The MOJÖ entelodont, repainted by Costa !!!!!

Entelodonts much have been awesome creature, and no wonder I loved the one from Mojo from the moment I saw him, - except for the booring, grey colour  

When I saw the models that Kosta(Costa) had repainted, I thought : YESSSS! Here is the man who can bring my entolodont to life  
Ohh, if only he will do it  

It turned out that not only is Kosta a great artist with many talents, he is also an extremely generous and kind person !  
At first he did not want any payment, but we agreed that I send him a few of my doubles, as payment, I thought  
But when I got the entelodont, it was in a box together with lots of wonderful models, - no less than THREE repaints, and a lot of other goodies  

I will show the others, too, but this topc is dediceted to THE ENTELODONT par excellence    

Instead of lavishing superlatives on you, I will leave you to enjoy  these pictures

First Kosta e-mailed me a pen drawing :
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And then a painting . Thay were both in the parcel, and I hastened to frame it and hang it next to my work place :
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Ta-daa ! What a transformation  
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To show the colours as real as possible, this picture is taken outdoors :
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But the light keeps changing outdoors at this time of the year, so the rest are taken with a daylight bulp indoors  
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The name of this gorgeous critter is Kosta-lodont, of course

Wow, how amazing repaint! And the drawing AND the painting!!! Absolutely fantastic!

Congratulations Susanne for this beautiful newcomer and congratulations Kosta for this lovely work!!!

Ana wrote:

Wow, how amazing repaint! And the drawing AND the painting!!! Absolutely fantastic!

Congratulations Susanne for this beautiful newcomer and congratulations Kosta for this lovely work!!!

I agree, this repaint is AWESOME!!! And drawing is beautiful as well!!!

Woah I'm speechless! The drawing, the painting, the figure, everything is just amazing! Huge congrats to you and Costa!

This is wow! Gorgeous!!
Fantastic work, Kosta! I love it! So much better coat than the original You are prett lucky, Susanne! Congratulations and huge hurray for Kosta!

That's incredible, a new figure was born! It is great to see Mojo figures repainted, often their manufacturing painting don't give justice to their sculpting.
I must say that a pattern like that could be more expectable to the hyaenodon but it was an excelent idea to put it in a daeodon instead. We only know fossilized bones so any pattern is more than acceptable. I hope Mojo, make a little investment in their painting and provide us a variation of these prehistoric mammals with a more attractive color. This Kosta superb work is a good example, no doubts.
Repainted like that it almost looks an andrewsarchus but we can see immediately that it is a Kostalodont instead!

Congratulations Susanne!

I barely have words. What a unique and incredible figure and artwork! He's stunning and so fun to look at. Congrats Susanne and great job Costa!

I haven't seen anything like it. What a marvelous and unique figure!

wow
Susanne you are great.
Thank you for this wonderful presentation.
Nobody else can do it better than you !
This, what You wrote for me and for the history of our communication... wow..made me soo happy !
The colours look real with your wonderful photos.
And soo many photos :)))) I love how you show every detail.
This shows to me that you like the result of my job and this is the most important part of the task that You set to me :)
And thank you everybody for your nice words, I`m happy that you like it :)
Mister Rogério :), You are absolutely right. The pattern looks more like hyaenodon. When I sent the picture of my project to Susanne, We both decided that will be interesting to see the Entelodont not so realistic..with this pattern ..and I`m happy that you like it too )
Greetings
Kosta

Yes ! I asked Costa if he could make the entelodont really crazy looking, - well, not green with purple dots, but...

But I am not so sure the colours are completely unrealistic !
Look at wild piglets, they have stripes and dots, - and look at the Red River Hog
Actually I believe that this colour is much more realistic than just grey

Imagine that the big cats were extinct except the later species like lions and pumas, - we see the kittens have faint spots, but would never, ever dream of patterns like a jaguar or a tiger

IMHO, we have to be careful about concluding about colours and fur from the animals that live these days.
Had we not seen frozen mammuths, we might not have know that they were brown/reddish, perhaps not even wooly - we might think they looked like grey, almost naked elephants

Wow, that's a fabulous painting and repaint, very striking colours.

Ana wrote:

Wow, how amazing repaint! And the drawing AND the painting!!! Absolutely fantastic!

Congratulations Susanne for this beautiful newcomer and congratulations Kosta for this lovely work!!!

He is beautiful but a little bit crazy about the color ... HOWEVER, the difference makes the figure very amazing.

Congrats

Susanne and Kosta, I was not taking any conlusions about the realism of the color once it is useless. Who would ever finding a peacock skeleton know the beautiful and colorful animal it is?
I was talking about what is usually used in paleoart but it is quite boring when everyone do similar things. I do like this work as I said and Susanne's note about piglets is very interesting. Often youngsters, are the first way to understand how looked like their ancestrals or relatives.

Roger wrote:

Susanne and Kosta, I was not taking any conlusions about the realism of the color once it is useless. Who would ever finding a peacock skeleton know the beautiful and colorful animal it is?
I was talking about what is usually used in paleoart but it is quite boring when everyone do similar things. I do like this work as I said and Susanne's note about piglets is very interesting. Often youngsters, are the first way to understand how looked like their ancestrals or relatives.

I love this "discussion", - yes, who would ever think of a peacock looking like it does, from seing the skeleton ?
Think of all the mistakes about the look of the Dodo, which lived so recently
Another example, imagine we only had the giraffe or only the okapi, and the other one extinct ( shudder!!!) - how would we figure out the look of the other one from a skeleton ?

Gorgeous paint work, that's a wonderful looking creature

I missed this excellent topic, but now I am watching the pics for the tenth time in a row.

I love the story and I like very much the paintings Tigers and leopards are very colorful, entelodonts were not boars so it is a very interresting way to look at the animal. And the job is fantastically well done

Thankyou, guys

SUSANNE wrote:

Thankyou, guys

I don't normally venture into this part of the forum but I'm very glad I did. Congratulations Kosta on a great repaint, but particularly for being so kind to Suzanne who is so generous with her own time and support of STS. She is very encouraging to the artists with her kind comments and thoroughly deserves to be spoilt in this manner!

Thank you Tim, Christophe and MiniZoo :))