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Published: 2005-12-11 02:02:58 +0000 UTC; Views: 1267; Favourites: 17; Downloads: 55
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Celtic knots are addictive and very bad for your health. Really. You know it's bad when you close your eyes and you see interlace patterns everywhere.I worked on this pretty much once a day for the past week, and all day Friday because I got a snow day. I originally intended it to be an ink wash, but the ink I was going to use was not green, as it was labeled, but instead a bizarre yellowish-weird-with-no-resemblance-to-green-whatsoever. So I opted for green watercolor. I used up rather a lot of it . . .
The color of the scan is a bit off from the original. XP
My brother kind of decided it's supposed to be my character Padraig, so, it's Padraig I guess. He lives in Ireland, so it works.
I'm putting a photo of the pencil in my scraps, in case anyone is interested.
References:
Reference for the castle is a pic of a castle in Scotland, I think, called Tioram castle.
The knots and patterns were inspired by early Irish manuscripts and other medieval Irish art, pictures of which I have in a book on Irish art, oddly enough.
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That's watercolour isn't it? Amazing how you can get so much precision
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Yep, watercolor ^_^
I wasn't using a lot of water, you can get better detail if the watercolor is more dry.
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You are welcome! I look forward to seeing more of your work.
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Very nice work, good shading and composition. The celtic knots are great, but imho too many different ones in the picture - I can't decide which ones are too much - as they are all very werll done - but to my eye it would seem better if there were maybe only one kind of knot along the upper & lower boder and only one other type going up/down along the long side.
Anyway, that is just nitpicking 
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Thank you
I hadn't drawn knots in a long while before I drew this, so I went a little crazy with them I guess
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No problem, there are really worse things one can do
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Using a single colour highlighted the amazing work you did with the shading. I also like the look of stubborness on the the face of your character. Well done1
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This is lovely.. great for a tile 
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Thank you
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all art is addictive if you love it
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Awesome work. I've always been jealous of anyone who can draw beautiful Celtic knots, too
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I really like the use of just green in this. And your knotwork and interlaced animals are so beautifully done and frames the whole image quite nicely.
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Thanks 
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Hey! i apreciate your coment ^_^ i spent a lot of time on that draw!
Very nice draw u have here, whatercolour is a little bit hard but it seems u've managed very well! the paterns are perfect
(ps: sorry my english sounds very weird lol i'm from portugal and i'm not used to speak english 
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You're welcome, and thank you
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Yes, Celtic knotwork is eeeeeeeevil; it will hurt you if you let it. ^_^ Oh, and I love the "Irish hilt" on the sword. Nice addition, that...
Really great work -- especially for something as unforgiving as watercolor. What brand do you use, by the way?
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Thanks
I use Yarka watercolors.
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Wow this is exelent^_^
I LOVE the nots you did and the use of green was exelent^_^
congrats!!!
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Oooh! Very detailed and awesome! but umm... heh, where's the sheath for his sword? Sorry, I'm a technical person
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Thanks
Ah, I don't know where the sheath is . . . he should have one. I forgot about it, oops. It could be strapped to his horse, I guess.
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Ooooh... awesome job, very clean lines which I like, and I do like green, green reminds me of Ireland which I guess you're going for.
Plus watercolors are awesome.
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Thank you
Green is the best color . . .
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Whoooaaaa. Its breathtaking with detail. >_o Does that even make sense?
Great celtic feel to it all. The knots are so intercate, musta taken you forever.
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The knots were kind of a pain, I worked on them over a few days, so I'm not sure exactly how long it took.
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