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My entry for the "Eight Legs" Contest [link]

Call me weirdo if you want, but the first time I read Eight Legs in the contest, I instantly thought "Sleipnir".

If you don't know about Sleipnir... in Norse mythology, Sleipnir is Odin's eight-legged steed, and the greatest of all horses. His name means smooth or gliding, and is related to the English word "slippery" (cheap Wikipedia copypasta).

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Technical data... at first, I was drawing it in only one layer, like some of my last submitted works. But doing this, was really difficult to give it an appropriate atmosphere. So I remembered "Siegfried", a comic book that ~Etbaal shown me not so long ago. This gave me the idea of change the style of the entire work, drawing it as a colored comic or something. To improvise a style for a contest entry is risky, because it can be wrong, or people will dislike it... but hey, it was funny.

Everything was done with Adobe Photoshop CS3. As always, no pencil sketch, 100% tablet.
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Given 2008-10-02
'The Eight Winds' by =DavidStrife was the winner of our latest Anthro Contest "8 Legs", and such a wonderful deviation, able to beat some more amazing entries and get the first award. This artist has been a young promise since he first joined deviantART, and we can only wish he keeps improving and evolving, to share his talent with us all. ( Featured by `skifi )
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~Redmagesalyre Oct 2, 2008
Yay for Norse mythology and other mythologies generally overlooked!

Awesome job with the anthro horse, and having the eight legs is a tough job as well. Good job.
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~DavidStrife Oct 3, 2008
Yeah, it's easy to know about greek and egyptian mythologies, people should know more about norse, it's also interesting :)

So, thanks!
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~Redmagesalyre Oct 5, 2008
I did read about Norse mythology and it's been getting some recognition recently, with Odin's Sphere.

You're welcome =D
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~DeadWizard Oct 2, 2008  Professional Interface Designer
Norse mythology ftw! Awesome work too :D
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~DavidStrife Oct 3, 2008
Yeah! :highfive: Thanks!
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~Dead-Pleasures Oct 2, 2008
YAAAAY NORSE MYTHOLOGY!!

Often overlooked thanks to greek and roman mythology. <3 Glad there are plenty of people that know and love the stuff. Awesome work!
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~DavidStrife Oct 3, 2008
More people should know about norse mythology :) Thanks!
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~Dead-Pleasures Oct 3, 2008
I agree! And you're very welcome. ^-^
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~0ArmoredSoul0 Oct 2, 2008  Student Traditional Artist
Yay for Norse mythology!!
^^
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~DavidStrife Oct 3, 2008
Yup! :D
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