[Art] Gil and the Lesser Stick-Nest Rat (BW)

[moonvoice]

(this counts as my photo of the day).

Gil and the Lesser Stick-Nest Rat
- pre-colouring -










Large version (although, none of these are as large as the original).
It amuses me that even in the large version, the dots in the eucalyptus leaves are so tiny that you still can't see them properly.





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[faerysprl.livejournal.com]

wow, thats... wow!

do you have to soak your hands in warm water to get them to uncramp?

[welshwmn3.livejournal.com]

In color and design class (a long, long time ago) I did things like this (using hatching and dots and other forms to fill in shapes).

I didn't have dots that small, and it took me hours!

I'm impressed and awed!

[gemfyre.livejournal.com]

My mum recently spent a few days at Charles Darwin reserve (NE of Perth) for a work thing. She was shown (and took photos of) an old Lesser Stick-nest Rat's nest. They reckon it's probably 100 years old.

It was sad looking at the photos, thinking that nest was once built and used by a creature that is now most likely extinct.

[wolftale.livejournal.com]

The details is just wow...
O.O
Amazing!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Yeah sometimes. I tend to soak them in hot water before I start as well. In Winter, I actually can't do a lot of this fine detail work as much, esp. first thing in the mornings even after a hot water soak.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank god for body memory, doing it a lot has allowed me to learn how to do it quite fast; and I think you only learn that with hours and hours of repetition.

Still takes a while though. Those little dots in the eucalyptus leaves were the worst!

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

There was actually evidence a while back that lesser stick-nest rat nests were still being added to, even though there were no sightings of lesser stick-nest rats. For this reason their status has been downgraded from Extinct to Critically Endangered.

It's sad though... so sad. These animals that should still be here, and aren't. Or probably aren't. :/

[anrui-ichido.livejournal.com]

Pointillism is such a bitch, but god DAMN do I ever love the results.

[end-of-the-mind.livejournal.com]

I really just want to snorgle their sad, lonely, fuzzy rat bellies and tell them they're awesome and we're sorry. Then just snorgle them more and feed the yogies. Amazing textures! Holycrap stipples. And fur. And such a sad, sad bunch of faces.

[firehauke.livejournal.com]

I still hate pointilism, but you are the awesomest at it (ok, yep, new word), even more so than that one artist that is famous for it...dear gods here is where my memory fails and I can't pull up the info. Victorian or late 1800s dress on people, ladies wearing hats and carrying parasols; in a park, having picnics...it's OBVIOUS that it's dots, even from a decent viewing distance.

My google fu is working: http://www.georgesseurat.org/A-Sunday-Afternoon-On-The-Island-Of-La-Grande-Jatte.html <<That one. LOL (dear heavens I am the history geek, I was right, late 1800s) more on your work: Gil has a very world weary gaze about him. And I always love your BW work.

[ariestess]

Wow! Such tiny dots in those leaves!

[silverjackal.livejournal.com]

The detail is absolutely stupendous, and I love the solidity of the rats. You can practically feel their weight and warmth, even though there's no colour.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

The lesser stick-nest rats were chunky monkeys (their still existing family member, the greater stick-nest rat are the same). I can't wait to colour them. :)

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

So many. Too many! Glad I don't have to do any more leaves (until I get to the Gilda picture, but there's less leaves in that one).

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

I can't wait to colour them, to give them some life, they are so dismissed by artists - most of the critically endangered or extinct Australian rodents and marsupial-type-rodent-things are.

Which is sad making.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Me too! :D

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :D

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Ah yes, I know his stuff! His pointillism with colours was pretty damned amazing. He was working in pixels before there were pixels, heh.

[ariestess]

LOL! I bet!

[darakat-ewr.livejournal.com]

So awesome, I bask in your awesome drawing skills.

[end-of-the-mind.livejournal.com]

It is ;-; I'm on a bilby crusade right now. I mean, they're basically just marsupial kangaroo rats! And no one loves k-rats either. It's only natural, including bilbies. Poor things.

Sadly, rodents and tassies and stuff aren't charismatic. They aren't tigers or pandas, so they don't make good poster children. They get overlooked because they aren't "cute" or "majestic" or whatever. Blah.

[moonvoice.livejournal.com]

Oh bilbies get a lot of love in Western Australia! We even have Easter bilbies at Easter, alongside Easter bunnies, and we always get some. :)

[end-of-the-mind.livejournal.com]

Awwww! Well, then I won't worry so much ^^ I still have to get out there to see the marsupial k-rats, though. It's part of life!

Back to championing the poor tassies, then. And, of course, the Texas prairies. That's a whole different high horse, though.

[mirrorred-star.livejournal.com]

That's insanely crazy detail! And the picture is so awesome.

You're really good at people eyes.