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The Winged Healer is what the natives of the Pri-uan Plateau call this rare and extremely gentle floating giant. It is so difficult to find (despite it's mass) that many believe the stories to be just legends and myths. It is a gas filled cloud grazer. Moving high into the atmosphere it slowly drifts through the sky using massive modified scales as intricate sails. The beast is neutrally buoyant in the atmosphere and requires very little effort to stay afloat, and it can stay aloft in the clouds for weeks at a time on a single full breath. The Native people call it a healer because the animal emits a low barely audible thrum. It purrs in such a frequency that though we can't hear it we can definitely feel it. The sensation is often described as glowing. The vibrations flowing through the human body have an effect of improving overall health, vigor, and vim.

There are some stories of people becoming addicted to the feeling that the animal gives them, and these addicts called "Vapors" follow the beast forgetting to eat, forgetting to drink, and eventually dying in pure bliss. If they lose the giant the Vapors will spend their entire lives mourning in misery, and on the hunt for another glimpse of the graceful animal.

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This is a concept design I did for the COW at conceptart.org, I did the design with it being used in print, in mind.
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~tokyo4dinner Nov 20, 2010
fantastic <3
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~yoalys Sep 26, 2010  Professional Digital Artist
Oh! I like to see strange creatures. This one is mystic and unique! I love it
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~mawenbo Jun 15, 2010
fabulous
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~LocustaVampa Feb 5, 2010
:3
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~Avesy Dec 29, 2009
Great work! Very neat creature design, I love how you melded modern digital realism with classic collage-work. c:
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~Taka-san Oct 22, 2009
What an immense amount of creativity. Spectacular. :]
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*Aquasakura Oct 20, 2009  Student General Artist
Interesting. That's a bazaar creature.
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=nine9nine9 Jun 11, 2009  Professional Digital Artist
Hi, I've featured this wonderful collage artwork here [link]
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*Sleetwealth Mar 16, 2009  Professional Traditional Artist
what a cool concept! I loved reading that as much as I enjoy the image. I really like the addition of paisley fabric. It takes in in a whymsical direction as if in the imagination of someone listening to the story fragments of the real world surrondings driften in and mingled.
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~ariokh Mar 24, 2009
Thanks so much! I'm pleased you dug that aspect of it. It kept me from winning the contest, sadly. lol
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