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painted and textured in photoshop
textures from cgtextures.com

I don't know if I could consider this part of the light-hearted series I've been doing, though I incorporated many of the same techniques. This is The Unicorn, or Lady Amalthea, from The Last Unicorn, by Peter S Beagle.

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~animeluver71552yay Mar 21, 2012  Student Digital Artist
This one picture, already tells a lot.
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Wonderful.
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~Chinchilla-Girl Oct 27, 2011
"I can feel this body....dying all around me!!!"
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*Amalthea1983 Mar 12, 2011  Professional Digital Artist
I love this, it emulsifies the pain the Unicorn/Amalthea feels once she has been transformed.
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*BabylonSabby Dec 14, 2010  Student General Artist
How very dark and...horrifying. I was telling another artist earlier about how the unicorn's transformation wasn't only a change in form, but a death for both forms at once. She died as a unicorn and in time her human body would also die.
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~Crystalas Oct 25, 2010
i like this pic cos its so dark and creepy in the movie they just show her wigging out about it but there must have been a bit in the book when the four legged unicorn had to get used to walking on only two feet. you show that terror in her eyes without even showng her face
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~littlemisshufflepuff Oct 21, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
I love how you captured the unicorn's sheer terror at being transformed into a human. Like the book, your painting portrays this as a very dark moment, when the immortal unicorn gets her first bitter taste of mortality and weakness. She crawls around on the floor like an injured beast, trying to get used to her new limbs and completely different body structure. She looks clumsy and confused and afraid, but her movements are beautiful in their own raw and frightening way, as if the unicorn in her lingers still.

Forgive the long comment, but your picture really moved me. That's what great art does to people.
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~Kaytara Oct 4, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
To expand, I think this is exactly what looks so amazing here - the figure is technically clearly recognisable as human, but you still feel as if you're looking at something animal and alien like an iguana or a jackal. Also, the rough painting style really makes it work...And the indistinguishable face and silhouetted arm are also particularly great touches.... Just like how the figure is creeping along the ground, as if it's sniffing... And the red/black split of the background.... Really, this picture is amazing. O.O
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~Kaytara Oct 4, 2010  Hobbyist Digital Artist
Whoa. That's certainly an original take on the character... Love the somewhat gruesome and surrealistic and animalistic feel of the picture....
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~Zlatt Jul 27, 2010
I really like it! Itīs pretty dark and mystic
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