[art] Is it a horse? A cow? A colossus?

[naukhel]

Yes, to all of the above! Maybe!
 

  When I got home today, instead of sitting down and doing work, or indeed working on finishing off the drawing I have going, I doodled this. What is it? Well, I don't know really, but I rather like it. I'll think of a name later, but all I know for the moment is that it's a benevolent nature spirit of some kind. Am I sounding all Ghibli, yet? In any case, it would probably let you ride it if you could ever catch it sitting down (which it almost never does, since its joints don't work very well and it rarely gets tired). It likes butterflies, but birds get annoying and pull at its hair. The tiny little T-Rex arms are used mainly to push branches out of eye-level. It's very careful about where it puts its feet, and very slow-moving.

Completely drawn in pen! :D

P.S. I'm still not very good at scanning. :(
 

Comments

[unbelievable]

This is really cool ^^ I love how the eyes look shiny.

[naukhel]

Haha, I kinda messed up the eyes by making them both in a different way, but thank you! :D

[aki-hide-aki.livejournal.com]

nice work.
The legs look like Floys: a miracle such scrawny legs can support such a massive body, lol.

Your scanning doesnt look so bad.

[naukhel]

I scanned it like seven times using different methods and settings, but this was the best one. However, it still doesn't look as good as it does on paper, which is kinda frustrating. I can't work out what looks different.

[ninja15.livejournal.com]

Looks awesome! =D

This, and the fact that I recently finished Ico, makes me want to play Shadow of the Colossus again...

[naukhel]

Thank you! :D

I have this habit of doodling colossi when I'm bored, actually - always my favourite one, though, the second one. XD;

Ico is awesome! I love the boss battle with the Queen.

[ninja15.livejournal.com]

Yeah, that boss fight was pretty awesome XD I'd actually never played Ico before now, so I feel somewhat late to the party on that one.

I saw some of what appeared to be proof of concept footage of Ueda's next game, and I can't wait for that. Hopefully I'll have a PS3 by the time it comes out =|

[thruthewire]

Wow, this is really cool. You didn't mention you were an artist!

[naukhel]

Ahaha. More like I kinda pretend when I have time and motivation. I'm hardly professional, it's mostly just for fun. :)

[(Anonymous)]

that's so awesome looking! it seems like it wouldn't be out of place in dark crystal, haha.

[l_elfie]

hah, that was me.

[naukhel]

Ninja!Elfie. :D

Glad you like it! And I see what you mean about Dark Crystal. XD That's a compliment!

[yabai]

Aaaah I really love your imaginary monsters ♥

[naukhel]

Aww, thank you ♥

Actually, I've never really been very good at drawing monsters or animals. I just seem to find myself drawing a lot of them recently, for whatever reason. XD

[yabai]

I think they're good! Surreal enough to be believable, and stylized enough to be adorable ♥ (and maybe a little scary, but scary things are cute to me for some reason XD)