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Slightly edited text from 21-1-2016 on DA:https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla...../art/585840614
I really want to thank everybody who loves my OC Stian and who has drawn him for me! I also realise that he is a very, very difficult character to draw. His very feline body build, all the small details and fur extensions, plus my super-critical look make it quite a challenge to draw him correctly and typically. So therefore, I thought to make a kind of tutorial summing up the most important things to remember when drawing him. I hope that that makes life much easier for those who wish to draw him – You’re very welcome to try – don’t be scared of making a mistake! I LOVE Stian-fanart- no matter what!! - and it’s a good exercise in drawing felines
For those who don’t know it yet; Stian is a siderian: my fantasy big cats species (nearly as tall as a horse!) that roughly look like a big oriental cat with tiger and lynx features. Stian is huge and very robust/stocky compared to the species’ average and has exceptionally big paws. On the other hand, he’s pretty lean and narrow, especially his hindquarters. Overall the tiger-like features are very noticeable in addition to his overall Oriental-cat like appearance and head-shape.
This is the information I used to send to people I commission or want to do an art trade please don’t be upset if I say no…I’m always suffering from lack of time with
Stygian Stígandr Sætansen – or in short: Stian
Freely translated, his full name means Satan’s Infernal Wanderer.
- Here are the two reference sheets I made of Stian
Stian reference sheet -updated 2017: https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....2017-399227968
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49916152/
And this sketch dump shows exactly how Stian is, from different angles and in different poses:
Stian Sketchdump: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62851628/
** Here are two animations of him, that give an impression of how he moves:
Gateways - Stian animated: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60906699/
Stian ANIMATED walking: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62660136/
** Here is a folder with all the drawings of Stian
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....55379541/stian
** This general siderian tutorial can be useful as well, to make him look correct and feline – and compare him relative to the species’ average.
Siderian reference guide: https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....ide-1215377387
Here is a written summary of the tutorial here (if you study the tutorial, you don't have to read this) and the most important things to remember when drawing him:
1)His typical angular eye-shape and poker face.
- It is shown very clear here:
The White One: https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....-One-768405699
- He nearly always has an emotionless poker face/ death glare. He hardly ever shows any expression on his face.
2) The very tiger like body shape with the extremely narrow hind-quarters.
- The narrowness of a tiger’s back and hindquarters is even more exaggerated in Stian.
- It looks like as if he has no pelvis at all; as if his butt and backbone are fused together.
- He is generally lean, narrow and bony but still has a robust and powerful body build as if his skeleton is too large for the rest of his body.
Again; the recent sketch-dump is again most accurate.
3) He has HUGE paws, narrow but strong front quarters and HUGE bony shoulder blades
4) His facial anatomy resembles that of an Oriental-cat but with more pantherine heaviness
- Huge nearly horizontally placed air-plane like ears – with a very clear kink in the middle.
- His face is triangular and reminds you a bit of an inverted pentagram in combination with the fur
- The eyes are placed rather high
5) His neck fur resembles human-hair
- On the upper side of his neck he has long, very sleek mane like human hair (not fluffy!).
- The hair is slightly layered, shorter at the back of his head and longer near the shoulders.
- the fur on the throat is fluffy and points to the sides with a kind of separation in the middle
- generally all the fur details demand attention...
Story and personality
You can read it in the character sheet, but I will give you a (most recent) summary.
*Personality:
He is a calm gentleman, a bit vain with an enormous personal ego (but not arrogant), quiet, tidy and clean, kind of dominant in the solitary way (he's not controlling, he's just unyielding and stubborn), appears indifferent and appears emotionless (has always a poker-face, but he feels things quite deeply actually), not very social, hates weakness (particularly in himself and he has a hard time admitting it) and refuses any help even if he would be dying. He may not come across as empathic (deep down, he is quite empathic, just in his own way) but he deeply respects females, loves birds and nature. He can be competitive among males. Has a deeply rooted hate and fear for humans; this haunts him during his entire life. Is generally non-responsive to any kind of social stimulus but once one seriously threatens his integrity or his mate and cubs, he reacts like thunder from clear sky, breaking out in violence. He is generally quite vengeful, once seriously provoked.
