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Prints: daniel-eskridge.artistwebsites…A cowboy going to investigate mutilated cattle near the edge of the forest encounters a huge grizzly bear. The massive grizzly towers over the man as it stands on it hind legs and prepares to lunge. The cowboy draws his six-shooter as he frantically tries to keep his terrified horse under control.
I originally created this artwork a few years ago as an illustration for a wild west adventure story (hence the vertical orientation to go on a book cover). The deal fell through though before I was done and I forgot about this image. A few days ago, though, I came across it while cleaning some old art files off my hard drive. I rather liked the dime-novel/pulp fiction feel that it had, so I decided to finish it up and publish it to my gallery.
The cowboy/gunslinger wears high leather boots with spurs, brown pants, a light colored shirt, suspenders, a wide black leather belt, and, of course, a brown cowboy hat. He is riding a pinto mustang with black mane, tail and fetlocks. He has got his revolver raised and ready. The bear is a massive brown grizzly bear standing more than twenty feet tall (impossibly large, but heck, this was for a tall tale). The scene takes place at the edge of a forest next to a small pond or creek.
Tools used: Poser, Vue, GIMP, Photomatix
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Daniel Eskridge
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This looks like it has potential to be an illustrative adaptation of Richard Adams' Shardik, without the cowboy and the horse and all other things relating to them. Mr. Deskridge, if you could do an illustration of one or any of the scenes of Shardik involving the titular bear and the main character Kelderek, you could take out all the greenery of the forest in this art and change it to one recently burned by a forest fire. Shardik the titanic bear, similarly humongous than that giant bear you illustrated, stands tall in the midst of the destruction's aftermath, searching the ruins of his scorched former home, roaring distressingly. From afar, somewhere among the litter of felled trees and charred bushes, hides Kelderek, who has just recently discovered the giant bear looming over the debris of wood, bark, leaves and rubble. I did not take this particular scene from out of the book itself, but that's a scene I can imagine, that I am conceiving from my fancy if I were ever to read Richard Adams' book Shardik. Anyhow, this is marvelous work It continues to further fuel and inspire my imagination of larger or gigantic monster animals. If I am to write a story concerning a giant animal, it would be one based on the urban legend of the rumored Bergman's bear, a cryptid bear that is reportedly as large and enormous as a semi-truck (or maybe full-on or over the size of a pick-up truck) and is claimed to reside in the Kamchatka peninsula, regionally situated at the far end of Eurasian continent in Far East Russia. It might also be just an overgrown Kamchatka brown bear with different darker fur color and/or skin pigmentation. It is also called Irkuiem by some local Kamchatkan natives residing in some settlements somewhere in Kamchatka. It's quite an interesting idea, don't you think? I hope you might be interested, good sir
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Thanks for the info. I definitely have some googling to do
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That's a Cavebear from paleo-lithic times. Anything less than a 44 will only make it angry.
A true story, a couple years ago a bear somehow made it into the burbs of a local bay area neighborhood, and the owner fired his .22 at it. Only the bullet bounced off. And, as per the anchors commentary; "And from such stuff, legends are made..."
I think it was KGO Channel 7 or KPIX channel 5 news. One of the two.
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Awesome! The bear's face looks strange, though. I have to say I love the horse! Also, I think you could do better on the cowboy. But that horse, amazing!
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That's a hell of a bear! Great work. Would have made a great cover too.
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If it were real, it would be truly terrifying! That pistol would stop that bear like it would stop a terminator.
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The grizzly is going to eat him and his gun in one gulp 
The horse is wonderful **
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outstanding!
I like the horse (head movement, its mane in the wind..)
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Es Arctotherium angustidens de las pampas Argentinas y esa pistolita no le va a servir de nada contra esa magnifica bestia
Is Arctotherium angustidens of Argentine pampas and the pistol is not going to do any good against that magnificent beast
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Great scene
I would not stand still to try and shoot that bear...i would run, as fast as i could
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The horse wants to flee the scene as quickly as possible. 
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Chuckle. Normally, I'd say a .45 Long Colt would do... in this case, however... Hi, Yo, Silver! Away! (Fast!)
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