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Magpie

Magpie

Painting Painting \ Figure | 07/17/08 @044 | liiga | Comments critiques (30) | Views views (3058)


Magpie
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Something a little different.. sort of.. oh who am I kidding, if I could draw what I please all day long I'd draw creepy and shiny things non-stop. Anyways!

I was mulling over the idea of illustrating something along the lines of seven deadly sins, but the result was instead something of an analgam of several - wrath, lust, pride, greed, vanity, but not much on envy or gluttony. Those two just didn't really fit in without making it a whole lot more complicated and awkward.

It is very detailed, most of which is lost at this size, but should look pretty sweet in print. The detail shot linked below might give a general idea. I had a lot of fun with the sword designs - there's a big dragon halberd, some hilts with snakes, one sword with a giant butterfly (hard to spot though), one with an elaborate celtic knot (my first one ever!), one with a horse skull etc. etc.

All in all this took about 16 days of extra furious scribbling in Corel Painter 9 (and complaining to everyone willing to listen) with Wacom Intuos 3.

May be reposted unmodified for as long as my full name and preferably a link back to my gallery are provided along with the image in a clear fashion.

Aformentioned prints available here.
 
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Avatar ceogar

 07/17/08 @080

Incredable details!! 10/10
 
Avatar Madanapale

 07/17/08 @087

A wonderful work!!.......Beautiful!
Top marks!
Carlos
 
Avatar Andy--Jones

 07/17/08 @096

Ooh Liiga this flippin' rocks!
 
Avatar monjo

 07/17/08 @123

Excellent work Liiga. A wonderful image!
John
 
Avatar Wallace

 07/17/08 @128

Great work:)

Extremely detailed and sharp
your best + 10
 
Avatar ThruMyEyez

 07/17/08 @141

Agree with Vincent! Awesome work!
 
Avatar MauroLira

 07/17/08 @272

WOW! That is just amazing! A master piece! +7/7
 
Avatar ARTOONATOR

 07/17/08 @421

I often have the urge to draw or paint female bodies with raven heads, and I whonder what the metaphore behind that would be since more people, like you, get this idea. Do you know what the metaphore (archetype) would be?

Nice work. I do miss some complementary contracts.
 
Avatar Vasco

 07/17/08 @457

One word - WOW
Two numbers - one and zero! +10!!
 
Avatar LoStSidE

 07/17/08 @476

Vasco said it all. lol
 
Avatar ADY

 07/17/08 @549

Wow! Excellent work!
 
Avatar kittyKat

 07/17/08 @610

thats sick man I just love it great details love it!
 
Avatar naf

 07/17/08 @746

Great painting! Really good job on the details!
 
Avatar Excorbac

 07/17/08 @833

Just great, astonishing, wonderful, etc... wish I could give you more than 10 points. Congrats !! You go to my favourites artists.
 
Avatar Maddagone

 07/17/08 @923

who is this creature :p?
great work indeed!
 
Avatar liiga

 07/18/08 @975

Thanks a lot for the comments!

Elite, GFXartist sponsor ARTOONATOR - I've no idea to be honest. I was originally going to make her a regular human, but something clicked and I decided to give the whole half magpie thing a shot, and it came out unexpectedly nice. I picked magpie as such because they have a thing for shiny objects and tend to hoard them. I guess that goes for ravens and crows, too, to some extent. I suppose there's something about the mix of the whole beady eyed look and human body language that makes such hybrids interesting, and having wings is of course not that far from the whole angel deal and wish for flight.

Regarding complementaries, I did try to have something in that general direction with the orange gems and skintones vs the cold green background. Probably could've played up the orange more, particularly in the eye, but that looked extremely un-magpie-like, so I went with a more subdued look there.

And Elite Maddagone, why that's a magpie obviously, what else?
 
Avatar cgaddict

 07/18/08 @110

One of your strongest pieces. Great comp and details.

+10
 
Avatar Gianna23

 07/18/08 @118

Really beautiful.
 
Avatar landeroc

 07/18/08 @181

This is an excellent art piece. Well executed. I like it :)
 
Avatar EideticImage

 07/18/08 @219

* much awe *
 
lillyfly06

 07/18/08 @403

9/9 as i said on DA, im impressed by your paintings, such details, the chains wow!
 
Avatar workshy

 07/18/08 @680

awesome.... thumbs up!!!!! it should not be a female if she's a "bird" hahahahahah just kiddin....
 
rimsh

 07/19/08 @824

TALANTS!
 
Avatar ARZILLIER66

 07/20/08 @194

Woooow!
great work
cool idea, cool style, cool details, cool all +10
 
Avatar purplerose

 07/20/08 @489

Really wonderful. Top Marks. :)
 
Avatar cupcake

 07/20/08 @739

Wonderful job Liiga.
Top Mark
 
Avatar Ikaa

 07/20/08 @901

Top mark!
 
Guidd

 07/21/08 @382

really original ! top mark
 
userqq

 07/29/08 @317

Don't miss this babe, is hard to find, i'm not lying

http://www.bangbull.com/details/35313-BE4/Hot_sexy_blonde_babe
 
Avatar blindsoul

 08/30/08 @947

...insane O_o no comment
 
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  Liiga Smilshkalne
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  12/01/1984 (23)
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