The Myer Briggs personality test for Stian: INTJ – A
*General appearance
Majestic, tall, powerful, intimidating, cold
*Story summary:
Stian has grown up in the forests of the Fjordlands (Norway equivalent), as member of a rather famous (notorious) and mightly dynasty.. As a kitten, Stian got caught and abused by humans; an experience that has carved very deep scars in his mind. His father (Morten) saved him and this experience has changed him once and for all. During his adolescence, he learned a lot more about human behaviour and all he saw was respect-less treatment of nature and other animals (especially in Scandinavia and Europe- in my story). The hate grew worse and when he became a young adult. His bullying neighbour had gone way too far and a fight broke out between him and Stian. It escalated so badly that Stian accidentally killed his neighbour. There was no coming home from this and afraid of the consequences, he ran away. He passed by several human settlements and observed the same things that had already made him hate humans. Still young and turbulent, he started attacking and burning small villages and began to travel all over the world to collect information about human behaviour that support his ideas of humans being a problematic species that forms a threat for Siderian-kind. Meanwhile he caused death and destruction in many human-settlements, but also got into serious trouble on the way. He got shot in the back after another Siderian betrayed him. During the 17 years of research and fighting people, he began to dissociate from whom he truly was deep down and became a cold-hearted (human) killer. He got completely detached from his family and Siderian society in general. His family had searched for years and years after his disappearance and only when he showed up in World's biggest metacluster, his elder brother Goran and his cousin Yava eventually found him. They barely dared to approach him as they no longer recognized the person whom he was before. Slowly the connected again and Stian began to think deeper about what he had done and why. In the later years of his life he gained quite some support from other Siderians who have had bad experience with humans and who understood the need for Siderian-kind to defend themselves against potential extinction. However, many Siderians didn’t support the violence to people and the spreading of hate, so Stian also met a lot of resistance. Despite this, he continued fighting his biggest fear in a more organized, larger-scaled way. He simply cannot live side-to-side with humans and this drove him to continue fighting.
Some photo's to show the impression, but don't rely too much to them
Here are some references of tigers and Oriental cats, but I STRONGLY recommend to stick mainly to the character sheets and my own sketches/ art of Stian if you wish to draw him. Too often, I have seen that people stick to the photo references only and missing important details. They then then interpret and Stian differently than how I see him and draw him simply wrong. The way I draw him is not a matter of style- it is how I really see him and how he IS.
But maybe the references can help to give an impression of what I mean.
*Some tiger photos that give an impression of Stian’s general body-shape - but keep in mind: Stian is narrower and much leaner and more bony – his paws are also much bigger.
*Stian’s shoulders look roughly like this – narrow and body with huge, flat, triangular shoulder blades.
https://www.deviantart.com/roxmad/a.....View-128305527
https://www.deviantart.com/roxmad/a.....rfall-82854074
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....er-7-174796995
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....walk-202757265
https://www.deviantart.com/aussiega.....r-01-149234484
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....jing-191095084
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....on-6-286373470
*Some Oriental cats that give an indication of the facial anatomy and the his eye-shape. But again – remember that Stian’s eyes and face are not exactly the same as those of an oriental cat. His face is much heavier, since he is also a much bigger cat
https://www.deviantart.com/stash/05wmyt9i7d7
https://www.deviantart.com/stash/01jqjhabgbs3
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....hair-164792882
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....file-164800566
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....hair-164792786
Art, Siderian species and character by me! Don't copy and/or use my art without my permission. Don’t use the appearance of Siderians to represent some other character or species; they are who they are and they will not represent someone else.
