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So it seems like I've got a part-time muse.
At some random point last summer, for no clear reason, it revealed itself to me, grabbed me by the collar, shook a few time to make sure it had my undivided attention, and then TOTALLY DEMANDED that I drew a nude anthro bat RIGHT NOW. And all I could do that evening was scribble feverishly until I collapsed.
And then the muse utterly deserted me, leaving me to painstakingly sketch and erase, sketch and erase, erase, erase, erase, then sketch and erase some more, until it began to near some semblance of completion. It took MONTHS.
Muses are bitches.
I'm reasonably glad with the outcome, in the sense that her expression does roughly express what I was hoping for, a sense of playful coyness, of knowing she's desirable and loving it. And maybe, /maybe/ someone will like it enough to save it on their drive or, dare I hope, otherwise peruse it in any typical furry way.
But I wish I was better at the whole art thing. I have no idea what details to add and how; I have no idea how to color it and make it look good. This frustrates me. But I feel I'm making progress, slowly, so who knows -- someday, maybe. If the muse isn't too much of a bitch to me.
Pencil sketch, digitally cleaned up (because the rubber eraser way implies that the original sketch is now insanely dirty, bleh).
At some random point last summer, for no clear reason, it revealed itself to me, grabbed me by the collar, shook a few time to make sure it had my undivided attention, and then TOTALLY DEMANDED that I drew a nude anthro bat RIGHT NOW. And all I could do that evening was scribble feverishly until I collapsed.
And then the muse utterly deserted me, leaving me to painstakingly sketch and erase, sketch and erase, erase, erase, erase, then sketch and erase some more, until it began to near some semblance of completion. It took MONTHS.
Muses are bitches.
I'm reasonably glad with the outcome, in the sense that her expression does roughly express what I was hoping for, a sense of playful coyness, of knowing she's desirable and loving it. And maybe, /maybe/ someone will like it enough to save it on their drive or, dare I hope, otherwise peruse it in any typical furry way.
But I wish I was better at the whole art thing. I have no idea what details to add and how; I have no idea how to color it and make it look good. This frustrates me. But I feel I'm making progress, slowly, so who knows -- someday, maybe. If the muse isn't too much of a bitch to me.
Pencil sketch, digitally cleaned up (because the rubber eraser way implies that the original sketch is now insanely dirty, bleh).
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Bat
Size 512 x 900px
File Size 29.3 kB
Hee, you're welcome. For the next piece, I suggest you examine how shoulders work (use a mirror if you can't find and references for that pose), and maybe look up some paw photos for the feet. Other than that, everything else will improve by itself as you draw. :)
I myself use photos to reference muzzles, but that's a personal preference; realistic heads tend to be unexpressive without a touch of exaggeration. Wan's are completely toony for example, and incredibly expressive.
I myself use photos to reference muzzles, but that's a personal preference; realistic heads tend to be unexpressive without a touch of exaggeration. Wan's are completely toony for example, and incredibly expressive.
Aw, thanks. :) I know about the shoulders -- see my reply to Delf in that thread in my LJ. I think, in the oft repeated cycle of erasing the wings and starting them over, the shoulders sort of, well, slipped under my focus, and then it was too late to fix them. That, and I'm not entirely sure how to make them work with this kind of wings, honestly, but that's what practice is for. Oh, and the feet were just made quickly when I couldn't make more human-like feet work out after a few tries, because I wanted the thing done with already. :)
Still... Dare I ask you to try to outline on the picture how you'd have done the shoulders, yourself? I'd be grateful. I don't know if it's okay to ask though -- if not, I'm sorry, please pretend I said nothing. :)
And, you're right about realism. I've already gotten a feeling that the more realistic you're trying to go, and thus, the less exaggerated, the hardest it is to succeeding in /expressing/ what you're trying to. And we both know how expressing stuff matters to me, even though I often fail at it. :) *nibbles on your eartips happily*
Still... Dare I ask you to try to outline on the picture how you'd have done the shoulders, yourself? I'd be grateful. I don't know if it's okay to ask though -- if not, I'm sorry, please pretend I said nothing. :)
And, you're right about realism. I've already gotten a feeling that the more realistic you're trying to go, and thus, the less exaggerated, the hardest it is to succeeding in /expressing/ what you're trying to. And we both know how expressing stuff matters to me, even though I often fail at it. :) *nibbles on your eartips happily*
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