THE INCREDIBLE TRUE STORY OF HOW I BECAME A KILLER WHALE (AN ORCINUS ORCA, THAT IS)

It was an ordinary summer day but the beach was unusually deserted. I mean, the lack of tourist activity was much more than unusual. It felt like a dream filled with the potential to become a nightmare.

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Something fell from the sky, the water formed a big photogenic mushroom on the horizon, and soon it became clear that things for me will never be the same.

When I returned home from wherever that strange place was, in some other universe or somewhere inside my mind, I decided to visualize my strange experience for this post.
Presenting it in the form of a single-page storyboard was an instant idea, but soon I started thinking that animation could be more interesting, both to create and to watch. It took me an hour or so to see that a GIF format can support both ideas. I had a lot of fun drawing and coloring this partially animated illustration in Adobe Illustrator. And so ...

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... yep, believe it or not - I'm an orca now. Who would have guessed it back in April 2019 when I wrote my first short, uninspired post with only one photograph? I, most certainly wouldn't. After a couple of months of daily but still clumsy and confused activity, with not much power in the wallet and even less fun in the network, I was ready to give up and do whatever else but not that frustrating blogging routine. I don't know exactly how or why, but I ended up doing the opposite. I persisted. A few more months further along the timeline, becoming a dolphin felt like something that isn't achievable before ... I don't know ... 2030? 2040? Something like that.
But blogging, curating, and exploring the system every day along with the passion for accumulating Hive power, brought me further than I expected. And now ...

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... after a quick metamorphosis, I grew into a bigger creature here on Hive.

The growth of my Hive power resembles a growth of a snowball. The bigger it gets, the faster it rolls & grows.

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A couple of days ago, when it became clear that reaching the next level is only a matter of days, I started drawing this humanoid orca on a piece of office paper. The first sketch was made with a pencil and then I outlined the thing with the blue ballpoint pen.

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In the next stage, I added a bit of shade and details in the upper part of the body. I used both, the pencil and the pen to do that. After that, it was time to use the camera for transferring the artwork on a piece of real paper into a digital world, through photography.

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The final layer of color was added in Photoshop.

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Here you can take a quick look at my brand-new appearance on Hibe Buzz ... if you wish.

This is a sticker from an old sticker album called "Mammals." The following link can take you to one of my older posts about that topic ... if you wish to go there, of course.
https://peakd.com/hive-109926/@borjan/on-the-5th-of-january

What else can I tell you? Hive on. Have fun. Grow along the way.
When it comes to the artwork presented in today's post, all that stuff was in all segments imagined and realized by me.