The Water Hole by JaneEden
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
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All painted using wacom intuos3 and Photoshop CS4
THE WATER HOLE ...
She stood sniffing the air, her every instinct on the alert, she had travelled far for the sake of her precious baby. Most of the journey she had gently carried him in her soft mouth, through the mountain pass. She was near exhaustion, but then she looked down from the mountain and saw the water hole.
She ploughed onward, wanting to quench her thirst before dark hit the valley, knowing that soon the water hole would be full of beast's drinking life's ale, some of which would not think twice before devouring the small cub for dessert.
She had her fill of water and it was time to move on to safer ground. She trusted her instincts and needed to get her now crying baby to safer territory.
'There was a new king who had won her pride over from the once powerful and strong old king. He defeated him in a bloody battle to the death. Death was welcome to the feeble, weak, and aged lion, he knew it was time for a new male to bring hybrid strength back into the pride, that was full of fertile lionesses'.
The mother knew the new king would kill her offspring, so he could pregnate her with his strong genes. He would not want any other male lion's offspring in his pride, so the lioness's journey was literally a matter of life or death, depending on how far the young king would be willing to follow.
She nervously looked about her and sniffed the air before she picked her cub up and drove her tired body onward to find a safe place, far away from her pride she loved, but her maternal love was stronger, driving her onward to ensure that her boy cub would one day hold onto his own pride.
If that could be then the mother had done her duty in ensuring her lineage had a chance of surviving for years to come .... THE END
Hi All,
Sadly the story above is not true, because in real life the mother would not save her cub and the new leader of her pride would kill him, that is the more cruel side of mother nature. It upsets me to know that many of these amazing wild cats are in danger of dieing out completely, I sincerely hope that day never comes.
Thank you so much for all your support of my fun Halloween pic, you are all so kind, I hope that today finds you feeling good my friends, take care.
Before I go I want to let you know that soon I hope to open up my store here on Renderosity, and have been busy tubing all the large cat digital paints to be the first in the store. I have been asked to do this, so I do hope that they might be useful to some of you, keep safe guys, hugs Jane xx
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PLEASE NOTE ...
Lioness and her cub are part of the painted pack JaneEden'sBigCats to be found at YURdigital store
Comments (110)
As everyone else has said Jane this is yet another stunning painting. I love the little ones face!
WOW! Outstanding and fantastic image.
Brilliant work, Jane!
Stunning artwork!
Wonderful image and story. Your talent, dear Jane, still grows...your among the best where digital painting is concerned.
Fantastic work, Jane!
wooooow....gorgeous...you have outdone yourself with this!
great lighting, well done
So Lovely!! I love it.
Wonderful and fantastic realization my friend.....!!!!
Wow this is fantastic work and while we are on the subjects of cats and the way u love them as i do was wondering if u had seen the movie African Cats by Disney it is a beautiful movie of them u would love it.
amazing done Janice..great lighteffect..love that little one, he/she is funny
excellent work
Very wonderful image , grrat details, colors and lighting ! Interesting story ! Hugg, dear Jane !
Beautiful image. I love the colors and the angel of this. Great render.
wonderful work, Jane.... God bless the innocent critters.... continue to stand up for them!
Jane, you continue to amaze me with your huge talent. It is such a fantastic scenery here. Not to mention the very moving story behind it. Outstanding work indeed.
An amazing story, magnificent art & exciting news!
Excellent and very beautiful work,Jane,looks fantastic**********
love it
Oh wow, Jane! This is absolutely gorgeous. If I could favorite it twice and give it 10 stars, I would. Outstanding work!
Fantastic work,Jane! I love it!
Magnifique :)
Oh Jane! This is jawdropping, breathtaking, work! Your talent is amazing, and your work with the wacom is phenomenal! The scene is beautiful, you capture the desert's heat so well. The cub's face is done in with such perfectionism, astoundingly beautiful! I don't have enough words to describe the depth and beauty of this portrait of the the Mother and her Cub. The story is wonderful, told with such empathy and compassion. I wish it was true that lionesses would go to this degree to save their cubs, but it doesn't happen in real life. Sigh. In real life, the cubs are killed by the new male.
Splendid image, i love the warm color palette!
It is easy to see how creative you are - a wonderful scene - so naturally with great colors - and uniquely beautiful
just beautiful!
Stunning!!
wonderful composition, excellent work