I love your lovely, no line art. It's simply gorgeous. He has a nice weight to him.

This is really cool! Also, I guess this answers the question of if zebras are black with white stripes or white with black haha :)

Omg, I recognised this char right away (it's one of my all-time fave books)! Seriously love you for doing this!! :D ♡♡♡

Oh my gosh, I'm so glad someone recognized him right off the bat!! So many people have seen the movie but not too many have read the book, it always surprises me when someone talks about the book!

Hubby and I actually loved the movie all our lives, until we finally read the book as adults (I read it to him; I'm his personal "audiobook", lol), and now we can't stand the movie, because of how much it deviates from the book, leaves important things out, and basically warps the whole message the book is trying to portray. The author himself despised the movie, and wanted his name removed from the credits, because they totally changed the script at the last moment without his knowledge or permission: http://www.people.com/people/archiv.....088527,00.html Supposedly, a new movie is going to be made, and I really hope that one manages to finally get things right, and be based on the book, not on the previous movie(s). http://www.purplerevolver.com/movie.....-dicaprio.html :P

I love the movie but it definitely does not do the book justice. There's so much missing that I feel like the meaning of the book is totally missed!
I'm a bit worried about a new movie being made... the book is so extensive that I doubt it could all be fit into a film, and it would probably have to rely heavily on CG and the way CG seems to look currently just doesn't please me, I feel like it would do so much better as an animated mini-series where each chapter is an episode! But that may be just me, ahah. Thank you so much for the links!

the pose here is really nice and fluid. it's got a motion about it!
your work never fails to bring something new and eye-catching to the table. <3

I really tried to find that blog that I was talking about where this dude was giving pointers in 'how-to-make-a-successful-portfolio', but I can't find it any more. I'm really sad about it because it was really good, and made points that nobody mentions anywhere - it was really practical and first hand info that everyone should know but nobody actually does. Like the "everyone knows batman" example.

It's super nice to see you create all these awesome art, I hope you keep up!

Thank you so much for looking! I found a really good blog post on it by Brenda Chapman which really helped and a lot of replies from others got me going in the right direction. The quote about "everyone knows batman" sounds really familiar, I feel like I've seen what you're talking about too??

And thank you so much!

I looked again and I just can't find it. It's so annoying! I remember that people could even sign up for his updates and videos and such, and I was thinking to do so, but I haven't for some reason. He wasn't using Batman, but some well known comic character. It's funny how everyone is saying "fanart" is a no-no, but also saying not to put in too much originals. Then what? Life-drawings? self-portraits? I think those are like, 1 out of 10. Illustrations from books are good idea though!
I wanted to make a portfolio myself but I can't even remember how did I get on that page - I'm going to curse forever for not saving it. The guy was some ex-disney-nickelodeon-cartoon network kind of guy, so his pointers were very very useful, not these online nonsense stuff that people pull together.

Man it is so hard to draw centaurs and not make them look awkward. You've made this guy look incredibly elegant, with a unique and characteristic way he carries himself.

I AGREE! I feel like I was fiddling around with this so much, trying to get proportions right! I'm glad you think it came out well in the end, thank you!

Oh neat this is really characterful!