Save the Animals

valenti

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Focusing on emotion:
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Robert

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Really good artworks. I really like the color effect on the dolphin one.
 

seba_boi

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Hey! It's you!!!... I said it once, I'll say it again... Your works are so sad and beautiful, it wanna make me cry!...
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:crying: :(
 

SilverAngel

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Very good, pulls on the heart strings i already go on sites like feed the hungry, child health, breast cancer, save the rainforest and help feed the animals. Get those out on the net maybe put them around places and im sure people will start thinking :)
 

FormlessOne

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They're good, but if that dolphin was as smart as people say they are it would just swim the other way instead of into the net :spock:
 

MistressDragon

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wow, look at the pain, saddness and suffering in the dolphin's eye. You really painted it well. I like the shadow effects you used. Your painting seems more cartoony instead of a realistic style, but it still gets the point across. The seagull painting also plays with your heart strings because he just looks so cute fuzzy and innocent, but he's looking ahead and being exposed to the cruel reality and filthy nature of the world.
 

K_K

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FormlessOne said:
They're good, but if that dolphin was as smart as people say they are it would just swim the other way instead of into the net :spock:
if you've ever seen the nets they use up close you'd know that drag nets like that are next to impossible to see under water. the blue and sunlight clashes with the white and gray of the nets to create something that looks almost like sunbeams jutting through the water. and since sunbeams are a common site under water most animals assume they can swim through it. just as a fly can't really see a spider's web sea creatures can't really see the net, and even if they can how many of em know what a net is, or what it does? dolphin are smart, they also have a very large brain capacity, and can learn things through experience, but is a dolphin never experiences the net a dolphin will not know. and those who do experience it die. it's a lose lose situation. and sure drag netting is banned in most waters it's still practised and used on a constant basis.

the job of a commercial fisherman is the #1 high risk job out there. the chance of injury, death, or massive finacial loss is great. and the fact is they use drag netting to catch all they can, and who can blame them really? i mean they make maybe 5 cents for every like ten fish they sell, so they've got to do what they've got to do. it's a case of the fisherman being in need, the dolphins being killed, and money on both sides. it costs more money to fish without dragnetting, and you're a lot less likely to catch a thing. so a fisherman assumes that a few dolphin's lives are worth the few extra pennies and he saves a few bucks on keeping the old illegal nets. it's all about money in the end snd no painting, no amount of PETA marches, no amount of government bans are gonna change the fact that there's just not enough money.
 

PleaseKillMeNow

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All I know is that:

Canned dolphin + a little bit o' mayo + some bread = heaven

Btw, nice pics.
 
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