Thumbnail is OK but I am only getting 1/3 of the main piece. But what I see is fantastic! For sale? :)

I finally clicked on download and was able to get the full picture. Oh Yeah! Gorgeous piece!

^^ I'm glad everything works. Thank you very much! I'm replying to your note right away.

All of these hidden colors - and that mottled background. Erin go bragh!
This belongs in one of those 1992-era picture books with faux-renaissance text in the margins and ridiculous detail of just this sort in every page... ^u^

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Yeeeaaaaa, rings a bell ^^

Yeah... something like Paul Zielinsky or Fred Marcellino would have done...
It's a whole style of faux-rennaissance that popped up in the late eighties/early nineties - the stuff your Aunt has a ton of crap around the house that looks like this. Wine trellisses, the Venetian in Vegas, Phantom of the Opera, burnished reds and oranges and golds against neutral olives, Early 90s CD stereo systems with "Three Tenors" and Andrea Bocelli albums, typography with little renaissance symbols on the bottom and italianite letters in square blocks. Fantastical renaissance. http://kidpix.livejournal.com/572704.html "Ouch" by Natalie Babbitt and Fred Marcellino - if you ever look it up, the typography is even more faux-renaissance italy.
That level of over-detailed and style of composition in your pic; if only half this picture was venetian red, it'd fit in perfectly with that.
_{(Incidentally, my sister's sung backup to Bocelli. She testifies he's apparently very tender with the family he carries around, but treats his accompanists with magno capriccio; he's powerless away from a microphone. By contrast, Bryn Terfel is the jocular Great-Uncle Frank of yours backstage. Who'da thunk?)}

You know Himmapaan from dA? If you like such climate, you have to check her out ;>
I'm not sure if such style was in as much in poland x3 Seems to me like a bit tacky. But it must include that bit of fantasy fairy-tale feeling.
Fred Marcellino is brilliant. I love the perspective.
I take inspiration from XIX-century academic art, so it's close.

Saw and liked. (Although I must admit, my first thought was "Oh, god, I'm already watching like 200 Finns on dA, I don't need to add to the list XD)

Oh, it's tacky! Faux-cracking oil paint texture... of course, my other American design students think Polish design from that period was insanely random, but better random than tacky, don't you think? ^^ I honestly think you had the better idea.
I'm just now at my Aunt's house for Thanksgiving (closest thing America has to a feast day, everyone goes to family for it) and her living room is loaded with the italianophile shit I'm talking about... I'd take some pictures, but my phone just broke.
Fantasy, yes. This is amazingly fantastical... Reminds me of Alex Raymond, almost, so that breaks the spell a bit XD but it's so ephemeral and diaphonous... I can hear it humming as I look at it. Brava.

Fred has such juicy textures - and his perspective is flawless. Whatever camera angle fits the story, he can draw it. I envy that...

I'm more from the magazine illustration and abstract art camps, so anything with this much detail in it floors me. Not that I don't try do detail, but it overwhelms me somewhat ^^" Honestly, I love your work all the better for it. You done good.
_{(If you want me to use simpler words, I'm a 'Simple English' advocate, but I tend to type using ridiculously long and specific words... either way's comfortable for me. Or I could use der Deutschesprache, if you're better with that. You?)}

Hehe, she's asian living in England I suppose, but nevermind.

xD of course random is better. But most things mainstream and popular are tacky.
Ahh, I hope you survived in good mental health x3.
I really appreciate it from a person having so much knowledge in art, thank you.

Yep, I wonder if that's some trick or he's just really experienced.

I see. Every image I make I can't help but put millions of details in it. This owl was supposed to be a quickie. Then I have to make studies in minimalistic style ;3
I'm trying to be as eloquent as it's possible with my english skills which are still not spectacular, so english is okay x3.

If only by the name. _{(It's a law of the universe that all Finnish illustrators online either go by exaggerated versions of their last names (Seppainimoista or Kostameikkaluaho (revenge sword Luaho) or by random english words stuck together (Ghoulshoe, Champagnepain, Stereomatch). I assumed she was the former.)}

It's because tackiness sells, and good taste is harder to teach someone than the names of all the colors. Hence, "Lisa Frank." I really hope you haven't heard of her.
It was a fine trip, lots of good food... every culture seems to have some sort of food you specifically eat on feast days, it's strange. I want to see a culture that doesn't make some pompous dish, but just eats three helpings of normal food. XD
You ever go onto "Illustration Art?" http://illustrationart.blogspot.com/ It's one of my best resources on the web. Fact, when I opened that link I started clicking through the archives again! XD So many amazing artists.

