DSG 231: Creature Design: Dryad(Tree spirit)

[davi]

Creature Design: Dryad(Tree spirit)

[Gouda boy]

Beautifull and enchanting, but don't make her mad....

http://www.traction-it.nl/img/TreeSpirit.jpg

[Mad Giraffe]

Nice one goudaboy, very wicked looking, is it made with painter?

One thread question: Does the dryad HAVE to be female?

[Gouda boy]

Yep! Painter and my good ol' tablet

[ClocktowerArtworks]

Here it is...not sure if this is a dryad. Anyway, would've liked to worked more...but i did this while trying to keep my 1 yr old from destroying the house.

http://mywebpage.netscape.com/OzWolf00/dryad.jpg

ah...i just heard a crash...gotta go

[Mad Giraffe]

Originally posted by ClocktowerArtworks
mine is female, but she isn't a tree thing...she's a spirit that controls and creates plants and trees...is that ok?

Ofcourse, that's what dryads are all about, no? But everywhere is said that dryads are female, could they also be male?

[paper slayer]

Tried to keep it simple, and limit the tools i used, to improve speed. I was also going monochrome, but got tempted to use colour. 2 hours or something.


My dryad (http://www.freewebs.com/drawings1/dsg231d.JPG)






Originally posted by Mad Giraffe


Ofcourse, that's what dryads are all about, no? But everywhere is said that dryads are female, could they also be male?

Why not?

In a fantasy novel i once read (One of the discworld books. By Terry pratchet.), there where both kind. The female ones seemed to be the ones in charge.

Anyway, it depends if you want to be true to greek mythology or not.

[sushiboy]

http://home.graffiti.net/sushiboy:graffiti.net/art/dryad.jpg

This is my second post ever within the DSG, I am a supah n00b :D My work may not be the best, but I like this image, I'm getting there... any feedback is welcome...

[Pauladrian]

hey, I also read that, was quite funny

[MrKayne]

Okay, I know this is days late, but hey... the site was down.

Fixed me up with a new name... I used to be kBg_Fiske.
http://www.kaynecomix.com/dsg/231.jpg

[Rockhead]

Its finally back up! I found a definition of dryad in one place where it said that it was a wood nymph bound to the life of a tree. I thought it would be cool if she was literally bound to the tree. Upon reaching around 50-60 years of age a dryad tree would began to produce a unique fruit that would attract the dryad, when they came in to eat the fruit the tree would ensnare them and hold them captive. Slowly a hollow would form in the tree trunk and slowly engulf the dryad over a period of years. The dryad would then be prisoner to the tree which would benefit from its magic and flesh.

http://www.rockydavies.com/forreview/dryad.jpg

[strych9ine]

Awesome Rockhead... beautiful piece.

[Deadsprite]

that rocks .. um rockhead.
but i love the idea! though i would have gone with the more melding with the dryad sort of thing. almost gigerish

[vcoleman]

sweet! like the use of line.

[Pezz3D]

http://pezz3d.com/book/untitled-37.gif

[AttackCat]

Good ideas, this topic is pretty cool...ah another day,

-Rockhead that concept is great, what would the fruit be?

-ClockTower- Awesome inking!

[Rockhead]

Deadsprite- I had an idea for a more melded look, but I thought that this piece would be closer to the date of capture, a melding would take years longer down the road.

Attackcat- The fruit (based on my knowledge of most women) would probably be a 2kt princess cut tiffany diamond.

[Hunger_Artist]

rockhead- very nice, thoughtful concept too

pezz- good to see you practicing

mine done in painter



http://members.tripod.com/carlbeu/690c2760.jpg

[littlemac]

i did a few. is that ok? glad the sites up and runnin again. didn't really know what a dryad was so i took a guess.
http://testingtestingonetwo.250free.com/tree.jpg
http://testingtestingonetwo.250free.com/tree2.jpg
http://testingtestingonetwo.250free.com/tree3.jpg

[barcode]

http://www.rpi.edu/~steadi/dsg/231-oct17-dryad.JPG

I realized when I was done drawing that I was inspired by the Grinch who stole Christmas.

[Jane Radstrom]

Wow! I really like these. :)

Here's what I did:

http://www.velondra.com/images/gallery/231dryad.jpg

Pencil, conte, ink and some color into the lines in PS.

I got a little distracted from the theme of dryad and she is more of a mother nature, holding the spirit of life. Although I could also say she's the holding the essence of a tree.

[Faxtar]

http://www.momentoffame.com/snapshots/MomentOfFame/l55572.jpg

[ayato]

Cool, the site is back!

Here goes. The idea I imagined as an animation, so figure I better add an explation just in case. Dryads in the animation are pictured not as really physical creatures, but as sort of parallel dimension things, seen only by few people as a kind of shimmering play of light and shadows.

http://home.graffiti.net/ayatodsg/031014dryad.jpg

[Yiako]

Hunger_artist, LittleMac and Ayato are my favourites.
http://membres.lycos.fr/yoyodine/img/dsg/231_tree_spirit.jpg

[-W.-]

http://www.babyloncargocult.com/Pix/W/dsg/dsg231.jpg
well i try to be a little bit more original next time ^___^

[ZenGonzo]

http://www.zenmaster.com/smokeyandthedryad.jpg

[daG-ELLO]

:( Zen that's so sad.

[Grimlohk]

ohahaha thats so awesome zen ;)

[devilbunny]

hi. been away since thursday. didn't know the site was back yet. (which means i missed good topics! grrrr....)
anyway, here's dryad.
http://jenniferrodgers.com/dryad.jpg

[AttackCat]

devilbunny- thats the one i've been waiting to see, great line work.

[ilustre]

Hello everyone.
This is my first post. Here in Conceptart forum I expect increase my skills. Draw every day is truly important. My last free drawing was done many months ago.
Good luck!

Excuse some english mistake. I´m from Brasil and I have to increase my english too.

http://www.camilocunha.blogger.com.br/DSG01_20102003_dryad.jpg

[Index]

Way late on this one, but I did it so I thought I'd post it anyway...

http://www.nexpert.org/~index/smdryad.jpg

Dex

(In case the post below was aimed at me... I was going for an old grandmotherly type dryad. The tree was meant to be getting on in years, maybe even close to death. I suppose her sagging breasts could be confused with old-man boobs.)

[madster]

http://www.pantheon.org/articles/d/dryads.html
http://www.loggia.com/myth/dryads.html

Males are not dryads, they are satyrs...