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Basu-zo — Hydra Sympathetic
Published: 2007-09-24 07:10:04 +0000 UTC; Views: 2702; Favourites: 98; Downloads: 52
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An artsy tribute to one of my most favorite mythical creatures of all, The Hydra, so awesomely coolshame it's legend to be only be slayed by hercules (hence the blood drops)
done on watercolour paper in sepia ink, marker, gouache, food colouring and pencil and quality mauled by the scanner --;
fun fact: restarted this 20 times (i.e. killing it each time) but could help but restarting it, just like the Hydra's habit of not dieing over a loss of a head = D
EDIT: yes this is the end of my blue+yellow+brown hair obsession for now
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Comments: 30
u have some extraordinary work. the ur art is drawn is just utterly amazing.
also how did u get the blood spot to look like this its incredible!
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wow, thanks. thanks for the fav+watch
the blood was done with red food colouring that comes in a little eye-dropper bottle. donno if they still sell it like that. this stuff is from early 90's or something =/, but yes, red food colour/ink dripped with an eye-dropper device.
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yes but how did u get the splatter effect
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thankyou, liquidy food colouring. ~
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muddy puppy is a japanese band. and thos doggys with teeth look like the muddy puppy icon. i have never heard muddy puppys music but i do recgnize the image
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o .o cool, nice work! xD
oh oh, btw Zo-san, do you know of any good copic marker tutorials? cause I just got some and I'd like to see some techniques before I massacre my pictures with them n_n'
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yeah, over at ~marker-club in the journal near the bottom they have a pretty good list of links to tutorials.
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Dig the realistic splotches of blood dude, How did you go about creating that? Or is that a trade secret of yours?
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food dye comes in a little drop-bottle
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Clever 
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T.I.N.A?
never heard of it, I do live in Newcastle, anyway because that was the beginning of two weeks break i just slept the whole weekend
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This Is Not Art festival.
I was up there for the long weekend. It was a massive art festival around near Civic station.
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yeah that thing, so far ive always missed it. some eyar ill get involved.
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ooO shes so lovable ! 
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Oh god, this is just so very very adorable. Being able to make tributes to the things you love must be great. 8D
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i really like this drawing, also the hydra as well, the symbolism works nice with the blood and every thing. my high school life and my graduating subjects were classics so i really like any thing to do with the days of old. thats why i really like this.
though i must inquire what significance does the girl hold to this drawing ?
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heh..none really, that's just how it started at the first version before I decided it was a hydra, originally a young gladiator at the end of battle peeling off her helmet and think about who she just killed, decided her helmet looked a bit like a dragon but I like Hydras so much more..but in my skills of finding interpretation~ people sympathise more with a young human girl, though shes doesn't look all sad, shes supposed to look a little mad and stressed.
who doesn't love a good classic reference when you know it anyway
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