I'm pretty certain Marcellino just keeps his eyes open ^^"

Ooh, that blog I mentioned to you might have some cool advice for that. Details can be addictive - James Bama springs to mind - just not always to the betterment of the artwork.
And I'm sorry for the whole "British Empire" thing and the fact that you had to learn a language as sprawling and illogical as this. Esperanto had the right idea. http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia.....N_2388153b.jpg The white is the countries Britian DIDN'T invade at some point. No wonder the language spread.
(My German is worse than your english, and my polish INFINITELY worse. All I know is a couple of words I learned by studying polish poster art. Things like "cyrk" and "spowiedź" and "szepty serka" and "tylko tdzien" and "amerykański film z Jack Nicholsonem." Not much to work with, I'm afraid. Your english is really, really good, though - simple words but powerful, in an understanding way that only comes when you can think in a language. How long have you been studying it?)

Omg, Champagnepain XD I want to watch that person only for this username.

Lisa Frank... o.o now I did. But isn't this some kind of... pop-art? Could be, depends on how you treat it x3
There's NONE like that. It's like a common tradition of humans. _{But.... really I am not a racist and I hate racist jokes, but you can try looking in Africa x3}
Oh, niice. I feel overwhelmed by the amount of information in the Internet. Can't find the time to browse everything in time, but I'll take a look.

It seems illogical to me sometimes. But it's still most international. Polish will always be best and most beautiful and most rich to me ;>
Aww, now you made my day. Szepty serka? What poster was that? xD Sounds ridiculous.
Thank you very much, I'm glad. I can imagine how annoying it is when somebody doesn't respect the language and it's people and speak some gibberish.
When I was a little kid I found english really cool so I was listening very carefuly to cartoons on Cartoon Network(we had it entirely in english in the 90ties). Ever since I was listening to much music, then also performing, so analising lyrics. When I finally had classes in high school I was among the best students :3 -soo proud-. I love languages in general - it helps in remembering words and, as I said, respecting them.

She's pretty cool, she's on here, in fact.  champagnepain And it's one of the best usernames I've come across.

Sadly, Lisa Frank isn't highbrow at all. She makes notebooks and folders and pencil-cases for primary-school girls... goddamn it, she's corrupting a generation and contributing to the stereotype that things for little girls are tasteless and low-quality.
(Seriously? The red cone is in the X chromosome, so girls can see about 1.5* the colors men can. So explain why everything in the girls' aisle is the same shade of pink and purple?)
Africa? Oh, I love African feast foods - Ethiopian and Cape cuisine among my favorites. Yam casseroles and smoorvis and bobotie and malva pudding and Fassika - the injera with beg wot, and the giant Dabo loaf.
Maybe N'cwala? Zambia has a feast that isn't necessarily about 'most food,' but symbolically after the harvest they offer the Chief the first part of the harvest. But even they have special beef stews and corn puddings.

It's a gorgeously rich language to hear spoken aloud - like a thick borscht with cottage cheese on the tongue in the middle of winter. It feels so good in your mouth.
_{And English is illogical. There's a book, "The Mother Tongue" by Bill Bryson, that explains all the stupidities and quirks of the language throughout history.
Why are "ox" (wół), "child" (dziecko) or "Brethren" (Bracia) so stupid in the plural? Unlike all other words, their plurals are "Oxen," "Children," and "Brethren?" Because they come from a region of Britain near Kent, which in ancient days had "-en" for its plurals. It was assimilated into english, and we kept those three plural forms and nothing else.}
(I don't remember 'whispers cheese,' but it was funny. Something like a children's book with mice.)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FcUi6UEQh00 I can only imagine what it'd be like having people do this to your language all the time 0.0 (That's an italian pop song written in gibberish English.)

Cartoons - the universal assimilators. And that's awesome of you that you made that into school success!
Remembering and respecting words... dear god, I wish we had that over here.
(In most of America, there's little motivation to learn other languages. Everybody speaks English for 500 miles all around. And we make elementary spelling errors all the time from homophones, because we never have to think about language! My friends think learning a second language would be 'cool' or 'exotic,' I had no motivation to learn a more useful language than Latin or German (not to disparage the languages, of course, they're amazing), and I have Finnish illustrator friends who get migraines and anxiety attacks trying to adjust to their english-speaking audience. It's English Privilege.)

How to introduce art to kids, that's difficult. Kids follow what thay want and what they think is cool. I recall with shame many things I liked when I was little, including the colour PINK.
On the other hand, I'm also disgusted by the stereotype creating now. But you can't explain it to kids.
Wow, really. This has scientific explanation?! xD Abillity to see different shades and taste are two different things.

