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LisaCrowBurke — African Leopard -pencil
Published: 2008-03-30 04:35:34 +0000 UTC; Views: 1954; Favourites: 54; Downloads: 0
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This is an older piece, but it took me many hours to complete. The actual size is somewhere between 11x17 and 18x24, and after being displayed in a window for only two days, I was given an offer for over $200 by someone just walking by- but I turned it down. The picture has been hanging proudly in my home ever since.-----
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This is amazing! i adore the details and the straight up compostition of this piece. If you were selling and i magically had money they i would love to own this!
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haha, thank you kindly
i have actually had someone offer me $150 on the spot for the original as well.
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I ould believe that it is one amazing piece!
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oh after staring (in awe) at this for another minute i want to mention that i also love your tree. I aknowledge how difficult they can be and you did it so well! The imperfections make that tree perfect
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hehe...thanks, glad you like it so much
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Gorgeous! Amazing bark, and the cat ooks great and smooth
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thanks! it was from an old photo that my art teacher took many years ago in africa
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You are welcome 
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yeah i'd love to go sometime and take some photos for my own references!
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Yeah, me too! But the temp would be too hot for my taste XD
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You're absolutely spot-on; the key is simply taking the time to do it.
I guess you must be tired of seeing comments like:
"Wow, a cow! Great job Lisa! Faved."
My reasoning is: you take so much time drawing up these fabulous images. Hours and days of your efforts are put into it. Then you post it and you get a quick comment that took less then a minute to write. And that's it; it's over. Whopp-dee-fucking-doo.
I was able to provide such meaningful comments because I just sat down for a while and looked at it for ten minutes. Nothing came to mind immediately. It required much effort for me to find how it made me feel and what I discovered in it. I could have spent that time playing Assassin' Creed (great game). But it's only fair because you put so much effort into it, and I don't want that effort to go to waste. With every one of your works, you have something to say. I just want to know what you saying.
This is the last comment I post here. If you need to say more, we'll talk on MSN. 
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fantastic job...I can understand why someone would pay a high price for it, you should submit it for printing, either here or somewhere, anywhere, I'm sure it would sell very well
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maybe i will set up a prints account sometime...... who knows
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I have no recollection of this piece in your previous gallery. So, it's new to me.
Cartoon cats are fine, but sometimes I like to take a break from all that, and examine the real deal. I love the big cats, like leopards, jaguars, and cheetahs. (especially cheetahs; they're adorable! ^_^)
You've done another spectacular job on this one. Though the animal's pose seems to be strait-forward, you've done as best as possible to detail it. I find poses like that to be flat and lacking perspective, compared to others. I'm not criticizing you, just the pose. I'm complementing you for doing the best with what you have to work with. You still manage to pull of such fine details that hint at the bone and muscle structures beneath the skin.
I've got more to say about the tree. Too often I find, when people draw the textures for the surface of trees, they draw it too perfectly. They fail to include the imperfections that are often found in the real natural world. Things like exposed bark, or areas where new branches have grown in where old ones had broken off. Your pic proves you understand this, or at least had your own locally grown sources to model from.
Again, you've done a nice job. Keep it up.
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my art teacher (who has since passed) used to take trips to africa one or two times a year, and he took the photo that i used as a reference for this drawing. i think i have a copy of the picture somewhere.... this piece actually won me an award in an art show one year, and there was a person who was visiting the show that actually traveled with him in africa when he took the shot. he immediately recognized it, and that made me feel really good about it.
truly this isn't one of my best pieces as of now, but back then it was the best one i had done, and i was pretty proud of it. there's more to the image too, but it got cropped in the scans and photos of it. also, there's a lot more softer details that help better show the 3-dimensional effect the picture has, but the quality/resolution of this image just doesn't do it justice.
and trees? they are best left imperfect, natural, worn with time and gnarled from surviving the elements.
thanks for the awesome comment ^^
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I'm sorry to hear about your art teacher.
You've had a great privilege to have such an adventurous personality to guide you. It's not such a strong revelation that you've had that influence; it shows in your own character.
I should take back a few things I said about this picture. I didn't know it was based off a photo.
I'm always happy to share my thoughts on your work. I feel I'm getting better at supplying meaningful and useful comments. What do you think? I need an outside opinion; else, I'm just stroking my own ego.
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