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She is pissed off. Looking for 2 of her cubs in a burnt down field.
The cubs moved from the place she left them, I think.
She got them later.
Photo taken at the Sigfried & Roy's Secret Garden in Las Vegas, Nevada. This photo placed 3rd in the 2012 Black & White - Animals category at the Iowa State Fair.
Artist Name: Kelvin Chen
Challenge Name: CPM Challenge 1212 "Snow Leopard"
Enter Category: Pro
Email: kelch12@yahoo.com
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This is my first attempt drawing a big cat with colored pencils. Colored pencils are not very forgiving so drawing fur/hair is more challenging and less flexible than graphite. I somehow managed to draw around the whiskers with a little help of an electric eraser. Again, the electric eraser could only remove a limited amount of color.
As for the composition, the eyes should be the focal point, so I cut out all the distraction and left with this close-up. "Bam! In your face!" that kind of feel. :P
The fur texture was created by colored pencil strokes alone. The OMS solvent was applied lightly to intensify the color satuation. Heavy application with solvent is likely to killl the texture.
Let me know what you think. Fave/Comment/Like. Thanks!
Pencil: Prismacolor Colored Pencils
Paper: 9x12 Strathmore 300 Bristol Vellum (cropped to 6x6)
Other: kneaded eraser, odorless mineral spirit (OMS), water brush, eletric eraser
Duration: 11/26/2012 ~ 12/01/2012
Reference: www.flickr.com/photos/coloredpencilmag/8211228221/in/pool...
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Der Leopard (Panthera pardus) ist eine Art innerhalb der Familie der Katzen, die in Afrika und Asien verbreitet ist. Der Leopard ist nach Tiger, Löwe und Jaguar die viertgrößte Großkatze.
I couldn't resist putting another shot of this guy up here...I can't wait to get one sometime....got the tank and some of the equipment...:)
Have a great Tuesday...
Large is so cool!
Photo taken through Glass!
Snow Leopard
Able to leap 50 feet horizontally! Able to jump 20 feet vertically! It's a bird! It's a plane! No, it's a snow leopard! This species, like the clouded leopard, is one of those that is somewhere between the small cats and the great cats in that it can't purr like the small cats and it can't roar like the true great cats. It makes a happy sound similar to the tiger's chuffing.
Its greatest threats are the hunting of its main prey species in the mountains, and the poisoning of other of its prey species, leaving the snow leopard with out a means of sustaining itself. There is also a demand now for snow leopard bones in traditional Chinese medicine as a substitute for tiger bones. Unfortunately, there is still a demand for fur coats from snow leopard skins in some countries, but luckily that has greatly diminished. At one time here in the US, a coat from a snow leopard sold for up to $50,000.00.
Zoological name: Panthera uncia
Species: The Snow Leopard are a single species - There have been some attempt to recognize different sub-species of snow leopard. No subspecies of snow leopard are recognised, insufficient information exists to determine significant differences between wild populations.
Presence on the planet: Snow leopards live in the mountain regions of central Asia. Their habitat consists of alpine meadows and rocky areas from the Hindu Kush, the Karakorum, southwest Ladakh, and Kashmir up onto the Tibetan plateau and north to the Pamirs, Tien Shan, the Altai and Sayan mountains and the Russo-Mongolian border; and east to Nepal, Bhutan and the Gansu, Quinghai and Sichuan provinces of China. They are found as far east as western Baikal in Siberia.
Habitat: The snow leopard ranges includes alpine meadows, treeless rocky mountains and rhododendron forests. Most of their range occurs in Tibet and other parts of China associated with steep rocky slopes, with arid shrub land, grassland or steppe vegetation. Occasionally, in parts of their habitats they visit open coniferous forests, but generally avoid dense forests. They are found at high elevations of 3000-4500 meters (9800 ft ? 14800 ft.), and even higher in the Himalayas.
Physical appearance: Snow leopards are generally smaller than true leopards, and their tails are characteristically much longer. Their heads are notably more rounded than those of common leopards. Females are smaller than males.
Physically, snow leopards are completely adapted to moving in a montane environment. Their feet act like large snowshoes and their legs are designed for jumping. The hind legs are longer than the fore legs. Snow leopards have very large nasal cavities to enable them to efficiently utilise the oxygen in the thin, cold and dry air of high altitudes.
Snow leopards' eyes have round pupils unlike domestic and the other small cats. Anterior upper premolars are present. Panthera cats have cartilaginous portions in their hyoid apparatus, a series of skeletal elements which support the base of the tongue. In the smaller cats, the hyoid is completely ossified or bony.
Diet: The snow leopard eats wild sheep, wild boars, gazelles, hares, markhor, bobak, tahr, marmots, mice and deer. The snow leopard is a carnivore, which means that it eats meat. The snow leopard can eat an animal three times the size of itself. The male eats the prey it kills; if he sees his family, he will back off and leave as they eat. The snow leopard will drag the carcass of a large animal to its marked territory and eat it over several days.
Conservation status: Snow leopard fur is extremely beautiful, as a consequence, it is very much in demand. Persecution in conjunction with low population densities, habitat destruction and local animosity, is taking them near to extinction.