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Would-be entry :dev wingit-stock:'s Wing-It Manip Contest. *would-be*
Hydrogen Wasp
Perhaps the most unusual creature in existence, the Hydrogen Wasp is most similar to a wasp or hornet. However where other insects would have wings, the Hydrogen Wasp has a large, orange orb filled with hydrogen gas. The Hydrogen Wasp's four spindly arthropodic legs look far too small to hold its own body weight, however the immense amount of hydrogen filtered from its food into its bloodstream makes the Hydrogen Wasp extremely light-weight, with its main body only slightly less weight than the orb above it. The hydrogen-filled orb above the Hydrogen Wasp's body, along with the massive hydrogen content in its veins, allow this mysterious creature to float on air. Its thin arthropodic legs have millions of tiny hairs used to catch air particles (like sails on a sailboat) giving the Hydrogen Wasp the impression of swimming in air.
In order to move up or down, the Hydrogen Wasp exercises one of the few muscles present in the orb, increasing or decreasing the size, and therefore the pressure, within the orb. The smaller the orb, the denser the hydrogen contained, making the Hydrogen Wasp heavier, forcing it to slowly lose altitude. Loosening its muscles decreases the density of the hydrogen, making it rise through the air.
The Hydrogen Wasp is not particularly dangerous unless you touch it, and if that happens, you'd better hope it was with a 6-foot stick. If the hydrogen orb is ruptured, the hydrogen mixes with the oxygen and has the usual effect: it explodes. The explosion itself is comparable to a stick of dynamite or even a grenade. Also, the Hydrogen Wasp has a small stinger on its abdomen which it can inject its prey with a small but lethal dose of liquidized hydrogen. The moment the hydrogen enters your bloodstream, it immediately reacts with the air carried by red blood cells, creating the feeling of having fire in your veins. This effect quickly travels to your heart and thus throughout your body, making you extremely...umm... "irritated". There are no known antidotes for a Hydrogen Wasp sting.
The Hydrogen Wasp is found in warm, decay-rich forests, where blood contamination has occurred. The Hydrogen Wasp feeds mostly on small insects like fruit flies and aphids, which tend to be drawn to the Hydrogen Wasp's distinct orange glow. Occasionally the Hydrogen Wasp will feed on decaying fruit and flesh, as it is too small and fragile to bring down anything even a quarter its size.
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Work In Progress! - Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please comment :beg:
Download for full size (looks best at 50%)
Original made with coloured pencil for Grade 12 Portfolio Assignment
Credits:
This piece would never have made it into reality without the kindness of the following two deviants, who let me use their photos in a manip:
-*duncan-blues and his European Paper Wasp
-*Blacke-Horse-Design and her How not to Get Stung By a Wasp
Special thanks for your kindness
Actual Stock
-Wings in Orb: [link] by ~neato-stock
-Arms and Legs: [link] by ~Irie-Stock
-Sunset Background: [link] by ~stock-justysiak
-Orb Texture: [link] by ~hatestock
-Effects in Orb: [link] by ~Stock7000 and [link] by ~XxR3zD3ViLxX
The rest is GIMP! 
My most sincere thanks to all the stock providers and *duncan-blues and *Blacke-Horse-Design
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THIS IS NOT STOCK! DO NOT USE THIS PIECE IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT MY EXPLICIT WRITTEN
Hydrogen Wasp
Perhaps the most unusual creature in existence, the Hydrogen Wasp is most similar to a wasp or hornet. However where other insects would have wings, the Hydrogen Wasp has a large, orange orb filled with hydrogen gas. The Hydrogen Wasp's four spindly arthropodic legs look far too small to hold its own body weight, however the immense amount of hydrogen filtered from its food into its bloodstream makes the Hydrogen Wasp extremely light-weight, with its main body only slightly less weight than the orb above it. The hydrogen-filled orb above the Hydrogen Wasp's body, along with the massive hydrogen content in its veins, allow this mysterious creature to float on air. Its thin arthropodic legs have millions of tiny hairs used to catch air particles (like sails on a sailboat) giving the Hydrogen Wasp the impression of swimming in air.
In order to move up or down, the Hydrogen Wasp exercises one of the few muscles present in the orb, increasing or decreasing the size, and therefore the pressure, within the orb. The smaller the orb, the denser the hydrogen contained, making the Hydrogen Wasp heavier, forcing it to slowly lose altitude. Loosening its muscles decreases the density of the hydrogen, making it rise through the air.
The Hydrogen Wasp is not particularly dangerous unless you touch it, and if that happens, you'd better hope it was with a 6-foot stick. If the hydrogen orb is ruptured, the hydrogen mixes with the oxygen and has the usual effect: it explodes. The explosion itself is comparable to a stick of dynamite or even a grenade. Also, the Hydrogen Wasp has a small stinger on its abdomen which it can inject its prey with a small but lethal dose of liquidized hydrogen. The moment the hydrogen enters your bloodstream, it immediately reacts with the air carried by red blood cells, creating the feeling of having fire in your veins. This effect quickly travels to your heart and thus throughout your body, making you extremely...umm... "irritated". There are no known antidotes for a Hydrogen Wasp sting.
The Hydrogen Wasp is found in warm, decay-rich forests, where blood contamination has occurred. The Hydrogen Wasp feeds mostly on small insects like fruit flies and aphids, which tend to be drawn to the Hydrogen Wasp's distinct orange glow. Occasionally the Hydrogen Wasp will feed on decaying fruit and flesh, as it is too small and fragile to bring down anything even a quarter its size.