See - it's traditional for the human kind ;]

=^^=
Interesting. I have look this book up. I love languages and it's connections with history.

Ah, a children's book makes sense.
Some time ago there was a huge affair with this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIM-w8ji9zQ a comedian - singer, by the way - very talented, made a parody of X-Factor putting together this video and a song which is a grammar murder but somewhat makes a twisted sense(and they are all like "oh, ah, so beautiful"). Anyway - it's all fake, the real guy sang something different in real life, but all people watching this video got screwed up ;] Including me haha. Montage masterpiece.

I'm a proud grammar nazi : D
Well, for you there really is not much sense, unless you would like to move somewhere else. After all the international students exchanges, I heard that french and german are so proud of their languages, they don't want to use english with others, even if they know it.

There's no shame in liking pink, it's a very fun and lovely color.
_{Not everything is scientific in gender theory, some of it's cultural. For instance, it takes girls half to 1/3 of the effort to speak as for men (because of the shorter larynx), and F/F conversations really do have twice as much verbage as M/M, but when males and females talk, studies show men say at least 2/3 of the words, and perceive the woman as dominating the conversation if she says more than 1/3 of the words - they say it's even if she says 15%(!) of the words. The men think it's 50/50, but the women notice the disparity. In the words of the researcher, "you only think we talk too much because you would rather we be silent."
And we don't train little girls to have good taste with colors; yet somehow when it comes to newlyweds picking out paint for the house, it's "Do you want the Amber, the Pumpkin, the Gamboge, the Saffron, the Tangerine, or the Princeton orange?" and the husband just wants to escape this hell where fucking orange has 500 different names.}
Like I said, 1.5* the colors. It's aided by a culture that tells women to have perfect fashion and facial colors and harmonies at all times, it's like a color boot camp.

Everyone wants to eat delicious food! ^^ And special foods are just really really fun to eat.

I'm looking for a book like that to supplement my study of German... and I met a guy who's reading that book at a party last week. We both agree that the funniest part is when the book shows a Japanese 'Engrish" package that... they meant to say "this package is biodegradable," but wrote in English "This package will self-destruct in Mother Earth."
(It makes perfect sense, but to a native speaker, 'self destruct' is the kind of thing you see in spy movies where the piece of paper with government secrets explodes in someone's hand. xD) Bill Bryson, I've heard his other books are great, but "The Mother Tongue" is perfect. It's the evolution of a language... it's like a big anatomy textbook that shows you your primate ancestors to show you what all the weird things about human anatomy are. But it's a paperback about 250 pages long, that somehow covers one of the most sprawling and insane languages in the world! (Second only to what, Navajo? That language is so bullshitty we used it as spy code in WWII because none of the Germans could possibly decipher it.)

I am only a grammar nazi when I know it's the person's native language. My rule of thumb... (in fact, it's you non-native speakers who are much better at 'your' / 'you're' and 'can I'/'may I' and 'there'/'their'/'they're'. Bravo)
I DO complain about words that people don't realize are mixed up. "Amateur" doesn't mean "Novice," it means someone who's doing something for the love of it and not for rewards. We need the concept in English to exist seperately from 'Novice,' but they might as well be synonyms to most. (Thanks for the video, BTW. Pretty dang funny.)

The state of english is very strange...
_{See, a french and a german who meet at a party will just not try to talk, even if they both know English, because it's a native pride thing and they both feel awkward.
International exchange students, if they get a chance to speak their native language, will of course want to. The omnipresence of english is something to resent!
And have you ever seen American tourists in France? The ones who go to France are the loudest boors and the least imaginative; they demand that people speak english around them and take U.S. Dollars and generally act like assholes to everyone. England and France, of course, have the lifelong resentment of each other going for them... France has never really embraced English.
In places like India or Vietnam where Europe was colonial, they have a good grasp of european-language grammar; but in places like China and Japan that never had European colonizers, there's little exposure to them and a great difference in language. Over there, English is 'decorative' and 'modern' and isn't designed to be read, so english-speakers love making fun of the bizarre mistranslations. We call it "Engrish." (Japanese and Chinese pronounce 'r' and 'l' the same.)
http://www.reddit.com/r/engrish/ Here's some funny ones...}

strasznie mi się podoba wykonanie i klimat tej sówki c:

I saw this astonishing print on  teiirka's page. Beautifully done, and an interesting subject. Avaian anthros is quite rare but you made a beautiful print.

Pity I haven't scanned the sketch, since it looked more unified. I wont stop at avian anthros here, I have to develop so much more C:
thank you again :3