BlueOtter
2005-02-07 05:53:18 UTC
That is very cool. I really like the stylistic detail given to the
character's clothes and the setting of the background... I appreciate a
complete composition for a character as aside from a well-drawn
anthropomorph that has no context or is atop some kind of CG background.
Such attention to detail makes the whole piece so much more rich, and makes
the furry more incidental to the larger theme -- which makes it so much more
enjoyable to me. :)
Always a fan,
Sean (BlueOtter)
character's clothes and the setting of the background... I appreciate a
complete composition for a character as aside from a well-drawn
anthropomorph that has no context or is atop some kind of CG background.
Such attention to detail makes the whole piece so much more rich, and makes
the furry more incidental to the larger theme -- which makes it so much more
enjoyable to me. :)
Always a fan,
Sean (BlueOtter)
So I'm doing some work for the good folks at Sanguine Productions,
working on a set of illustrations for a new book set in their Ironclaw
world; furry medieval stuff.
This isn't one of them, since the illustrations are specific scenes from
the book. This is just a character study. I won't name him, or anything,
but it's a character from the book: a stag with a magic sword. Check it
out! I'm much more confident in my hatching ability. That's been the most
recent artistic development that I've been intentionally working on
lately. Since my drawing class last semester, when I flopped on the
hatching assignment, I wanted to practice and get more comfortable using
it. It's useful for black and white illustrations, they reproduce better
and I don't have to go all greyscale and stuff. It also lets me add a
grittiness that greyscale markers or color wouldn't.
Anyway, as I was scanning this and cleaning it up in photoshop, over my
shoulder appears a guy from my Visual Language II class. And he's all
like, "What's that?" and I explain and he says, "Cool; reminds me of
Simonson's stuff. Kinda norse."
Which is probably the best response I could've gotten from a non-furry
person who turns out to be a low level comics geek. That made me happy,
though I was just doing my thing, not particularly trying to evoke
another artist. He may have just been struck by the horns and the sword;
a very Walter Simonson Thor thing.. and the closest visual point of
reference for something furry like this.
blah ^_^
working on a set of illustrations for a new book set in their Ironclaw
world; furry medieval stuff.
This isn't one of them, since the illustrations are specific scenes from
the book. This is just a character study. I won't name him, or anything,
but it's a character from the book: a stag with a magic sword. Check it
out! I'm much more confident in my hatching ability. That's been the most
recent artistic development that I've been intentionally working on
lately. Since my drawing class last semester, when I flopped on the
hatching assignment, I wanted to practice and get more comfortable using
it. It's useful for black and white illustrations, they reproduce better
and I don't have to go all greyscale and stuff. It also lets me add a
grittiness that greyscale markers or color wouldn't.
Anyway, as I was scanning this and cleaning it up in photoshop, over my
shoulder appears a guy from my Visual Language II class. And he's all
like, "What's that?" and I explain and he says, "Cool; reminds me of
Simonson's stuff. Kinda norse."
Which is probably the best response I could've gotten from a non-furry
person who turns out to be a low level comics geek. That made me happy,
though I was just doing my thing, not particularly trying to evoke
another artist. He may have just been struck by the horns and the sword;
a very Walter Simonson Thor thing.. and the closest visual point of
reference for something furry like this.
blah ^_^