The Frog Trap

Painting \ Nature | 09/09/08 @970 | kongart | critiques (9) | views (650)

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Well I have recently launched into digital art and have been really enjoying in aided by some wonderful youtube tutorials of which you can see here on my favorites......
http://www.youtube.com/profile_favorites?user=ultramurals

so to this painting, originally I think I found this idea in a wonderful book on tropical frogs.. I did a sketch in my sketchbook and then took a photo of that which I stumbled across in my external hard drive... so grabbed it and have put way more time into this than ever before on my laptop.. very very pleased with the outcome and I hope you like it......

and it seems the frog is a lot less frog king than I had originally seen... in fact its lying in the gaping jaws of a pitcher plant which lures its prey with nectar and then once inside the walls of the plant are extremely slippery and the liquid in the bottom of the plant digests the animal..... from one extreme to the other king to victim all change..... thanks purple rose for pointing that out!

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Jacobine

09/09/08 @666

Very nice work! Frog looks great

purplerose

09/10/08 @979

Really wonderful. not sure a pitcher plant is a good place for a throne though.

Really appreciate the details throughout this. The border effect is a bit distracting.

kongart

09/10/08 @403

purple rose thanks sooo much...pitcher plants i never knew.. I just checked them out seems a little editing is in order just saw this wonderful clip too on their growth and mission to eat ..... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=trWzDlRvv1M

Andy--Jones

09/11/08 @028

lovely. I like the dew drops. The large thumb made me smile with the blinking and all

purplerose

09/11/08 @754

Really nice link!

jonny007

09/11/08 @810

5/5 bro!
I like the level of detail! Great work.

kongart

09/11/08 @926

Thanks very much guys... meee too with the blinking of the frog what a breakthrough......... gif's will never be the same again! Very pleased been looking right into animation as that, (before I became a painter) was my training in college, animation..... so found my self surprisingly enthusiastic after trying to avoid for so many years....

and yes thanks again purplerose, The frog king title was not quite the same now with enlightened knowledge on his throne... and got to love Sir David Attenborough what an informative clip struck gold there thank you Utooobe

thanks for all the comments

killadore

09/15/08 @747

so cool. i absolutely love it. the clarity and all those little details really make this quite outstanding. the green colors are so beautiful
a 10 from me

ersen-t

03/27/09 @998

nice work.
the frog is great.

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