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nyctopterus — Vampirus Provectus Miserabilis
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Published: 2004-01-08 12:07:57 +0000 UTC; Views: 6968; Favourites: 152; Downloads: 1685
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FULL VIEW OR DIE"It didn't used to be this way, Smithers. No, it didn't used to be this way at all."
A miserable old vampire sits on the step in front of his throne, nostalgic for the days when he was sexy because he drank blood and stayed up all night, not because of his bunny-ears.
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Comments: 79
Your work is insanely beautiful! Scarily unique! I would fave the whole gallery!
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it's crazy! I look into your gallery and the small pictures on the view don't do your art justice. I full view them when I open them up and I'm even more blown away!
This one in particular is wonderful. Expect me to purchase a print from you in the soon future.
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The colors... is like looking at Egyptian hieroglyphs. so rich and mysterious. it looks sexy too.
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every detail of this piece is so gracefully executed. the time it must have taken...but what a lovely outcome.
the floor is absolutely perfect. i also rather enjoy the egyptian imagery this sort of echoes-- the vampire looks a bit like anubus to me
you make very obvious just how patient you are, and it pays off
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Thanks, it was a little Egyptian influenced, and it did take and awfully long time!
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This is unbelievably beautiful
Everything just matches everything else
Just perfect
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Awesomely intricate. 
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Vectors is best for intricacy.
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I don't normally comment on strangers art because I'm way shy, but I came across this randomly and I had to. The wings are the most amazing thing I have ever seen, and the colors are astounding.
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Incredibly unusual work! so detailed, so original...
i'm stunned by it!
you're a real talent! keep it up!
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Wow 
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Wow. Amazing work! Love it. The wings are fantastic, but then, so is everything else. I don't know why, but I especially like his robes.....
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Amazing stuff! seriously considering getting a nice print of this one
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Wow. I love your style the wings look so cool. Vampires are my thing.
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You have to offer a print for that. Unfortunately, exporting print-sized images on my slow old computer is a royal pain in the posterior. But I'm getting a new computer, so I'll be offering prints of just about everything soon.
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...then can I search for a wish list button...*please say yes please say yes*
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JetpackDragonfly and ConflagratingChimera are the only things I have prints of at the moment.
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thats just sweet, i am mixxed between awe and envy! lol
excellent, i have always wanted to try wings like that
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whaaaa.. man.. 
a word of advice.. in future projects when drawing this complex try to detail stuff (eg wings) in separate ai files and afterwards you may import them into one big one.. that's an idea
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I did. Not the wings - Illustrator actually deals with lot of little lines reasonably well - I had the curtain and the floor in separate files - but when it comes to pasting them in things always need work to get them to look right, and it's my screwing around with transparency to get the light just right that it hates.
In outline mode it was still fairly usable, but most of the frustration comes from making the millions small adjustments to colours and transparent objects that I do towards the end, when I need to see the entire thing properly.
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well yes you're right..
anyway keep it up
the grace in your art is amazing
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The Advanced, Miserable Vampire.. What an excellent name for this.
The detail of this is just superb, I truly value every single minute you put into this.. And what a masterpiece all that hard work produced!
The first allusion that I saw in this picture was Egyptian mythology; the head of that vampire is very much like that of Anubis, the designs on the joints in those mechanical wings are strongly Egyptian, and the ibis-head-shaped adornments on the throne he's sitting in remind me of Egypt in general, but also of Thoth, the god of knowledge. In fact, this whole colour scheme reminds me of Egypt! Bronze, gold and semi-darkness. That's the key.
The vampire's clothes, very richy adroned (he was probably very rich), also remind me of Egyptian aristocracy. And the way they flow and settle on the ground is really wonderufl, as though they were made of something extremely thin and soft like silk. Perhaps he was an Egyptian demi-god/vampire!
Ahem; and then behind the throne, on the walls, this Egypt-linked design changes and becomes more reminiscent of something likely to be seen in India. The single 'stripe' of images looks like a sort of artsy mural, and the walls all around (a very pleasant shade of red by the way) have such beautiful subtle designs in them.
Now once again you have shown amazing skill in creating a hybrid between org anic and mechanic; although all these amazingly detailed designs remind me of ancient Egypt, the wings undoubtedly are a link to more recent, or even more distant times (future-wise). They seem to be outlined with metal, apart from the amazing metallic 'muscles' holding the wings in place, and this definately brings out the fabric or texture that the wings themselves are fashioned out of. On their own they might look very fragile and sensitive, but outlined with such a strong streak of golden metal, and streaked throughout with the same metallic lines as it is, this material appears to be some futuristic chemically bonded substance, both beautiful and tough. (Whoo look at me go)
The lighting is another thing which blows my mind, and that must have been one of the things that took you the longest to do; they are so utterly realistic and all-encompassing, and they along with the reflections on the wings and on parts of the throne make it seem like the light is coming from somewhere above.
This is absolutely stunning.. Godly work, man, inspired and godly.
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Wow... just like, wow. Lots and lots of detail, and very nice. Some times when people use detail they over do it, in your case, you didn't. That's a good thing.
Cute bunny ears too ness. hehehe
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Far out... Wish I had something more intelligent to say. The symmetry! So perfect! You work on half and then mirror it??? Stunning work.
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beutiful, some peopel have too much patience 
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hey, how do you count the amount of paths and stuff ?
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In the "window" menu choose "document info" . There's a whole bunch of options in the menu that drops down from the little arrow on the top right of the palette, choose "objects" (making sure that "selection only" is off) and then " save", and it will save a text file with the info in it.
I'm not surprised no one seems to have discovered it.
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Wow! Well done
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Wow, I had no idea you could do such things with vector (I have no idea how it works, either, though). But you don't have to know how to make vector to appreciate it. This is amazing. I love it, the colors, the subject, the detail, the title. My favourite thing of all, though is the wings. Absolutely stunning.
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rad , def something different vector wise for a change
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i really need to learn how to use illustrator 10.. *pokes dorky swan pic* The detaiil in some of these images amazes me. *_*
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Well, most of the detailing isn't anything tricky, just lines (I do tricky stuff with lighting and shading mostly). All that's required is a lot of hard work.
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its insanely good, also has an egyptain style to it
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So, nice try and at least it's not greyscale? Thanks anyway...
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No, it's totally kick ass, I was just too tired to leave an intelligent comment!
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I was teasing, which is impossible to express with emoticons.
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You never know. This is Deviantart, after all.
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Yeah, maybe we need a "can't find the appropriate emoticon, because the list is too long" emoticon.
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Oh.... my.... gods.... I just can't comprehend the amount of complexity in that thing. I think we have the true king of vector right here.
And what a cool character. Frank the bunny has met his match
Easily a +fav, and I'd certainly buy a print if one were offered.
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