Goodness! This is beautiful. I would do anything to do fur like that.
Maybe you could do a tutorial~

awesome work on the sabertooth cat!

I am super-fluff-kitteh hear me rawr! x3

I am still somewhat speechless over this! Leo told me he had in mind to do this as a gift some time back but I just never thought on it, till now. So when he linked me the upload he'd submitted yesterday I was like a kitten in a yarn store x3 needless to say he was pounced for it!

I'd longed to see Abbey done by you DarkIce for the simple and truthful fact your art is amazing, and the detail you place into your works utterly beautiful. This piece just proves such, thank you so incredibly much for doing the commission -hugs with immense prehistoric fluffeh-

I'll certainly be getting my other two fursona's done by you sometime in the future be sure of that!!

-hugs back with own immense prehistoric fluffehness- :o You will never see a dire wolf and sabertooth cat hug in those nat-geo documentaries. We have made history.. oh wait.. we are history :B

Anyway, I'm really glad you like it ^___^

Well that's because the nat-geo people weave lies I tell you, lies! -grins with a saber like smugness- Us prehistoric predators get along just fine & as for history making historians you say, the awesomeness of it precedes even that of the mighty Dragon Warrior Poe! B]

I love it & I cannot thank either of you enough!! The first chance I have it's being printed off & placed amidst all my small collection of dino bones & such I have =OwO=

So fluffy!

I agree, I would love to see a tutorial on how you achieve such awesome fur detail and coloring! This is awesome!

There's actually a step-by-step in my scraps. It isn't a true tutorial, but it might show you what you're looking for. :3

Aha! I see, Well that's just awesome! I can't wait to get into digital art when I get myself a tablet in December!

Your work is always so amazingly detailed, i am awestruck sir. *raises monocle, sips tea* xD

So of course the character is spectacular YUP but I also want to convey how much I think your tantalizingly blurred backgrounds REALLY WORK. They add such mood and atmosphere, and really make me feel like there's a larger landscape that matches all this. Love that these icons hint at more, it's so... so... hrrrng

Also by blurring the background in the way that I've learned to, not only creates depth and atmosphere, but it also sets the focus to the foreground, or in the case of these icons, the character itself. :3

It resizes into this great little composition, too, like a tiny window where I'm all like "shit man looks like a fully rendered landscape back there".

<3

just beautiful

I'm Smil'odon all over at this. It's really nice!

OMG! So beautiful!

Seriously stunning