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Pathfinders: The Animal Totem Deck
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Coming to you in 2007
My entry for the design of the card deck box. It started out as a very loose open canvas sketh that blurbed out my rough idea. All I knew at that time is I wanted something symbolic..and somehow the idea of animals being pathfinders got me to thinking about the moon and its mysterious ethereal qualities. After the initial sketch I actually did not intend to color it...the inspiration kinda went astray and so I left it be. Then one day for whatever reason wanted to color it. So I did..without much thought as to what I wanted as the end product. The only thing that remained a constant is I wanted to incorporate the moon somehow and kinda give a dreamcatcher feel to it somehow. So while looking at photos of eyes..I suddenly thought of a solar eclipse..the pupil serving as the moon. Also incorporated patterns of various animals in the design, from top left to bottom right: hawk feathers, simple white fur(could belong to a multitude of animals), leopard spots, tiger stripes, giraffe spots, moth/butterfly wing, xebra stripes.
So here is my design, I am still working on it from time to time when one thing or another begins to irk me. It's not meant to be super crazy polished..thats not the intent I had when I started it. This may not be chosen as a final design, but I look forward to seeing what others come up with.
The full wrap-around box design can be viewed here: [link]
Prints: yes if interested pm me(specify if you wish it with or without thet text)
Time taken
tools: open canvas for original sketch, ps for final.
[link]
Coming to you in 2007
My entry for the design of the card deck box. It started out as a very loose open canvas sketh that blurbed out my rough idea. All I knew at that time is I wanted something symbolic..and somehow the idea of animals being pathfinders got me to thinking about the moon and its mysterious ethereal qualities. After the initial sketch I actually did not intend to color it...the inspiration kinda went astray and so I left it be. Then one day for whatever reason wanted to color it. So I did..without much thought as to what I wanted as the end product. The only thing that remained a constant is I wanted to incorporate the moon somehow and kinda give a dreamcatcher feel to it somehow. So while looking at photos of eyes..I suddenly thought of a solar eclipse..the pupil serving as the moon. Also incorporated patterns of various animals in the design, from top left to bottom right: hawk feathers, simple white fur(could belong to a multitude of animals), leopard spots, tiger stripes, giraffe spots, moth/butterfly wing, xebra stripes.
So here is my design, I am still working on it from time to time when one thing or another begins to irk me. It's not meant to be super crazy polished..thats not the intent I had when I started it. This may not be chosen as a final design, but I look forward to seeing what others come up with.
The full wrap-around box design can be viewed here: [link]
Prints: yes if interested pm me(specify if you wish it with or without thet text)
Time taken
tools: open canvas for original sketch, ps for final.
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CommentsThat's amazing! O_O
-- "When I became convinced that the universe is natural, that all the ghosts and gods are myths, there entered into my brain, into my soul, into every drop of my blood the sense, the feeling, the joy of freedom." Robert G. Ingersoll That is BEAUTIFUL!
That eyes is just amazing. I love how it's like... a sky picture with the stars around the outside and the eclipse for the pupil. ^^ Ah, this is definitely a fave! -- Commission me! [link] Awesome! The eye turned out great, and I like the fur patterns of the various animals. It's so amazing and soft...
~Kayla Silvercat -- --- ~kayla silvercat "The reason cats climb is so that they can look down on almost every other animal - it's also the reason they hate birds." ~K.C. Buffington Thats awesome! the colours ar simply mind blowing and great to look at, the ideas great. I really hope yours gets choosen.
Wow..... *droolfest* Nuff said
-- It has been 50 years since the last human has touched life on this planet, a planet all but forgotten by time, no longer in the tomes of history. Wolves rule this land, an island on a vast sea of infinity . . . [link] I don't think you have any idea how awesome this is. I saw it so many times in your journal, and I just can't get over the way you molded all the different animal patterns together - spots and feathers and everything, and yet it look so NATURAL. And then the OH WOW AWESOME moon as its pupil. HOLY SHIZ that is beautiful. If I saw this sitting on a shelf, no doubt I'd scoop it up in an instant. This is trutly beautiful, and I would totally kill to have this as a print without the text.
Amazing, Balaa. I think this is your best work thus far... it's just so eye-catching!! Insanely detailed. That's truly beautiful.
um wow! your works never cease to amaze me, and this one is just so awesome, I love the feel it gives off and how all the animals are incorporated like that! Honestly, this is one of the coolest pictures I've seen in a loooong time, beautiful work!
-- Hakuna Matata Bitches  not all who wander are lostcheck out my drawings: [link] Club soda, not seals Draft Beer, not people The World in the Eye! Wow! This Über beautiful!
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