I really want to thank everybody who loves my OC Stian and who has drawn him for me! I also realise that he is a very, very difficult character to draw. His very feline body build, all the small details and fur extensions, plus my super-critical look make it quite a challenge to draw him correctly and typically. So therefore, I thought to make a kind of tutorial summing up the most important things to remember when drawing him. I hope that that makes life much easier for those who wish to draw him – You’re very welcome to try – don’t be scared of making a mistake! I LOVE Stian-fanart- no matter what!! - and it’s a good exercise in drawing felines
For those who don’t know it yet; Stian is a siderian: my fantasy big cats species (nearly as tall as a horse!) that roughly look like a big oriental cat with tiger and lynx features. Stian is huge and very robust/stocky compared to the species’ average and has exceptionally big paws. On the other hand, he’s pretty lean and narrow, especially his hindquarters. Overall the tiger-like features are very noticeable in addition to his overall Oriental-cat like appearance and head-shape.
This is the information I used to send to people I commission or want to do an art trade please don’t be upset if I say no…I’m always suffering from lack of time with
Stygian Stígandr Sætansen – or in short: Stian
Freely translated, his full name means Satan’s Infernal Wanderer.
- Here are the two reference sheets I made of Stian
Stian reference sheet -updated 2017: https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....2017-399227968
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49916152/
And this sketch dump shows exactly how Stian is, from different angles and in different poses:
Stian Sketchdump: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62851628/
** Here are two animations of him, that give an impression of how he moves:
Gateways - Stian animated: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/60906699/
Stian ANIMATED walking: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/62660136/
** Here is a folder with all the drawings of Stian
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....55379541/stian
** This general siderian tutorial can be useful as well, to make him look correct and feline – and compare him relative to the species’ average.
Siderian reference guide: https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....ide-1215377387
Here is a written summary of the tutorial here (if you study the tutorial, you don't have to read this) and the most important things to remember when drawing him:
1)His typical angular eye-shape and poker face.
- It is shown very clear here:
The White One: https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....-One-768405699
- He nearly always has an emotionless poker face/ death glare. He hardly ever shows any expression on his face.
2) The very tiger like body shape with the extremely narrow hind-quarters.
- The narrowness of a tiger’s back and hindquarters is even more exaggerated in Stian.
- It looks like as if he has no pelvis at all; as if his butt and backbone are fused together.
- He is generally lean, narrow and bony but still has a robust and powerful body build as if his skeleton is too large for the rest of his body.
Again; the recent sketch-dump is again most accurate.
3) He has HUGE paws, narrow but strong front quarters and HUGE bony shoulder blades
4) His facial anatomy resembles that of an Oriental-cat but with more pantherine heaviness
- Huge nearly horizontally placed air-plane like ears – with a very clear kink in the middle.
- His face is triangular and reminds you a bit of an inverted pentagram in combination with the fur
- The eyes are placed rather high
5) His neck fur resembles human-hair
- On the upper side of his neck he has long, very sleek mane like human hair (not fluffy!).
- The hair is slightly layered, shorter at the back of his head and longer near the shoulders.
- the fur on the throat is fluffy and points to the sides with a kind of separation in the middle
- generally all the fur details demand attention...
Story and personality
You can read it in the character sheet, but I will give you a (most recent) summary.
*Personality:
He is a calm gentleman, a bit vain with an enormous personal ego (but not arrogant), quiet, tidy and clean, kind of dominant in the solitary way (he's not controlling, he's just unyielding and stubborn), appears indifferent and appears emotionless (has always a poker-face, but he feels things quite deeply actually), not very social, hates weakness (particularly in himself and he has a hard time admitting it) and refuses any help even if he would be dying. He may not come across as empathic (deep down, he is quite empathic, just in his own way) but he deeply respects females, loves birds and nature. He can be competitive among males. Has a deeply rooted hate and fear for humans; this haunts him during his entire life. Is generally non-responsive to any kind of social stimulus but once one seriously threatens his integrity or his mate and cubs, he reacts like thunder from clear sky, breaking out in violence. He is generally quite vengeful, once seriously provoked.
