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SciFi and Fantasy Art: The Mantid

The last in a tryptic of bugs. I imagine that the mantid comes from the Congo, or a very overgrown back yard. The original was A3, and so a lot of detail was lost in the resising. Oh well. I like this one, and quite gald to have finished it.

As with the rest of the bugs happy bone hunting!


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The Mantid - SciFi and Fantasy Art by Shelz Keast
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Categories: [Dream Imagery] [Landscape, Nature, Panoramic] [Normal Animals (Cats, horses, fish, etc)]
Techniques: [Black Ink]
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19 Oct 2007:-) Anne Wipf
... sorry: I must add. One of my best old friends (loosed sight of him...) always drew ants in their element, always with black ink on white paper; he was a great professionnal artist (with a very bad temper, alas!) and this picture reminds him to me...

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "I guess I'll take that as a compliment then. Thanks."
19 Oct 2007:-) Anne Wipf
Oooooooooooooooooooo! That's great!
19 Oct 2007:-) Dave Cripps
Ouch all those dots must have made you go cross eyed. Best not 'cos this thing looks hungry! It's last meal has been picked clean.

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "Last two meals actually, the second skull got cropped out. The dots aren't hard, I just sorta zone out when doing them. It's the one thing that all my class mates have commented on, my patience."
20 Oct 2007:-) Michelle L. Gerst
That is the goofiest damn thing I've ever seen! Nice job on the details. I know stippling is a dickens.

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "I did stuff up on the mantid, he's far more comical than I wanted."
25 Mar 2008:-) Sam Adams
Great detail, but i’m getting the feeling you like freaky stuff!

:-) Shelz Keast replies: "I do like freaky stuff- it tends to be what my mind produces. I think I enjoy freaking people out somewhat, at least it makes them think. "
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