Polar bear with cub by otavio
Polar bears are the coolest animals. I wanted to do a few things with this picture. I wanted to draw something photorealistic since I had never done that. I figured I'd try drawing fur since I had never done that. And I wanted to keep it all inside the replay limit as a fun challenge. Inspired by the polar bear that "Doggy" drew.
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09 Feb, 2008, 8:57 am
This is amazing. Great work! I thought it was a picture when I first saw it.
09 Feb, 2008, 9:18 am
whouawww!so good :)but where is the cocacola bottle ?;)
09 Feb, 2008, 9:19 am
c'est hallucinant et criant de réalisme,un super boulot,bravo
09 Feb, 2008, 9:40 am
simply amasing..
09 Feb, 2008, 1:19 pm
convinced it was faked until i saw the playback. brilliant stuff!
09 Feb, 2008, 3:22 pm
excellent! especially nice to watch the playback.
09 Feb, 2008, 9:34 pm
Wow. I'm speechless. Amazing stuff.
09 Feb, 2008, 10:20 pm
simply the best, very real, i´m impressed!
09 Feb, 2008, 10:43 pm
just one word WAUW
09 Feb, 2008, 11:41 pm
You make me want to quit >_<
10 Feb, 2008, 2:39 am
wow, amazing :D
10 Feb, 2008, 3:09 am
gorgeous
10 Feb, 2008, 5:02 am
I don't think my roommate Amy believed when I said you drew it :P
10 Feb, 2008, 6:48 am
Hooray for the polar bears! Man paintings like this just make you feel bad for suckin so much. Just amazing
10 Feb, 2008, 7:15 am
Congratulations! (I agree with concrete_d, I'm speechless.)
10 Feb, 2008, 10:58 am
i fit wasn't for the replay i wouldn't be able to believe this one! amazing.
10 Feb, 2008, 12:25 pm
Incredible!
10 Feb, 2008, 1:19 pm
You are GOD!
10 Feb, 2008, 9:23 pm
...Wow. This is breathtaking. I really thought this was a photo.
10 Feb, 2008, 11:09 pm
Congrats on a great draw!
11 Feb, 2008, 2:09 am
Hurray! I got some gold stars. I really wanted one. Now I can check that off my list. :P
11 Feb, 2008, 2:51 am
maybe next u could comment on other artists' works ;p
11 Feb, 2008, 5:16 am
Truly amazing.
11 Feb, 2008, 6:03 pm
OMG I bow before your talent! great work!
13 Feb, 2008, 12:44 pm
GREAT!
14 Feb, 2008, 12:07 am
Let me join the crowd in saying WOW! Stunning work. Wish I could give it more than 1 star!
15 Feb, 2008, 1:03 am
wow!wow!woooooooooooooooooooooooooow!!!
16 Feb, 2008, 9:11 am
wow!!!!!awesome drawing!!!!!!!!! I like it!!!!!!
21 Feb, 2008, 6:19 pm
that is really cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
26 Mar, 2008, 7:06 pm
Super amazing. An inspiration. Cool
28 Mar, 2008, 2:38 pm
I think you went beyond photo-realistic, even watching the playback I just don't know how you did it. Amazing!
08 Apr, 2008, 6:27 pm
whats the license of the pictures?
09 Apr, 2008, 1:29 pm
AMAZING
23 Apr, 2008, 7:07 pm
this is a really good realistic picture
05 May, 2008, 3:12 pm
*claps* Brilliant!
12 Jun, 2008, 3:48 am
stunning stuff
16 Jun, 2008, 12:05 pm
just....wow. even after i saw the replay.....just wow wish i could give you more than just ne star, but that wouldn't be fair, now would it? P:
15 Jul, 2008, 7:50 am
You draw the real polar bear
24 Jul, 2008, 10:41 pm
Very nice great work, well done!!!
08 Aug, 2008, 1:27 pm
good boy, you are so great
15 Aug, 2008, 3:30 am
amazing!!!!!Is it really a picture?
