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Posted on April 20, 2007 @ 4:21 pm by massimo | Filed under: another green world, blog

conan vs bear aynaku travel illustration

Though I mostly travelled warm or tropical countries, yet the remote northern areas of Greenland and Iceland always fascinate me because of their extreme nature. As everybody should know by now, northern regions fauna are endangered by the increasing global warming, and among the rarest species, the huge polar bear is number one…
This illo was done last year after I’ve been asked to draw a Conan O’Brien vs. Bear illustration…Now I hope that it will be useful somehow, for spreading of the information: polar bears are threatened by global warming, and the zoo is far from an ideal …

Illustration Friday’s topic is: polar

13 people have left comments

Both the fortune teller and the polar bear are SO impressively done. You must pull some really long hours (like me) to get these pieces done.

I’ve thought about what you said in your comment about the text in Trowbridge. But if I didn’t present some kind of story, the reader wouldn’t know what’s going on, with just art. But your comment sure gave me some food for thought.

Bron Smith wrote on April 20, 2007 - 4:45 pm CEST

Just EXCELLENT!

GINGER PIXELS wrote on April 20, 2007 - 5:18 pm CEST

great looking bear fish and conan O. not looking to bad either being so close to a bear that looks like its ready for dinner lol

michael dailey wrote on April 20, 2007 - 6:28 pm CEST

My heart almost stopped beating - what an impressive picture! *wheew* It is great!

carra wrote on April 20, 2007 - 6:43 pm CEST

Che carino! Questo mi piace molto!

Nicole wrote on April 20, 2007 - 8:27 pm CEST

Excellent illo! We’re on the same wave length :D

studio lolo wrote on April 21, 2007 - 1:25 am CEST

Impressive…very powerful!

giggles wrote on April 21, 2007 - 8:58 pm CEST

It’s a beautiful message, Massimo, and a gorgoeus illo. You always have something interesting to say, I wonder how it would be if you public a book :)

Pati @-;– wrote on April 22, 2007 - 3:51 am CEST

Very cool illustration! Great shapes!

Digital Scott wrote on April 22, 2007 - 8:08 am CEST

oooh…i love the fish scales! Great…my favorite!

Michelle Lana wrote on April 22, 2007 - 3:06 pm CEST

Great illo and beautiful colours!!!

valgalart wrote on April 23, 2007 - 2:14 am CEST

Wonderful! Love all the ovals…

Willie Baronet wrote on April 24, 2007 - 3:57 am CEST

This is stunning! I love the colors and the composition of the piece. I adore Conan. Really this just so rocks and is just beautiful as well.

Tiffini Elektra X wrote on April 29, 2007 - 5:06 am CEST

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