a commission drawing for sigarette fawn teeth of a deer like creature with angel-like features. I was concerned I would not be able to execute it adequately but I may have.
The large version of this picture currently linked is from an embarrassing website but that is reliable for such hot linking because its code is notoriously outdated and its security features notoriously absent.
because I still have not looked into replacing the “coppermine” gallery display software. I probably didn’t install that, but I do not expect that would help with something that waited until 2022 to break down, and so it MIGHT. When I will get to a position where I can look into checking on trying out attempting to figure out what I can do with that is similarly ambiguous.
it is more probable I will work over my lower right unused pose suggestion before I do anything useful.
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it which kindly observes sez:
Greetings.
What a captivating and supernal surprise this post is to awaken to!
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This is such a graceful and natural pose, and it both contrasts and harmonizes with the fantasy of the scene in being so. I love it–wings flared in cross, with hind legs trailing wide, as it reaches and treads upon air. Its motion looks completely deliberate, without a hint of flailing.
I think your choice of detail on its body is just right–a viewer can follow every limb and joint, and even its aural and nasal ports are visible! The lack of dewclaws may even make its outstretched sweeping pose all the prettier. It’s impressive that you captured its shoulder structure at this angle.
Our viewpoint enhances its countenance, with its neutral mouth and eyes endeeringly drawn shut as it drifts in seemingly somnolent flight.
But perhaps the truest concert is found in composition whole, where every elements calls glance to itself, yet guides my sense to the others. It achieves this in apparent brightness, depth, color, and even your chosen array of shape!
Save for its hoofs and ankle joint, no part of the flyer is sharp, so the relative angularity of the surrounding rays and mystic rings are truly felt. Its left foreleg approaches the edge of one such circle, connecting the elements despite their clear distance.
And O, how those bright verdant highlights keep the forms distinct and enchant! The effect is augmented by the simple truth that the color appears not elsewhere. It covers every affected plume meticulously and with careful grade.
And what’s this? We’re even treated to a pine cone, if not skyne cone by its habitance.
It’d love to take a telescope or other surveying device to the abstract skies of your worlds.
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Your draft/study(?) page of sketched fancy is of at least equal merit, and perhaps draws more curiosity from me, but I’ll reduce it to relieve you a bit.
The figures and scenes that adorn it are thoroughly expressive, and I can see a bit of how you interpret cervid morphology.
I may even descry care for and experimentation on where to mount the subject’s wings. Each colored play of uniquely specialized deer brings me glee deep, and the one at lower left may be closer to real deer capability than one expects.
The wave rider gains ambiguous points for having eyewear, and I love that the colored sketches have ambience.
>If I may inquire, with what tools or in what reality (digital, not, or both) was the sketch page drawn?
>Are you at all pleased with these current results?
Goodlater, meticulous artist.
Frimpinheap sez:
thank you for appreciating it!
It was a cheap commission that I went too far on due to vagueness in the request and feedback, so I did not attempt to make the anatomy accurate to any specific type of deer. I had to look up what a dewclaw is!
the sketches are drawn with the “mapping pen” in clip studio paint, as much of the “finished” piece also is, as it was meant to be a non-blended color image. in fact I had to draw over some parts I had already blended to make them look less orderly since I neglected to realize it was supposed to be unblended until late in the process.
I like some parts of it. I am glad that I was not asked to draw a normal deer doing a normal activity, even if what I was asked led to more work than I expected or consequently charged for. Theoretically I can always handle the pricing better in the future.
Jay Leno sez:
Jetskying deer is both funny and troubling..its like cuteness mixed with horror..I hope your okay
Frimpinheap sez:
I lately have a spot on my left foot’s heel that is frustratingly sensitive, but I did not get burned recently by exploding car fuel, if that is what you are concerned about.