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LorienInksong — Moonflower
Published: 2014-07-11 23:59:02 +0000 UTC; Views: 1693; Favourites: 130; Downloads: 0
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Luthien dreams in a distant place where only the moonflowers live, pausing for but a moment inbetween dreams and nightmares. But her feet still yearn for the never-ending road.
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Comments: 55
Thanks. Its on my list of goals of things to draw.
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THis is AMAZING!!! It shows a lot of imagination, and it also shows that the creator is extremely creative!
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^////^ Thank you! I'm going to draw this character again soon.
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Awesome! Thanks for informing me!
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This is lovely 
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very interesting, i like the background and the character, looks that she are thinking.
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Thanks! Luthien tends to do that a fair bit, she's alone most of the time and tends to keep herself occupied with her thoughts.
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looks very obviously XD
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Whoa, love this! Luthien is a gorgeous character, and you have drawn her very, very well.
Excellent work! :3
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^///^ Thank you. She's one of my favorite OCs so I'm glad you like her design/ the piece.
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You're welcome, she really is gorgeous <3
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This looks great. I really love the coloring on the leggings/boots. Wonderful to see more of Luthien around.
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Yeah... I'm gonna have to draw more of her. >_> Thanks love.
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I think I found a new picture to rotate into my desktop background! Yay!
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Ahahaha apologies about the resolution then, I upload 'em pretty small to try to prevent theft.
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Does that happen often?
Also, I know Luthien is in a window, but it's got that round, circular shape ^_^
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-_- Not super often but enough that I take precautions.
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Didn't get to mention this last time but meant to. Nice job on the wings -especially their size. Here on DD you see so many people drawing tiny wings and then expecting their characters to be able to fly when even basic physics is laughing in its sleeve. These are actually much closer to the necessary size for lift.
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Thank you! That's always been a pet peeve of mine to, so I scale most of my winged characters wings roughly according to how it works with birds. (Each wing tends to be the length of the bird's body or longer). Unfortunately this would not provide sufficient life for a humanoid to actually fly (the wingspan for a human to be able to fly was something over 20 feet x_x ) but at least this looks somewhat more feasible.
I do have a character with tiny wings but alas, poor Jin cannot fly.
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The picture is so poetically beautiful and stunning. . . . . The wings have such amazing detail, along with the flowers! The background you chose is fantastic~ -^^-
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Thank you! 
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Oh dear! That must have been very troublesome! XD
Truthfully, I wasn't sure if it was stock or self-made! It looked like a real sky! You really painted that? FANTASTIC! It's mindblowing! -^^-
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It was but it was worth it! Let me break down the process for you, some of it was from textures.
1) So I started with a background layer that I painted some color shifts and a weak gradient in. (So that the area around the moon and Luthien would be a tiny bit lighter, whereas the bottom corners would be darker) Over that I put the texture from Sirius-sdz on overlay and lowered the opacity to about 50%, and on another layer over that I put the star-field stock image from Dadrian on luminosity. One satisfied I merged the layers down.
2) Then on that new layer I painted in the base for the clouds, as well as refining/ softening the texture in some spots. This ensured that the stars would not show through the thickest areas of the clouds.
3) After that I made an overlay layer, a multiply layer, and a luminosity layer and painted in the lights, shadows, and mass of the clouds. (Mass first, then shadows, the light) After quite a bit of refining and adding little wisps I merged everything down into one layer. (I had to because the program was chugging a bit because I had about 25+ layers in total for the whole piece)
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God! It's so amazing and beautiful! I love elves and all that is connected with them!
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Thank you so much! Elves used to be my main focus so now that I'm not as desperately building my anthro portfolio I'm happy to draw some again.
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This came out wonderfully! I absolutely love the wings and her hooded cloak - it's split her wings can move, correct? It looks that way 
Also, the amulet is really pretty
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Thank you! Luthien's cloak is split in the back and has a couple of fasteners under her wings so she can get it on and off somewhat easily. (This forms an upsidedown raindrop shape in the back.) The 'skirt' area is split into four for mobility purposes in general.
Thanks! Unfortunately you're right, the only way to make the flowers visible was to make them white. But that's okay, it helped tie the palette of the piece together.
And I gotta draw an image with her amulet closer up, I really like how it came out. >_> (XD so thanks again)
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I look forward to seeing the amulet closer up, it's pretty intricate I'd wager and a closer view of it would be pretty friggin' cool
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XD Oh you always find the right little icon thing. Thank you.
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Oooooh! Very pretty! I like how you did her bow and those fascinating hybrid wings. <3
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Very pretty. What the thing beneath the wings, though?
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Ah Luthien's wings are a hybrid of draconic bat-wings and more bird-like wings due to her very strange circumstances. (Half-dragon daddy and weird circumstances) So what you're seeing there is the silver membrane that supports her feathers.
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Ah. That's interesting!
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Thank you! Also gotta say your icon is really cute.
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You're welcome! And if you're really curious, the icon was made by for my roleplay group ^^
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