Turtle Faceoff by Ken _Gilliland
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No AI - This artwork was created entirely by hand or with traditional digital tools.
Description
Here's two more turtles from my "Turtles of the World v2" set, the Painted Turtle and the Eastern Box Turtle. I've also thrown in a Blue-eyed Darner from my upcoming Dragonfly/Damselfly v2 set.
The Painted Turtle is a member of the genus Chrysemys, which is part of the pond turtle family Emydidae. Fossils show that the painted turtle existed 15 million years ago. Three regionally based subspecies (the eastern, midland, and western) evolved during the last ice age.
Native American tribes were familiar with the painted turtle—young braves were trained to recognize its splashing into water as an alarm—and incorporated it in folklore. A Potawatomi myth describes how the talking turtles, "Painted Turtle" and allies "Snapping Turtle" and "Box Turtle", outwit the village women. Painted Turtle is the star of the legend and uses his distinctive markings to trick a woman into holding him so he can bite her. An Illini myth recounts how Painted Turtle put his paint on to entice a chief's daughter into the water.
Painted turtles are one of the most common turtles in North America and are found from southern Canada to northern Mexico. It lives in slow-moving fresh waters, from southern Canada to northern Mexico, and from the Atlantic to the Pacific.
The Eastern Box Turtle is found in the eastern United States, ranging from southern Maine to Florida along the East Coast, and west to Michigan, Illinois, eastern Kansas, Oklahoma, and Texas. Due to its popularity as a household pet, it is sometimes found far outside its normal geographic range.
Box turtles are often mistaken for tortoises, but they are indeed more closely related to turtles. Box turtles are most famous for their hinged shell, which allows them to retract almost completely into their bony armor to hide from danger. This shell has great regernerative powers. A case was reported in which the carapace of a badly burned box turtle underwent complete regeneration.
This species of turtle is dangerous to eat due to the possibility of being poisoned, presumably due to the turtle having eaten poisonous mushrooms that don't hurt it, but that retain their ability to poison humans. They sometimes cause damage to tomato, lettuce, cucumber, cantaloupe, and strawberry crops. They sometimes destroy the eggs of ground-nesting birds. They may also carry the western equine encephalitis virus in their blood.

Comments (7)
your creatures are always first class and renders
These are terrific!
..real great realistic scene
Superb!
So realistic and informative. Lovely work Ken!
A well composed render as if it came from real life. Definitely learned something new about these turtles
They look very natural. Do they speak to each other?
As a great event I had the opportunity to visit the turtle hospital in Florida, Marathon, on the keys, during a holiday last month. It was very impressive.