Kongamoto

[criticaldean]

Kongamato - Flying Demon of the Forbidden Swamp.

In 1923 a traveler by the name of Frank H. Melland worked for a time in Zambia. He gathered native reports of ferocious flying reptiles. The natives called this creature kongamato ("overwhelmer of boats"), which was said to have lived in the Jiundu swamps in the Mwinilunga District in western Zambia, near the border of Congo and Angola. It was described as having no feathers at all, smooth skin, a wingspan between 4 ft. and 7 ft., and possessing a beak full of teeth. They were usually described as black or red. It had a reputation for capsizing canoes and causing death to anyone who merely looked at it. When showed drawings of pterosaurs

"... every native present immediately and unhesitatingly picked it out and identified it as a kongamato. Among the natives who did so was a headman from the Jiundu country, where the kongamato is supposed to be active, and who is a rather wild and quite unsophisticated native."

[SEVANS]

The transparency through the wings is great. And I like the way you have rendered the aqbove/below water split. The top of the water however (IMO) looks to solid, almost ground like - perhaps some more inclusion of the green/blue colours used below the surface would help.

Otherwise solid piece.

[King Kull]

Nice picture, especially that "under water view".

Small crit:

It would be better, maybe, with more curves of those roots under water cause all the lines in your composition look the same.(the wings of the creature, the trees, those roots)
That can be called rhytm of the composition but this way everything looks a bit stiff cause you got too many straight lines.

[El Jeremie]

Nice stuff.
Love the under water view.
Personnaly, i would have blurred the roots.

[Dahami]

A crossover between cryptozoology and paleo-art. The toothed beak and spade-like tail are both consistent with the earlier ramphorynchoid pterosaurs. Many artists who do not study their reference material will combine ramphorynchoid and pterodactyloid features in the same animal, so good job in that regard. I would have given it more teeth and smaller teeth, but I really like pretty much everything about it.

[sourgasm]

The angle and scale makes it feel like that tree should partially obscure the transparency of his right wing. I could be wrong, though.

Regardless, great work. You obviously did your homework on this one and it paid off.