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The Manticore by ~depingo:icondepingo:

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©2009 ~depingo
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The manticore (Baricos in Greek) is a legendary creature similar to the Egyptian sphinx. It has the body of a red lion, a human head with three rows of sharp teeth (like a shark), and a trumpet-like voice. Other aspects of the creature vary from story to story. It may be horned, winged, or both. The tail is that of either a dragon or a scorpion, and it may shoot poisonous spines to either paralyse or kill its victims. The creature's feet may also be of a dragon. -Wikipedia


I got a monster book for my birthday which is pretty cool - except for the illustrations. So that's basically what inspired me to do my own :)
My concept was a particularly vile manticore guarding a secret mountaintop city or something. I went for a more beastly-looking face since I didn't like the idea of a human head on an animal's body.

Hope you like :)

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~fightingfailure Mar 15, 2009, 8:32:06 AM
Well done! I like the detail work, especially the rocks.
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~curlhead Mar 15, 2009, 9:22:56 AM
yeah, the detail on the rocks is mad good
did you do it all by hand or did you copy in part of photo and then touch it up?
lighting's great to
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~depingo Mar 15, 2009, 10:42:27 AM
Thank you!
I actually used a random texture and then tried to find shapes in that ^^
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~depingo Mar 15, 2009, 1:14:06 PM
Oh, and I used a lot of custom brushes!
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~curlhead Mar 15, 2009, 6:15:31 PM
yeah, I'm especially curios about the rake-thingy-brush is that in the custom brushes of photoshop? I like that effect a lot
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~depingo Mar 16, 2009, 9:21:01 AM
It's a cross-hatching brush I made myself.

How to make it
(if you don't know how to make brushes, check this out: [link])
The actual brush shape is 6 diagonal lines - just draw them like scratches from claws, black on white. Spacing is 37% and in Shape Dynamics I set the angle jitter to 27%. You can also play a bit with Color Dynamics, but that's optional.
Hope that helps :)
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*Monkeymaniac Mar 19, 2009, 2:44:50 AM
Amazing! I adore the shading and the colours, and the anatomy of the manticore is brilliant. Also love the background, astonishing work.
Keep it up!

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~magicalhelmet Mar 24, 2009, 3:56:19 PM
I like this a lot. It's just what I'd imagine a manticore to look like. That book wouldn't happen to be called "There be Dragons Here" or something like that? I have that book, and I wasn't too impressed with the pictures. They are mostly pictures of old paintings and artifacts, which is nice in a way, but not especially spectacular, if you know what I mean.

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~depingo Mar 25, 2009, 8:05:59 AM
Thanks :)
No, it's called "The Monster Hunter's Handbook". The pictures inside are all black, white, red and gray (which could look stylish but it doesn't) and kind of crappily drawn vectors or something (looks a bit like MS Paint too xD). So it's not that they're not spectacular, they actually suck >.<
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