. lol@seal. Have you ever seen this occur, on tape? It's freaky, but cats do the same thing with caught prey, such as mice.
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Thanks!
Yepp, even though it's rather cruel I think that it's a pretty cool behaviour. Very dramatic indeed.
Do you know if they're just practicing their hunting skills, or are they simply playing with their prey just for fun?
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It's still unknown as to why they do that, scientists believe. I think they are... lol, tenderising their prey
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That is amazing. i love it. poor little seal but that's nature. I love orca's they are so cute and the way they work togeher is amazing. great job on this bloody brillant 
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I thought sharks were doing this? Very lovely picture! I cannot wait to see it totally finished!
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nice orca picture the seal would need to be a bit fatter and bigger
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guess you could call it 'prey becomes play'? seems like itd make more sense to move the whale a little closer to us and farther from the horizon line, not sure if that was intentional for a surreal look or something...
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You got a point there, I'll keep that in mind.
Hm, well I was kinda trying to paint this one in a lower perspective, wich makes you feel that you're one of the other seals, watching the drama from the water..
The lower you get, the closer will the horizon appear to the orca, or am I wrong? :S
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Apropos to my previous comment in reply to a PREVIOUS reply, *cough*, I have to say that this is.. wonderful. A stunning piece of work. Something looks.. funny with the mandible, but apart from that - awesome composition, indeed.
Oh, but I do love a well-sculpted orca. xD
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great work..i like the waterdetails squirting out of the ocean
very nice one!!!
go on this way
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This one's beaaautiful, you've got a great gift and talent! Very very nice painting.
The Killer Whales are such wonderful and beautiful animals.
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Awesome work!!! It's beautiful (minus the seal that is abot to die)
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Very beautiful, I love the atmosphere of the picture and the colors you used! The orca especially is beautiful, and I like the depth that you gave the water.
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Thank you very much 
I still feel like I should add some more details in this painting, and it's great that allthough it's unfinished, you still get the right feeling of it.
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Very awesome, even though I do think the way the orcas play with seals and drown grey whale offspring are among some of the most disturbing things I've ever seen in nature.
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Thanks. Though, isn't it just the same when wild cats play with their prey before eating it?
I guess it's a part of their habit, it could also be trainting so they're able to catch something harder next time.
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Playing with something while it is still alive, makes sense to me. Playing with something that is dead in the sense of sharpening skills specifically to do with hunting - also makes sense to me. But what Orcas do does not.
It baffles the scientists, the zoologists, those who study behaviour etc.
It is not a behaviour that enables them to 'catch something harder' next time, and their use of tail flipping has no demonstrable use in seal-hunting at all. The use of the tail has been used to stun fish, but theoretically they wouldn't use seal-flipping in order to strengthen this behaviour.
The other thing to consider is that not all pods of orcas have learned this behaviour, or perform it.
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Something also must be said for the orcas in Argentina who, after a day of catching and eating seal pups, inexplicably release their final catch of the day and gently guide it back to shore.
Many things are unexplainable. But those behaviours, in reality, are not - swallowing a seal whole is not an easy task, and thrashing it around does serve to, uh, soften it. Great White Sharks do the same, albeit in a generally more bloody fashion. And the orcas generally do taillob the carcasses when they are just that - carcasses.
Of the Grey Whale offspring - they expend a whole lot of energy to kill the calf, and they eat only the lips and the tongue. Why? Maybe for the same reason that human hunters kill bears and the like and pin their heads to their wall. Tradition, culture - both have been aptly demonstrated within orca society. Who knows? It also must be said that these are the only parts the orcas CAN eat - the blubber is just too thick. Apparently it is a prize worth chasing, for up to and over six hours (as had been documented).
This behaviour does not baffle me, not those who actually study orca. This is simply what they do. Same as the male lions that kill the cubs of the displaced king. Disturbing, perhaps, but not unfathomable.
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Well, what can we say. Orcas are strange, but amazing animals
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Photoshop, fejbΓΆl
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jaaahh hogy semmi kΓΌlΓΆnΓΆs..... 
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KΓΆszΓΆnΓΆm! ΓrΓΌlΓΆk hogy tetszik!
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KΓΆszΓΆnΓΆm! ΓrΓΌlΓΆk hogy tetszik!
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KΓΆszΓΆnΓΆm! ΓrΓΌlΓΆk hogy tetszik!
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wow the orca looks very powerful and menacing
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