The Myer Briggs personality test for Stian: INTJ – A
*General appearance
Majestic, tall, powerful, intimidating, cold
*Story summary:
Stian has grown up in the forests of the Fjordlands (Norway equivalent), as member of a rather famous (notorious) and mightly dynasty.. As a kitten, Stian got caught and abused by humans; an experience that has carved very deep scars in his mind. His father (Morten) saved him and this experience has changed him once and for all. During his adolescence, he learned a lot more about human behaviour and all he saw was respect-less treatment of nature and other animals (especially in Scandinavia and Europe- in my story). The hate grew worse and when he became a young adult. His bullying neighbour had gone way too far and a fight broke out between him and Stian. It escalated so badly that Stian accidentally killed his neighbour. There was no coming home from this and afraid of the consequences, he ran away. He passed by several human settlements and observed the same things that had already made him hate humans. Still young and turbulent, he started attacking and burning small villages and began to travel all over the world to collect information about human behaviour that support his ideas of humans being a problematic species that forms a threat for Siderian-kind. Meanwhile he caused death and destruction in many human-settlements, but also got into serious trouble on the way. He got shot in the back after another Siderian betrayed him. During the 17 years of research and fighting people, he began to dissociate from whom he truly was deep down and became a cold-hearted (human) killer. He got completely detached from his family and Siderian society in general. His family had searched for years and years after his disappearance and only when he showed up in World's biggest metacluster, his elder brother Goran and his cousin Yava eventually found him. They barely dared to approach him as they no longer recognized the person whom he was before. Slowly the connected again and Stian began to think deeper about what he had done and why. In the later years of his life he gained quite some support from other Siderians who have had bad experience with humans and who understood the need for Siderian-kind to defend themselves against potential extinction. However, many Siderians didn’t support the violence to people and the spreading of hate, so Stian also met a lot of resistance. Despite this, he continued fighting his biggest fear in a more organized, larger-scaled way. He simply cannot live side-to-side with humans and this drove him to continue fighting.
Some photo's to show the impression, but don't rely too much to them
Here are some references of tigers and Oriental cats, but I STRONGLY recommend to stick mainly to the character sheets and my own sketches/ art of Stian if you wish to draw him. Too often, I have seen that people stick to the photo references only and missing important details. They then then interpret and Stian differently than how I see him and draw him simply wrong. The way I draw him is not a matter of style- it is how I really see him and how he IS.
But maybe the references can help to give an impression of what I mean.
*Some tiger photos that give an impression of Stian’s general body-shape - but keep in mind: Stian is narrower and much leaner and more bony – his paws are also much bigger.
*Stian’s shoulders look roughly like this – narrow and body with huge, flat, triangular shoulder blades.
https://www.deviantart.com/roxmad/a.....View-128305527
https://www.deviantart.com/roxmad/a.....rfall-82854074
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....er-7-174796995
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....walk-202757265
https://www.deviantart.com/aussiega.....r-01-149234484
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....jing-191095084
https://www.deviantart.com/rainman6.....on-6-286373470
*Some Oriental cats that give an indication of the facial anatomy and the his eye-shape. But again – remember that Stian’s eyes and face are not exactly the same as those of an oriental cat. His face is much heavier, since he is also a much bigger cat
https://www.deviantart.com/stash/05wmyt9i7d7
https://www.deviantart.com/stash/01jqjhabgbs3
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....hair-164792882
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....file-164800566
https://www.deviantart.com/felisgla.....hair-164792786
Art, Siderian species and character by me! Don't copy and/or use my art without my permission. Don’t use the appearance of Siderians to represent some other character or species; they are who they are and they will not represent someone else.
Category All / Animal related (non-anthro)
Species Feline (Other)
Size 1093 x 3371px
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