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Ultyzarus β€” Birth of the Garuda

Published: 2009-11-22 19:22:43 +0000 UTC; Views: 33004; Favourites: 1678; Downloads: 0
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Description The ancient giant bird Garuda. Like the phoenix, it can never die as it is reborn from its ashes.

Took me around 7 hours (I didn't really count)
Photoshop only

Please don't use without my permission, or without notifying me!!!!

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EDIT: I really got a DD!?! Wow thanks to for suggesting!
And also thanks to for the Feature!

I checked my account this morning and had 208 messages, I never had that much... Thanks for all the Favs and messages!

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The Garuda is a huge crane-like bird. Its body feathers are red and its head/neck is golden orange. The tip of its wings and its face have black feathers. Some blue and green ones are also found on the Garuda's chest and its wing's shoulders.

It draws its powers (mainly healing and fire/light elemental powers) from the red fiery gem on its chest. Destroying this gem is the only way of preventing the Garuda from rising again. It is not an easy task and is strongly advised against, since the Garuda is one the rare Legendary beasts that cares about other life forms and will use its healing powers on them.

Part of the ultyzarus.deviantart.com/galle… (Crystaba Realms Project)
Concept belongs to sohriin.deviantart.com/(Sohrii… and ultyzarus.deviantart.com/ (Ultyzarus)
Artwork by ultyzarus.deviantart.com/ (Ultyzarus)
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Comments: 194

Calpernica [2015-06-11 05:51:21 +0000 UTC]

Valhalla Filitros

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R9RO [2013-04-19 20:17:10 +0000 UTC]

Finally good work on rising of flaming birds! Few people seem to get the point.
I want to use it as Facebook cover. Is it ok?

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Ultyzarus In reply to R9RO [2013-04-20 17:49:54 +0000 UTC]

As long as you credit me for it, yes. If you can send me the link, too it'd be appreciated (I'd friend you just for that )

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vinhavatar [2012-12-02 02:49:12 +0000 UTC]

Looks like he is in he "MEH!" pose.

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chotabear [2012-09-02 15:49:34 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely stunning !!! And the colours are out of this world.

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Ultyzarus In reply to chotabear [2012-09-05 14:14:04 +0000 UTC]

Thank you, I must admit it came out way better than I thought it would!

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Interrogator [2012-07-25 16:32:11 +0000 UTC]

The Magirangers think the Garuda is more bird type than the Phoenix.

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Ultyzarus In reply to Interrogator [2012-07-26 01:09:09 +0000 UTC]

My design is based on a crane rather than a peacock like most phoenixes are (especially the japanese Suzaku. The only thing I took from the phoenix mythology is the flame-rebirth legend and the warm colors. What I kept from the actual Garuda mythos is that it is a very large divine bird.

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deckher [2012-04-10 20:30:15 +0000 UTC]

Do you mind if I use him for a caeral box project for my social studies project?
He'd be our mascot.

As for my own opinion, AMAZING! I thought it wa traditional xD

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Ultyzarus In reply to deckher [2012-04-11 02:18:44 +0000 UTC]

Honestly, I'd rather not... I have allowed it to be used a few times, but it is part of a personal project.
Thanks for asking though! It's always flattering that people want to use my work

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deckher In reply to Ultyzarus [2012-04-11 11:01:31 +0000 UTC]

Okay!

Your art is amazing~

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DolphinSilverwolf [2011-12-23 16:46:42 +0000 UTC]

I always wondered where the team name in Ace Combat 6 came from...

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SigmaCore [2011-07-08 12:07:51 +0000 UTC]

Tout simplement magnifique.

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Ultyzarus In reply to SigmaCore [2011-07-08 14:03:01 +0000 UTC]

merci!

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SigmaCore In reply to Ultyzarus [2011-11-28 12:17:06 +0000 UTC]

Y'a pas de quoi.

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WoodenMarker [2011-03-27 23:07:00 +0000 UTC]

It's so colorful the things on fire! Oh wait, it's supposed to be on fire. I guess it isn't as funny anymore.

Amazingly done, good work!

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Ultyzarus In reply to WoodenMarker [2011-04-26 16:47:57 +0000 UTC]

Still funny

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runninghoofbeats [2010-12-04 02:44:04 +0000 UTC]

This was done on Photoshop?! It looks just like a painting, the colors and textures are perfect!

