
Just some artwork for Star Glass. After saving the islands, my particular traveller chooses to stay on the islands and serve as one of its guardians. So here be he, wearing woad paint and carrying a scottish blad in his paw. x3 At least I hope he looks scottish enough.
Category Artwork (Traditional) / General Furry Art
Species Vulpine (Other)
Size 800 x 1143px
File Size 747.5 kB
Well, the way I see it, there are a lot of pictures on FA of people's characters, and what they are are basic character portraits. There's no story, there's no environment, and it feels like most of the point is just to show people what their character looks like.
I don't see anything wrong with that, really, but I love art for the sake of art and illustrations take on so much more potential when they have meaning beyond "Look at me". Characters who are part of some environment, an environment with some meaning or significance, speaks much more to me than a simple character portrait. It gives the viewer something to connect to and more importantly something to wonder about. Why is there a fort behind your character? Where does your character live and what's it's story? There's a world in there.
This is why I don't necessarily care if a person has proffesional or expert execution in their linework, coloring, or shading. The execution is one thing that plenty of people can learn to do, but creating meaningful or exciting content is completely different, and that's why I like your picture =)
I don't see anything wrong with that, really, but I love art for the sake of art and illustrations take on so much more potential when they have meaning beyond "Look at me". Characters who are part of some environment, an environment with some meaning or significance, speaks much more to me than a simple character portrait. It gives the viewer something to connect to and more importantly something to wonder about. Why is there a fort behind your character? Where does your character live and what's it's story? There's a world in there.
This is why I don't necessarily care if a person has proffesional or expert execution in their linework, coloring, or shading. The execution is one thing that plenty of people can learn to do, but creating meaningful or exciting content is completely different, and that's why I like your picture =)
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