Haha her legs are so short xD Nonanthro Raisin in a swamp would totally be belittling Muchi accidentally the entire time they were wading the mud.. *stilt legs through the swamp!*

This is cute. You're really good at backrounds!

If only I were a tytodae owl! Such long legs! xD
Yeah, I realised I botched the anatomy a bit only AFTER this was all done... It looked sorta okay in the sketch D:

But thank you very much... Usually I can't staaaand doing any form of scenery, but this was simple enough it didn't seem too bad.

someone get that owl a pair of XTRATUF!

Nice shiny red wellies!

awwww she's got all dirty.. i should clean her feathers, hehe,
i like this pic. hehe. i love how you color backgrounds, and how you do them in general, you're awesome ;w;

Next pic: somebody hosing Muchi off with a garden hose as she looks miserable and cold. lol
Thank you ♥ I don't do many backgrounds... This took a lot longer than my usual scribblings.

Aww, she looks so goopy and sad. This has got some nice emotion to it. Very nice, Muchi!

Thank you :>
The goop was pretty fun to do xD

pity those feathers are purely decorative, she could avoid all that unpleasantness

I have drawn her flying in the past, but this is part of a story I thought up... :>
Usual happy toon logic and physics apply to her. Have wings, will fly... Have fevvers, but they're also fingers xD

Tsk, I would be unhappy too, if I had to try and clean all that nasty mud from my clothes, not to mention the feathers! Ugh, that would be a nightmare, honestly.

'Tis a fine piece colored, well done, Muchi. I look forward to seeing more artwork from you in the future, and perhaps commissioning you eventually (if you take commissions, I honestly cannot remember in this pain-induced, sleep-deprived haze). Take care!

Two words: BIRD BATH.

Hurrhurr.
I don't think she'd want to preen whatever that is out... D: I don't even know what it is. Mud? There's green tints to some parts... and it's so... gloopy D:
And yeah, I take commissions but in themed lots. At the moment I'm only really doing Majestics because... that's what I'm in the mood to do xD Just keep an eye on my journals.

They're gonna be a bitch to preen :/

Combination bird bath and specialised feather comb.
Muddy gloopy gunk does not go in the beak D: lol

See, this is why feather and fur can be an inconvenience

She's already fat, but the gloop makes everything soooo much heavier D:
I think it's swallowed that thigh. I may never get it back.

Fat my arse. She's just well-built, nothing wrong with that.

The background reminds me of old video games where there was environment walls that were simply a texture plane representing trees and maybe something beyond it but you still couldn't go there >:(

http://image.com.com/gamespot/image....._screen011.jpg this is the best example I could find.

but yours is way more decent than those crappy pixel flat trees :)

LOL yeah, by the time I got that far in the background, my wrist was cramping and I wanted to go to bed xD So it's a little lazy. I'm going to say... um... the lack of finer detail in the background helps to make the focus of the image (Muchi) stand out? Yeah, that sounds likely enough to pass :>

Poor thing looks so disheveled!

I have mud in places mud should never be D:

Muchi is dirty!

Why are you trekking through swampland anyways?

Her flight got canceled last minute?

She has wings you know :P

Thus the quip about missing her flight. I look forward to the day when emotion and tone of voice can be transferred through a text message.

It would take way too long to explain considering this is a scene from a story.
Let's just say her wing is sore and she can't fly.

tl:dr?

WAY tealdeer.

This is so lovely! It looks like an illustration from a story. Poor thing D|. I love the colors.

Amazing work with this. You do a really lovely job capturing the forlorn look of the swamp, and the sticky stuff certainly looks like it's making an arduous trek for you!