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100. 100 deviations, as of today!
All the characters depicted in this picture are the fursonas/animal representation of the friends I've made online.
Friends, followers, supporters, critics-whatever you want to call them.
Joining deviantART has opened my world and mind to a new concept, a new reality. I discovered endless treasures of inspiration and motivation, along with depression and doubt.
These people are the ones who've helped me move forward. Whether it was by critiquing my works, supporting me through a rough time, or simply sticking by my side through the year and a half I've spent online. They are the ones I love to make happy. They are the ones who I love to spend time with. Half of them, I would never know if it weren't for the internet, because half of them live halfway across the world.
My biggest dream is to inspire others like I've been inspired. I want to encourage other artists to believe in themselves and move forward. I hope that somehow, someway, my art has influenced and changed another artist's style, in some way, and helped them improve, even if only by a fraction. Because to me, it's the little things that matters. Comments, favorites, friends-they all matter to me.
Whether or not I remain friends with these people, I will never forget this period in time, or how much fun we've had. Because, honestly, it's changed me as a person as well as an artist.
Cheers, my friends! To 100 deviations, and hopefully hundreds more to come! Thank you for supporting me all the way!
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WOOOOO
During the duration of coloring this picture, my mom was watching TV. The most random shows imaginable. I heard a heated argument in Spanish, an ethereal scream of rage and despair from some actress, an infomercial on edible objects, and a man being mauled by a duck (I think.)
Scared the socks off of me at various times, it did. :I
Hah! Anyway. Please don't be disappointed if you're not in this picture. All the people I wanted to include here wouldn't have fit the page. D| And it can't just be a random smush of faces. :c
The sun represents an idea being born, and the sky the vast sea of opportunity that lies in one idea. The clouds represent doubt and insecurity, but the idea shines over them without hesitation. :3
I'm very proud of this picture. It is neither my best nor my worst, but it just about sums up how I feel about you guys. Even if I don't have 100,000,000 pageviews or whatever, I'm glad to have a group of friends like you. c: You're all so unique and individual! It just makes me squeeeee.
Well, not much to say after that. c: I've already said what's on mah mind! <3
I hope you all have a wonderful year, and that I can help you improve in some way.
Woot for 2010! <333
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The wonderfully amazing people included in this drawing:
(in order from left to right, top to bottom, starting with the grey dragon; bolded names are my characters and are (c) me. The other characters are (c) their respective owners.
Tsenyaru, Center, Thunder, Kuthren, Atsuki.
Caesar, Q.
Celine, Mystic =mysticspiritwolf , Baska, Trixie ~TrixieFox , Korah.
Eleweth =Eleweth , Zj ~zjgameru , Nintendochu *Nintendochu , Keevan ~Kya-Pika-Wolf , Noor =Rianne2k8 , Enaxn =Enaxn , Hannevik *WolfsbaneShiranui .
Global Wolf *global-wolf , Antaos =TwilitTiger , Soo =Beautiful-Disasterz , ..Bat?..=sakoyo , Pash ~aboveClouds , and Chestnut.
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This took 18+ hours to draw. Think about it...10-30 minutes per character, then background, then highlights on all characters, then shadows on all characters. |3
(Please comment and fav. Critiques are welcomed, but my scanner really killed the shadows. >:C )
Everyone's face is like 8D except for Chestnut. Thunder TOLD him to be there, but he doesn't like her so he refused, but then he saw what was going on and ran in all, "HEY what are you guys doing?! Let me at the top! I can't be her only chara at the bottom-!" TOO LATE CHESTNUT. I love you soo much, but you reject it, so you are at the bottooom. >:c (HAH I abuse him so much ;3; )
Love you all.
Comments: 101
Thunderflight In reply to SANACHI [2011-02-27 15:06:13 +0000 UTC]
Sorry for the late reply, but thank you! ^^
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thestoneycoyote [2010-12-07 02:31:26 +0000 UTC]
wow, such vivid colours! *o* this is superb, really beautiful and cute stuff!
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HyenaVitani [2010-10-16 03:11:06 +0000 UTC]
...Holy wow your art is so fantastic ;w;
I LOVE IT! ./watches
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ZumiKazan [2010-10-10 19:47:18 +0000 UTC]
HOLY SNAP!
THIS IS AMAZING.
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ZumiKazan In reply to Thunderflight [2010-10-10 19:53:28 +0000 UTC]
No problems c: I would imagine! I suck at traditional art :3
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TwilitTiger [2010-09-10 01:43:32 +0000 UTC]
/very lazy on da lately :___;
BUTBUT.
CONGRATS DEARY, 'M PROUD OF JOO.
And my Anty baby looks so bootiful ;u; <33
/latecrappycomment
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Thunderflight In reply to TwilitTiger [2010-09-17 21:23:51 +0000 UTC]
/understands :la"
THANKYEEEW
I KNOOOOW he's so amazering. |D HAH now I've drawn two of your...species things! 8D I will remember their names one day, one daaaay....
