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Published: 2011-10-12 23:59:11 +0000 UTC; Views: 1661; Favourites: 101; Downloads: 0
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Any suggestions for a better title? ;u;Anyways, this was basically just a speedpaint-type painting because I wanted to draw a bongo. They're so pretty <3
I've been working a lot with color recently haha.
This was inspired by one of the myths of the Bongo: "...When a Bongo is pursued the animal can dive into a river, shed its coat and remain submerged in the river feeding on fish until the dry season". www.probertencyclopaedia.com/c… Obviously, I didn't add the shedding it's coat part, I just kinda wanted to try for a surreal underwater setting (even though the bongo doesn't look like it's underwater), with the stripes kind of fading into the ripples.
If anyone has any ideas of what could make this better or have more of an impact or something, let me know, or is it better simple like this? Give me some second opinions. xD
Feel free to use it as a wallpaper :'D
Buy prints here: sarah-stanaland.artistwebsites…
Bongo referenced from a national geographic stock photo. The rest is from my head.
Art (c) Me
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Comments: 59
Thank you!
Sounds like an interesting story <:
Sometimes re-reading can be great, you notice so many things you didn't the first time!
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Bongos are beautiful animals, and you have captured the bongo's facial expression so well. And I really like the soft shading and how the colours go so well together
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i like it its cool but the bongo looks like a sitatunga lol
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Thanks, and omg it does xD I never even knew about them before, guess I just learned about an awesome new animal from this haha
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lol ya didint no of them do wat Antelopes do ya no i no a lot lol
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I really love this, I'm not sure why exactly. It's just awesome in general. Keep being amazing!
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ooooo this looks so feaking awesome!!! : OOOOO
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this is SO BEAUTIFUL! omg! made me tear a little. ;;
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I love this just the way it is. I'll be back to look at it later, haha.
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Lol, that is an EPIC myth XD! 
Love the shading by the way, and bongos are class animals! 
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Indeed xD The other one was pretty neat too, where they hang from their horns in the trees and ambush people
One day... one day... if I remember that is.
Thank you so much <3
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OHGOD, I WANT TO SEE THAT NOW. 
You're very welcome, of course <3
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I really like the effect and feel, it's very relaxing to look at and feels soft and cosy.
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Bongos. <3 People really need to draw these more. They just have nice markings and coloring for an animal.
I really like the picture. The cool color really do a good job bring out the warm colors of the Bongo itself.
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GIVE ME THIS DRAWING! *steals drawing and runs away*
BTW for more impact try a more dynamic pose or position XD
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Ohnoes 
I meant to add on to the picture already, not something that would make me redo the whole picture lol xD I kinda wanted it to be more calm and flowy though, not really dynamic o:
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surdey sure, and i meant as more of a next time thing XD
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I love bongos! <3
I never see much artists draw them.
The colours are really nice
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NAME IT "UNDERWATER RAINBOW" FFFF
it looks so pertiful! and i love it just the way it is <333 the animal looks gorgeous as always (especially the fur on the chest) and i absolutely ADORE the way the stripes fade into the ripples (which is what you were going for, of course) ffff love it
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But it's not exactly a rainbow xDD
Thank you so much ;u; <33
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EVERYTHING'S A RAINBOWWWWWW
you're welcome <333
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Everything I do is kind of a rainbow, I put so many colors ffff xD
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RAINBOW BLEH! FFF
i love Charlie Teh Unicron XD i like rainbows
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I could tell by the stream where you guys where talking like the unicrons xD
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fffff me and Jill are pretty good at mimicking them... and we've memorized most of it XD ffff
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