--
Work In Progress! - Any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Please comment :beg:
Download for full size (looks best at 50%)
Original made with coloured pencil for Grade 12 Portfolio Assignment
Credits:
This piece would never have made it into reality without the kindness of the following two deviants, who let me use their photos in a manip:-*duncan-blues and his European Paper Wasp
-*Blacke-Horse-Design and her How not to Get Stung By a Wasp
Special thanks for your kindness
Actual Stock-Wings in Orb: [link] by ~neato-stock
-Arms and Legs: [link] by ~Irie-Stock
-Sunset Background: [link] by ~stock-justysiak
-Orb Texture: [link] by ~hatestock
-Effects in Orb: [link] by ~Stock7000 and [link] by ~XxR3zD3ViLxX
The rest is GIMP! My most sincere thanks to all the stock providers and *duncan-blues and *Blacke-Horse-Design
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THIS IS NOT STOCK! DO NOT USE THIS PIECE IN WHOLE OR IN PART WITHOUT MY EXPLICIT WRITTENImage size
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It's good. Won't say that I'm awed, because I have seen much better photomanipulations and matte paintings in Internet but compared to the quality of an average photomanipulation in deviantart I'd say it's above average.
I like that it's clear, but that just my own taste. I can't stand these photomanipulations where model is "blurred" into background, for example a lady standing on grass when the bottom part of her gown is erased with transparent eraser. Or another thing, which people make more often, is letting rocks and tree trunks to overlay in such way when wishing to insert a cliff or some rocks in a forest scene.
And also this wasp's orb looks awesome, especially in full sized image when you can see all these beautiful textures of wings.
As for things to consider.
Firstly - color scheme. I would have added more color for the sky in the background. It's very monochromatic for my taste. Besides making wasp in the same color as background don't makes it to stand out at all. It kinda blends together with the background, but this isn't a case when you want for that (I have also seen few awesome paintings where model and background blends together and are in similar color but then artists usually made the background landscape to be the focus point of the whole image and model was less important than it). Or if you really want to make model in the same color as background then another option is to make a sharp darkness/light contrast, by making your model dark on a light background or vice versa.
Also bushes in the left side of the image are sharper than in the right where they are more blurry. So I'd suggest running over them with the blur tool in these places where they are sharper.
And finally, thumbnail... They are important. At least in Internet galleries and portfolios. If you would paint this on a huge wall, of course details, not thumbnail would be more important. But in web details are lost anyway because of the resized preview image. If I would have been randomly browsing deviantart and see the thumbnail of this image, I wouldn't click on it to open this image and take a look at it. In the thumbnail it don't looks attractive. So during the process of your work, try looking at it in really small approximately thumbnail size and try deciding weather it looks good it it. Besides looking at an image in small size is also a good way how to decide about composition as well (at least I'm often struggling with composition in my own artworks).
Thumbnails are a problem in my artworks as well. I have a habit of making them really detailed yet thumbnails of them don't look nearly as good as full-view. Since I understood this about two years ago I'm trying to pay attention to that while making my digital artworks. Because if people won't enjoy thumbnails of your artwork, they won't bother clicking on it and you won't get clients (in my case I'm also planning to earn money as an artists so clients are important).
And speaking about composition, I'm not sure weather that would look any better but I would have made wasp slightly larger and move it a little closer to the center of the image. Not much, but a little.
I like that it's clear, but that just my own taste. I can't stand these photomanipulations where model is "blurred" into background, for example a lady standing on grass when the bottom part of her gown is erased with transparent eraser. Or another thing, which people make more often, is letting rocks and tree trunks to overlay in such way when wishing to insert a cliff or some rocks in a forest scene.
And also this wasp's orb looks awesome, especially in full sized image when you can see all these beautiful textures of wings.
As for things to consider.
Firstly - color scheme. I would have added more color for the sky in the background. It's very monochromatic for my taste. Besides making wasp in the same color as background don't makes it to stand out at all. It kinda blends together with the background, but this isn't a case when you want for that (I have also seen few awesome paintings where model and background blends together and are in similar color but then artists usually made the background landscape to be the focus point of the whole image and model was less important than it). Or if you really want to make model in the same color as background then another option is to make a sharp darkness/light contrast, by making your model dark on a light background or vice versa.
Also bushes in the left side of the image are sharper than in the right where they are more blurry. So I'd suggest running over them with the blur tool in these places where they are sharper.
And finally, thumbnail... They are important. At least in Internet galleries and portfolios. If you would paint this on a huge wall, of course details, not thumbnail would be more important. But in web details are lost anyway because of the resized preview image. If I would have been randomly browsing deviantart and see the thumbnail of this image, I wouldn't click on it to open this image and take a look at it. In the thumbnail it don't looks attractive. So during the process of your work, try looking at it in really small approximately thumbnail size and try deciding weather it looks good it it. Besides looking at an image in small size is also a good way how to decide about composition as well (at least I'm often struggling with composition in my own artworks).
Thumbnails are a problem in my artworks as well. I have a habit of making them really detailed yet thumbnails of them don't look nearly as good as full-view. Since I understood this about two years ago I'm trying to pay attention to that while making my digital artworks. Because if people won't enjoy thumbnails of your artwork, they won't bother clicking on it and you won't get clients (in my case I'm also planning to earn money as an artists so clients are important).
And speaking about composition, I'm not sure weather that would look any better but I would have made wasp slightly larger and move it a little closer to the center of the image. Not much, but a little.