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Name: Insangu
Age: ~25
Gender: Male
Height: ~ 6'1'' / 185.5 cm
Weight: ~ 210 lbs / 95.3 kg / 15 st
Species: Lion x Cape Hunting Dog
His father comes from a fairly wealthy Nigerian Yoruba family, his mother is a dancer & model. His father in the end was persuaded to make a more desirable marriage, while his mother remained quiet about the affair in exchange for a generous pension. Insangu blew (or 'invested') a significant part of his inheritance on a chlorophyll-induction gene therapy, giving him his distinct exotic colouration as well as increased stamina & a reduced need to eat - he can happily get by for a few weeks on water and a little meat. He lives off a mix of generous charm & inherited glamour; he has enough of his mother's looks and his father's money to make a splash in big city nightlife. He's worked as a bartender, a model, a personal assistant, danced in a few minor productions...a classic dilettante.
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I feel like a bit of a dunce because I first invented Insangu while relatively isolated & not paying a huge amount of attention to the anthro fan community. The beautiful patterns of a cape hunting dog just beg to be colour-shifted, so "What will be a super unique amazing colour for my character!?" I thought. Of course there are a swathe of people who re-tinted wildlife to green earlier and better than I have! Also I 'coloured' this with a laptop trackpad, which as you can see is not to be recommended.
Age: ~25
Gender: Male
Height: ~ 6'1'' / 185.5 cm
Weight: ~ 210 lbs / 95.3 kg / 15 st
Species: Lion x Cape Hunting Dog
His father comes from a fairly wealthy Nigerian Yoruba family, his mother is a dancer & model. His father in the end was persuaded to make a more desirable marriage, while his mother remained quiet about the affair in exchange for a generous pension. Insangu blew (or 'invested') a significant part of his inheritance on a chlorophyll-induction gene therapy, giving him his distinct exotic colouration as well as increased stamina & a reduced need to eat - he can happily get by for a few weeks on water and a little meat. He lives off a mix of generous charm & inherited glamour; he has enough of his mother's looks and his father's money to make a splash in big city nightlife. He's worked as a bartender, a model, a personal assistant, danced in a few minor productions...a classic dilettante.
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I feel like a bit of a dunce because I first invented Insangu while relatively isolated & not paying a huge amount of attention to the anthro fan community. The beautiful patterns of a cape hunting dog just beg to be colour-shifted, so "What will be a super unique amazing colour for my character!?" I thought. Of course there are a swathe of people who re-tinted wildlife to green earlier and better than I have! Also I 'coloured' this with a laptop trackpad, which as you can see is not to be recommended.
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I had a quick look through your gallery. One thing I'd suggest is to separate colouring of other people's work & miscellaneous stuff from your own drawing, maybe by putting it into scraps, and putting the name of the original artist in the title to be clear. It's easier for other people to see what belongs to who, and for you to have an overview of your progress.
Obviously you have specific interests that you get at & engage with by drawing, but for me personally how something is drawn is often at least as interesting as what is drawn. I think it's fair to say you don't have a lot of technical ability at drawing at the moment, and that gets in the way of me enjoying your gallery. I'm not naturally gifted at drawing, I still don't feel particularly confident at drawing and I have been practicing for about 10 years. I have learned largely by copying & adapting images from drawing textbooks & manuals. I don't publish those copied drawings anywhere, I treat them like an author treats his essays from primary school.
Since it's often easiest to start with one book, I would recommend the Vilppu Drawing Manual by Greg Villpu, which you can find as a .pdf online for free if you look around a bit, or buy here. If you spend a few months copying from a book like that, going through page by page until your drawing looks like what is in the book, then you will probably get a lot better at drawing, and enjoy drawing a lot more. Looking at blogs like http://blog.drawn.ca/ will help you see a lot of the different approaches people take to making good & effective drawings. Though they look very different, many of them build those approaches on a strong understanding of the basic principles of drawing that people like Vilppu discuss.
Obviously you have specific interests that you get at & engage with by drawing, but for me personally how something is drawn is often at least as interesting as what is drawn. I think it's fair to say you don't have a lot of technical ability at drawing at the moment, and that gets in the way of me enjoying your gallery. I'm not naturally gifted at drawing, I still don't feel particularly confident at drawing and I have been practicing for about 10 years. I have learned largely by copying & adapting images from drawing textbooks & manuals. I don't publish those copied drawings anywhere, I treat them like an author treats his essays from primary school.
Since it's often easiest to start with one book, I would recommend the Vilppu Drawing Manual by Greg Villpu, which you can find as a .pdf online for free if you look around a bit, or buy here. If you spend a few months copying from a book like that, going through page by page until your drawing looks like what is in the book, then you will probably get a lot better at drawing, and enjoy drawing a lot more. Looking at blogs like http://blog.drawn.ca/ will help you see a lot of the different approaches people take to making good & effective drawings. Though they look very different, many of them build those approaches on a strong understanding of the basic principles of drawing that people like Vilppu discuss.
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