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Posted on October 22, 2005 @ 2:14 pm by massimo | Filed under: blog, mythology, travel, wordpress

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This week Illustration Friday topic is “remote” .

So here is Neptune, a character I first sketched in a remote corner of a remote island, during a remote time of my life… let’s say around twelve years ago!
I always enjoyed mythology and its remote meanings: mythology is a huge art repository. While travelling, I was completely overwhelmed by the ritualistic representations of Hindu Pantheon depicted in the temples of Southern India, Bali, Penang, Mombasa; and the tattooed deities from the remote Pacific Islands…
Nevertheless Neptune has always been my favourite God and still he is!

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I like abstract design on Neptune’s body. Nice job.

Tony wrote on October 22, 2005 - 2:54 pm CEST

I really love the details of this one. I like his head and the one eye. It would look great in a book or a poster. Well done!

holly wrote on October 22, 2005 - 3:42 pm CEST

i like the shiny texture of this, and the details on his skin.

catnapping wrote on October 22, 2005 - 5:40 pm CEST

Hi Aynaku!

Thank you for your comment!
Me gusta tu trabajo, sobre todo
Storms y Escape.

RSC Remote wrote on October 22, 2005 - 8:32 pm CEST

Neptune is a favouite of mine also - I love how handsome he is here like he is wearing a suit of shining armour - ready to rescue all those who are remote :)

Anonymous wrote on October 23, 2005 - 7:01 am CEST

oh, this is wonderful. I am so glad i stopped by. Your art is so fresh and inspiring! - Love teh colours and teh waves!

Queen Tut wrote on October 24, 2005 - 1:31 am CEST

I like it. is so cool

Adamea wrote on October 25, 2005 - 5:18 pm CEST

wonderful rappresentation of Neptune in all its royalty and power that takes from the sea, appeals to me very many

Ivano wrote on October 27, 2005 - 3:06 pm CEST

Is very interesting your comments.
;-) thank

Adamea wrote on October 27, 2005 - 5:19 pm CEST

[...] This is my ideal tattooed savage and I reckon well to meet him one day! He has a strong linkage with the Pacific Ocean’s ancient islanders whose captain Cook’s lieutenant wrote the first account… Polynesians and Maori used to have their body completely tattooed: the English sailors liked this habit so much to spread the fashion over Europe. Their attempt was so largely successful that now days fully tattooed bodies, - from top to toe - always belongs to white people. I must say these noveau savages really amaze me greatly, every time I meet them going for a beach strolI… Once I went to a local tattoos -parlour in Kho Samui and tried hard to convince the ever smiling Thai fellow, to buy some doodles of mine which I had precisely done to have somebody’s chest tattooed with (not mine, please…). No way! So nothing remains but tattooing a digital silhouette. Here is my “hammerhead pattern” - a replica of those early sketches of mine. If you like this illustration, my previous posts Neptune and Surfer will not disappoint you! [...]

AYNAKU » tattos wrote on March 12, 2006 - 9:55 am CET

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