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SO SORRY THE GLOBES ARE ALL LATE TwTThis globe is for
Their OC Stardust
Medium Globe
No snow
and yada yada with the info XD
My first time making a Northern Light/Borealis
I hope you like it <3
i know i still need work on shading and snow XD
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OH GOD! I love everything about this! The colors and the background are amazing!
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Thanks hun <3
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youre very welcome!!! X3
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The composition of this is just wonderful, first of all! It's a unique approach, and very effective. I also really enjoy your use of vibrant colors, and how much work you put into the background... I really feel like I could delve right into it and explore. The northern lights look gorgeous, here, and your stars are well designed!
The one thing that bothers me is that while you approached with a more anatomical fox, deer and birds, and even included a lot of detail (like hair strands) on your pony, your rabbits here are overly simplified and feel out of place anatomically speaking. Even if their faces retained the expressions, maybe the bodies just needed to feel more anatomical rabbit?> Oh well, the whole piece is gorgeous :3 good job!
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Thank you so much for the great comment and review
I always value critique because it can help me improve as an artist ^^
I'm ever so glad you like it and its alive enough to be able to seem like one can delve right into the picture as i'm not very good at ice pictures and it is my very first try with a Northern light
The pony was meant to be simplified (I cannot for the life of me do hairs like on the animals and my shading and lightning still needs a lot of work. Light shading and anatomy are my worst subjects i think)
the rabbits, well i'm not very good at those puffballs XD they're small and fuzzy and hard for me to get right anatomically xD So i made them more cartoon like same as the mice
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One thing that helps with ANY animal design is really taking a look at the spine, and the rib cage. For animals like a cat or rabbit, which are able to spring into a jump real quick, their spines are almost designed LIKE a spring. There's a small section where the rib cage attaches, which tends to be less mobile, and where the shoulders are located, and then a long, springy backbone, which really PUSHES the look of the animal.
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here are two rabbit skeletons posed in different ways. Think bout how you can exaggerate that!
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Cat skeleton.
Now, this is helpful because when you look at less flexible animals, like deer, horse, dogs, that are made for RUNNING rather than quick springing, the rib cage tends to be larger, more solid, and the spine straighter.
www.horseracinghistory.co.uk/h…
Horse: Made for running. The lack of flexibility in the spine is countered by their ability to run distance.
loudoun.nvcc.edu/vetonline/vet…
Dog. A dog is NOT going to be flexible like a cat.
www.foremosthunting.com/Portal…
Deer. Definitely less solid than a horse, but more rigid than a cat.
etc.usf.edu/clipart/12300/1238…
Here's a cow. DEFINITELY not going to be doing much jumping. They're very square.
Now, the reason I point out skeletons and rib cages compared to spines, as that helps with your exaggeration for animated characters while still capturing anatomy. Additionally, it helps you to plot where everything goes! Get the rib cage correct and you know where the chest is, and then you just have the stomach droop from the rib cage under the rest of the spine like a cloth.
www.nyantler-outdoors.com/imag…
www.yesko.com/medical_illustra…
Note in these two drawings how you can see how the stomach drapes between the rib cage and pelvis. Mmm organs.
Anyway xD I know that's a lot of information, but often by just plotting the spine, rib cage, (which can be a circle, and a line) you can then easily plot the stomach, and get the general FEEL of the animal down.
Here's a rabbit I recently painted, where I really exaggerated the spine and rib cage to capture that BOUND type body.
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Ah so tecnally the longer the spine the more flexable? i saw the rabbit and the cat comared to the other animals have kind of longer spines than the the other animals
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Sort of. Their rib cage is smaller and more condensed to give them that flexible spine, which helps them with those quick movements! It's a sort of simplified approach to animal anatomy for an artist, rather than a rule, though.
An artist who REALLY FANTASTICALLY breaks down animal drawing for the artist is Ken Hultgren. He has a book, the Art of Animal Drawing
www.google.com/search?q=ken+hu…
He worked at Disney for years, and you can really feel both the strong sense of anatomy as well as the exaggeration in his art. He simplifies a skeleton under his drawings, to really exaggerate the form.
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Hmm i seem to remmber my drawing teacher at Viborg Drawin Academy saying that that was a good book to get if yo wanted to learn more about movement and such of animals
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Thanks so much love <3<3 X3
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ugrhdusiyhuaigy its fantastick x3 <33333
oh also werent you surpose to removed the colors on the site xD?
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So glad you like it <3 hop everything was on that you wanted
....Whoppps XD gonna juuuust fix that
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oh yearh it is and more to it xD you went sooo overbord xD
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I did not!
it did say when i made info on the medium
"Medium (a bit harder than the Easy on the outside and takes a few more hours on the inside)" XD so xD
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yearh okay xD idd rather not se the complex then xD
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Gorgeous, awesome detail, and just waaaay cool <3
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