Awards
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Monthly 2nd Place –
August 2009 -
Weekly 2nd Place –
08/26/2009
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Daily Feature –
08/22/2009
Author's Comments
A small part of a bigger illustration. But This show the amount of detail better.
In Norse mythology, NĂ-Ă°höggr is a dragon who eats the roots of the World Tree, Yggdrasill.
I tried to make him worm and deer like. and also deadly and rotten.
anyway enjoy
The People Have Spoken
Average Score: 9.7 / 10
First drawing of Norse mythology Ive seen on NG.
I can imagine walking around in the woods near my house and it coming out of the ground and eating me. The details are amazing. The scales look like tree bark, is that what you are going for? I've heard of Yggdrasill, from a book mayhaps. Why does he eat trees? that sounds disgusting. Thanks for the awesome work of art!
This is really great I'm a big Norwegian mythology buff so I appreciate this, SWEET
this is.. beautiful piece of art. wow.
I'm pretty amazed. I really need to get back to practicing... Thanks for sharing this.
This thing kooks freakin scary as fu...!!
great completly awsome but....whats a niddhog
A very intresting piece.
In Warcraft lore the world tree, Nordrassil, was damaged to stop a demon from destroying it, somewhat similar to this.
Also in the upcoming expansion, Ragnaros (Ragnarok) will send his fire elementals to attempt to burn the tree, another similarity to Norse mythology.
Very intresting..
=D
all of your art is amazing! im putting this as my zune background!! :D
Awesome!!!!!111oneoneone!!
u shuld def try to do sumthing for a card collection series like Magic. =D
you should be painting for Magic: the Gathering ^^
It reminds me of the illustrations in D&D books and on Magic the Gathering cards. Your work is worthy of there products. Awesome job.
that is awesome
this is awesome!!!
i love it!!
Freaking sweet. Awesome awesome awesome.
simply amazing
This is amazing though, it's really detailed and realistic! Add a bit more detail though, idk the lines make it look like it was kinda quick. Check out some of my work though.
this lust have required alot of drwaing talent.
Really realistic and creepy. I think the green spikes look a little weird though.
really good job. dont listen 2 the guy below me, hes an idiot. the green spikes add a vibrant, kinda maybe poisinous tone to the pic. overall great job.
This really tickles my turnip, I like the grotesqueness of your picture. Overall, it is very well made, certainly better than my own skill.The only thing I may critique on is the green spines near the center of that creature, they simply are too vibrant, whilst everything around is more rusted and decayed. Nice job all the same.
I like what I see here but I think you could have pushed it a lot more. I would suggest pushing your value range a little more and perhaps changing the lighting in such a way that it draws out eyes more to Niddhog. There is one thing that bugs me though and that is his right hand side antler which feels like it is tilted at the same angle as the other antler and I think it would feel better titled the other direction, put some perspective on it.
Still awesome stuff here.
I... I really like it. Damn, it just looks so intriguing. Niddhog's head has the right amount of ugliness and malice, the roots of Yggdrasil around him, stretching into the background make for a fantastic scope of view, making the whole thing look just really atmospheric and deeply... interesting.
It's just... wow. I love it.
This is really awesome. Definitely something I enjoy viewing in the art portal is works of this calibur. I think you drew this very well. The deer-like horns are really quite neat looking, though I first thought they were more tree-like. The only thing I didn't find perfect about this was it seemed like there was a lot more detail in some places than others and it stands out. For example, parts of the left side of his body seem rather devoid of detail when compared to the more detailed parts.
Overall, an excellent piece though.
mate this is a great picture and it is so aprroved :)
this picture is not lame or stupid :)
so for your amazing work i have given you a 9 :)
