FA+
Shop
744
Views
Views
26
Favorites
Favorites
Category
Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 1280 x 720
File Size 832.7 kB
Report this content
★
More from Marwan
This pic was conceptualized way back in 2018, when a few of my friends asked me about expanding my critter species/race more. So I pictured this market scene where some villager critters gather around to buy and sell stuff. The reason why it took this long to finally finish this pic was because, back then, I couldn't think of what background to draw for this pic. Drawing backgrounds isn't quite my thing. x_x I only managed to finish it now, because I took massive inspiration from the background scenes taken from the anime series, Happy Happy Clover.
This image really gave a massive workout to my computer than usual. Clip Studio Paint's memory usage in my computer's RAM inflated to over 3GB from loading and working on this project file alone. I sure hope that it's all well worth it, because this is one of the most complex pics I had to work with. Crowd scenes like this is not something that I usually draw that often. I'm proud of the end result.
All the text in this pic were written in a variation of an actual real-life writing system called the Rejang script. This script was one of the scripts originally used to predominantly write in Malay with, before the arrival of Islam resulted in it being replaced with a modified form of the Arabic script called Jawi. I personally love the Rejang script, and I decided to incorporate it as the script that my critter race uses, if I'd even develop the critter species and race more. Worldbuilding isn't exactly my thing, so it's uncertain if I'd develop it more.
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marwangreencritter Full 9600x5400 resolution version can also be viewed there.
This image really gave a massive workout to my computer than usual. Clip Studio Paint's memory usage in my computer's RAM inflated to over 3GB from loading and working on this project file alone. I sure hope that it's all well worth it, because this is one of the most complex pics I had to work with. Crowd scenes like this is not something that I usually draw that often. I'm proud of the end result.
All the text in this pic were written in a variation of an actual real-life writing system called the Rejang script. This script was one of the scripts originally used to predominantly write in Malay with, before the arrival of Islam resulted in it being replaced with a modified form of the Arabic script called Jawi. I personally love the Rejang script, and I decided to incorporate it as the script that my critter race uses, if I'd even develop the critter species and race more. Worldbuilding isn't exactly my thing, so it's uncertain if I'd develop it more.
Support me on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/marwangreencritter Full 9600x5400 resolution version can also be viewed there.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Mammal (Other)
Size 1280 x 720px
File Size 832.7 kB
Thanks! ^_^ Believe it or not, I was inspired by one of my friends' custom critter OCs: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/14086350/ Felt like wanting to add a little bit more variety to my critter species by making one of them blue, to show that he was born from a different clan, but made that village his home.
Thanks! ^_^ Well, while coloring these critters, I thought about Arai, and I figured that, I want a little bit more variety with my critter species. ^_^;; I figured that that blue critter was born from a different clan, but made this village his home. I was inspired by Arai's color scheme, so yeah. (And no, he's unrelated; just sharing the same "subspecies" of sorts.)
Thanks! ^_^ I did want to expand my critter species a little bit, and try to imagine how a critter village looks like. I based this scenery to that of the imagery of old Malay villagers.
Admittedly, the use of the Rejang script was also out of my personal anger that the Malay language used to be written in these old beautiful Brahmic scripts, Rejang being one of them. Then Islam came, and the Malays somehow decided to ditch these old scripts altogether in favor of the clunkier, more difficult to read Jawi script, based on the Arabic script, just to make it easier to recite Quranic verses. When my university was in its "let's promote the Jawi script" phase, it angered me when I saw posters heavily promoting the Jawi script as the "traditional Malay script", almost as if older scripts like Rejang don't exist.
Admittedly, the use of the Rejang script was also out of my personal anger that the Malay language used to be written in these old beautiful Brahmic scripts, Rejang being one of them. Then Islam came, and the Malays somehow decided to ditch these old scripts altogether in favor of the clunkier, more difficult to read Jawi script, based on the Arabic script, just to make it easier to recite Quranic verses. When my university was in its "let's promote the Jawi script" phase, it angered me when I saw posters heavily promoting the Jawi script as the "traditional Malay script", almost as if older scripts like Rejang don't exist.
The blue villager provides information on what other members of your species are. And also about how hospitable the people of this village are. That they lack xenophobia.
