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Vrynil — The Keeper of the Grove

Published: 2007-07-12 18:44:55 +0000 UTC; Views: 945; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 40
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Description Tell me where you've flown
Are there mountains
Behind the grand facade
Foundations full of life

Junkie XL- We become one

By far one of the most awesome songs I've ever heard...it inspired this pic that I drew a while back. [dug up my scanner out of that box to throw some art at you guys one last time before I move out <3's]

I like making completely random characters and settings that merely exist in the world I've created and have absolutely nothing to do with the main characters, storyline, or even in the same region, but that I create and put in as a concept just because I thought it was a cool idea.

This is one of those things.

One of the forests that exists to surround the marshland as a border and "fence" for the temple that lies in the dead center of the swamp has a living Keeper, a rare occurance in Gaia's day and age. Most were "vanquished" long ago, leaving the forest to die away of its own accord and tend to itself on its own. Adventurers would go out looking to slay some poor, unsuspecting dragon, and in the event that none were found, they would end up merely going into a protected expanse of trees and kill whatever looked like a dragon [not many have seen a real dragon, so it's easy to just kill whatever and go along with it], thus bringing back some big, ugly creature's head to adorn some wall mantle back home.

This keeper is very wise and old. His forest was one of the first, sprung up for the sole purpose of caressing the newly built temple for a god long lost in time.

He is deaf like his trees, but sees all in and throughout the branches and bows via the orb that balances in nothing under his horn. He spends most of his days lazing around his rarely visited area of the world, thus what keeps him from being killed like so many of his brethren, and lives in the present, worry free and without any thoughts of the future and what will become of his beloved flora. He sits and waits for nothing, but with the knowledge that something will eventually come.

Forest Keepers are loners in nature [pun] and have the ability to completely disappear from any and all detection so long as they remain inside of their forest, the place from which they draw all of their power from. Inside of this place, they are quick, agile, and can phase through anything native to their land. Once outside of the boundaries of their expanse, however, they will quickly lose power as they wander away, until finally, a few miles out, they will lay down, crumble into dust and simply cease to exist...

Very few remain.

[Download offers the best view of what minor details I had put in ^^ ]

EDIT: OH YEAH!! And any crits on how to make this background work would be GREATLY APPRECIATED!! I suck so frakkin' bad at backgrounds it's unreal. >>;
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Comments: 57

Vrynil In reply to ??? [2007-12-14 14:45:49 +0000 UTC]

thankies ;v;

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AgonVenna [2007-09-05 19:35:33 +0000 UTC]

I actually have a style very similar to this exact picture... drawing style I mean... such as the head, and body angles. I enjoy your drawings VERY much.

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Vrynil In reply to AgonVenna [2007-09-06 01:53:10 +0000 UTC]

Wow, thanks so much! ^^'

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AgonVenna In reply to Vrynil [2007-09-06 06:33:21 +0000 UTC]

Absolutely.

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AshKerins [2007-07-23 18:51:27 +0000 UTC]

does he have eyes, or is a butterfly sitting on it.... *reads a comment above*.. nevermind ,
he has an awesome shaped head and stuff, love the little floaty thing <3

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Vrynil In reply to AshKerins [2007-07-23 19:44:30 +0000 UTC]

Thanks :3

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AshKerins In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-24 07:35:11 +0000 UTC]

no problem =3

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lycchii [2007-07-21 12:48:46 +0000 UTC]

D:

arrgh. SO DAMN GOOD. I wish I had the hand drawing skills ;_;

and the butterfly skillz.

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Vrynil In reply to lycchii [2007-07-21 15:39:34 +0000 UTC]

Psh. Skills. Lol.

Butterfly skills= drawing 4 half circles LOL

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lycchii In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-21 16:16:38 +0000 UTC]

LOL. OH BUT YOU MAKE IT SEEM SO EASY.

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Vrynil In reply to lycchii [2007-07-21 17:01:12 +0000 UTC]

U R KRAYZEE

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lycchii In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-21 17:17:12 +0000 UTC]

I ARE NOT. YER JUST IN DENIAL.

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RegineSkrydon [2007-07-17 02:32:08 +0000 UTC]

*HOLY* ... *FUCKIN* ... *SHIT*

that's friggen awesome!!! *OOGLES*

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Vrynil In reply to RegineSkrydon [2007-07-17 02:49:33 +0000 UTC]

WHOAOMG D8>>>

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Aufweidersehen [2007-07-16 07:20:09 +0000 UTC]

Your art is beautiful... And the proportions are amazing I'd love to see your art colored.

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Vrynil In reply to Aufweidersehen [2007-07-16 17:22:54 +0000 UTC]

Wow....thanks ;; I'm trying, but I really am horrendous at coloring, heh

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Aufweidersehen In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-18 19:25:57 +0000 UTC]

Oh lol, I'm sure you're pretty decent. Y'gotta practice to get any better. ;D

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MissEwe [2007-07-14 17:32:38 +0000 UTC]

Sweeet!

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Tex777 [2007-07-14 00:52:22 +0000 UTC]

Me: ohey this pic looks like RR's bubble feets

-checks title and arist-

Me: oh

-shot-


Nice pie. I uh, mean pic.

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kioreija [2007-07-13 09:32:37 +0000 UTC]

Mmm. Beautiful design. I loves it. FAVE. <3

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Annubrius [2007-07-13 04:36:15 +0000 UTC]

Color it! Color it! Color it! Color it!!! D=

This is sooo pretty!!! ^_____________^;

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Vrynil In reply to Annubrius [2007-07-13 16:41:03 +0000 UTC]

I'll tryyyyy DX

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Annubrius In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 18:21:41 +0000 UTC]

that's all your fans ask.. X3

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FukaiYamiNoRyu [2007-07-13 03:27:46 +0000 UTC]

:0 The detail on the Keeper, is great. I love those claws. |: <3

And maybe if you added some knots, and jagged 'rings' to the outside of the tree trunks, it might bring more depth and interest into the background. Which would bring more interest back to the main focus, the Keeper.

