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I have a thing about thinking sulphur crested cockatoos are evil little so and so's. Anyone who's tried to grow any type of fruit where they're found will know what I mean. They have a habbit of taking one bit out of a nearly ripe fruit before letting it fall to the ground. They're smart creatures and long lived- if you shoo them off they come back with a vengence. It is never a good idea to go coochy-coochy-coo to them either- their beaks are designed to break into seed pod after all.

 

The text is perfectly ledgible if you full veiw the image. I think I got the stance and look of the cockie* done well. A final note cockatoos are NOT parrots; they're in entirely diferent families.

 

*Australian slang has a habbit of reducing foreign words to one sylable (making them monosylibic) and adding either 'ie' or 'o'. Other consanent changes cann also occur. E.g. mosquito becomes mozzie (more commonly used in the plural) but afternoon becomes arvo (never used in the plural). Names, particuly ones that are already monosylibic tend to adopt the 'o' ending. For example Jack becomes Jacko but my last name, Keast, becomes Keastie. Don't try and make sense of Ausie slang, and please, please don't try and concuct your own words. Also note that 'cockie' can also mean cockroach. I try, as much as possible, to make my descriptions informative and educational. I like trivia.


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Devil Within - SciFi and Fantasy Art by Shelz Keast
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Categories: [Demons, Imps, Devils, Beholders...] [Normal Animals (Cats, horses, fish, etc)] [Robots, Androids, Humanoid Warmachines]
Techniques: [Coloured Ink] [Computer-coloured Picture] [Photoshop]
DateNameComment 
31 Mar 2008:-) NIGHTSHADE @-“,-----
the detail is truely amazing

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "Oh thanks. It’s not actually that detailed, it’s just the same style repeated that makes it look detailed."
31 Mar 2008:-) Yasmine Dufour Mayor *Veya Wolfheart*
Great idea ! You did a wonderful job with the detailing. I certainly wouldn’t want to meet this creature when it’s angry!

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "Yes, they’re quite scarry when enraged."
31 Mar 2008:-) John R Farley Jr
Excellent work, I like the sort of old-world mechanical drawing look to it. Congratualtions on a Mod’s Choice.

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "I’ve always like those old style technical drawings. Love doing line work 12"
31 Mar 200845 Anon.
That is sooo cool =) Good work and congratz on mods ^-^
31 Mar 2008:-) Desiree M, Cassidy
neat!!! I like it, the little imp on top is very cool =)
31 Mar 2008:-) Nathanael Moon Bonham
Reminds me of James Christiensen’s work. Well done!

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "That name doesn’t ring any bells. If anything it’s going to be inspired by Keith Thompsons’ stuff; though it’s still my own style (if I even have one, I varry so much)."
1 Apr 2008:-) Maxine "piXel" Cox
Nice one Shelz! I love the bio-mechnical/biological study feel of the piece - a field guide to the evil birds of Australia - and they are evil so and so’s.... took a chunk out of every single one of my pears, on the day I was going to harvest them. And there is also that annoying Australian habit of ’shortening’ - invariably I am refered to as "Max", I always have to remind -’een’ there is an -’een’ on the end of my name 12 - maXine 1

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "Well the blasted birds took bites from all the five corners back at home (when we still had the tree). Flying foxes are also a pain- they love pawpaws. At least I don’t have to worry about people mucking about with my name too much."
11 Apr 2008:-) Päivi "WhitePhoenix" Martiskainen
****atoos are a part of parrot birds family (Psittaciformes) where belongs Parrots and Parrakeets (Psittacidae), ****atoos (Cacatuidae) and Lorys (Loriidae) 1 Just for those who didn’t know...
Anyway, this pic is so cool, I love that mechanical-****atoo (I have two ****atiels, so I just have to like this). Those wing details are great, I think that it’s hard to do wings for mechanic birds. So well done!

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "Did no one pay attention to my warning about the bird’s name and censoring?

Co-kies and parrots are in seperate families in my mum’s Hadbook of the Birds of the World (a misnomer- there are multiple volumes, each a couple of kilos). I vaguely remeber something about the two families being merged, but decided not to mention that.

The mechanical wings were the most challanging part, design wise. Making the plates sit like feathers wilst having some variantion in pattern and form was interesting."
6 May 2008:-) Chantz Hegemann
I love this!
8 May 2008:-) Tabitha General_Wyvern Ruf
****atoo looks good in metal. Now, let’s get that thing in flight...

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "They aren’t predatory. I just can’t imagine it battling it out like is some anime. Not that it’s not an interesting idea."
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