It turned out especially interesting with writing. It was interesting to learn about writing in Malaysia. The realization that this is not a fictional script, but a real one gives more weight. There is not just a random set of letters, but real inscriptions. But, at that time, the fact that the writing is not widely known, not recognizable deepens the feeling that this is a different world.
It turned out especially interesting with writing. It was interesting to learn about writing in Malaysia. The realization that this is not a fictional script, but a real one gives more weight. There is not just a random set of letters, but real inscriptions. But, at that time, the fact that the writing is not widely known, not recognizable deepens the feeling that this is a different world.
Yeah. I never believed in xenophobia myself. It's sad enough that racism is still a huge problem that's happening in our world, even as we speak, but there's little to none that we can do about it.
Admittedly, the use of the Rejang script for this pic was to make this pic appear more "exotic", so to speak. Had I used Latin alphabets -- which is what we Malaysians today use to write Malay with, really -- then it would've looked more plain. I did consider using one of my own original "alien writing" scripts, but I felt that it'd be more interesting to use an already existing one.
Admittedly, the use of the Rejang script for this pic was to make this pic appear more "exotic", so to speak. Had I used Latin alphabets -- which is what we Malaysians today use to write Malay with, really -- then it would've looked more plain. I did consider using one of my own original "alien writing" scripts, but I felt that it'd be more interesting to use an already existing one.
Unfortunately, we really can't do anything about the problem as a whole. But some people change their views. For example, people who believe in God learn that the Creator does not want his creations to be at enmity with each other, or consider themselves better than others on the basis of skin color, nationality. Not wanting to grieve God, wanting to do the right thing, they change. This happens even where prejudice and hostility has built up over the years. For example, like this:
https://www.jw.org/ms/perpustakaan/.....201506_1_VIDEO
A variant with Latin letters would give information about how the words sound. But in that case, exoticism would have dropped to zero. And for the plot of this picture, exoticism is very important. A variant with its own "alien writing" would also be interesting. But the real-life writing system is definitely better. With the same exotic effect, we got some interesting information. The same as the information that animal claws and human nails sound the same in Malay. For furry, this is very interesting information.
By the way, given that your species is good at climbing trees, mothers probably would not have forced children to cut their claws. After all, a prehensile tail is good, but together with tenacious claws it will be more reliable. Or are young children not allowed to climb trees until they are older?
https://www.jw.org/ms/perpustakaan/.....201506_1_VIDEO
A variant with Latin letters would give information about how the words sound. But in that case, exoticism would have dropped to zero. And for the plot of this picture, exoticism is very important. A variant with its own "alien writing" would also be interesting. But the real-life writing system is definitely better. With the same exotic effect, we got some interesting information. The same as the information that animal claws and human nails sound the same in Malay. For furry, this is very interesting information.
By the way, given that your species is good at climbing trees, mothers probably would not have forced children to cut their claws. After all, a prehensile tail is good, but together with tenacious claws it will be more reliable. Or are young children not allowed to climb trees until they are older?
Forgot to add another pointer: there's also the so-called "traditional" right-to-left Malay writing system, Jawi, based on the Arabic script. The reason why I did not use the Jawi script, either, was because, 1, I was angry that older, more beautiful scripts like Rejang existed, but got pushed into obscurity in favor of Jawi, solely because Jawi is more "Islamic" due to being tied to the formation of Islam in Malaya; and 2, I don't think that it would fly well due to Islamophobia and how some people would go into irrational anger from even seeing anything resembling Arabic writings.
And yes, claws, nails, talons and hooves are all one and the same word in the Malay language: "kuku". After all, they're anatomically the same body part. Funny how languages work.
As for whether or not youngsters are allowed to climb trees, or they had to wait until they're older, I think you kinda, uh, "nailed" it there. ^_^;; Admittedly, I did base much of the lifestyle from traditional Malay villages.
And yes, claws, nails, talons and hooves are all one and the same word in the Malay language: "kuku". After all, they're anatomically the same body part. Funny how languages work.
As for whether or not youngsters are allowed to climb trees, or they had to wait until they're older, I think you kinda, uh, "nailed" it there. ^_^;; Admittedly, I did base much of the lifestyle from traditional Malay villages.
1 Correct solution. The version you rejected is borrowed, and is associated with a large number of different peoples. And the chosen option appeared in your country, and it points exactly to your people.
