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Kiya's econd adult challenge for Windsonde."You are attending a midnight festival in Twistoult to honor the goddess Mordachae. Even though you may not believe in any of it, the Queen has instructed you and your fellows to make nice as a way of improving relations. Show yourself participating in a ritual, or looking down at the superstitious Twistoult ninnies."
Having just finished a nighttime challenge for my other gryph, Valcaur, I decided not to draw something at night again. So here is Kiya, with Equinox, Beyzai, Alanis, Eira, Gideon, Jhator and Coutil, waiting for midnight in the cold inland mountains that create the border between Twistoult's lush forests and Grandesque's deserts. They are there for a joint ceremony honoring Toldine during the day, and Mordachae once dusk falls.
Kiya isn't used to such frigid weather, but is delighted by her first experience with snow. Poor freezing Gideon is huddled under a nanulak pelt, and he is generous enough to share it with Kiya. Bey is also hunched down to conserve her body heat. Equinox and Eira, on the other hand, look more than comfortable in the frosty temperature!
Kiya [link] is my character.
Bey [link] belongs to =Jerepasaurus
Equinox [link] belongs to *windfalcon
Eira [link] belongs to ~Obany
Alanis [link] belongs to ~CirrusTheCloud
Gideon [link] belongs to ~Cyaneus
Jhator [link] belongs to =SageGoat
Cotuil [link] belongs to ~nashoba-hostina
This was my first time trying to do snow or fire. Critique is appreciated.
Kiya's final adult challenge will feature a nasty skirmish between Grandesque and Skrekrill. If anyone's character would like to participate (no one will be depicted being seriously injured), I'll take the first three Grandesque and the first three Skrekrill that indicate in the comments they want to be featured; please mention whether you would like your character drawn as a young gryphon or adult if they're not already an adult.
Edit: I've got my participants, thanks guys.
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Comments: 52
Enquanto os animais estavam por ali... Resolvemos fazer uma fogueira e trocamos ideias a noite inteira sobre o que é ser diferente e ser igual. Na verdade a igualdade da reta e correta versão está apenas comportamento e principalmente nas atitudes, Os abstratos ensinam os concretos a melhor maneira de se adequar. DeviantArt é estrela atraindo estrelas. Parabéns e grato conosco compartilhar dádivas de sua imaginação.!.
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Actually make it a panther instead of a cougar
Species: Female Northern Harrier/Panther
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Here is the sheet:
Name: Lorel (kind of tree)
Species: Female Northern Harrier/Cougar
Gender: Female
Personality: Lorel is an active 11 year old gryphon. She loves to hang with her BGFs (best gryphons forever). She can be lazy but loves to learn new things.
There u go!
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hey could you make me one of those gryphons? i'll send u the sheet on what it looks like and what is name is etc. please make one for me! (No pressure. crags are mythical creatures)
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Great group scean. Love the individual expression and information provided below. the character names are also great! (of course each person is resposible for their own names...) anyway love the entire piece! Looks like a nice group of friends (some closer than others) having a good time.
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This is such an amazing piece of work, I love all the textures and furs and feathers...I always find it difficult to put expression into beaked faces but you do it so well
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How long does a piece like this take? I continue to be impressed with how many pieces you submit, but not only that, but pieces of quality, and often with many characters involved! I think it would take me MONTHS to complete something this detailed, and with so many personalities! You have a real skill for incorporating a lot of bodies into one piece without it getting overcrowded or too busy.
Gideon is adorable in his freezing-ness.
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It depends on how complex the background is--rocks and water don't take too long, but vegetation and tricky lighting do. Feathers don't take me long (anymore) but I still don't have a quick technique for fur. This particular piece took about 28 hours (snow and mountainscape were new drawing experiences). My Skrekrill gryphlets, on the other hand, took less than 16 hours. I use a huge canvas and if you were able to view this at 100% zoom, you would see that it is very loose and scribbly--that's why they don't take too long. My first Windsonde painting (Kiya's waterfall challenge) took forever, but it was a smaller canvas and I spent so much time trying to get every detail perfect. I think it's one of my higher quality Windsonde pictures, but it took at least 4x the length of this one to complete, with less than 4x the quality (in my opinion), so I started pushing this technique more.
