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Ravenari — Wild Boar as Totem
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Well, the scanner mangled this, but that is always the way. The metallic green paint in the swirls looks super right now (I'm looking at the original right now, heh). And the saturation of browns in the boar is richer.Anyway, yet another request!
I like the colours in this one.
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18.5 x 20.5cm (or 7.4 x 8 in)
illo's board, fineliner, aquarelle, pencil, metallic paint
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We do! They're actually a major problem here, because they're feral, and they are super destructive to the topsoil. So they're culled/killed as often as possible.
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Do you think you can explain the ways going with the boar totem? My Zodiac animal is the boar and so I guess I have to accept it. Boars are normally usightly, but I guess you can learn to like them.
A boar and a crab...a unsual mix.
Where do you get the paints you use for your work? I never heard of metallic green paint before
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I get the paints from a small art supply store in Western Australia, unfortunately they don't have a website. But metallic green paint is around. Sometimes it's possible to get a shade of 'antique gold' and then carefully mix a blue into it and still get a metallic sheen, to actually create a darker green.
Boar is actually one of my favourite totem animals. Totem animals aren't powerful because they're 'pretty,' they're powerful because they live connected with the world around them. Boars are intelligent, they are powerful, when hunted in the wild by people they are considered an eminently respectable and dangerous and wily prey, they can be sensitive and loving towards their family, and willing to defend themselves to their deaths. I would take all of those traits over a 'sightly' totem animal. A totem animal is not an animal you always like, after all, it is an animal you learn to accept - in the way we learn to accept ourselves.
No animal or person is perfect, but all possess profound truths and profound things to teach us. Part of connecting with any animal is learning those truths and learning to love the diversity of the world as a result of that.
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Is the antique gold hard to get since you said sometimes it's possible to get it?
Well it's not much appearance for baby boars can be cute, but I guess it's more of ego like or sometime.
But do they have a totem description like the Black mamba did? My book only gave a few hints for the Boar Zodiac animal.
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I'm not sure how it is in the US. But you can always buy a gold paint from somewhere like Dick Blick's, and then carefully mix blue into it, to make it green. Or, alternatively, you could get one of the green iridescent/pearlescent inks by Daler Rowney, and mix gold into that to make it more metallic than pearlescent - that being said, the Daler Rowney inks all have mica in them, so they do sheen and look really beautiful.
I haven't written a boar write-up yet, I'm so sorry. It is on my list, but my list of animals to write totem files for is long, so I'm not sure when I'll get to it. Rest assured though, they are powerful, magical, striking and charismatic totems. I know - for myself - I would feel honoured to have boar as a totem, and have always somewhat been jealous of those who do.
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Oh that does sound beautiful, is mica a kind of rock or ore?
I'm puzzled, how do you know your totem animal? I more or less assume it being a boar since my Zodiac animal is one (1995), but these totems seem very different and if there's so many...
But I think I'm really one that doesn't fit into one catagory with one animal
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Well, a zodiac animal is just that - a zodiac animal. If everyone's totem was there zodiac animal, there would only be twelve totems in the world. And the fact is that every single animal that exists can be a possible totem. You can try google searching for visualisations to meet an animal guide, or you can try this one that I've written: [link]
And mica is a mineral.
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Whoa...it sounds so easy and simple...have you met your totem animal?
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...it's not often I find a boar drawn in such a lovely colorful rendering. I just love it!
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This is so gorgeous. You've really captured the beauty of such an amazing animal.
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Thank you so much. I hope to illustrate boar/sow again, so powerful to work with.
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Ooh sounds awesome. I'm sure you will have a lot of fun and do a great job as well.
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oh wow so pretty the design in the backround are beautiful and give this picture a mystical feeling ^^
I love it !!!
♥
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Thank you so much!
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That was a beautiful peace that you made, I've look at a few of your artworks and I must say I'm impressed they are awesome.
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Beautiful, especially on the fur. My spirit guide is the boar.
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Thanks! And that's a very amazing spirit guide to have; I have a lot of respect for boar.
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Mind if I use this a reference?
I won't copy it, I just need it for practice. xp
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the wild boar is my spirit animal as well...
ever since i was 4 years old it was
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Oooo what an awesome spirit animal to have.
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Wow, I love the details in the fur and the contours of the boar's face. Amazing work!
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Crap damnit! I would have LOVED to buy that
Either way, a GORGEOUS piece of work! Absolutely fantastic!
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I couldn't believe how fast it sold! I went to bed after uploading, woke up the next morning, and hey presto - it was already gone.
Thank you!
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It's like every one you post is a little nicer than the last... Your use of color and detail is great!
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