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rachaelm5 — Predator: World Cancer final
Published: 2007-06-17 17:21:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 5278; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 0
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Finally, finally finished! This is by far the most ambitious Predator project I've done. There's stuff that still doesn't *quite* work for me - mostly the fact that the tentacle mass confuses the flow of the picture. That, I fear, is a problem only solved through experience.
This is one of the last request pieces I'm doing. It's experimental and so serves its own purpose, but it uses a couple of Predator characters belonging to my friend ~yen-ta , with his permission.
I assure you that there is a story behind this piece. One of these days I plan to write it out, but in the meantime I'll leave you to wonder...
I used ink and Prismacolor pencils on this. It's 14x17 inches and it took me nigh-on 80 hours to complete.
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wow ! the colour, the mayhem your amazing
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Thanks very much! I still think I could have composed this crazy thing better - the balance *is* off - but as an exercise in pure Predator craziness, it's a rip-roaring success.
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my first impression was amazement..
and it's now acknoledgement, because this looks like it was a hell lotta work!
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Thank you very much!
Yeah, this was probably one of the most challenging Predator projects I've ever undertaken. I had to do more prepwork to get the composition set up than I would normally have to do - seeing as how there's so many bodies in action. But it was a lot of fun and I'm still pretty pleased with the results even after several months have passed.
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yes, and me too!
how come , you got so influenced by (what is it?chinese art?)
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I have been influenced by Chinese and Hindu art, as well as lots of comic books, and many other things besides.
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yeah cool, and also here on this site itself is so many potential inspiration....
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Interesting chino-indian motif 
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That's pretty cool, actually. I've seen and read a lot of different ideas about Predator culture. Quite a few Star Trek fans had given the Predators Klingon-esque cultural attributes back before the AvP: Prey novel came out, and it seemed to translate fairly well once we got the scoop from that book. We can also read a lot of different "small community/tribal" attributes into their culture, and I've seen all kinds of different things done in the comics along those lines. I think the AvPvTerminator comic had a more Native American feel to it, especially with some of their ritual observances toward the end.
I grafted the Chino-Indian concept onto the Predator pantheon, specifically, more than onto the living culture. I wanted to start developing a mythology around powerful, respectable deities that had some fairly wild morphology. The tendency of Hindu gods to have multiple arms and heads always struck me as rather alien, even from a human perspective. That, and a project I had some while ago involved Ravana, who has TWENTY bloody arms and ten heads... I had to try something like that again, and so making Predator gods was my excuse. Rather circular logic, yes, but there you go. Now I just have to shoehorn the ideas into some kind of cohesive plot to explain how stuff like this can happen.
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Yeah, that's what I was thinking when I finally got this booger finished.
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Wow. I love the color and the chaos. It looks like a scene from a mythological battle. Very nice. ^-^
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Thanks!
That mythological, monumental chaos is exactly what I was shooting for. One of those Epic Battle dealies, complete with crazy god and a can opener, and a gob of hard-nosed old warriors kicking butt and taking names.
I mean, honestly, the humans get boring after a while, and you can only kill so many bugs before you tire of cleaning out all those intricate little head knobbies. Gotta find some new and exciting prey. Thought I'd throw the fearsome bunch into a fray with a Cthulhu critter.
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I just realised that this thing had soo many eyes everywhere!
The colour does help to separate it out, though fewer tentacles would not have gone amiss but I like how it's purple with yellow blood. Looks like they are all having fun
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Thank you!
This one does have some compositional problems due to the sheer quantity of tentacles. I'd not tried something this insidiously complex before, so the composition was very much an experiment. I think you're right; some streamlining of tentacles - or something - might need to be done next time I attempt something like this.
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Amazing, I've loved watching this piece develop.
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Thanks very much!
I'm just glad that the blasted thing is finally finished. That was a heck of a lot of tentacles.
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looks like it took a lot of time. It's really good.
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Thank you!
Yeah, this one took somewhere in the neighborhood of 80 hours from penciling, to inking, to coloring. I spread it out over several months, though, so I wouldn't go completely crazy.
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Its very good. I like it how when you do your deviations you put in those rainbow colours for effect.
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Thanks. I have a thing for full-spectrum color, so quite a few of my big finished pieces end up looking rather rainbowy... Even the ones with monsters. *snicker*
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lol!
Yeah have you done more on the Jazz Dragons?
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Sketches only at present. I need to get my pile of Trades done before I can continue work on my personal projects.
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Oh ok then.
Keep up the good work.
I wish this world was a dragon's world.
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:amazed: This is done! Yes! I love it!
God, I love all of the detail, and the coloring an the... How about I stop and just tell you I love the whole thing?
Oh, and how much did this cost? Just curious.
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Thanks very much! It was something of an endurance feat... Over a protracted period of time.
If I put this one out for sale, all matted and framed nicely, it'd go for $300. Sans-frame I might part with it for $250.
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HOLY MOLY! That's a lot of color and action. Amazing!
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Thanks very much!
Yeah, maybe a bit too much in the way of squidgy action. I'm going to have to work in the tentacle-coordination thing. The movement is so complex, it's hard to keep control of it.
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LOL - Eighty hours spread over several months, mind you. I don't do 'em all in one sitting any more. I'd go completely crazy.
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Of course spread over several months! XP
But working so long on the same image...
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The colors are beautiful in this.
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Eighty hours is about average for a large, complex piece like this. And since I spread it out over several months, I didn't really notice the huge amount of time. It may have been a bit more than eighty hours, or perhaps a bit less, but eighty is a pretty close estimate.
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Wow, it looks great the colors are nice too!
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Thanks very much!
It's a bit too tangled to work really well, I think. I need to work on tentacle-coordination-and-balancing mechanisms of some kind if I do anything this horribly complicated again any time soon.
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You're welcome!
Oh ok, heh I didn't notice. I always think your work looks nice especially the colors, I really want to practice at traditional media then move on to digital but that's later up the road.
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Very nice! But a bit confusing... Hey! That red predator's got wings and like... lots of arms? Why is that?
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Thank you!
Yes, all the tentacles made this project very complicated. I know that I need to work on the coordination of so many tentacles a bit better next time I try this.
The red Predator is a demon/demi-god. He's *special*...
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You're welcome!
Next time? You even have any finger left after all this to think of a next time? I'd gone mad I had done this... sooo many details and stuff!
Oooh! I see! Special pred-demi-god! Fun fun! It's very nice anyhow!
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Wow! It turned out fantastic! I am in awe of how you seemed to manage to keep all of the tentacles strait. With all of those shadows and highlights I think I would have gone mad.
The colors are truly stellar. You rocked this one out of the park.
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Thanks very much!
It was really a challenge to keep all of those blasted tentacles straight. I had to stop and rest every time I started to go cross-eyed.
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I knewww this would be astounding when it was finished <3 This is seriouslu just so amazing, I'm speechless!
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Hey, I remember this! Man, that did take a long time--you're a professional, I would have quit ages ago!
What I didn't remember, though, was all those creepy eyes! They're so shiny and squishy-looking and creepy--BLAARRGH!!!
Anyway, great job, and thanks in advance for paying for the resulting (and very necessary) psychiatric treatment.
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HA! HAHAHAHAHA! Psychiatric treatment? Who are you kidding - this kind of stuff should straighten you out!
Glad you like it, in any event, and thanks.
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Talk about enourmous work!!
-AWESOME stuff, Mayo!!
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