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Published: 2008-01-08 18:38:32 +0000 UTC; Views: 1685; Favourites: 20; Downloads: 1
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A gift for my good friend ~Nekomarunosuke of his sparrow character, Kureha. It's also another piece for my 10 Anthro Challenge. Yep, my very first avian anthro!
I asked the creator ahead of time if I could interpret her bird anatomy my own way, and he said yes. So here's how I choose to depict bird anthros.I used *robertsloan2 's How to Draw a Bird's Wing tutorial to help with the wings. I still have a long way to go with both wings and feathers, but this is my best attempt yet! Kureha is a sparrow, so I figured her wings would be pretty small. I doubt she'd fly too well but I imagine she'd jump and glide way better than other creatures for having them.
This thing took so long to ink. T__T I think this is my most time-consuming piece so far. Even coloring took way longer than usual. I suck at water and rocks, but I like the cherry blossoms. Definitely won't be trying that texture on rocks again!
They look like dead rhinos! I took on so many challenging and unfamiliar things in this one. 
Guess I couldn't expect it all to come out perfectly.Sakura Pigma Microns, Staedtler Triplus Fineliners, Col-Erase colored pencils (sketching only), Prismacolor markers.
Kureha © ~Nekomarunosuke . Art © me, ~Peachfuzz .
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I love the rocks in the water, I know you said you weren't massively chuffed with the rocks, but the rocks in the water are such a pretty colour and look lovely. In fact, all the colours are nice. Even the duller browns on the anthro are beautifully rich and choclately. And the scaled legs look great, and the cherry blossoms are very very pretty and well-done. I like the petal floating on the water!
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Awesome work! I love the way you did the legs. And the scales on the legs... aww... beautiful. Good job. You are way ahead of me on the anthro challenge.
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Thanks so much. 
That's the beauty of the 10 Anthro Challenge, though. We can go as slow as we want!
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You probably shouldn't have inked the waterfall. It reminds me of a split Articuno's tail. The eyes also too close of a brown color compared to the brown around it. It's more noticeable in the preview if you look. The transparency effects are lovely. The amount of detail astounds me.
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Ah, thank you for the detailed input.
It does look very much like an Articuno tail, now that you mention it! Bwaha, I hadn't even though of that.
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The eyes could have been green, blue, or even yellow instead of brown. Anthro sparrows don't exist, so it's eyes color doesn't need to be.
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You're right, anthro sparrows don't exist. But this is a person's character with a set design, that I had to respect when drawing her. Changing the eyes "just because" would be like me drawing your Azure... Yellow or something, because I don't like the color blue.
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oh sorry, I must have misunderstood it was someone else's character.
I looked up th character and saw the eyes in this are a darker brown, or at least look it. [link]
I'd make the eyes darker in general.
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You keep mentioning how you suck at water. I notice that you don't use highlights on it. Water is highly reflective, so you might wish to consider ways of adding a bit of white or off-white blue/greens to it, or possibly pale pink... all of those if nothing is directly over the water and casting a reflection.
With THIS one... you should have pinks and grays reflected in this. A few sheening sparks of it in the waterfall, but far more of them in the pool. The tree on the left is likely to "cover" almost half of the pool's reflective surface, and perhaps a quarter of it by the one on the right. From our angle, there MIGHT be a very small area, such as what shows between her legs, that shows some reflection of the girl. Perhaps with colored pencils on top you could pull this off? It's just a suggestion. I have six of your images I just looked at, and in each of the ones with water, you say you hate how it turned out.
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Ah, good point.
Thank you for all of your wonderful comments.
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(snugs!) I only give you so many detailed comments because you =do= like them and respond to them. If you didn't respond to them (letting me know they are welcome), I would keep more of my opinions to myself.
Sometimes it takes an outsider's opinion on what we're doing to point out what we're missing. My mother-in-law took up art after we met. Something about how she said she could never do what I do and me telling her it's a skill, and one that anyone can learn. (chuckles) One day I came over to her place and she showed me a still life she'd done. Not my cup of tea, but it was fairly well rendered. She wasn't happy with it, saying that she didn't know why it looked wrong, only that it did. This was a subtle request, and I spotted it instantly. "These items all at one angle, while this bottle is at another, almost as if it's laying flat." Once it was pointed out, she couldn't believe she'd missed this.
You =always= ask for advice, and you always mean it. That's why you get so many people to respond and give you advice, including from me.
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Wow, now that's a compliment! 
I've had a lot of those "eureka comments" just like the one you explained with your mother-in-law and the bottle at an incorrect angle. Something is bugging me and bugging me but I can't put my finger on it, and then someone comes along and leaves a great comment pointing out what's wrong with it and why. That's exactly the thing we artists need sometimes, isn't it? Hahaha, like when this one torso was really bothering me back in 2005, and somebody finally made me realize that I'd drawn the character's breasts off-center.
