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My final submission for the Serpentes Portfolio which will be making its debut at FC. Go hunt a copy down for yourself.

The loose theme of the portfolio was snake legends and representations of snakes from around the world. There's no one particular legend associated with this guy, but I chose the Jamaican/Carribean area and one of Jamaica's few native species, the Black Racer.

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:icondeadlypuppysnugz:
OMG! I love it!!!

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:iconsungryphon:
I love all the stuff hanging off the tree. My sketch for my CSS journal actually has something very similar (a tree with stuff hanging off it), so it's nice to see that my idea will in fact work :D

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Cool design, I like very much how this came out :D ~<33.


~Tav

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:icon282lostmemories:
That just looks really, really, cool!

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I like all the little things hanging in the tree. I have a hawthorn at home that my mum and I hang shiny things from (beads, pretty pebbles, streamers, etc.) - great fun! I especially like the sand dollar, as I'm studying echinoderms right now. :D

The stylised swirliness of the tree bark is pretty. That, and the Caribbean setting makes it quite Monkey Island-ish. Dunno if that was what you were going for, though.

It took me a second to work out what was going on with snake-dude's neck - at first I thought it was a hood like a cobra's. I think maybe his neck could stand to be a little more rounded in outline. I do like the way you draw snakes realistically angular rather than in perfect curves, but I think this one's neck is just a little too rectangular-looking.
Also, he doesn't really look as though he's holding the conch shell. Or rather, he seems to be holding it too lightly for a thing its size. Shells that big are pretty hefty, so he'd need to have a more secure grip than that.

It's still a very pretty piece, and nice to look at. :) And I do love how you've done the scales. Wish I'd thought of that first.

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Wee, I totally saw this in its half finished state. :P

And yeah, it looks great, and I'm as jealous as always. :D
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Thanks for the critique, but I'm not going to go back and change any of it now :)
:iconstormyzoonoc:
Nice job on the scales! And I love all of the shell decorations. Very nice :)

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awsome:D
i like his rainbow bracelet!

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Fantastic Work :D

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