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Click on the image to view the detail, thank you!

I've been working on this image on and off over the past 3 weeks. Drawn by hand with mechanical pencils, ink, chalk, acrylic paint and then tweaked using photoshop.

It's a design for a woodland guardian type character. I haven't decided whether it is good or evil yet and I plan to continue developing the character.

I think the magpies are meant to be his 'eyes'.

The plan was to paint/colour it digitally, but I went too far in the drawing stage, rendering the whole thing, so once it was on the computer I risked painting over all the texturing I'd already drawn. So I decided to leave it for now. I like the result, it's just not quite what I intended.

Click on the image to view the detail, thank you!

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*meihua May 10, 2011
Beautiful work, I like the contrast :)
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*UpsideDownCross May 8, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
absolutely amazing! i love the way you drew the wood!
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~DeadOnTime Mar 6, 2009
A bit like Odin then, with the birds as eyes? :)
Amazing stuff, I really love all the details ^^
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*mike-nash Mar 6, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
Yes, very similar! Although I hadn't discovered anything about Odin's ravens at the time I drew this. :p
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!YugenM Jun 12, 2008
Why so little exposure for such an amazing work of art :(
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*mike-nash Jun 13, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you. This is definately one of my more popular pieces. I had a good time drawing it too :).
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~ChickenKai May 17, 2008
O...M...G... You're really... Awesome:o
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~MadMagpie Apr 26, 2008
Oh, this is truly, utterly fantastic one!
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*mike-nash Apr 26, 2008  Professional Digital Artist
Thank you very much.
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~AurinSusi Mar 20, 2008  Student General Artist
Magnificent. I like the strong contrast and the amount of detail pleases the eye. The composition with the frames is interesting, too.

At first glance I thought I was looking only at magpies and branches, but then I started to regocnize something more. I really like picures like that! Have a +fav.
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