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That's pretty awesome, because it totally looks like a lot of work smoothing out those details. Clever clever! Your technique is really effective, and it sounds like you've really polished it.
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Wow! I can't imagine how much time this must have taken you! All those wonderfully detailed gryphons.
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Wow, beautiful and rich in detail *_____*
I love the barn owl-griff ^ ^
Mmm.. and very nice background
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I could have sworn I commented on this. I must be losing my marbles!
Speaking of that, how you manage to do all this amazing detail and still retain yours is a mystery to me. Your work is always so fine and textured and wonderful. Everything turned out great, ranging from that beautiful, glowey fire, to the snow in the mountains, to the feathers... bravo, man, bravo!
And, thank you again, so much for including Cotuil. It's so kind of ya to have her in this.
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This is gorgeous! And ahaha, poor naked Gideon looks so cold.
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This is oh-my-goodness lovely!! I love how you always paint each character interacting with each other and their surroundings! Your paintings are just like storybook illustrations :3 Awesome work once again
Plus your snow and fire are suberb!
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This looks FANTASTIC and I'm not just saying that because you included Jha (OMG THANK YOU!!). The scene and details are wonderful!! I love the atmosphere you create with your illustrations!
I also love Kiya's necklace!
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So awesome!
Also, do you mind if I use your Valcaur in Daine's adult challenge #3?
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I would love it! He's at awkward teenager stage right now (skin making the transition from green to orange) so you can either draw him like that (I'll be uploading his second challenge soon, but essentially he's still got his dark juvenile plumage with some of the adult coloration coming in on the chest, and his skin is an ugly combo of mottled brownish red/olive green) or adult--unless you've already started and/or really want to draw young Valcaur.
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Hm.... I had planned on drawing on drawing young Valcaur. I'll just let my muse choose I guess XD;
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augh! it always takes my breath away whenever you post something, because the amount of detail and just...amazing technical focus is STUNNING. Your style looks so much like a really great colored pencil or oil pastel drawing, it's almost unbelievable that this is digital! The interaction between all these characters is great, and it's a wonderful blend of realism and expressive style for their faces and poses. Also, AS ALWAYS, the rocks are freaking fantastic. I live in awe of your rocks.
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Absolutely gorgeous!!!! WOW! Q___Q This is superb to look at! The details are so entertaining, and the snow and fire are alive! I always look forward to arts being submitted by you! I feel honored that you included my dear Eira as well <3 Lovely as always! I can't wait to see what you come up with next!!!
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So lovely! I really love Eira in this- so fluffy and comfy looking! Plus, I have a soft spot for owls and their funny feet. :3 Of course, all the others look fabulous as well! Everything looks fabulous! I love your art to pieces.
Ooh, pick Briggen! Pick Briggen! X3 If there's still Skrekrill openings, that is.
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Still room for Briggen! He shall fight alongside Valcaur, and they shall vanquish the Grandesque on their own territory (or at least try)!
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Oh wow. I was totally sucked into this one. The style is amazing, and I was even more surprised to see that it had Bey in it.
I feel very privileged! <3
The whole thing is absolutely lovely and wonderfully stunning! <33333
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Squee 
And Equinox! Yaaay
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OH MAI! LOOK AT ALL THESE GRYPHONS!!!! AWW THEY ARE ALL SO SWEET 
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I love when your pieces pop up in my inbox. The colors shading and detail are all superb and done so well! 
