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Tigers do not consider themselves immigrants. That would imply putting down roots; instead a tiger in the world is simply one who hasn't yet returned home. They are foremost proud of who they are and where they come from, and they have little need for cultural assimilation or appeasement to local norms. This does not make them savage or uncultured, just foreigners.
Some may adopt contemporary lifestyle as a kind of fashionable affectation, but none do so seriously, and in formal situations tigers will always be true to their heritage without hesitation. They have their own cuisine, customs and beliefs and are skilful at turning this into a means of occupation (largely supported by other tigers). Tigers run restaurants that cater to their own tastes, tailor shops that form and mend their own clothing, manage their own financial services and run other small businesses related to their way of life.
They aren't private about any of this, and in fact there are those of other species that hover around the world of tigers and participate as much as possible in tiger lifestyle. This can include even adopting stains or dyes to wear stripes, particularly among adolescent tiger admirers. Perhaps tigers are attractive in this way because they are considered an exotic alternative to stifling common tradition. This is ironic considering that tigers themselves live according to traditions that are older and more inflexible among their kind.
Physically, tigers are natural athletes, able to tackle a wide variety of tasks with typical feline grace and poise. They are typically quite proud of their stripes and will bare them as a matter of course, sometimes doing so over more conservative attitudes about modesty. "Stripes are always appropriate," is an old tiger saying to this effect.
Tigers can be stubborn about doing things their way, which makes them unsuitable for roles requiring fine diplomacy or frequent compromise. They could excel in broad politics (and certainly military life) should there be reason to because they have the temperament for command and leadership - yet it is hard to find tigers involved in anything that relates to the world beyond their own insular neighborhoods.
Tigers tend to maintain connections to their place of origin, making them often useful in spice and textile trading or other import / export mercantile, legal and otherwise. Sometimes this takes the form of slave trading and other activities common to their culture but perhaps frowned upon in more cosmopolitan society.
If possible, tigers will seek to retire in their old age back in their homeland, or have their remains returned upon death.
Work for an upcoming Ironclaw project.
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Tigers do not consider themselves immigrants. That would imply putting down roots; instead a tiger in the world is simply one who hasn't yet returned home. They are foremost proud of who they are and where they come from, and they have little need for cultural assimilation or appeasement to local norms. This does not make them savage or uncultured, just foreigners.
Some may adopt contemporary lifestyle as a kind of fashionable affectation, but none do so seriously, and in formal situations tigers will always be true to their heritage without hesitation. They have their own cuisine, customs and beliefs and are skilful at turning this into a means of occupation (largely supported by other tigers). Tigers run restaurants that cater to their own tastes, tailor shops that form and mend their own clothing, manage their own financial services and run other small businesses related to their way of life.
They aren't private about any of this, and in fact there are those of other species that hover around the world of tigers and participate as much as possible in tiger lifestyle. This can include even adopting stains or dyes to wear stripes, particularly among adolescent tiger admirers. Perhaps tigers are attractive in this way because they are considered an exotic alternative to stifling common tradition. This is ironic considering that tigers themselves live according to traditions that are older and more inflexible among their kind.
Physically, tigers are natural athletes, able to tackle a wide variety of tasks with typical feline grace and poise. They are typically quite proud of their stripes and will bare them as a matter of course, sometimes doing so over more conservative attitudes about modesty. "Stripes are always appropriate," is an old tiger saying to this effect.
Tigers can be stubborn about doing things their way, which makes them unsuitable for roles requiring fine diplomacy or frequent compromise. They could excel in broad politics (and certainly military life) should there be reason to because they have the temperament for command and leadership - yet it is hard to find tigers involved in anything that relates to the world beyond their own insular neighborhoods.
Tigers tend to maintain connections to their place of origin, making them often useful in spice and textile trading or other import / export mercantile, legal and otherwise. Sometimes this takes the form of slave trading and other activities common to their culture but perhaps frowned upon in more cosmopolitan society.
If possible, tigers will seek to retire in their old age back in their homeland, or have their remains returned upon death.
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And then I started digging on the Tigress, though honestly she looks a bit more Persian than Indian, and there are no tigers in Persia...
It's not a big thing; I still love your art, just wanted to comment honestly instead of toadying up.
I looked at this page for inspiration, and had even colored the tiger's outfit in bridal red and gold before changing it to cool tones.
