Once again, my professor tasked us to paint digitally a rare creature or any popular folklore being. A rumor that I grew since childhood. The Tikbalang or Werehorse

One of the most popular and enduring mythical creatures in Filipino lore. The tikbalang is said to be a half human, half horse creature in the mold of the Greek Pan, that is, having an upper body of a human and lower limbs of a horse: the more popular and oft portrayed version has the tikbalang with the head of a horse while the lesser known version has it sporting a human visage. Both versions however agree that the tikbalang has unusually long, powerful legs that resemble the rear quarter of a horse, hooves and all.

Source: https://www.aswangproject.com/tikbalang/
Photo credits: https://jaymarkmanlapaz.deviantart.com/art/Tikbalang-333915362

Luckily, my friend Hive account@ishanvirtue helped me with my tasked. He draw one just for me. I know. I know. I sincerely asked him if it's okay and he said YES. I'm not taking advantage for this so I informed my professor that I'm not the one who draw this and he approved since it's only for digital art. I will make it up to him and we're already for planning for our next project.

DIGITAL ART x TRADITIONAL ART

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Now, I will show you my process doing this art.

I. Tracing

Doing the same thing but this time I'm doing digital painting for this piece. I'm using WACOM Pen Tablet for this process and with a light pixel for the brush

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