/latestupidreply OHNO ;n;
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Zombie-Pingu [2010-09-09 10:10:34 +0000 UTC]
This is, indeed, a sweet gesture and I can see how it would've taken you so long and I can imagine the amount of hard work put in. If it were me doing something like this, I would've given up after about the third head, so I congratulate you on your patience and resilience.
The brightness of your colours is lovely. However, I think in contrast to the characters, the '100' is too bright and doesn't stand out enough. Perhaps you could use slightly darker shades of it to make it more immediately noticeable and also, it might be worth outlining it more thickly as well, to make it stand out more.
The characters themselves have nice expressions which makes it slightly more interesting to look at. I think you could improve it, though, slightly by adding more relations between characters into the piece, rather than having them all mostly smiling. That way you don't get too much of a repetition in facial expressions, which you seem to be on the verge of forming here. It also challenges you as well to do this, and adds some diversity.
The colouring on the background is slightly messy and it looks like you got lazy with the clouds, so I think working into them more and adding more deeper shades to the oranges could really improve that.
The character colouring is decent. It again does seem slightly rushed, so just be careful on that. Add some purples to the deepest shadows and oranges to the highlights to make it more interesting and to add more depth which it slightly seems to lack. But that might be because of your scanner.
I know these are just people's characters, but I feel like the fish and the human don't really fit in. I think you could have perhaps furry-fied the human so she fits in more and I don't know what you'd do with the fish. Perhaps change the composition of it to a more centered position so it fits in more. On the subject of composition, I think you could have places the characters of similar shades together to give it more order so it doesn't look as random and therefore less messy. That way the human might appear less random and you might not have to change her to a furry so she fits. You could have placed her with the pale coloured characters so she'd fit in. But they're just suggestions.
I think the two dragons at the top on either side of the group... I think their heads are tilted wrong. From that angle the bottom of the mouth wouldn't be seen, so it throws their position off, making them look awkward in the way you've added that.
I think that's it. (:
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Zombie-Pingu In reply to Thunderflight [2010-09-09 11:45:15 +0000 UTC]
Aha, I see what you mean. Perhaps just place your characters in a colour pattern and then let the other coloured characters flow into that... I don't know how to explain. xD
The interaction would've just made it more interesting to look at. I don't think it would have become too busy at all. c:
You're very welcome. c: Just remember that you can apply what I said to anything you draw, not just pictures like this. ^^
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Strifehart78 [2010-09-09 03:22:15 +0000 UTC]
D'aww this is beautiful
wow and its a lot of coloring
i would die with that much coloring DX
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aboveClouds [2010-09-08 06:58:11 +0000 UTC]
Oh wow, this is amazing! I'm so honored and touched that you've included Pash in this picture. It's even more amazing that you posted this on my birthday. Planned date? Odd coincidence? We'll never know~
Thank you so much, Thunder! It means so much to me. You're an awesome friend.
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Thunderflight In reply to global-wolf [2010-09-09 23:35:05 +0000 UTC]
You're very welcome! 8DD It DID take a looong time. |DDD But it was worth it. And no problemo! :3 Btw, I got permission from that oneguy to use his space picture as a ref for our collab. Yay! Must work on it fff! *3*
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Kya-Pika-Wolf [2010-09-07 21:09:48 +0000 UTC]
Ah ah AHHH WOOOAAAAHHH THIS IS SSSSOOOO CCCCOOOOOOOLLL OMFG THIS IS AMAZING AND YOU HAD THE TIME AND PATIENCE TO DO THIS OMFG I ENVY YOOOUU. ;O;
This is so great. And congratulationsss. <33333333333
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Runevon [2010-09-07 20:19:27 +0000 UTC]
Gorgeous! The concept behind the image was well-executed, and I like how the characters look so bright and iconic. I hope to see more of your art in the future. ^^ I've always liked the colors and energy in your images.
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TrixieFox [2010-09-07 19:00:30 +0000 UTC]
BUDDDY!!!!! This is the most awesomey awesomness to ever awesome!!!!! Its awesome!!!!
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TrixieFox In reply to Thunderflight [2010-09-08 02:19:21 +0000 UTC]
naw!!!! ^_^ I LOVE YOU SO MUCH BUDDY!!! Im so glad I was able to help improve your art so much!!!! and yes, it is that AWESOME!! .....muh.
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Howl-Legend [2010-09-07 09:17:31 +0000 UTC]
k chulo!!
tiene k ser muy dificil dibujar a tantos O_o
te kedo muy bien ^^
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Deestracted [2010-09-07 08:05:39 +0000 UTC]
...
You are the first person to ever make the Dees speechless.
Dude.
I didn't expect something this awesome.
;u;
<3333333333333333333333333333
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