An absolutely fabulous piece!
Great work, thanks again!
Awesome stuff!
I'm also totally diggin' that outfit. It's exactly the kinda thing I'd wear if I weren't a fatarse and didn't live in present day America. XD I adore the color scheme and the execution is ace.
Fantastic piece. :D
man I
argh
My brain wanted to read that as 'tigers are a world all on their own' instead of the 'has not yet returned home' line, weird!
I think it's how powerfully self-contained she is walking down from the stairs.
Thanks
Also, Tailcoats and tophats will always have a place in my heart
You communicate so much feeling and character through your work. It's really inspiring and wonderful. I find myself looking forward each week to each new update in this series. ^.^
This time the lady IS the tiger. Magnificent work, once again.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v.....a5/bigsmug.png
So you're right that the plane of the foot is not level with the floor/stairs, but this is accounted for by the anatomical design.
The background is hardly an afterthought, I assure you.
I can't, however, help what seems to you.
Cheers.
At the time I was making a journal about how there are so much art that goes praised but so few works get critiqued and this caught my eye. Perhaps the background wasn't an afterthought just poorly drawn toes that made it seem like a right angle view of the tigress.
I'm sorry for the scolding hot water in your face there but I think, as critiques go, you need one. So, in the form of good crit giving, I'm going to teach you some unspoken rules about crits:
number one: A good teacher of any sort give positive reinforcement and guides. If you choose to crit, you choose to teach. That means you need to talk about what you like and then state some things you see as being wrong. You may not realize it, but a pic like this one takes MUCH longer than any of the shit you have in your gallery. This took this guy, TIME. You need to be respectful of that effort. Crit with a little reverence.
Number two: If the artist disagrees with your crit, walk away. DO NO put them down. First of, you are not a know it all. You are not god. and you certainly are not a great designer. You do not know what choices the artist has consciously made. Conscious decisions are NOT mistakes and if you disagree with the decision, then the piece is simply not for you, nuff said, move along. but you do not, DO NOT put the artist down as being unable to see something after he gets finished explaining something to you that you may not have seen when you crited. You know why you don't do that? IT'S FUCKING TACKY that's why. *smile*
Number three: this is sort of similar to number two but, NEVER crit like you are an authority. then someone like me comes along who calls your bullshit.
Number four: watch your verbage. This goes back to number one. Respect. A little reverence and understanding of the time and effort would go a long way. Do not use frazes like "badly drawn", and "not done right" or other negative frazes because again, you do not know what the artist intended and what he did not. Example time! Toes: you called them badly drawn, what you fail to see is that the whole fucking piece and a good body of this guy's work hangs on the boarders of surreal art and old style comedic characterize. What is done there is simply intentional skewing of proportions in a manner that seems intentional and fits with the style.
this brings us to our last and final rule which is, have so friggin knowledge! Know what you are talking about beyond the narrow view that your own art gives you. if you find an artist that is vastly outside of your own understandings, then I find it's best not to judge to harshly. you cannot teach what you do not know, so either learn it or be silent.
I'm sorry, and I know this was rude as hell. I kinda let you have it here but this pisses me off to see, when some person decides they are gonna throw their bs at at artist just because they are jealous or have some sort of crusade or something to proove, I.E. being up about crit. If you want to honestly crit more, then great! I totally encourage that, but go read some crits first and find out how successful critiques are given. You crit to help the artist, NOT to nit pic and put them down.
Good day.
Good day
Now, with that, good day. I put you in your place and anything further is just useless banter.
cheers.
Your style is so wonderful.
I'm also amazed that it works so well, you'd think with such a different palette on the tigress it would feel cut out, but it doesn't. The matching pink accents in the environment manage to tie it together.
The Design and all, it's Elegant detail the atmosphere around character great this...aaa ..meh~ I trying talk big and fancy! Like the first 4 word i said, Dam so pimped, I like it. ^^
But then I already new you were dynamo!
Once i layed my eyes on it. i was blown away. I couldn't agree more with most of the posts that i read. shows grate difference and personality between the two species.
Best piece of art i have seen on FA to date. A must fav for me.
The colours compliment one another so well, and the attention to detail is exquisite. This is my new favourite picture. Thank you for drawing this.
Green is my favorite color <3
This is one of them.