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rachaelm5 β Harmony of Bone and Water
Published: 2008-08-18 17:02:10 +0000 UTC; Views: 8101; Favourites: 222; Downloads: 0
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This is artwork commissioned by my sister and brother-in-law. They both have a bone fetish that is arguably worse than mine, and that suites me to the nines.
They left the stylization up to me entirely, so I decided to go with stippling for the shading technique. I've not done this to myself in quite some time... Although it took several days (in hour or two hour-long sessions) to get all the dots in place, I'm very pleased with the way this turned out and I do think I may try something like it again. But not soon.
I did this with Zig pens.
Original art: not available
Prints:
8x10 for $15
11x14 for $30
16x20 not available
Colored versions!
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Companion pieces:
Also, there are other elements in this series!
Harmony of Bone and Fire
Harmony of Bone and Air
Harmony of Bone and Wood
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Comments: 101
Can I colour one of these three??
PLEASE!!???
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LOL - Of course. Absolutely. Any or all.
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Thank you. I have lots more on the way.
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i would love to have your permission to tattoo this image
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Such stunning grace and elegance combined with immaculate detailing. I feel as though I could reach out and feel every scale and every bone. It has a life of its own. I canβt keep my eyes off of it. At first I couldnβt take my eyes off of all of the bones then I couldnβt take my eyes off of all of the detail in the face and now I canβt take my eyes off of any of it because of all of the detail in the entire work of art I canβt take my eyes off of this it is absolutely incredible just like the other stunningly amazing Harmony of Bone and Water works of art.
Purely incredible.
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Thanks very much! I'm glad you like the details - they're certainly my favorite part of these projects.
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Your very welcome. Sorry for the late reply I'm a theatre major and visual arts minor so I've been busy busy busy especially with all of the plays coming up. But yes you are very welcome Keep up the incredible work
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I've never heard of Zig pens. I'll have to do some research now.
I used rapidographs for years until the wonderful Staedtler disposable pens came on the market. I do NOT miss having to clean itty bitty 4x0000 pen nibs! I've used Microns as well, but keep going back to Staedlers.
Beautiful fish! I'm always torn between going for broke on the stipple and avoiding lines, but your works prove you can do both perfectly!
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Thanks very much! Combining linework and stipple is really a time-saving exercise... And an eye-saving exercise, in the end. It's the difference between ten hours of work shading with dots and thirty or forty hours of work fully rendering with dots. I'm LAZY.
I managed to miss the Rapidiograph age, as I wasn't doing a lot of pen and ink work in college. I tried the metal-nib crow quill type of dip pen for a while, but I tend to be very heavy-handed and kept breaking the points off the nibs. Brushwork is fun, but it doesn't give me the crispness that I like so much about comic book art. The Microns were hard to get locally, but Zigs were plentiful. I think overall I like the Microns; they seem to last a little longer and the nibs are a bit stronger. I haven't tried the Staedtlers, but if I run across some I'll be sure to give them a try.
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Thank you. Glad you like this crazy thing.
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Your work is brilliant. The subject, the background, the overlapping, the subtle degees of line thickness, and the execution all are beautifully and skillfully done. Bravo
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Skeletons and bones are awesome! I like the way you drew them here.
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Bones are *fascinating*. I gained an appreciation for them during college, when we had to do a lot of different kinds of drawing studies. We had a complete cow skeleton, as well as a pig and a human. It was interesting to see how the complex structures of each bone fit into their partner bones, and how the whole skeletal system worked together. That, and bones just look cool in and of themselves.
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Yeah. I was taken by them in middle school when I found a dead squirrel in a nearby park. I decided to keep the bones, and ever since I have been collecting the bones of road kill and my pets.
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I love the fish!
I should try to do the dots someday.
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Thanks very much.
It takes a LOT of patience and some planning to tackle this technique - It's not one of those things you can do in one sitting!
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I would imagine!
Good job though!
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ooooo! I looooove the inking of this. the way you use black and white, just sooo entrancing. really lovely the way the bones and connected parts of the fish flow into one another.
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Thanks very much. This series is going to be very much about balance - composition, line, shading - all of it. And all with bony bits and lots of bloody little friggin dots.
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rofl, that is so way awesome though
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This is SERIOUSLY the most AWESOME koi i have ever seen! nice work!
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Thanks very much. Can't beat bones for good wholesome fun...
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Nah, I'm just a well-practiced technician.
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So detailed and gorgeous~! I'm jealous. x.x I love fish, especially... This seems to b a Koi. <3 And koi are my absolute and downright favorite! And bones... I have to say I've been quite interested in them too. xD Have you heard of the Ossuary? It's a place in the Czech republic and it's a church with sculptures made of over 50,000 human skeletons dug up from graves! You should check it out, I really think you'd like it~ Just google it and it's everywhere. It's amazing.
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Thanks again!
Oh yes, I've heard of that bone church in Prague. There's one in Portugal, too - smaller, but definitely a full-fledged ossuary. I'm going to Europe this summer with my folks, and if we can swing it, we're going to try to see this thing. And if not, my sister, who is stationed with the US Navy in Spain, will go in our stead and get lots of pictures for us.
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Awesome! I really want to go too~ >w< My mom said it was weird, but hey~ That's me. 
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Angst... All the different textures can be seen so clearly and the details are awesome too. There just isn't anything bad to say about it.
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