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rachaelm5 — Predator: World Cancer final
Published: 2007-06-17 17:21:37 +0000 UTC; Views: 5281; Favourites: 99; Downloads: 0
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Finally, finally finished! This is by far the most ambitious Predator project I've done. There's stuff that still doesn't *quite* work for me - mostly the fact that the tentacle mass confuses the flow of the picture. That, I fear, is a problem only solved through experience.
This is one of the last request pieces I'm doing. It's experimental and so serves its own purpose, but it uses a couple of Predator characters belonging to my friend ~yen-ta , with his permission.
I assure you that there is a story behind this piece. One of these days I plan to write it out, but in the meantime I'll leave you to wonder...
I used ink and Prismacolor pencils on this. It's 14x17 inches and it took me nigh-on 80 hours to complete.
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Thanks! I'm just glad the thing is finally finished.
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It does look as if were a really involved piece to work on.
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Rachel,
A riot of color and action. Yes, it is disorganized, but close combat is like that. It's one that takes staring at to get the pieces to fit together.
Steve
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Thank you!
Yeah, I realized from the get-go that it was going to be melee combat at its not-nearly-most-vicious, but I need to think of a better way of coloring such an enormous mass of squishiness so that it will be easier to "read" next time I try something like this. I think I'll have to reconsider light sources.
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Yes, more focused light might help move some things to foreground and some (like miscellaneous leftover squishiness) to the background.
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Oh wow, that's gorgeous. I love the way you filled all of the space. It has wonderful flow and a beautiful assault of colors.
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Thank you! It was challenging to fill the whole space with all of those writhing tentacles, but I like the way it worked out for the most part.
...An assault of colors... I like that idea. I like it a lot. That describes quite a lot of my work, now that I think about it.
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It really puts me in mind of Thai-Hindu art.
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Thanks very much!
I took this one slowly and I rested my hand often - I learned how not to exhaust myself the hard way, and I pay attention to when I start to ache nowadays.
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I loove the colours in this, and everything else which is going on.
80 hours? You must have a great amount of patience and stamina. Really, this deserves alot more comments..
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Thank you very much!
I spread those 80 hours over many weeks - I would go stark raving mad if I tried to do it all at once!
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So awesomely awesome! .... that was lame, but it's what first popped into my head!
You rock! X3
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LOL - Thank you very much.
Sorry I've been absent from commenting on new work and everything - I've just been hellishly busy... or dead tired. There's simply no in-between.
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My works sucks anyways, nothing big an' new. Other than kind of learning how to color on the computer via PSP.
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... OMG... All that detail. Your hand must be comatose after all that.
Grand work, Rachael! A preddy fans dream. I love the colors you used. They distinguish the preds from the tentacles perfectly. Nice work on the lightning as well. ^^
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Detail is the force that drives me skyward, even as gravity drags me down. I rested my hand whenever it ached, or whenever I started to go cross-eyed as I tried to keep track of all those infernal tentacles. I'm glad you like the way this turned out.
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Thanks. I'm glad to finally have this behemoth finished.
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you did so well...ant sorry for the try posat
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You betcha! Colors, lightning, and lotsa blades!
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Thank you!
I still feel like this one is disorganized... It was quite a trial to compose, and then I had to coordinate all of these disparate colors...! That it turned out passably well is something of a miracle.
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