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The Black Tortoise of the North 北方玄武
Genbu (or Xuan Wu in Chinese) is one of the Four Symbols of the Chinese Constellation, along with Seiryuu (Blue Dragon) Byakko (White Tiger) and Suzaku (Red Sparrow). Genbu represents the North, the winter season and the element of Water (if this confuses you, it's because I made a mistake on the element of the previous two. My apologies). Genbu is the third in the series now. For those who have been waiting for me to finish this, thanks a lot for your patience. It was a bit of a love and hate relationship painting this though. At times it got VERY frustrating to paint. Not so very smart moves on my side mostly, since I painted the shell at the very last minute and since this is all painted in one layer, I had a lot of trouble painting around the head. But overall it was a lot of fun. I had a lot of opportunities to paint details and though I know its not perfect, I think I learned a lot. I came up with an initial sketch fairly early, but it took a lot of tortoise and turtle pictures before I got a good idea of how to paint it all out. The shell is kind of inspired by a multitude of tortoise shell photo's I've seen and honestly I think its a weird mixture of everything and anything. As for the rest, I made the snake a viper (love those critters) and the head of the tortoise is sort of based on an Alligator Snapping Turtle, though I think you wouldnt be able to see much resemblance now I have a whole lot more to say actually, but I know when to shut up ~Vyrilien Medium: Painter 2, Photoshop CS2 (dodge tool here and there, but thats about it), Wacom Tablet Time taken: No idea, but Ive been working on and off for two weeks. Other parts of the Series: Byakko:[link] Seiryuu:[link] Suzaku: [link] And a hidden Fifth... Huang Long: [link] |
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February 1, 2008
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Do evil things with a smile on your face
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"Life is not a support system for art. It is the other way around."
- Stephen King
"So, uh, I hope she's lying about her age or has some sort of mental disability."
- ~IanSquall
I take commissions. More information regarding this is in my journal :3
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I'm going to TAKE OVER THE WORL - Oooh! was that a butterfly???
If in doubt, POKE IT!!!
*poke*
Did you know.. that when you smell, look at, or pick a flower, you're sniffing, staring at, and ripping off a plant's genitals???
I'm such a pyromaniac..0.0 XD
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I'm going to TAKE OVER THE WORL - Oooh! was that a butterfly???
If in doubt, POKE IT!!!
*poke*
Did you know.. that when you smell, look at, or pick a flower, you're sniffing, staring at, and ripping off a plant's genitals???
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