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Tahei

Shanghai (Dec 10, 2006)

I've been thinking about drawing a frosty mountain town for awhile, but the exact design I just made up as I went. I was thinking of various old games as I made it.

loosely named after Thule

I made Tahei with the idea of a country at the top of the world that's perpetually frozen. There's a Christmas themed mining town (it takes a lot of coal for all the bad kids out there), a glacier roaming with snow beasts, frozen waterfalls during the winter when it gets really cold, a hot springs for the small monkey population (based on a type of monkey in Japan that does go into hot spring waters), an icy moon that's closer than you'd think (it is the top of the world after all), and a castle on the mountain top. I haven't decided who lives in the castle, but it's not Santa Claus. I like real world references and influences, but I normally avoid directly using fictional/real life characters or places since it is my own fantasy world I'm making. Tahei as a country may only be made up of one town and a castle, but they never have to worry about being invaded because no army would want to bother with it. The monkeys here are like miniture yetis, and the snow beasts are their much larger cousins (think The Empire Strikes Back and that big snow monster that attacked Luke at the beginning).

maybe the castle will be a pathway to the moon. The owner of the castle should be based on Kaguya Hime from Japanese folklore (a princess who came from the moon). The pathway should open up during the full moon, and there should be a race of Lunarians there like in Final Fantasy 4 or in the Touhou game series (Imperishable Night was about Kaguya). There was also a villan based on Kaguya in one of the Inu Yasha movies.

18 comments – latest 4:

frootcake (Dec 18, 2006)

good call

cmb (Dec 19, 2006)

great win - well done!

Dr.Snoopy (Jan 7, 2007)

Well deserved showcase entry!!

davincipoppalag (Sep 28, 2018)

yep

repairs

Zack (Dec 27, 2007)

A mecha that's in for repairs.

56 comments – latest 4:

madscientist111 (Jul 19, 2010)

Wonderful engineering! Very mechanical and complex looking!

firecracker (Jul 20, 2010)

This pic just fascinates me....I never get tired of looking at it.......awesome draw!!!! :)

dorothyblueeyes (Jul 22, 2010)

very good illustration.

davincipoppalag (Sep 28, 2018)

zack did good mechas

Eye of the Storm

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Jul 18, 2004)

appears to be calm

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DeadlyBlondeArcher (Aug 20, 2008)

That's so nice of you to say, Sweetcell... I just now noticed the new "recent comments" section and saw this. Had alot going on in my life the last year or so... hopefully I'll have more time to paint now. It feels good to be missed... :) Thank you. I know I've really missed all of you, and this place.

sonzai (Aug 21, 2008)

beauuutiful... you are so talented :)

bette_davis_eyes (Aug 21, 2008)

I love this too.. that eye is total perfection.

davincipoppalag (Jul 27, 2018)

I miss DBA

So, ya, you know who.

Sweetcell (Jul 29, 2006)

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/3/30/E3_link_art.jpg

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gizemko3 (Jun 13, 2007)

oh wow. damn, i don't have N64... i guess i will have to stick with GameBoy, sniff.
i was thinking about this for some time now: how come he's one of the hottest men ever when he's dressed heavily from toes to the neck (no skin showing except the face)? i have no clue

paladin590 (Jan 26, 2011)

nice, but not perfect :)

montezmaria (Jan 29, 2011)

What detail!!! Love the fabrics, leather brown on him. Beautiful tones throughout the entire pc........you did an awesome job on this.

davincipoppalag (Jul 25, 2018)

front page

Carnivale!

Artiste (Jul 21, 2006)

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Flubbles (Aug 22, 2009)

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kejoco (Jan 27, 2015)

Just started watching this sjow, its awesome

estelleparson (edited Apr 4, 2015)

twin peaks!! really good painting.the yellows make it cheerful and light. THE FACE IS really nicely done!! wow.

(life is way too complicated now, true, there were advantages to yester-year, simpler times had less STRESS.SURE, TECHNOLOGY IS GREAT, BUT man himself is still too primitive and animal-based to handle it. our homo sapiens hasn't changed to keep up with tech; we're still the human who farmed, went by the seasons, had religions, superstitions, and lived by our instincts. Homo sapiens is just not ADVANCED, EVOLVED, to keep up with his sciences. )thus, we still need simpler times as this picture illustrates. GREAT PICTURE!!

davincipoppalag (edited Mar 9, 2020)

the carnival is open again

BUM BUM BUM BUM Bum Bum Bum Bum bumbumbumbum doodelydoo

thug (Mar 29, 2004)

a guppy

39 comments – latest 4:

estelleparson (May 12, 2015)

appropriate for this site, great prehistoric predator!

davincipoppalag (Jun 14, 2017)

just when you thought it was safe to come to the front page again.....dum dum dum dum....

shults (Jun 17, 2017)

:)

davincipoppalag (Jul 17, 2018)

shark week

Well? Now what?

Moosh (Jul 10, 2006)

She looks awfully bored to have just beheaded a troll... :/

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Pippi (Dec 31, 2010)

love it. needs more blood though.

werd1234 (Jan 11, 2011)

where's the red?!

5p00k3n5t31n (Aug 11, 2011)

This is incredible! Great use of one color!

davincipoppalag (May 19, 2018)

front page

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Beauty in Bloom

STARZSHINE (May 21, 2008)

This was done for a gifted photographer on deviant...desmo 100, she has beautiful floral photography, and macros, I hope she likes...

THANKS EVERYONE! Thanks for all the kind comments and thanks for the showcase! :D

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Wraith (Dec 22, 2013)

Very Nice! What else is there to say?

dorothyblueeyes (Dec 27, 2013)

There's an old breed off rose called "peace" that is yellow,pink,red and white, like a sunset.beautiful, similar to this.god, fantastic!(no roses in Eugene Oregon , ugh, wet foggy gray, cold wet cold)

elly (Dec 16, 2017)

My eye ALWAYS stops on this draw when I happen past it! The colors are so soothing and has a victorian feel to it for me. I just LOVE this piece!

davincipoppalag (Dec 16, 2017)

yea her work was always beautiful

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Xodiak (Apr 23, 2004)

Allo. Some told me to draw. Hehehe! >:)
Reference: (if you are a parent, do not click!)
|XOD|

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HiroDaZero (Jan 1, 2013)

this is still so fricking good

dorothyblueeyes (edited Mar 21, 2013)

Not child porn, just photo-child. I wonder (very good, incidentally .) if anyone has any "home movies "they have ever done art from? is that possible? anyone? Wow, this is so good.

elly (Dec 16, 2017)

When I discovered 2d way back when (early 2000's), this is one of the first drawings I saw here that TOTALLY BLEW MY MIND @___@ I could not wrap the idea of this being an actual 'drawing' around my head. I was just SURE it was a photo!!! I have to say that since then, I believe I have photorealism wrapped around my head just fine now :) Thank you, Xodiak, for the amazing inspiration!!

davincipoppalag (Dec 16, 2017)

xod was very talented..,though the site link for this was a bit questionable as I recall

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Wish

DeadlyBlondeArcher (Jan 13, 2005)

in the wind

photo ref used

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Sweetcell (May 14, 2008)

I miss Cindy, I hope she comes back soon.

Does anyone know where she is? I know she had personal reasons. Just so's you know Miss Cindy, your missed.

GoldDragonfly (Jul 1, 2008)

wow :O it looks so real!

Ceasement (Aug 6, 2008)

This is beautiful :D It looks more like a photograph than a drawing.
I really love the detail in the dandelion :]

davincipoppalag (Mar 29, 2017)

Y'all come back now..Mizz Cindy