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TheSolitarySandpiper — Graduation Sphinx
Published: 2010-05-28 22:06:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 1760; Favourites: 33; Downloads: 47
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This will be the cover for my graduation announcements. It's a very symbolic image: an ibis-headed sphinx holding a flame. The colors, red and purple, are also symbolic (unfortunately, the scan made all of the purple look like blue in this image). I tell people that it only has three legs to represent the three persons of the Trinity... but really the fourth leg was just too much of a pain and would have cramped the image which needs to shrunk down quite a bit to fit on the card.The blueness is really bothering me... I might try to use a different scanner to see if the purple shows up better. x(
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Thanks very much!
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WOAH! What a cool way to graduate! Wish I'd done something like this. Fantastic concept
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Haha thanks. ^^
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Beautiful, beautiful work on the colouring and shading as well as the design 
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Thank you so much!
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You're welcome
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ohoho! this is so strange, beautiful and interesting, though, looks like an extinct animal.
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I like a lot this sphinx. It remebered be a cross between actual sphix with a Bennu.
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Thanks, I appreciate it.
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Thank you very much!
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i realy like tghis one what kinda medium did u use im guessing colored pencils
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You guessed correctly.
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oh im horrible with colored pencils lol ur picture made me wanna breake em out and practice again haha and thanks for the llama much appreciated
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Don't give up!
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ur right i guess after a long time of using them ill eventualy figure out how to not make it look like a six year old was drawing lolthanks for the encouragement
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What an unusual variation of a Sphinx, but I like unusual.
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Sphinxes in Egyptian mythology can also have the heads of various animals (criosphinx has the head of a ram and hieracosphinx has the head of a falcon), so I substituted the head for that of an ibis to represent the Egyptian god Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing. The overall idea was to create a creature that symbolized a guardian or keeper of knowledge: the sphinx element provided the guardian symbolism and the ibis represents the knowledge aspect. So it is weird, but quite thoroughly thought out to be fitting to display on the front of my graduation cards. 
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its weird in a good way its not your conventional Spinx so i say nice work
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Sphinxes in Egyptian mythology can also have the heads of various animals (criosphinx has the head of a ram and hieracosphinx has the head of a falcon), so I substituted the head for that of an ibis to represent the Egyptian god Thoth, the god of wisdom and writing. The overall idea was to create a creature that symbolized a guardian or keeper of knowledge: the sphinx element provided the guardian symbolism and the ibis represents the knowledge aspect. So it is weird, but quite thoroughly thought out to be fitting to display on the front of my graduation cards.
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well it was certainly indeed
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This is very nice but it makes me afraid of the day that I'm graduating XDDDDD Strangely, I'm also waiting for it XD
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