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comixqueen β In the Summer Nights
Published: 2011-08-30 00:59:50 +0000 UTC; Views: 2819; Favourites: 80; Downloads: 0
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Reva's fun day at the beach really started when she happened to meet up with her friend Verlidaine. The owl griffin was busily collecting eggs, which the friendly Samhradh offered to share. When it came to digging up turtle nests, no one on the beach was faster than Daine!After their feast, the pair wandered east for a while. Following the crowds, Reva and Daine found themselves ringside the wrestling matches, spending a good portion of time cheering on the best -and handsomest- fighters.
Eventually, the girls strayed from the clay deposits (too many big, scary Skrekrills!) and towards the water. Several griffins were skimboarding in the surf, (or trying to) and it wasn't long before the two friends decided to have a go themselves.
Their attempts were, to say the least, far from graceful. Reva and Daine even went so far as to try using a section of Leatherback shell to toboggan over the water- with spectacularly messy results. It was practically sundown by the time the pair managed to get completely cleaned off.
As she was scrubbing her paws one last time, Reva noticed something funny happening to the water. She immediately pointed it out to her friend, who stared silently, seemingly in awe. Then, all of a sudden, the larger griffin swiped her talon across the surface, shooting a wave of glowing seawater in Reva's direction.....
And then their Noctiluca water-fight was on!
For 's summer turtle event! I'm really pleased with how this turned out! (The art part of it, at least. The writing up there is rather poor and definitely not my best
)A buttload of refs were used for this, ranging from a silhouette of the Farallon Islands to pictures of wet cats
There are not enough photos of Sea Sparkle/N. scintillans on the internet!
I listened to a lot of Beach Boys music while making this, and the title is supposed to channel "In the Summertime" by Mungo Jerry, which I also listened to often.
Done on Corel Painter 11 (I think I finally got it to like me)
Here's 's
Verlidaine Β© *BGArts
Reva & artwork Β© Me!
Bonus doodles!
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Comments: 29
I have a lot of respect for those that are able to produce such beautiful pieces such as this one. Painting is beyond my artistic ability and I cant even get my airbrush to work. The background is very nice and free of unnecessary details. Night time was a great choice for this picture as at least one of the griffins is part owl. The lighting does not completely reflect the night sky so there seems to be light coming from where the griffins shadows should be. the griffin on the left also seems to have no pupils in its eyes with the refection too low to be from either the moon above or the water below and the other griffin has no highlight in its eye at all. All in all though this is a stunning piece of work
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Wauw, this came out really well! The lighting and use of blue is brilliant <3
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WooW
Is very awesome!
OMG that great and beautiful!
( me encantan los colores)
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nice work with the details eyes are a bit strange on the gryphon to the left
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Thanks! ^^
The griffin on the left is based on an Oriental bay owl, and those birds have very strange eyes indeed >_> [link] [link]
Nevertheless, you're probably right about them looking odd; it's very likely that I messed up on a number of things
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Don't know why but griffins are my favorite mythical creatures followed closely by dragons.
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(podria comentar en ingles pero no lo are porque soy un flojo asi que preparate para ver mi horrible ortografΓa 8D)
Bueno, no me he tomado el tiempo de ver tu galeria con atencion pero esto realmente me llamo la atencion (talvez porque tengo cierta cosa por el color azul XD;; ) pero bueno.
No te puedo comentar mucho sobre la anatomia porque yo no la eh estudiado en varios meses, pero si te puedo decir que me facina como trabajaste para que las plumas parecieran mojadas, y algo que me llamo la atencion fueron las nubes, me gusta el tono que elegiste para que paresiera mas claro que el cielo pero lo suficientemente oscuro para cubrir a la luna.
Un consejo para el brillo de la luna! no intentes aserlo tan brillante eh intenta difuminarlo un poco mas, mas o menos asi [link]
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Beautiful and unique! I really like how the their feathers reflect both the moonlight and the N. scintillans light.
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this is really adorable. i like the glow effect.
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oh how pretty! what did you use to create this?
lemme guess, photoshop?
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Thank you!
Actually, I did not use Photoshop, I used Corel Painter 11
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this is stunning! the stars and the sea, the splashes everything is so beautifully done, what a lovely piece
looks like those two are having fun after their turtle shell trauma!
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Oh my goodness! This is so amazing! And I love the story! Great job!
I can see Daine digging like crazy as well as the sudden WATER FIIIIIGHT! >3
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Yaaay, I'm so glad you like it! 
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Awes~ Thank you-glad to hear it!
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Beach Boys makes everything so much better. Woo, this one is a great piece too. Everyone's painting skills are so nice...
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They really do XD Especially when the music is added to funny lizard clips, like this: [link] (skip to 0:30)
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LOL That was hilarious. I gotta see more of these. XD Thanks for the link!
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Woaaaaaaaaaaaah this is gorgeous! 8D LOVE the glowing effects you did with the water, and it seems like every time I look at that background I notice something new about it. Great job!
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Thank you so much, hermana 
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