15 Aug, 2008, 1:24 pm
uyi: you can watch painting process :)
28 Aug, 2008, 3:12 am
wowee
30 Aug, 2008, 8:59 pm
this truly looks like a photo A++++++
08 Sep, 2008, 7:01 pm
Wow! When I saw this my exact words were "holy shit"
13 Sep, 2008, 5:51 pm
so fine!!!
04 Oct, 2008, 2:21 am
Genius
26 Oct, 2008, 10:35 am
It's amazing! Your drawing looks like a photo. °_°
06 Nov, 2008, 12:18 am
This picture is what inspired me to use Colors. I love this picture, it's absolutely amazing. Wow, just wow.
09 Nov, 2008, 12:39 pm
Very very NICE! Very talented!! :D
09 Nov, 2008, 2:57 pm
...WOW.. really.. i have no others word to describe it !
12 Nov, 2008, 7:59 am
Thi is simply perfect. i wish that I was able to draw like this on my DS. Although I'm quite goo at photorealistic stuff using a sheet of paper and a small DS screen is still a fully different thing. ^^"
You did a damn great job here! That picture truly deserves the 1st place.
12 Nov, 2008, 8:25 pm
Personally, I think drawing on the DS or in photoshop is way easier than on paper. Paper just seems like a historical technique to me. Too hard to recover when you mess up. But most of my drawing experience is on this DS, so I never even really gave paper a chance. Thanks for the comments everybody. :)
24 Nov, 2008, 5:53 am
If I even got to 5 seconds into the video, I'd stop and submit it!! Wow, its beautiful!
05 Dec, 2008, 2:37 am
Whoa.......That picture looks so realistic, I can hardly think of it as a painting in the NDS.
12 Dec, 2008, 7:49 pm
so much wooooork. limitless stars just because i would never done something like that
19 Dec, 2008, 5:11 am
I'm calling shenanigans on this painting. It's overly epic.
25 Dec, 2008, 11:42 pm
omgosh! Amazing!
29 Dec, 2008, 6:32 am
Wow, it looks great. But did you notice that the small bear has an evil look? :D
29 Dec, 2008, 8:03 pm
Nicely done...
31 Dec, 2008, 10:45 am
Lovely! And sooo realistic
02 Jan, 2009, 12:04 pm
Very beutiful! Perfect!
02 Jan, 2009, 8:10 pm
great
06 Jan, 2009, 6:44 am
Draw another one plz...! This one is AMAZING!!!
07 Jan, 2009, 6:24 pm
This pic is one of my favorite drawings!! AMAZING!!!! Looks solo realistic!!!
16 Jan, 2009, 12:52 am
Did you take this picture? :D
26 Jan, 2009, 12:56 am
love it
31 Jan, 2009, 4:58 pm
sinistro
01 Feb, 2009, 6:07 pm
How did you do that??
01 Feb, 2009, 6:59 pm
@reagan804: Do you know you can watch playbacks of most of the paintings posted in the gallery?
01 Feb, 2009, 7:23 pm
Jetboy: I know, I meant how did they draw it so good. :)
02 Feb, 2009, 7:45 pm
The hard part was getting those polar bears to hold still while I painted. I almost ran out of tranquilizer darts before I was done.
02 Feb, 2009, 7:56 pm
You were looking at real polar bears?
03 Feb, 2009, 12:53 am
Sorry, I was just kidding about that. I did it while looking at a photo I had found with a google search. I made the reference photo really small, like the size of a stamp and then drew the large scale features, then I made the reference photo bigger so I could refine the details. I tried to get enough detail that there were no obvious brush strokes in the end so it would look like a photo. It took a long time and was even a bit tedious, but I wanted to prove to myself that I could draw something photo-realistic.
03 Feb, 2009, 8:01 pm
Cool!
08 Feb, 2009, 5:56 pm
WOW!!!
20 Feb, 2009, 3:57 pm
excellant!
24 Feb, 2009, 2:05 pm
holy F**k you seem to have discovered a new kind of uberstar!
23 Mar, 2009, 7:11 pm
one star from me, a very nice painting indeed! congrats man
05 Apr, 2009, 4:27 pm
its the cokacola bears!!! love it
10 Apr, 2009, 2:32 am
this is..unbelievable. great job!!!!
this is so amazing.! <3
13 Apr, 2009, 3:43 pm
Only one word: Perfect!!!
