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Ritual
Published: 2007-12-20 09:33:41 +0000 UTC; Views: 50610; Favourites: 2879; Downloads: 821
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Wash daily from nose-tip to tail-tip; drink deeply, but never too deep;And remember the night is for hunting, and forget not the day is for sleep.
~Rudyard Kipling
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An amazing traditional piece. The colors are just beautiful, and I adore the expression on the tiger as he looks up at the fountain sculpture. I really like how you did the water dripping out onto the knife.
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Wow. I love his expression. Your anthro-hands always amaze me.
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i lovet that yu make him look almost human, very expertly done! keep it up
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Very interesting the intense concentration in his eye, an immense respect for the statue in front of him, makes me believe this is the face of his god, perhaps? A hunter after the hunt, or a shaman after a sacrifice or perhaps magical "ritual", and the water washing away the blood is perhaps a way of saying the god "washes away" the act? Above the god, below the mortal, above purity and below sin. Above comes down the fluid of forgiving purity, and from below, offered up is the shed fluid of mortality?
VERY NICE DETAIL!
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This is really very cool. I love the tiger's expression.
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Yet another gorgeous submission. I agree entirely with *Temiree Your faces and expressions are so good
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Good work as usual. 
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Very nice.
Thanks!
I get very depressed looking for jobs everyday, the picture has certainly helped my spirits.
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It gives me a sense of doubt and courage its weird i cant explain it.. beautiful as always
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It was the look on the tiger's face that really captured this one for me
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This picture has real depth to it! I love it. 
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Absolutely gorgeous piece. Love the effect of the water washing the blood away. And your backgrounds are always so beautiful and unique. Brilliant work!
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I really love this picture. Both the composition and the expression on the character's face are excellent.
Also, great use of a Kipling quote ^^.
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All of your artwork is so beautiful, but this one came out particularly well because the completed image speaks a complete idea, albeit a mysterious one. And square formats are usually so difficult to compose without making stiff, stilted images, but the eye contact (if a stone head can give you eye contact) from the upper left at a diagonal to the lower right, along with the two parallel verticals on the side works really well. And that the light of the image seems to be radiating towards the point where the water contacts with the knife really draws the eye. The background is also beautiful. My favorite part of the image is where the warm light fades into the exposed roots of the furthest tree.
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Wow! I always love the ritual theme, but I do wonder...
what ritual is taking place here?
lol We all think its blood, but I bet its like tomato juice or sumthing. >_<
Love the pic.^^ I love the way you draw. Its so ... captivating.
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I really like this one.
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amazing as alway, Blotch!
I don't don't why, but I kinda think that the tiger is a she...
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Really wonderful work. I think your works are fantastical awesome!
I like the details and his expression.
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Very nice were piece, I like the background as well. Is it some temple or sacred place?
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Wow....thats so well done. Sometimes I wonder why everything is done in computer these days. Your use of real media is brilliant! this is going onto my faves!
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Another amazing piece. So beautiful and clean in its execution.
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You know a little club soda'll get that right out.
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Wow, gorgeous work! That background is absolutley beautiful.
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Gotta love that fur and background. Amazing, as always. And I love the fluids dinamic you used for the blood.
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He looks seriously freaked out... I wanna know what this is about!
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