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^ Is that a collage or did you draw all those DC characters by yourself?


A male villager, either middle or lower class, from ancient Egypt offers a friendly greeting.

One of my history professors said in a lecture that even the Egyptian lower classes loved to adorn themselves with jewelry. However, since most images of commoners in Egyptian art don't give them more than the standard linen loincloths (artistic haste?), I had to make up this character's bling. Most of it draws inspiration from the jewelry worn by some "traditional" African peoples today. The two pointy things hanging from his necklace are supposed to be animal tusks.

I hope y'all are ready for some more dragon. This one's still a WIP, I still have to do the shading.

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I drew them myself. Started from a drawing on paper I did..

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^Amazing!

This is suppose to be Dr Yeuh from Dune, a book I am reading. I thought I drew him in a way that made him look a bit like a mongolian, and that his hairstyle looks a bit stupid. As for his clothes...
Anyway, thoughts?

Done. Bleh.

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Because Mermaids and Dragons are so original. Maybe you hate the fact that he looks a bit different then the common interception, or that he looks too much like a mongolian and you find it offense to the people. Note that this is my interception of how the character looks like based on the description in the book.

These are my two newest photographs. I like them both in a unique way. The first is a small try, in entirety, the second only the shot of oak branches, bare and majestic.

Alone



Wild Fury

For the record, I thought Albiera's dragon and mermaid were both beautifully crafted. Your drawing, on the other hand...well, let me put this constructively: I would advise you to either invest in an art class or at least a few instructional books on basic drawing skills. As far as I'm concerned, execution quality matters far more than "originality".

Besides, it's blatantly obvious that you're just putting down fellow artists because they earn more praise than you.


A princess from the West African civilization of Mali, which also gave us Sundjata Keita and Mansa Musa.

I need to draw more West African people. Their civilizations don’t get as much attention as the Egyptians and Nubians, but they still have a lot of beauty to their culture, and they are the ancestors of most Afro Diaspora people anyway. Unfortunately their women’s headwraps are ridiculously intimidating to draw.

NSFW - Drawing of Hatshepsut, the female Pharaoh

... Coming from the guy who does Homestuck fanart...

Originality is a term that can be tweaked. Sure, someone has thought of drawing mermaids before. But she took up the concept and put her own twist on it, and it's well executed and high quality. Same goes for her dragons (and her beautiful phoenixes).

Like Brandon said: you're not really one to talk here.

These sketches illustrate concepts for one of my fantasy stories, which is set in a tropical world where tribal humans coexist uneasily with dinosaurs and other prehistoric creatures.

The black woman in the upper left corner has gone through countless name changes and personality adjustments since I first conceived of her, but her basic archetype has remained constant: namely, she is a tribal dinosaur huntress. This character, who follows in her mother's footsteps, leads her tribe's hunting troop by virtue of the skills and experience she has accrued since early adolescence. Although fiercely protective of her comrades when their lives depend on her, she avoids risks whenever possible and dislikes thrill-seekers. For her, hunting is a service to society rather than a sport for glory. My heroine may come across as socially aloof, and her detractors regard her as bossy and arrogant, but deep down she fervently cares for others' safety and well-being.

The necklaces around my protagonist's neck display the fangs and claws of dinosaurs she has killed, but you can't see them from the portrait's angle. As for the scars, the linear ones on her cheek are battle wounds while the dot-shaped ones on her forehead were ritually inflicted for cosmetic reasons.

The spear's head in the upper right area stretches three feet, or almost a meter, in length. Vaguely inspired by the long heads of some Kenyan Maasai spears, my huntress's spears are forged from fine iron to pierce their dinosaurian prey's thick skins. However, they can be unwieldy to throw, so the huntresses favor smaller throwing knives (not shown here) for ranged attacks .

At the bottom is an intelligent, matriarchal Allosaurus (originally a Velociraptor) who may function as an antagonist for my heroine. Her entire species despises humanity, with whom they compete over game and territory. With iron talons, she has risen to dominate her clan, earning scars on her lip in the process. Her feral ruthlessness knows no bounds.

I got to agree with Brando and makayla here. We all have variable degrees. I mean I am sure that taking pictures of trees or drawing dryads is not super original, but, concepts are important to artists. There is no sure way to be 100% original we carry too much environmental influences.

That sort of trash talking is immature, uncalled for and disgusting.

This battle-scarred Tyrannosaurus rex is a planned character for one of my fantasy stories (more about that in an earlier post ITT). I don’t have a name for him yet, but right night I tentatively call him “Veteran”. He’s in his mid-twenties, which is relatively old for a tyrannosaur, and he’s exactly the sort of solitary and misanthropic curmudgeon you expect for his species. However, unlike the allosaurs who are the story’s major antagonists, Veteran doesn’t actively seek out human prey. He would prefer to ignore us scrawny simians in favor of meatier and more challenging game. In fact, for all his characteristic grouchiness, Veteran isn’t needlessly sadistic; he has a “live and let live” attitude towards anything that doesn’t threaten or irritate him. Who knows, he might even make a useful ally if you manage to get on his good side…

More photography!

Together

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Odd Job

Cow going down a drain/through trans dimensional portal

Kinda simple but I loved the symmetry of the thing. Graphite and coloring pencils.

Jellyfish

lol wut
By "bleh", I was referring to my own drawing, not yours.

(Thanks guys, I appreciate your praise. )