18 Apr, 2009, 6:13 pm
I have looked at your painting like five times and never voted for it because i thought you cheated some how and put an actual photograph in...then it dawned on me...how could you do that...then I thght...why havent i clicked on the playback...you are truly gifted...an amazing artist! I am blown away!
20 Apr, 2009, 1:24 pm
AMASING, PERFECT, WAVESOME!!!
Great job!^^v
23 Apr, 2009, 11:18 pm
That's it, I'm quiting art college and joining McDonalds (srsly, I thought I was gifted by I guess on a world wide scale I'm nothing special. You, sir, are a god).
29 Apr, 2009, 3:53 pm
no words to say how wonderful this work is ;)
14 May, 2009, 2:01 pm
wow .... love it.<3
20 May, 2009, 1:37 pm
wow... no words!
25 May, 2009, 11:03 pm
that was incredible. truly sick
29 May, 2009, 7:21 am
Fantastic~
29 May, 2009, 12:04 pm
Oh MY God that is ...so ......Wonderful
29 May, 2009, 8:51 pm
keep up the great work!
01 Jun, 2009, 6:08 am
omg. so good
02 Jun, 2009, 1:04 am
amazing
02 Jun, 2009, 1:52 am
jou
03 Jun, 2009, 1:07 pm
Unbelievable
07 Jun, 2009, 5:41 pm
i love it! :) it's so inspiring =)
14 Jun, 2009, 2:20 pm
And now... the real challenge will be doing another drawing, better than this one!!! dont you agree???
16 Jun, 2009, 6:55 am
@alan - I don't know if I agree. Although I see why this is the highest rated picture, I don't think it's the best. I did it using a photo as reference, which means there was really no creativity involved. I think the real challenge is to make something creative, efficiently. Copying photos is a good exercise, but I think originality is more interesting.
17 Jun, 2009, 6:11 pm
Mmm... taking a photo as reference and making it as the real thing is a talent... when i vote in the gallery, I dont care if it was made from imagination or taking a photo as reference... i care if it is god or not... so... thats why i said you have a challenge...making a new one better than the bear, doesnt matter if is copied from a photo or from your imagination...
... I loooove your polar bear, is well done, thats why i voted for it !!!
13 Jul, 2009, 3:02 pm
OMG This is so amaziiiiing!! Perfect Work!
23 Jul, 2009, 2:46 am
hey gays, how could i draw or make files with ".drw"
extention??
23 Jul, 2009, 6:56 am
@roroboyeitor: If you want to draw them you need to use Colors! application which is available for homebrew enabled Nintendo DS or iPhone/iPod Touch. All the info is on this site - try FAQ section.
29 Jul, 2009, 11:04 am
good but give us a clue how you did it.
03 Sep, 2009, 3:41 am
It's impossible!!! You are the 1
04 Sep, 2009, 11:49 pm
cool man but how do you put your colors ds painting online
18 Nov, 2009, 10:13 pm
amazing! looks like a real photo
24 Dec, 2009, 2:17 am
cute! u got it!
24 Dec, 2009, 11:07 am
AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!! it's absolutely perfect!!!
29 Dec, 2009, 12:21 pm
Woow! I have reciently started to draw so it's incredible for me!!
06 Nov, 2010, 3:44 am
I really love this painting. I think imagination is important, but if you use a photo reference the challenge is not only to copy the image. Is to choose the most impressive & beautiful, and this is a talent too. Congratulations you got it. :)
27 Dec, 2010, 8:10 pm
i am from switzerland where are you from
31 Mar, 2011, 9:14 pm
http://colors.collectingsmiles.com/details/51592-graffiti_wild_style_by_stasko.php
30 May, 2012, 11:57 am
Just.... =O ! No word anymore...
30 May, 2012, 11:58 am
Pefect!
03 Feb, 2013, 5:20 pm
I'm Speechless
29 Nov, 2013, 12:17 pm
absolute great!!!
30 Jan, 2015, 2:54 am
this is like, the most realistic thing on colors 3d. good job
28 Aug, 2021, 8:28 am
it looks so realistic!!
18 Jan, 2023, 9:07 am
woooow!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!