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Good point. Integrating background and subject is one of the things I struggle the most with. I feel like if I get better at lighting, that aspect of my work will also improve. I'm trying a new approach in another painting I'm working on, where I'm essentially working straight from one of my own ref photos for the background and mentally replacing the subject that was in the photo with a fantasy subject in the painting, trying to get the lighting on the figures the same. But that wouldn't be practical for every composition. Is there any one thing that stands out to you as indicating these characters aren't part of the background? Is it the lighting, or is there something else I need to focus on too? I really appreciate your critique.
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Its not the lighting so much as they arent interacting with the background. The gryphone laying in the snow just seems to be put on top of it. I would say maybe having the snow shaded and even lumped around his arm and paws. Same with the other gryphons, they all look just set on top of the snow. Snow gets lumpy and parts of your feet sink into it. I think simply adding clumps of snow and a little shadowing will bring them all together. Maybe even a little bit of white snow collecting on their ears or heads. Its hard to integrate characters with their backgrounds and I struggle with it alot too. But the idea of looking at an existing background sounds like a good idea to start with
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Thanks, that helps a lot. I'm never around snow myself, so I didn't even think about things like how you sink into it while I was drawing.
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Yeah me either
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Adult!Tiberius, please - since he is going to be a large (if squat) gryphon and an extremely bellicose soul.
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Got all my Grandesques now. I'm so used to seeing Tiberius as part of the Poofia that it's hard to imagine how he'd be as an (actually) intimidating adult gryphon
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Haha, I know! His future rank challenges will be...interesting to do, to say the least.
Tiberius is the "fly straight into the fray" kind.
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Oooh! Ooh! Skerry wants to beat up some Skreks too!
This picture is so full of story! I just love imagining what each of them is thinking/saying! Cotuil looks amazing...
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Skerry may certainly participate in the ass-kicking! Cotuil was fun to draw; I had to use my own barn owl ref to get the shape of her facial disc right at that angle. Barn owls have weird faces.
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Hourah! Thank you!!
OWLS have weird faces period.
Also, your snow and your fire are BANG ON. I would love to be the fly on your shoulder as you draw these. I honestly do not know how you put so much detail in there, get the colours and shading just right, all without any lineart...
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Lineart is actually something I struggle with. I want to be able to do celshaded-style-type pictures, but so far they've all turned out like crap. I think it's because it's something I've never practiced, whereas in Painter I use mostly the oil pastel tool in the exact same way I've used real oil pastels since I was a kid.
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Procreate Painter? I have not used that program in a long time, I mostly use Photoshop now.
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Corel Painter. I've never had the chance to use Photoshop. I should download a trial and mess around with it sometime.
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I was thinking about doing a rock tutorial after posting a poll to see if anyone would interested. I'm far from a painting expert or anything, but I love doing rocks and I've refined the way I do them to the point where I don't need to follow a ref and I can bang them out really fast. The fire, however, was heavily referenced from some old Girl Scout campfire photos!
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The rocks yes, but for me even more so just the way you do the gryphons themselves. It astounds me, how GOOD they look. You have a brilliant mix of realism and yet injecting plenty of character into them.
(I shall peer veerrry veeerrry veeeerry closely at your arts and try to emulate 'Ciameth style')
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I'm still trying to get better at the technical aspects of the feather and fur, honestly, and have been looking closely at other peoples' arts to see what techniques they use. My parents have also promised to get my James Gurney's Color & Light book for my upcoming birthday, so I'm very excited about studying that, since he's my favorite artist and his blog is so educational. I love it when people post WIPs he, so I'm screencapping Valcaur's second challenge piece as I go; I plan to post it in my scraps when I'm done.
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WIPs are a great idea, I am sure I would learn a thing or two from it!
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Skooma would adore being in the skirmish. He loves a good fight. >_>
This is GORGEOUS by the way, I'm loving seeing your images in my inbox so much!!
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Thanks! And Skooma's one I'd always love an excuse to draw
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Kerb would love to be featured for Skrekrill (adult) <33333
Also UGGGGH all the beautiful details! Your amazing!
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With a cigarette in his beak during battle or no
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