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"Lost outer beauty" by Anca Raluca Sandu

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SciFi and Fantasy Art Lost outer beauty by Anca Raluca Sandu

Lost might be another's beauty of the body, but never should another stop taking care of the inner one...

I received rather good feedback for this one and I'm glad because it's a very old painting done from scratch on the computer when I only knew to use basic Paint. I used the spray a lot and I believe I did rather few to change it later with better programs. Back then I had the idea of an extinct race that resembled large snake-like skeletons but were very much alive and normal (have no idea how they survived, don't ask). The last specimen was a bit crazy female that found home in the blood-red realm, with other beings that were amongst the last of their kind. Returning to this bony species, it also had hands and some possible wing-like formations that also worked as hands, in need. And their spiked back offered some protection and perhaps more that a cary aspect. The jaw's missing is probably due to the fact that I wanted some teeth to freely hang down. Not yet decided upon the eyes' color.

*Note on 30 december, 2008: this is already a very VERY old picture, but I have received quite a lot of good feedback, it seems. I'm happy that such pictures still atrract attention. Shortly said, I decided to keep this one in the gallery still.

Date	Name	Comment
6 Dec 2007	Casandra l.johnsen	Loading... This is really cool! [ first comment dance] i cant do skeletons to save my life. keep up the good work! Anca Raluca Sandu replies: "If I'm not mistaking, this is one of my first "bony" drawings. Skeletons are not my type either... but I do them just for fun. They're never anathomical correct, but who cares... though very old, this picture is unsually cool. Done in Paint, amazingly, and then edited a bit (I think)."
31 Jan 2008	Jennie Sörensen	Loading... It’s really beautiful Anca Raluca Sandu replies: "Hard to believe it’s done only in simple Paint! Back then, I didn’t have any other program and I had just discovered that with a little patience and the Spray tool you can do something nice. It’s still one of the best from that period and a very nice character."
17 Jun 2008	Jennifer Deese	Loading... I like how simple this is, to be a skeleton. It almost looks like a traditional drawing, and I really like that effect. For Paint work, this is very well done! Anca Raluca Sandu replies: "This is also, perhaps, the only drawing I left in the original form (without another computer program to add blur). I drew it pretty long ago, when I first got the tablet and I only had Paint, so I made full use of Paint’s spray tool (mostly, for shading... but I didn’t mind it passed over the bone outline). You could say this is one of the "old classics" of mine that I like and I wouldn’t change."
30 Dec 2008	Diane Grandamelf Reed	Loading... Oh My! I really like this painting! I t is powerful! Anca Raluca Sandu replies: "This is one of the pictures that received an incredible amount of good feedback. Wow, incredible, and thank you as well! As I think as I said somewhere before, this creature is one of the first I have ever imagined and drawn. Perhaps that’s why is so strong. It’s done in simple Paint program around the time I merely got my graphic tablet so I guess it has some vibration in it, being both old and rather original. Also, I haven’t modified it later on when I got a better program (the blur is because of the effect you get when saving a "jpg" from "bitmap" in Paint). Though the eyes could have used some shine."
18 Feb 2009	Hannah M. Bridgeman	Loading... I think this is definitely one of my favorite pieces in your gallery. I love the concept behind it as well! Anca Raluca Sandu replies: "My ideas changed in time very much but every now and then I come upon some pictures or other types of ideas that are very old and remained very much the same. It’s kind of a weird feeling to remember such things, but it’s sort of thrilling too! This is one of the few left. At first I wondered how come people like it so much (since it’s rather badly shown and naive, even though it has some cool touches), but then, I don’t complain about it neither . Thank you."

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'Lost outer beauty':

• Created by:

Anca Raluca Sandu
• Copyright: ©Anca Raluca Sandu. All rights reserved!

• Keywords: Alive, Beauty, Blood, Claws, Feedback, Hands, Jaw, Lost, Magenta, Missing, Outer, Realm, Red, Skeletal, Skeleton, Snake, Spikes, Teeth, Violet, Wings
• Categories: Dream Imagery, Humourous or Cute Things, Self made up Fantasy/SciFi Animals
• Techniques: Computer-coloured Picture, Computer Program, Other Computer Paint Program
• Views: 829
• Resolution: 800x544

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