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Published: 2004-08-23 17:06:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 978; Favourites: 6; Downloads: 165
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I started this picture back in January, intending to submit it to the Breakpoint demoparty in April. I got very ill and was unable to take my flight to Breakpoint so I decided to finish this picture for the drawn graphics compo at Assembly (and actually I don't think I could have finished this picture by April anyway). The Assembly jury didn't like my picture enough to show it, though they showed some worse ones.Paint Shop Pro 6, Wacom Graphire, basically a straight repaint of stock photo so no imagination used. The shading is icky and I should have shaded more, but ran out of time and energy, like I always do. The lame name comes from a nickname given to green iguanas.
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Wow, this is simply amazing! All that detail on the skin. Beautiful job. It looks very lifelife and the coloration is very interesting. I think you did a splendid job.
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i like iguanas.
and this is cool, cause hes a smooth iguana.
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It's a good piece, on the lizard my only crit would be the eye, which isn't quite round. After looking at the assembly images I'd say the thing mostly holding your work back was the lack of a background (unless it had one, but you cropped it away?). Awww, I can't believe I missed the combo I would have probably liked best 
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You might be right about the background, though I've seen pictures totally lacking one being shown on the screen almost every year. I suck at backdrops so I decided to go with the same kind as in the original picture, instead of trying to make something more detailed/interesting and failing. Perhaps this lack of skill comes from the fact that I've mostly done ASCII pictures without any background. I know I should learn to draw backgrounds, I'm just too tired to really be able to train my CG skills.
It's a shame you were sick at Assembly, but hope you enjoyed it anyway and will be back next year. There's always Altparty in January (and Lamerfest in November, if that counts). You should try ASCII art if you're interested in it. I'm trying to finish my ASCII tutorial and post it in a week or two.
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Lamerfest had more interesting combos (as in some I could take part in) but the prizes kind of failed to rock my world... Not that I'd probably have any change of winning, but it's nice to even have a prospect of a decent prize. I'll definately be coming to Assembly next year, if for other reason that all my friends are going, and I'd be bored to death left home. If I manage to take part in some of the combos, I'll have something to do there too 
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holy crap girl this is incredible!!! you ooze talent
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nice juxtaposition of warm and cool tones, and no scintillation!well done. i draw/paint reptiles all the time so i can certainly appreciate the amount of time and work you put into the detail of the scales.
but( not to nitpick and i'm sorry i know i am) that isn't an iguana-looks more like a green basilisk.but the title still applies, bamboo is asian(i think) and so are these guys if i remember correctly.and iguanas are latin american.i love the eye!
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Yeah, it is in the demoscene style, detalisation, colours.. Your work is good, too bad that it hasn't been showh, I think, pop art works are popular on scene now, more than detalised ones.. So you should keep drawing scene art, it's very pleasant for all scenrs!
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Wow. That is some totally detailed scale work going on there. Nice colours and such as well. Good stuff. I'd leave a better comment, but I gotta run back to work and get some client's cd
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"ihana" 
I'm sorry this have not got the attention it deserve - But as You did complete this great work, it shows You got guts and get far in whatver You do... DA as any big art get-togethers are too much like popularity contests for too many.
"Bamboo Chicken" is beautiful and fantastic piece of art all the way from the titel - Glad You shared!
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I think that is absolutely gorgeous in all its unoriginality.
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I think that is absolutely gorgeous in all its unoriginality.
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The details are quite great... especially the long-worked-on skin texture. The shading isn't awful, although it's a bit too blue.
--susannah
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That's really really detailed! The skin! Arghhhh!
Hehe, wonderufl job... I noticed you always draw/do art for competitions?
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Thanks. You don't even want to know how long the skin texture took to make, I guess it was really insane to make it by hand - basically pixel art.
You're right about competitions, pretty much all my art is done for competing (except for my ASCII PokΓ©mons and most of my photography). There are always contests going around, so I might as well participate. It also gives me extra motivation (and a solid deadline). I should do more sketch-kind of practices, but I always lack energy so I end up not "training".
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Incredible amount of detail - the skin texture must have taken hours! In some ways it's better than the photo because you've only applied detail to the iguana, leaving the branches just sketched into the background - makes the igauna stand out more. You've done the folds beautifully too and I love the blue lips
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holey shit tahts a DRAWING?!!?!?!?!?
[looks at it again...]
shit. never woulda noticed.
[FAVES for photo impersonation expertise]
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Where did they get that jury from??? They don't know sh*t of art /
This is amazing! at first sight i thought it was photography, then noticed that it was much better than that: art by your hands. I agree with you, though, that more shades were needed. What I like the most are the plegdes in its neck. And no matter what the jury thinks, you got an 11 out of 10 from me!!
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Amazing and good jobs there, but crappy ones too. How do you enter one of those competitions?
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Thanks for the very encouraging comment, it really made my day. Perhaps I won't give up drawing hi-res graphics just yet.
The juries at demoparties are made up of volunteers, so I could have participated too, but of course you can't rate your own prod if you're in a jury and you might not be as objective as you'd be otherwise. You can see the entries that were accepted in the competition in this "poster": [link] - I really wouldn't have been among the best, but not the worst either.
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Woah! That's quite unexpected from you! I like it
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