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Published: 2008-10-18 22:35:25 +0000 UTC; Views: 19176; Favourites: 552; Downloads: 1136
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Wasgo, terror of the deep.Half Orca, Half wolf.
Burning red eyes, with 3 dorsal fins, and more coming out his flogs, hunts Orca for food, terrorizes the Haida villages and others.
Surrounded by shiny bubbles!
I wanted to play with some lighting and atmospheric perspective... but I was really bent on having something that could "disappear" into the BG. This image/concept was flaoting (swimming?) around in my head for some time, so I decided it fit the bill and went for it.
Oh, Wasgo.
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Awesome combo x3 and the water and shading is lovely <3
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Thank you!
I love water- with so much of a passion. It's hard not to jump in figuratively and literally!
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Nice! I think I remember this comes from Mexican folklore? (or I may be wrong, but it sounds familiar).
May I ask also if you colored it with pastels?
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No actually, this is North West Pacific Heritage.
Not with pastels, but pencils.
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Allrighty, looked like pastels to me!
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WOW that is FREAKY looking! It makes me smile. I just finished reading a book called Dangerous Sea Creatures...and I really wish it had been in there. The human imagination really has no limits.
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A rather literal wolf of the sea eh? Both the 'sea-wolf' as Orcas are called and a wolf. Where'd you hear about it?
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Wasgo is a cultural icon and legendary supernatural beast in many Pacific North West Coast oral traditions and cultures. There are stories of it in the Haida culture, the Tlingit, and more. I came to hear it in the oral traditions of a Native Story Teller when I lived in Vancouver. My sister then bought me my own talking stick- commissioned to have Wasgo on it.
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Woah! Very creative! The lighting is beautiful 
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Thankies!
Yah, he is a fright alright.
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Than I have done my job well in depicting it! I'm glad I could evoke this kind of emotion.
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loverly...hope it doesn't travel to the coasts of the Gulf.
I love all the tones you have going. It just seems to sort of give it this beautiful eeriness to it.
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I'm glad that it does. I was going for that effect. Lighting can do so much!
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Aye, but can it swallow a galleon or ship of equivalent size whole? If not, then it can't hold a candle to a Doomwhale!
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I have no idea why people are saying he is scary looking, i think wasgo looks cute.
anyways great work, you are so talented. i want to learn how to draw more realistic.
the lighting here is perfect.
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Thank you so much! Your comments always raise my hopes.
I think it only looks "frightening" becuase people are unfamiliar with it. Exposure is the key to desensitization, or at least some sort of capacity to formulate a likeness for a creature... which is why animals like Bats are so unloved. So, it's up to us to show people new stuff!
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I'm truly always memorized by your art...even if this lil fella feeds on my favorite animal and my is at the same time half of my favorite animal. Man...you have some serious talent for such things which look so symbolic on its own, really gratz.
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Thank you so much for all your flattery! I'm very honored.
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Awsome!
So, if he's half Orca but he eats Orcas...does that make him a cannibal?
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I love your art, not only because it's beautiful, but because it often has roots in Native American folklore, and it's fantastic fun to learn new things through research sparked from your work. This is no exception. Thanks, and keep up the good work!
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So, have you happened upon the "Ask A Ninja" Ninja Handbook?
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oh my God! O_O awesome looking! Oh so mighty blue
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I'm glad you like it! It's a personal fav of mine.
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That's really amazing. I ADORE their artform. It's simply beautiful. And he is beautiful and terrifying.
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Thank you! I was going for just that!
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Well you hit it on the nose!! ^.^
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i can hear
water rushing. the faint
glug-pop of bubbles--
growling.
i am pulled under.
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This is a really amazing piece, beautiful and terrifying. It is made even more awesome because orcas and wolves are my two favorite animals.
You know that there's evidence to suggest and wolves and whales share a common ancestor? Certainly gives new validity to the orca nickname "wolves of the sea"...
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Remarkably ugly. In a good way of course.
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BTW aftr looking at this picture I searched 'Wasgo' on google, and I found a site that suggested the legend might have been based on a creature called a zeuglodon, a primitive type of whale:
[link] The website
[link] 'Zeuglodon' on Google
What do you think?
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It's not a chimera. It's a mythological creature form the cultures of the North West Pacific Indigenous peoples.
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rly? O.o
ahhh..well it looks chimaerical of sorts, either way awesomeness
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omg thats so cool i want to run into my screen and hug it *drool* soooooooooooooooooooooo cooooooooooooool
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I love your Wasco art~ I enjoy Haida mythology as well. Excellent work.
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