For this week's game, I chose this question, because who could resist? "Who would win, a harpy eagle or a grizzly bear?" With this question for the ages and the memory of an excellent satirical book that is more than a little tangentially related in mind, I spent twenty minutes on this:
I will confess I cheated a tiny bit: I just had to double-check on what a Harpy eagle looks like. Wound up mostly going from my memory anyway.
(NOTE: Simulposted at my blog. Also, I apologize for the hugeness; I have since re-sized it. Hopefully, you can click it to see the big version.)
4 comments:
Nice!
That question is so... perfect. Makes me think: where's the headless gorilla? What about the lion?
LoL!
I resisted the urge to draw the poor headless gorilla (the question also poses whether a Harpy Eagle can decapitate large Hominids. The answer is no, which is good, because a giant flyer that can tear your head off before you knew what hit you is the stuff of nightmares.) Then again, the bear wound up looking more than a little like Chewbacca, so...
The cartooniness is fun but what makes this for me is the "land vs sea vs air!".
I was just at a monster truck jam last weekend and this would've fit right in.
Using references isn't cheating by the way. I just avoid painting on them or picking the colors directly, rather just have them off to the said as visual refs.
Want to see if we can start a Friday speed paint? We can have open or changing topics based on new finds or species. One idea i have is getting a scientist to provide a skull and we all do reconstruction paints off of it.
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