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The nonexistentialism of this piece,
The abstraction and the purity,
The sheer unadulterated emptiness
Is simply lacking and it bores me

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Submitted: January 17, 2009
Image Size: 1.7 MB
Resolution: 2800×1800

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Unicorn Zodiacby ~Flynn-the-cat

Anthro / Digital Media / Painting & Airbrushing

in the Top 30 for

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And here I play with symbolism and stylised things and very-non realism.
All using the pastel tool - which I'd wondered about.
I LOVE the fact that it lays down colour like my coloured pencils do, and this is more like the work I've been doing in my sketchbook.
It blends.
But: it's pastel; ever used it? It's oily and sticky. I can't use the flat palette knife or a paintless brush to blend it, AND I used a large canvas size.

This means my computer only let me use a 20% (sized) soft palette knife to blend...

So that took a while. All the background is on one layer - the unicorn is on a separate one, because I had to sketch it before colouring.

And, in homage to the Deer of Woodland Green I have included another deer, here... can you see it?

Time - four and a half hours
Tools - ArtRage 2.5 and tablet
Unicorn is referenced from the foal in this stock picture (of mine) and adapted - mane/fur/tail, body shape and neck is longer and more deerlike... I used the foal because it was more delicate than the adult pony.

...how many creatures can you spot?
EDIT: okay, there's a deer, cat, fish, dragon, dragonfly, butterfly, tree, bird in the tree, another fish, flying serpent, phoenix, and big serpent-dragon ... and possibly a couple more things

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*kamisch42 Mar 26, 2010 Hobbyist General Artist

Ooh... I love all the hidden images! I can't find the deer, but I see a cat & a fish, a dragon fly, a bird...a little dragon, and maybe the neck & head of a larger dragon...butterfly...oh wait! Is the deer red?