This is phenomenal! Looove it!

Wow! Everything about this is fantastic

Nice warm lighting effects!

Awesome! Love the colors and composition. :)

Twinkle of stars, whisper of wind, the heat of the day bleeding off, pheromones of prey do send,
Creak of branch, feet on grass, spear lifted with obsidian sharp, waiting for stillness to pass,
Eyes atwinkle, heart athunder, fluttering tails, young hunter in contemplation of preys wonder,
The moment comes, the spear is raised, feline launches, and eyes now blazed,

A stab, a thrust, a scream, blood colored like rust,
A hunter crouches, over his prey, gives thanks to the gods, for food this day...

Very nicely done!

Beautiful picture :)

I do draw herbivore anthros, but I felt that in this situation, where there is a hunting implication, that the use of anthro targets would make this feel more like murder/assassination rather than hunting for food, which is a bit darker than I'd like for this particular piece. Thank you though!

beautiful ^^

It's spotty!

Astounding work! Although I do think the positioning of his eye is off.

Agreed. It's almost like Egyptian art, or Picasso, where the eye is shown face-on instead of in profile, even when the face is seen in profile. This would be a stunningly detailed, gorgeous piece, if only my eye weren't always drawn to the improper foreshortening/angle of the face. The way the composition flows, I just can't stop staring at Spottacus' face. I'd be happy to redline the face for you, Rhyu, but given your proof of superb art skills, I'm sure you could fix it yourself it were bothersome enough to you/the commissioner ^^;
The fur/markings/back detail is fantastic, and I really enjoy the blue glow of the moon in contrast with all warm colours :)

I'm in the same boat. I want to love this piece so much but the eye is throwing me off.

Have you tried refreshing? I've updated some things.

SO much better, fantastic!

Wow, lol I just came back to this after all this time and noticed you made it perfect now, excellent work! xD

I'm re-faving this x3

The light, erhmagerd the light O.O

Gorgeous work on both fore and background, beautifully rendered scene <3

Ditto

Very nice! Good use of texture.

Wow looks great, almost looks like me ^^

Wow this is very lovely.

Gorgeous work!

Lovely work and a very nicely realized concept. :)

I love the detail in the entire piece. It's amazing! The only note I have is that a little too much of the face is visible for the angle of the person viewing the piece. Nonetheless, I still love it!

Wow! This piece is amazing! The detail, the lighting, the textures, the background, everything about this piece is simply incredible!

When I first looked at it, I saw the sky as the positive space and the trees as the negative... it was wild.

(no pun intended)

Absolutely beautiful illustration!
But anatomically the tail needs to go further down.
Other than that. WOW!

Servals servals servals <33333 and that lighting!!! ;u;

Lovely mood...

This is stunning

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not an actual link. did not know that if you just put www, it turned into a link XD

Wowww, that lighting is fantastic!

Dang impressive piece!

Is there supposed to be fire behind the serval? Due to the light source coming from behind him and the rather warm tones on him, and considering it's night, the protagonist doesn't look fully integrated to the scene, he stands out too much and differs from the rest of the pallete, I'm not sure how to put it in better words >.>; The cold tones on his tail tip are wonderful and looks just right.
Is there a specific reason for the saturated red in the sky? I would like to comment on it but if there's a reason behind it I'll shut up :B

And damn that head angle! It's very hard to get the foreshortening right. I know you fixed it, I was going to comment on how flat it looked before, but now the eye pops out in a weird way. You're giving us one angle with the back of his head yet the face/muzzle appears to follow a different angle; judging by the neck the head doesn't look rotated enough to allow the face appear like that. Lacking of better word I found some photographs that may explain better what I'm trying to say http://24.media.tumblr.com/3aa4ddba.....bqmo1_1280.jpg

hope it helps and hope you don't mind me being this nitpicking >.>;

Its actually not supposed to be full night, but rather sunset, with the sunset behind the character (which is why there is that red glow on the edges and the lighting from the back is so yellow/warm) so that we see the already dark part of the sky. The spear also hints at the setting sun behind him with a reflection of the sunset.

As for the face, yes its not quite right, thank you for the references.

ah I see now, I couldn't tell before it was sunset; the trees closer to the viewer block the sky a lot, I think the scene could use some air there to let the in more sunset light, but that's just me.
and no problem :)

Such detail!

Oh my god what

Rim light, rim light everywhere.

Amazing detail!

How have I not seen your art before? o.o

That's an amazing piece. Have you ever tried traditional media?

Thank you! I haven't done a lot of traditional work, especially in recent years, but when I do use traditional media it tends to be charcoal and chalk or other pencil type based work, but I'd like to try practice with paints at some point.

if you ever did things like these in traditional you could make a fortune! it'd likely be a lot of work and take forever but I'd love very few things more than to one day hang a piece like this in my house

Simply beautiful~

Quite stunning!

my god, the amount of time it took to make this, I can't even imagine

I just wanna say that this is some amazing a beautiful detail right here!

For some reason I'm one who sort of shudders whenever I see this sort of campfire lighting over an area when the rest of the landscape is dark and blue. I'm not an artist. Might be something color theory set right. All I know is the balance is perfect! <3

This is astounding, I love the textures and all of it.

Beautiful its absolutely captivating.