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Onionpie β Rhesus Painting - PS CS2
Published: 2007-06-08 21:17:18 +0000 UTC; Views: 2270; Favourites: 14; Downloads: 0
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For a very special friend
My best work yet, imo. Took roughly 20 hours, which is actually very quick considering all that fur D< Reference picture supplied by the wonderful Go and check out his gallery, it's great!
Here's the direct link to the original photo: [link] Program: Photoshop CS2
Time: 20 hours give or take some
P.S. There seem to be some flaws with the shaded areas that show up on lighter monitors, but my monitor is slightly darker than most, so I apologise; I can't really fix it because I can't see it.
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omg thank ya 8D hey wooooah you do celtic designs and shit 8D FUCKIN' AWSUM. I WATCH U BACK NAOW, YES DEFINITELY.
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Yay!
I picked up a book of them from my library, and just had a knack xD
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they are super cool, I approve
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Wait, you mean it's a fetish!?
And here I thought I was just being playful.
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Actually, there are some US States where beastiality isn't a crime.
Kinda a scary, eh?
Especially if you're not human.
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HOOOLY CRAP son! I love monkeys AND photoshop. You've made a winner!
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I can't remember if I commented on this or not, but I'll do it again if I must, WONDERFUL job!
Just great.
Rhesus monkeys always make me sad though, because they are used largely in scientific research :/
I wrote a poem about monkeys/baboons in research facilities.
Sadness aside, great job
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thank you, I appreciate it
Yeah, I know what you mean 
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Oooooooooh.... *stares at monkey in wonderment* I thought this was a photo at first! *round of applause!* awesome work! I can sympathise with the dark monitor thing, however much I fiddle with the settings on mine it's always lighter than others! So my dark gloomy work tends to look almost plain black on other people's XD
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aw, thanks 
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Hahaha, that sucks indeed! I did a really dark moody animation for my final BA piece and it looked awesome on my monitor... then I got it into uni for my assesment (after lightening it considerably just in case!) and you could still barely make out any details '^_^
You'd think they'd have just set a standard for the monitors etc, a standard setting for printers to go with them, and then eeeverything would work together. But noooo! Companies have to make everything so damned customisable! I love that with most things, but with a monitor and printer set up? You just want it to look the same everywhere really. There's no point in having differences! Sorry, went into a little bit of a rant there hahaha!
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eep that sucks! When it's something important, it's a real inconvenience. I do digital paintings for my friends, and I have to hop from one computer (with a good screen) to the other (the only one with photoshop D< ) until I'm satisfied with how it looks. in fact, that's what I had to do for this one -- and when I finally liked it enough to print it out, there were yet MORE problems I couldn't see on the stupid dark monitor
And no problem! I go on awful long rants, myself, as you can see 
Gawd sometimes I hate computers >[
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It is! It's the most brainless stupid thing in the world. And they don't have the excuse that they've made the monitors to work specifically with a certain printer, which might make a teeny bit of sense, they've just all been made to seemingly random specifications! I hates it I do. If they weren't do gosh darn addictive I'd boycott computers completely! But alas, the internets and shiny happy photoshopness keeps me hooked XD
You ever tried manually setting the gamma/ colour balance/ brightness n' contrast settings for your monitor through your computer? You can never get two monitors to look the same however much you tweak them. It can help though (took me hours to get my laptop set up, thankfully this computer only took about half an hour). Ah, it's nice to know my hatred is not alone in the world of computing!
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Hahaha, exactly! I'd boycott it too, but I also love internets and photoshop :B I guess we'll just have to put up with the utter stupidity of computer companies D:
Yeah, I've tried manually fiddling with it, on both monitors. And NOTHING works D: I got the reds to be a little less saturated on the dark one (oh, I forgot to mention that -- it was dark AND PINK D< ), and although it's still a little pink (couldn't desaturate the red anymore without it looking weird :c ) it's better. BUT STILL DARK. And the bright one is at its LOWEST brightness and it's that freaking washed-out. It's crazy stuff, fo' sho'
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The first thing I noticed about this is how realistic the face is--truly amazing! The eyes have a photorealism-type quality to them. And the fur looks so soft... I want to pet him, haha
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thank you
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Lol, I'll look forward to seeing the results of your efforts to edging toward insanity/awesome drawings
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Holy crap, I thought it was a photo from the thumbnail. It's very, very good.
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Ah, so that's what a rhesus looks like. Very nice.
(sorry, I read Dean Koontz's "Fear Nothing" forever ago and there was a lot of talk about those monkeys.)
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Thank you
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Uhh... I said I was gonna do this but I feel obliged to post the 'official comment'.
Congratulations, and keep up the great work!
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Jesus, haha - I saw the thumbnail and came here ready to discuss photography in zoos and how awkward it is, and it isn't a bleedin' photo at all, you beast! It's fantastic!
Did you know that Rhesus monkeys have been frequently tested on in Psychology experiments?
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hehe thank you
That's pretty cool, what kind of psychology experiments? 8D
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I already said Psychology in my first post, didn't I? Oops.
Because this comment is otherwise useless - another experiment they did involved maternal separation and attachment. Basically they reared these baby Rhesus monkeys isolated from all other monkeys - they were given a cloth dummy and a wire dummy. The monkeys would go to the cloth one for comfort even if it the wire one was providing food, showing that comfort can be more important than basic needs such as feeding. The experiment unintentionally also proved that maternal separation leads to problems with communication and especially mating later.
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D: oh dear. But that is pretty cool 
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This might interest: [link]
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I know, I thought the same thing 
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Nasty, Psychology ones unfortunately.
There was one experiment that tested stress and the circumstances of responsibility. The monkeys were split into two groups. Both groups were given electric shocks every 30 seconds, but one of the groups could try and press a lever to stop each electric shock before it happened. That group started to die of stress-related illnesses, which they put down to having too much responsibility over the situation. Fun, huh?
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ick D: That's not very nice. If they're so interested in it, do it to humans instead, damnit D<
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O_O
how do you dedicate all that time staring at the computer drawing fur?
amazing.
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I have no life D:
And thank you 8D
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GREAT JOB!!!! 
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