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14 Kelpie, Inktober 2023 by Andréa Boloch

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This is my attempt at an "accurate" Kelpie.

"The kelpie is usually described as a powerful and beautiful black horse (...) One of the water-kelpie's common identifying characteristics is that its hooves are reversed as compared to those of a normal horse (...)" (wikipedia)

I had a hard time figuring out how to put the hooves backwards without it looking too clunky so what I ended up doing was reversing the pasterns as well.

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The kelpie

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Khalaktyrsky Beach, Russia by Vladimir Goiiiguk

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GoWR: Kelpie (1 of 3) - Bjorn Hurri

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GoWR: Kelpie (1 of 3) - Bjorn Hurri

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The most extraordinary alien landscape. Within the glacial icecap on top of the Katla volcano during a high winded snowstorm. Iceland.

Hasselblad X1D II 45mm

Photographed by Freddie Ardley

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Waterfall in Fjaorargljufur canyon, Iceland

Photo by Guy Edwardes

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"Yes!" He perked up, nearly braining himself on a bough above.

"It would be more surprising if we were naked." Nyk could take another form, too. There could be two Belegs! Or, perhaps, a nude doppelganger scenario...not the first time, for him.

"Although, we may die in the attempt. Especially me."

"Oh! Yes - I love surprises!"

Who did not love surprises? What an excellent idea.

"What did you have in mind? We could jump out at them from the trees. That's pretty surprising."

Though it might finish off the older ones. He'd heard that could happen.

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Some sketches and explorations from my concept project based on the Scorpio Races! I’d love to come back to it and finish it one day. :)

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you might be awkward but I can be awkward in a far deeper and more humiliating way than you ever will

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Round the world an illustration by Walter Percival Starmer on page 175 of Old Man's Beard, and other tales.

Starmer, W. P. Round the world (1909). [Illustration]. In Faulding, G. M., Old Man's Beard, and other tales. Dent & Sons, Dutton & Co.

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"I'm full of many things." Most of them were impolite. "But that's true of many people." He wasn't special, and certainly not in that respect.

Nyk turned, lowering his gaze to the other and giving him a pointed once over.

"Not much, perhaps. What have you to give?"

Amin didn't pretend to know every fae and creature that existed. He was old, but he mostly kept to the mortal realm for his own safety. Being made of both human and fae, he wasn't welcomed anywhere else. That didn't mean he wasn't aware of other traits and signs, so to speak. He was beginning to suspect this one wasn't what he seemed, but he couldn't be sure. Some humans were rather strange.

"You seem to be full... of contradictions." He raised a brow. "What do you want from me?" He asked. Human, fae or otherwise, he had clearly started speaking to him for a reason, and Amin wasn't one to mince words.

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The Riverbank by Edward William Stott (1859-1918, United Kingdom)

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Iceland

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