I really like how you do your lighting/shading, you make it look so easy when I know it's not :D I'd really like to learn this sort of style of digital painting.

I approve. Awesome piece.

I wonder if the sheets of rolled-up paper have writing on them -- the cited quotations, perhaps?

Also, I love the way you've taken advantage of the stage-lighting concept to give a sense of mystery to any figure that walks off-stage, or that lurks, in this case, just beyond the light. It's a simple touch, but effective and eerie.





Mark

Hmm, that's a thing to think about. How much of a weapon can citations be...
Good idea. :]

If you could make a sculpture based on that drawing, I think it would not look out of place in my city's new museum.

http://www.hepworthwakefield.org/

Hm, they don't seem to like figurative work that much, atleast judging from their website.
Yet, thanks a bunch for the compliment. :)

No problems :)

Good lord, the contrast between the light and dark and the three dimensional effect it's making is just blowing my mind D=

I like this, along with the quotes and their sentiments.

You are up there with David Altmejd for me. Your work makes me anxious to drop whatever i'm doing and make something.

You stole the words strait from my mouth...
This is an excellent, and inspiring piece...

Thanks. :>

Oh and, thanks for mentioning him, I wasn't aware of his work. Looks very very interesting.

I see you I see you I see you

Looks like an Awesome Performanse!!

That's a fascinating splotchy effect you selected there for movement... makes them look inky or ghostly, or a combination.

Interesting piece, and it's well done. Curious about the story behind it.

As for deer being beautiful animals, I very much agree. Mine are spoiled rotten, and get pictures taken of them all of the time, but the bucks can also be very destructive at times during hard rack.

Thanks.
Well, the story is pretty much what's in the quotes.

Yeah, I'm sure it's "a bit" desctructive - all those pointy bits at full strength with that body mass... Makes me wonder, is it really that beneficial for a species to have a percent of its male individuals killed during rut (not just deer, some other species tend to have a decent lethality to their rut fights).

"Do you believe that my being stronger, or faster, has anything to with my muscles, in this place?"

nice piece I really do like it. my fave bit is the ears and antlers of the one thats jumping.
and his hooves
I don't think all the anti hunting stuff needs to be in there.
their are jack asses with everything, I hate people that hunt for sport.
but some of uh gotta eat. or not having them end up on the front of the car.

*applauds all the quotes*

Not to be too too lowbrow, but damn you draw fine deer men :)

"Very little of the great cruelty shown by men can really be attributed to cruel instinct. Most of it comes from thoughtlessness or inherited habit. The roots of cruelty, therefore, are not so much strong as widespread. But the time must come when inhumanity protected by custom and thoughtlessness will succumb before humanity championed by thought. Let us work that this time may come.
- Albert Schweitzer"

I think that human cruelty comes from apathy(thoughtlessness), as he said, but more from the "because I can" mentality. Humans will commit the most unspeakable acts, if they do not fear retribution.

"The fascination of shooting as a sport depends almost wholly on whether you are at the right or wrong end of a gun.
- P.G. Wodehouse" and
"Deer hunting would be fine sport, if only the deer had guns.
- William S. Gilbert"

Those quotes made me laugh, humans wouldn't find it such a fun sport if the deer were on equal ground and the hunter was risking their life.

Very very very cool and interesting picture! I love it!

I have just discovered your work, and I am astounded, your amazing detail, emphasis and contrast belong to someone in art school. While I agree with the majority of the quotes/passages that accompany your work, these few I must disagree with. I am a hunter, I love animals, and yet I shoot them. why? you may ask. I hunt not because I would starve if I did not (and I do eat the meat I obtain) I do not hunt because I like killing, I hunt because I have to. Something inside of me pushes me to stalk, to follow, to find, and yes, to kill. I hunt because that is what I am, a hunter. It is a beautiful thing, to push your body to its limits in the pursuit of an animal, trudging over miles and miles of mountains in pursuit of your quarry. Some say that it is not fair to hunt an animal, my response is that they have never been hunting, it is not easy. My prey has fur to stay warm, I need clothes. My prey has hooves to maintain traction, I need boots. My prey has speed to evade swiftly, I need a weapon. Every single aspect of survivability, my "Prey" disgraces me, I am humbled by natures perfect solution of evasion, I am envious of its abilities, I must use my intellect, and innovation to overcome the mountainous differences between our physical capabilities. Do you think that an Elk stands any better chance against the fangs of a wolf pack, or the stealth of a cougar than it does a single human with a gun? A wolf can smell deer from miles away, a bear even further. I must blunder about until I stumble upon spoor or fresh tracks. I am an imbecile trying to satiate my desire to hunt. I have many a times been foiled by my ungraceful two-legged gait, tripping over branches and revealing my presence to my prey. They say that a wolf-pack will only succeed one time in ten to make a kill, I will be lucky if I get one in thirty. I am comfortable hunting the same way a wolf is, it is what I was meant to do, my creator (whoever or whatever that may be) gave me the ability to hunt through intelligence, just as they gave predators of the animal kingdom the ability to hunt with their bodies. And when the deed has been done, and I make a kill, I thank the animal for what it has given up for me, and I thank it for the chase it has provided, much better then a cow led to slaughter no?