2 Here xenophobes should be ashamed of their unjust views. And not for you to be ashamed to depict writing. It is unfair because of a few extremists to generalize negativity to the whole culture! This is reminiscent of how, because of the furries who love pornography, people believe that all furries do not need something cute and beautiful, but something obscene. There is a very widespread stereotype on the Russian-speaking Internet: "furry = zoophile". It went so far that one Russian child protection official suggested banning furries in Russia. They supposedly lure children with cute pictures in order to corrupt them later. The accusation sounds ridiculous and silly. But on this ridiculous charge, many can be declared criminals. Because of all this, in the Russian-speaking part of the Internet, it is better not to mention your belonging to a furry. So I understand these kinds of concerns.
Yes, languages work very funny! In my native Russian, this word is associated with a child's hide-and-seek game. The child hides, and when they cannot find him for a long time, he jumps out of his hiding place, shouting: "Kuku!" It will be funny to remember at such moments that in Malay he shouts "Claws!"
I will try to explain how it happened that I "nailed" this question to the picture under discussion. Yes, a traditional Malay village, but with the amendment that it is not people who live there, but anthropomorphic animals. In a human village, for example, one cannot see such a miracle as an inhabitant flying with the help of his ears. Only, it seems, my imagination made the amendment too big and free.
I really like dexterous tree animals, and the very idea of living in trees. Therefore, when looking at the picture, I immediately noticed two characters in the background. On the one flying with the help of his ears, and on the one sitting in a tree. By the way, aren't you sitting there and painting the market from a different angle? I remembered your comic book picture about claws, which help many animals climb trees well. I interpreted all this as follows: those residents who came to the market on business walk on the ground, and those who relax on a walk climb trees, jump from branch to branch, or fly from tree to tree with the help of their ears. Imagination painted me your appearance as woody, like flying squirrels. And the behind-the-scenes village was portrayed, at least, as one where young residents have fun climbing trees. And, as a maximum, like a traditional Malay village, only with tree houses. Therefore, the question arose: "At what age do parents let their children into the trees?"
But now I realized that the arboreal way of life, which my imagination has drawn to me, is not peculiar to your species.
2 Here xenophobes should be ashamed of their unjust views. And not for you to be ashamed to depict writing. It is unfair because of a few extremists to generalize negativity to the whole culture! This is reminiscent of how, because of the furries who love pornography, people believe that all furries do not need something cute and beautiful, but something obscene. There is a very widespread stereotype on the Russian-speaking Internet: "furry = zoophile". It went so far that one Russian child protection official suggested banning furries in Russia. They supposedly lure children with cute pictures in order to corrupt them later. The accusation sounds ridiculous and silly. But on this ridiculous charge, many can be declared criminals. Because of all this, in the Russian-speaking part of the Internet, it is better not to mention your belonging to a furry. So I understand these kinds of concerns.
Yes, languages work very funny! In my native Russian, this word is associated with a child's hide-and-seek game. The child hides, and when they cannot find him for a long time, he jumps out of his hiding place, shouting: "Kuku!" It will be funny to remember at such moments that in Malay he shouts "Claws!"
I will try to explain how it happened that I "nailed" this question to the picture under discussion. Yes, a traditional Malay village, but with the amendment that it is not people who live there, but anthropomorphic animals. In a human village, for example, one cannot see such a miracle as an inhabitant flying with the help of his ears. Only, it seems, my imagination made the amendment too big and free.
I really like dexterous tree animals, and the very idea of living in trees. Therefore, when looking at the picture, I immediately noticed two characters in the background. On the one flying with the help of his ears, and on the one sitting in a tree. By the way, aren't you sitting there and painting the market from a different angle? I remembered your comic book picture about claws, which help many animals climb trees well. I interpreted all this as follows: those residents who came to the market on business walk on the ground, and those who relax on a walk climb trees, jump from branch to branch, or fly from tree to tree with the help of their ears. Imagination painted me your appearance as woody, like flying squirrels. And the behind-the-scenes village was portrayed, at least, as one where young residents have fun climbing trees. And, as a maximum, like a traditional Malay village, only with tree houses. Therefore, the question arose: "At what age do parents let their children into the trees?"
But now I realized that the arboreal way of life, which my imagination has drawn to me, is not peculiar to your species.
Comments