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A shapeshifter in the style from the book of kells. Triskel design was inspired by one of the celtic necklaces I have.Related content
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your tribalistic welcome , and just to say am thomas kerr from your facebook friend am the one that wants the custom torc
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Figured that one Thomas 
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thank you , and that's fine i under stand wouldn't want have u stressed out when starting on the torc
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I love it!
And I love Ireland and everything, what's connected with it and Celts.
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Thank you kindly for the wonderful comment!
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You're welcome. 
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its very splendid
i bet people would die if you made a tutorial for how to do it heh
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I hope I haven't killed too many with this: [link]
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I can't believe it's done by hand... It is almost perfect! That's awesome job, really.
Your design is absolutely in the spirit of the Book of Kells... maybe one of the few pages that have been lost?
By the way, I'd love to repoduce the kind of background you have here, how did you manage to obtain such an effect?
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Actually a lot of pages were lost
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So... intricate... ;.; i love throw-back arts.
~~Huskie
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Oh! i know what the book of Kells is now! I learned about it in religion class the other day! I believe i commented on this before. But i am going to reiterate the fact that you are awesome.
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Whoa!
The celtic knots just blow me away!
I love the design!
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It's so beautiful. I love any of the traditional knotwork let alown traditional stylized animals. The pigments are rich yet they acuratly portray what the medevil artists were capable of. The faded print behind it sugests the theme is illumination with out stretching the artwork by placing it near, say, crisp print you did yourself. It's all about the art which is why it's nice to see subtle text. Verry pleasing to the eye.
Gud blessie thig
(I don't know what you are writing at the bottom of you'res but that's an old norse blessing)
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Thank you for the kind comments about my work, I really appreciate it!
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that's very awesome. I love the combination of everything, it's very balanced feeling. Great work.
-brita
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Amazing.
It's odd to see real art that takes time and effort nowadays. I love this piece.
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::Giggles: Holy snot that's just too freaking cool! I love how the figure is standing on its tip toes... and as usual, the knotwork is just too darn schpiffy. Uber-coolness!
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wow....i love the celtic design...i have no patience for that...lovely work
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WOW! That looks like something professioally done! What medium did you use? Paint?
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yet again another good drawing from you 
wow....i love it !!!!!!!!
well done
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wow 
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Ah, that is such a beautifully done piece.
*grins like a wee jolly crocodile*
Someday I must see if can interest you in doing such a thing with Yao Chi !
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very cool. That's awesome. 
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Augh I love when you do those designs, How you can do such detailed work is beyond me, I dont think I could ever pull it off- I really love pieces like this, its a nice chnage of pace and good that you have variety in your work
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For some reason, this one pops up in my new art thingy at random times... but every time it makes me think of the Legend of St. Christopher. This wouldn't happen to be one you have prints of, would it?
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I believe Swandog still has some prints of this one left yes
If she's all out of them let me know and I'll see what I can do about anew print
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The design is just wonderful! And the texture to the paper itself... did you add all of that? It's gorgeous, and accompanies it all so well.
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The triskelions are very interesting and the weave is tight and well done. The pose of the shapeshifter is subtle and expressive, as if s/he's baying to the moon. Very very nice work.
*_*
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Okay. I found and copied this picture to my hard-drive a few months ago, to be honest. I think I found it on a Google search, but I can't be sure. Anyhow...how did you put this together? By that, I mean was this done by hand, or on the computer? Was it drawn and inked and then colored with a program? And the background -- from the BoK, or was it an effect you managed to reproduce by hand? Sorry if I'm being a bit weird, but I'm genuinely impressed with the way this thing feels. Currently trying to reproduce the effect, oi.
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Thank you for showing so much interest in it
Well, firstly I did the entire design by hand. I started with the basic lay-out on how I wanted the general shape to be (big circle above as main attention point, two circles at the sides and a few key pattern blocks to 'tie the whole thing together' at the bottom).
I then did the main figure of the shapeshifter. First made a few sketches on the design, picked on I really liked and worked it out to a finished piece by itself. Then put it aside.
Picked a new piece of paper and did the two major circles, since I wanted the main circle knotwork to be the border of the two side circles.
After that was done I wanted to fill up to two circles, and my original idea was already to use triskel designs for that. I looked a bit through my notes and sketches from the studies on the illuminated manuscripts fom my art academy.. but didn't find anything that caught my interest enough to work on with it. I then started staring at the ceiling and put it aside.
The next day I found one of my necklaces that had a very nice triskel design on it. I altered it a bit and worked it into the two circle design. With the circle thing now done that was put aside aswell.
Grabbed a new piece of paper, switched on the light on my light table, put the main figure of the shifter on, the circle designs over that and redrew the entire thing.. now in one piece. Added the final keypatterns to the 'put-together' design and started inking it.
Then gave it a good scan. Using Photoshop I colored it. I have two pages of vellum scanned from the art academy, and they are 'blown up' severely. I use these images for most of my backgrounds. I layed the thing together, made the ink line work in the design a tiny bit transparent and gently unshapened the thing so it 'flows' into the background to give it a bit more ancient look.
I hope this helps you a bit
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