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Most representations of dryads, the spirits that live in trees, show them as beautiful, willowy mostly human women, with flowing green hair and ethereal features (except for certain endowments which are often not at all ethereal.) And this makes sense, because humans are the ones making up the stories about dryads, after all.

But if other creatures met the spirits of trees and told stories about them, I suspect their versions would look very different indeed.

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Because somebody's going to ask--yes, the tree took awhile. I wanted to do a really complicated tree, something inspired by Quinton Hoover and Stephanie Law, and while it wasn't difficult, per se, it was definitely time-consuming. The initial pass with colored pencils took about three and a half hours. The only way for me to do this is to throw my colored pencils in my Ganesh lunchbox and lug the art down to Mr. Toad's, my local coffee shop, and work on it while people talk to me, because it requires about one third of a brain to do the colored pencils, and after the first twenty minutes it is Boring As Hell.

Fortunately, they know me well at the Toad--I have art hangin' there now--and a good thing, because at 8.5 x 26, this sucker was pretty large, and it took a lot of conversation to get the dang thing done.

I am sufficiently pleased with how it came out--and more importantly, enamored of the notion of animal dryads--to want to do another one once I can stand the sight of a tree again, whenever that is. I bet a badger dryad would be awfully cool...

The original is SOLD. Prints are available, in 8.5 x 11 for $10 (although it's the size of a bookmark, due to the format!) or the jumbo for $20 (recommended if you want to see details.) Visit [link] or send a note!
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*Milena-Zaremba Apr 22, 2011  Hobbyist Traditional Artist
Ok, I totally did not expect to see anything like that o_O Now, when I come to think of this, you sound conviencing...
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~1Flynnia1 Apr 2, 2011  Hobbyist Digital Artist
So cute! I love it!
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*WoodWose Oct 8, 2010
stunning
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~Jimmy-Crow Oct 1, 2010
You have... no clue... how fucking happy this made me when I saw it. lol
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~Lost-in-the-day Jul 6, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
This picture is so very beautiful. The white tree in the background looks kinda out of place though.
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~hiru-ma-enjiru Feb 15, 2009  Hobbyist General Artist
Beautiful
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Mood: Love ~LovelyLittleFear Dec 17, 2008
I love the idea of animal dryads! The pictures of naked women do get old after a while... And the mouse is so cute.
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~Wulfclawe Jun 2, 2008
If your pictures were illustrations to books, god save us if the books were as mind blowing.
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~GrendelDemon Apr 15, 2008
i love the tree, and my lady friend wants it as a tattoo, but don't worry, i wont let her plagiarise your work >_<
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~liolli Apr 14, 2008
amazing and i like the way you think. the colours and ummm.... everything else are so enchanting they make you want to open your eyes wider to see all the details
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