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I'm going to try to critique the bird here, I've always wondered about doing bird anatomy for the anthro challegne (have yet to do that, the list isn't finished) and this is actually pretty interesting for one.
As for sparrows, I should know, all my life I have lived in a neighborhood or in a house where they usually congregate and they can be noisy and they fight alot, I have no idea if anyone else has had an experience with sparrows like that.
As for the overall picture, I really find myself liking the cherry blossoms alot, perhaps because of the color. The water in the pond beneath the waterfall is actually transparent! I like that detail. You really went into the details, even showing the ridges in the feathers on her wings.
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Thanks a ton.
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What a lovely first-time birdy!
As far as water goes, I think the waterfall in the back ended up looking more like fabric. 
Great job.
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You're so right, I wish I'd put in more floating petals! 
Thanks so much for the awesome comment. 
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Details, details.
Well, you're welcome. Nah, you just need to draw more of them is all! I swear, Peach, I see you improve with every new drawing. And you're so receptive to comments. I'm sure next time you'll get it perfect.
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It's great to try new things
Very nice on the bird anatomy too =3 I never thought of drawing the Cardinal anthro I did that way. o.o Looks harder 
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Aw, thanks so much, Poo.
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You're welcome 
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I don't think I've seen an avian from you before, very nice! Incredible work on this one, especially with all the details, looks simply incredible. Wonderful colors as well, it looks fantastic.
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Thanks for all of the kind input on my recent flood of deviations, Baha.
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you must have some serious pacience *i dont think i spelled that right* to draw all to cherry blossoms and feathers. i love the feathers, too, btw! this is really good for your first try at an avian anthro
how many anthros do you have left in the 10 Anthro Challenge, do you mind me asking? =o
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Thanks so much. 
Three critters to go in my 10 Anthro Challenge. >D Two reptiles and a marsupial.
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thats true... xD
three? whoa, almost there, then 8D sounds like a fun challenge too. i'd do it, but i can't think of ten animals i haven't drawn, and i'm sure all my friends are kinda tired of me taking challenges and never finishing them. xD;
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Thank you for linking to my tutorial! I can see it helped -- and her wings are great, you really blended the wing structure with her arms there. Beautiful and creative anthro!
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This definitely beats the crappy feathers I used to draw. 
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Oh yes, definitely! It rocks. Thank you for listing it!
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Thanks so much!
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Wow! I love the feathers, sakura and pond especially. The underwater rocks worked great. ^^
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Sakura means cherry blossoms, doesn't it?
Thanks, my friend.
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Yeah. Forgot to translate.
Water is hard. I can't do it either. XP
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beautiful job as always, Peachfuzz! and this piece is so amazingly detailed, its beautiful! I love the way you inked and colored those cherry blossoms, they are simply stunning! I also really love the pond, for the details such as seeing the rocks at the bottom, and the little water spots from the blender...those are great techniques and you should use them again! The feathers turned out lovely as well! Great job!
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Thanks so much, Skye.
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thats very true! I've had cool gray do it to me a couple times when I didn't want it to, haha!
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The detail in the feathers is really pretty, ~Peachfuzz ! I like this a lot, there's certainly a lot of detail C:
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<3
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Gosh I bet it did take forever XD And inking is a tedious part of the whole process too x_x;
Aww you're too kind <3 But I agree in the way that having people enjoy your art makes it worth all the effort 
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I love this piece! The flowers are just amazing--the detail incredible. This piece just fills my eyes--which, as you know, is one of the highest compliments I can give.
~SnoCat
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Again, thank you, SnoCat!
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Yeah...I know what you mean, perhaps that's why I love doing detail so much!
~SnoCat
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this art is really stunning art. before you ask me to change some parts. then I guess it's probably the feet, the bird feet is attractive. but this have not only the bird feet, she have bird hands and the winged arms. and the wing tail, I think it's one of the important part. I really love this form and I renotice the attractions of the anthro avian is the wing tail and bird feet.
and I think the cherry blossom, too many blossoms are very fine and I can feel it take much endeavor. the rock and the feathers are also fine. her costume have cherry blossom pattern, it give out the more spring mood and I like it. and I notice a cherry petal falls on the water and make the ripple, I like this effect.
now I'm glad to see this art. it's first time the other people draw my characters in the serious art. thank you very much. I'm really happy.
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I'm so glad you like it! 
Kureha was so fun to draw.
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Lol. Wings are a bitch to draw right x3
When I look at it, its almost as if there is a bit too much detail on the feather.
Looks very good, but almost as if it kinda pulls your eye away from the rest of the picture which is not quite so detailed, if you get what I'm saying.
But damn it looks good >3
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