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Continuing the debut of Lila....
i'm posting this little group of old art pics (with new colours) in the order i drew them back in '03 - so in the early pics in the series i was still experimenting with her basic design while trying out a few different styles to draw her in. The last pictures in the series are fully inked and coloured in a style very much like what i think of as my main anthro style now.
Turning the kyoot up to 11. For the fourth pic i went back to the face style of the first pic with a more stylized body. Gradient mapped pencil from way back then with extra tones and colours added just now. (and, no, i have no idea if her body wrap boa is made of feathers or flowers or both - i try not to over-think this stuff...or maybe i fail to minimally-think it ? )
So any storybook "princess" (or "pauper") has to emerge from some hardship. Lila was born to her skunk mom as the result of a short romance with a wounded and dying avian soldier. Avians and mammals in the world can't interbreed - but a few months after he died Lila was born.
Her mother was shocked and astounded and relieved that her baby girl looked like a normal skunk....other than the white fur markings on her back that looked a little like wings ... and as months went by it became clear that Lila was growing wings.
Her mother feared that people would treat her little girl as a freak, and so moved to a remote small town. So Lila grew up alone with her mother, with wings too weak to support her, told to always hide and be silent whenever anyone came to the house ....
... a few years later she finds she can understand birdsong - and sing it !
And then the birds teach her how to fly.
This is usually my favorite pic from this series; sometimes i like one or another better, but i tend to come back to this as my fave.
About a week after drawing this i re-did it in a radically different style - rough ink and "edgy"whatever .... that's for tomorrow.
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i'm posting this little group of old art pics (with new colours) in the order i drew them back in '03 - so in the early pics in the series i was still experimenting with her basic design while trying out a few different styles to draw her in. The last pictures in the series are fully inked and coloured in a style very much like what i think of as my main anthro style now.
Turning the kyoot up to 11. For the fourth pic i went back to the face style of the first pic with a more stylized body. Gradient mapped pencil from way back then with extra tones and colours added just now. (and, no, i have no idea if her body wrap boa is made of feathers or flowers or both - i try not to over-think this stuff...or maybe i fail to minimally-think it ? )
So any storybook "princess" (or "pauper") has to emerge from some hardship. Lila was born to her skunk mom as the result of a short romance with a wounded and dying avian soldier. Avians and mammals in the world can't interbreed - but a few months after he died Lila was born.
Her mother was shocked and astounded and relieved that her baby girl looked like a normal skunk....other than the white fur markings on her back that looked a little like wings ... and as months went by it became clear that Lila was growing wings.
Her mother feared that people would treat her little girl as a freak, and so moved to a remote small town. So Lila grew up alone with her mother, with wings too weak to support her, told to always hide and be silent whenever anyone came to the house ....
... a few years later she finds she can understand birdsong - and sing it !
And then the birds teach her how to fly.
This is usually my favorite pic from this series; sometimes i like one or another better, but i tend to come back to this as my fave.
About a week after drawing this i re-did it in a radically different style - rough ink and "edgy"whatever .... that's for tomorrow.
pencil
pixels
Category All / General Furry Art
Species Skunk
Size 1088 x 1280px
File Size 703.9 kB
Listed in Folders
i don't want to be too rational about this pic - ideas behind it - style influences (other than early Japanese TV animation - see reply to DireWolf505 above) -etc - i don't want to take something away from it's magic - cuz every time i see it it makes me happy and i hope others seeing it will feel that after a long struggle freedom is possible ... or maybe it's fun for a pretty skunk girl to trade melodies with a bird !
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