-shrug- Just throwin' some random ideas at ya to try.

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Vrynil In reply to FukaiYamiNoRyu [2007-07-13 03:30:58 +0000 UTC]

Well, I was gonnna just make the trees varying shades of some ridiculously dark color so that the Keeper and the butterflies would stand out :/ I don't want the cluttered trees to be the main focus, so I'm having issues DX

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FukaiYamiNoRyu In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 03:41:18 +0000 UTC]

Hmmn, well, perhaps you should make the butterflies a bit...florescent? And do the trees like you'd planned. oO That would definately make the butterflies noticably more of a focus than the foilage. And then if you did the lighting correctly, it would accent the way you colored the Keeper, and make him the first thing you see since he's the largest creature in the image.

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Vrynil In reply to FukaiYamiNoRyu [2007-07-21 02:29:51 +0000 UTC]

*l8 response*

Yeah I've always wanted to do glowy butterflies LOL *shot*

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Foxchibi [2007-07-13 02:26:31 +0000 UTC]

So many butterflies. D|||
Awesome job 8D

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Vrynil In reply to Foxchibi [2007-07-13 03:25:52 +0000 UTC]

Thankies :B

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Foxchibi In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 03:55:55 +0000 UTC]

<3333333333

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Skysealer [2007-07-13 00:47:11 +0000 UTC]

Ya know.. I absolutely love how your lines always come out so... SHARP.
How do ya do it? D:

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Vrynil In reply to Skysealer [2007-07-13 03:26:11 +0000 UTC]

I use a .5 mechanical pencil :B

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Skysealer In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 03:35:43 +0000 UTC]

:u
Certainly beats my huge 2h lead :B

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crazymonster [2007-07-13 00:43:54 +0000 UTC]

wow thats a super weird but awesome creature at the same time X3. Are his eyes butterflies? Or did one of them fly infront of it lol?

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Vrynil In reply to crazymonster [2007-07-13 03:26:24 +0000 UTC]

He doesn't have any eyes :B

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crazymonster In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 03:54:57 +0000 UTC]

lol oh really? XD wut was i thinking :B

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Pastiche-X [2007-07-13 00:06:36 +0000 UTC]

Hmm... critiques on background. Well, the rocks look really nice. I just love how well you've drawn them. The trees ... are kinda bad. I dunno, it just seems like you're packing too much stuff into the background with all those trees. Possibly remove all or a few of them and it might look less busy/clutttered. It's hard to create a good composition when there's no negative space, you know?

The character's reallly cool, BTW. I just love how good you are at drawing everything. That hand with the butterflies is total

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Vrynil In reply to Pastiche-X [2007-07-13 03:28:01 +0000 UTC]

Well I was going to make the trees varying shades of "really freakin' dark" so that it wouldn't seem so busy. I don't really lke the rocks, though, seeing as how I have no idea how to properly give them texture DX

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Pastiche-X In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 13:56:42 +0000 UTC]

Uhhhh... take photographs of rocks.... steal their textures and work it into the picture?
That's what I was thinking would work too, you know, with the trees?

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Zalude [2007-07-12 21:12:56 +0000 UTC]

is it just me or is the lizard guy's evil contrasting with the butterflies? Nvm, lovely work... and I can't help but notice that you're about to do a background. I see very few of it in your gallery ^_^

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Vrynil In reply to Zalude [2007-07-12 21:46:49 +0000 UTC]

He's not evil. :[

And yeah I suck at backgrounds.

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UncleGran-Gran [2007-07-12 20:50:53 +0000 UTC]

I love the spazzy butterflies...and pose! :3

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UncleGran-Gran In reply to UncleGran-Gran [2007-07-13 04:57:08 +0000 UTC]

This was a wimpy comment. it's been bugging me. Someone called RIGHT when I clicked so my first thing I said wasn't the usual "Hi!"

No. I spazzed.

"OMGUSHERS. THAT'S SO COOL! THE...EEEEEEEEEEE." "Hello? O.o'''' " "Oh...haha...hi "

"Banana Phone" just started playing. I spazzed like that.

-Anyway-...yes. Butterflies are spazzy and...I want to count them.

...I think there are 36.

...yeah. I'm pretty sure there are 36.

The "sail" on its neck is pwn. The story is like...real...ness @_@

And why must you pwn the world at the feets? D:

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K-Es-Tressier [2007-07-12 20:08:57 +0000 UTC]

AHHH i luve the butterflies 8DD and the charater <3333

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Vrynil In reply to K-Es-Tressier [2007-07-13 03:28:19 +0000 UTC]

lol thanks <3

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Dragounette [2007-07-12 19:20:56 +0000 UTC]

_ I love your butterflies ! But they would be better in colors

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Vrynil In reply to Dragounette [2007-07-12 19:23:13 +0000 UTC]

I was actually thinking of attempting to color this...but I am horrible with colors, so I fear I'll fail :[

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Skysealer In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-13 03:37:07 +0000 UTC]

*butts-in D:*
You won't get anywhere if you don't try!
Go for it! c:

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Vrynil In reply to Skysealer [2007-07-13 16:45:47 +0000 UTC]

<3's ;^;

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Dragounette In reply to Vrynil [2007-07-12 19:28:19 +0000 UTC]

You could do everything in black and white and make only the butterflies in colors

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