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Ultyzarus In reply to runninghoofbeats [2010-12-06 17:42:03 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! It was done from scratch in PS, and I was lucky with my custom brushed and textures XD

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runninghoofbeats In reply to Ultyzarus [2010-12-07 22:03:46 +0000 UTC]

c: That's great, it must have been tricky!

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Ultyzarus In reply to runninghoofbeats [2010-12-08 15:05:03 +0000 UTC]

I was actually surprised that it got so popular XD Inspiration & luck make a good tem

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runninghoofbeats In reply to Ultyzarus [2010-12-08 21:58:00 +0000 UTC]

Lol agreed! You're an amazing artist!

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JeharraVixen [2010-10-12 01:02:27 +0000 UTC]

This is absolutely beautiful. I love the earthy/fire colors.

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Ultyzarus In reply to JeharraVixen [2010-10-17 15:52:30 +0000 UTC]

Glad you like!

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vamp-kitty-meow [2010-10-06 03:11:19 +0000 UTC]

I love the touch of cool colors!

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Ultyzarus In reply to vamp-kitty-meow [2010-10-06 20:48:22 +0000 UTC]

thanks Contrast helps

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vsurprise [2010-10-04 00:13:38 +0000 UTC]

nice job adding the blue it really makes the image pop

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Ultyzarus In reply to vsurprise [2010-10-04 01:09:45 +0000 UTC]

thanks! I agree it helps the overall image

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Pagan-Moon-Dreamer [2010-09-25 07:54:18 +0000 UTC]

Wow, I did no there was another bird like d phoenix. And I love how u did it. It looks like d lot of hard work.

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Ultyzarus In reply to Pagan-Moon-Dreamer [2010-09-25 18:31:32 +0000 UTC]

I was actually a bit lucky with the outcome The garuda in legends is not officialy like a phoenix, but is quite often associated with it. So I took my inspiration from that.

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Pagan-Moon-Dreamer In reply to Ultyzarus [2010-09-25 18:55:56 +0000 UTC]

It came really great for u.

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Ozkumeti [2010-09-21 07:48:21 +0000 UTC]

I love this bird, you did a great job doing it! ^^

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Ultyzarus In reply to Ozkumeti [2010-09-21 12:56:45 +0000 UTC]

Thank you

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biancomanto [2010-09-11 11:32:13 +0000 UTC]

featured here [link]

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Silnaur [2010-09-05 16:21:15 +0000 UTC]

Beautiful <3

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Y-psilon [2010-08-25 17:42:02 +0000 UTC]

wow at first I thought it's traditional art

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Ultyzarus In reply to Y-psilon [2010-08-26 12:05:14 +0000 UTC]

You did? Well I agree there's a lot of random texturing in there Thanks for commenting!

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Mishelangello [2010-08-18 18:56:08 +0000 UTC]

very beautiful!

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babbletrish [2010-06-22 23:39:48 +0000 UTC]

Wonderful! Love the warm colors.

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Ultyzarus In reply to babbletrish [2010-06-25 02:14:54 +0000 UTC]

thank you ^^

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IrisBars [2010-06-13 21:24:25 +0000 UTC]

fantastic work!!!

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Ultyzarus In reply to IrisBars [2010-06-15 02:09:35 +0000 UTC]

thank you!

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FierceLion [2010-05-24 02:47:39 +0000 UTC]

Fabulous

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Ultyzarus In reply to FierceLion [2010-05-24 14:56:06 +0000 UTC]

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FierceLion In reply to Ultyzarus [2010-05-24 22:26:51 +0000 UTC]

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Infernalbird [2010-05-11 00:42:47 +0000 UTC]

Would you mind if I used this as a background on a chatbox?

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Ultyzarus In reply to Infernalbird [2010-05-11 01:27:05 +0000 UTC]

Sorry, I am not familiar with chatboxes. Could you show me?

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Infernalbird In reply to Ultyzarus [2010-05-11 09:59:14 +0000 UTC]

[link]

That should explain it. I'd credit you work too.

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Ultyzarus In reply to Infernalbird [2010-05-11 11:03:05 +0000 UTC]

All right then, resend me a link when its done!

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Infernalbird In reply to Ultyzarus [2010-05-12 00:26:16 +0000 UTC]

Its the same link, at the bottom of the screen, there should be a tab that says "Credit for background" It has a link to this page. Thanks ahead.

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