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andrea-koupal — Drawing of Mekkul
Published: 2005-08-05 03:23:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 4588; Favourites: 123; Downloads: 489
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This was an attempt at creating a zoomorphic garter snake naga. His name is Mekkul.I imagine he used to be a normal garter snake who lived for 100 years, and eventually achieved enlightenment, shed his skin, and changed into a new shape that was better suited for communicating to the humans in the interest of protecting his race.
Pencil with tinting added in Photoshop.
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Wow, this one is very cool....at first glance I thought maybe gecko, because of the pads at the ends of his fingers, they sort of remind me of the lizard suction cups, but once past that I definitely see the snake too!
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I like how the snake markings remain on his body, and the belly scales are visible along his torso and even faintly showing up over his pec muscles, a nice way of melding the humanlike body with snake features. I think his nose might look better if it were more snakelike slit than humanlike nose, but I still think he's great.
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Very interesting take on a naga. Though are there naga males? The eternal question about "fantasy" creatures... Nicely done. I like the hair. ^_^
~Mil
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I just love the way you take a concept and go with it! As always I am amazed by your skill with Fantasy artwork.
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That's beautiful. I love the brilliance of the colours, absolutely stunning.
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Amazing. Wonderful detail put into the scales.
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Neat concept! I like his nose. The textures are pretty. I really like how you do scales. Shiny work! X3
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Great work on the subtle scale textures. it looks amazing!
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Yay snakes <3
Suddenly you made me wanna bust out my half-dragon half-elf from DnD 3.5, haha... I miss you, Ivengarr...
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Beautiful colouring! The detail on the skin looks wonderful!
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Your characters are so wonderfully creative! Much 
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This is beautiful in form, texture, and emotion. He looks so tender and sweet to the little snake.
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I like it. Usually Snakes are portrayed as vicious creatures. This makes snakes seem...cute. My Chinese animal is a snake.
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that is AWESOME! Amazingly done, you even put in the texture of the scales. Very nice, well done! Plus, snakes just rock
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looks realy nice!
His eyes reminds me of the unique robot in "I,Robot"
The only critism i can give here, is that the scales on his arms are pointing the wrong way, and looks like you found that out too late.
How did you do the background?
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The background is actually just some quick painting in Photoshop with my Wacom 
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;_; Waaaaai! I love dear little snakes... I think the stripes and light underbelly on him are especially cute. And the ball-fingertips. n_n
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Nice work! The eyes are pretty and I like the way you did the fingers.
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XD If someone grabbed him by the tail, maybe!
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lovely work, though not sure i like the design persay. i think its original, but something about the face doesnt seem quite snake-like. then again its your character, still love the pencil detailing and the texture of his skin.
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I would kind of agree with you in that it didn't turn out quite how I wanted and so I'm not completely happy with it. But there was a lot of work and time invested into it and so I decided to put it here.
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oo of course i understand! i still think its neat, i did a sketch of some fan-art of him today. he;s all sexy hehehe!
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woah, thats a cool character. the texturing on his skin is certainly admirable.
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This made me go "wow"
The detail in this picture is incredible. This is the best depiction of serpentine qualities I have ever seen in an image portraying a naga. It's so unique! Excellent job--well done! Clap! Clap! Clap!
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Wow, that's a great background story as well, so imaginative! I can see it all in my head 
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Very nice one. I really like it. Maybe a little bit of an darker style would have be better but on the other hand it`s also pretty nice the way it is ^_^
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OOOhhh, awesome!!!!!!!!!!! As usuall, you have produced a wonderfully detailed piece of art for us all to admire, which we do.
BittyKitty
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Wow, totally awesome. Something about him seems so huggable!
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Evolution, cool 
I like the details 'n the way that he still look like a snake; he still have a snake tail?
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Yeah, he should have a snaketail in place of legs, which I really ought to have shown. Maybe in another try
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I supposed it because there're the tail entries and he only needs the face-arms to explain the humans about it race, isn't it? Well, that's my theory xD
And looks really cool with half "human" and half "snake" body
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wow this is just incredable. i love the sci-fi feel (reminds me of Isac Azomov)
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Oh wow, that's such a neat concept ^^! I love how you've incorporated the snake into the humanish figure, but still completely kept the essence of the snake. Awesome
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oooh wow.. i love the texture of the scales.. and those friendly looking eyes. This is incredible, everything looks great!
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I love this, the design and coloring are really appealing. Hooray for snake people. Very good job, had to fav
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First, I love your zoomorphic style
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Interesting!
His gentle, almost nurturing-seeming character really fits what I've heard about garter snakes...that they're very docile animals. The big, watery eyes in particular get that impression across, especially with how he seems to want to protect the his "little brother".
Is there a story these nagas come from? And how does an animal achieve enlightenment on the order that a human would?
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The idea of an animal achieving a higher concious was inspired in part by certain Japanese myths, in which if certain cats live for 100 years they become Nekomata. Also certain Hindu ideas where humans, animals and other beings are all just different stages of soul reincarnation. I love mythology so ideas like that help inspire my artwork.
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Very interesting. I'd known about Hindu beliefs that you could reincarnate as an animal--but never of an animal gaining enlightenment while still in an animal form.
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