
Calling this guy finished!
Like most folks I have a headworld or two and stories that go along with it. Reyliss and his world has been kicking around for about five years and I really hope someday I can share more of it. In all likelihood the stories will never emerge, but I spend my spare time researching and sketching it out anyway.
This is my rhino hornbill fellow as a younger bird, before he gets the elaborate carving son his casque (horn).
A couple other pieces of him:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8650657/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6081463/
Like most folks I have a headworld or two and stories that go along with it. Reyliss and his world has been kicking around for about five years and I really hope someday I can share more of it. In all likelihood the stories will never emerge, but I spend my spare time researching and sketching it out anyway.
This is my rhino hornbill fellow as a younger bird, before he gets the elaborate carving son his casque (horn).
A couple other pieces of him:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/8650657/
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/6081463/
Category All / All
Species Unspecified / Any
Size 841 x 723px
File Size 56.3 kB
The way you capture the translucency of the bill is just....frankly, stunning :O It's one of my favorite effects in the world art, from the light glowing through the thin skin of an ear, or the moonlight behind a bats wing, it has always fascinated me and here you so beautifully capture that. I mean at it's core, the skill in painting is all down to your observation of light, and your attentiveness to all those little details...the refraction of light off the jewelry, the edge lighting around the plumage and that choice detail of the light inside the bill, the line of his mouth being lighter than the outside...simply brilliant.
This is everything I love about art, thanks for the inspiration!
This is everything I love about art, thanks for the inspiration!
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