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MOOOOOARRRR COWBELL!

This is it. My Predator magnum opus is finally complete, and I can go on with my life.

This is my half of a trade with . She just wanted a couple of our characters interacting in some interesting way, but as usual I decided to turn the project into a tour de force. I wanted to challenge myself, you see. Sporkey has been very, VERY patient with me throughout this months-long process.

Accomplished with ink (about eight hours), watercolor (twenty seconds, and not visible because it's under the colored pencil), and Prismacolor pencils (sixty or seventy hours- seriously). Format is larger than usual at 12 x 18 inches, but there was no way I would be able to cram all of these guys into a 9x12 and still get in all that detail.

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Wanna know who's making all that noise...? I mean besides the guys on percussion instruments. They get going and they just kind of take over for a while. Once they tire themselves out, the rest of the musicians can chime back in.

Foreground left with the long, thin Flute-o-Phone with teeth is my character Chaunn'tne-di.

Behind Chaunn on the mandolin is her dad, Khan'nai (with especial thanks (again) to *Fiji-Fujii for Khan's new design).

Behind those two on the left, playing the sticks and the two long horns are just some random guys.

Center foreground on the harp is ~SporkeyAnonymous 's character Sar'idikk.

Directly behind Sari on the double-drum is her big, tough buddy Kiit'du.

On the tambourine is my scholarly character Bak'udrin-de.

With the maracas is an old friend, Yen-ta.

Behind Baku, seated with the cowbell is another random guy. Honestly, I needed more cowbell.

On the right with the wrap-around horn is ~peanutchan 's matriarch, Tituga. I hope P-chan forgives me for not drawing Tituga in a bikini... I enjoy drawing complicated costumes.

The flautist behind Tituga is another random lady.

Oh, and the fuzzball at Sari's feet is a pfaukal called Yikyik. It's the Predator equivalent of a housecat, and Baku the Scholar belongs to it. Naturally.

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...Yes, I did think about the mouthpieces for the various wind-powered instruments. The tissues within the inner jaws of a Predator form a sphincter similar to the way human lips do. With a little bit of adjustment to the mouthpieces, I think a Predator could play instruments like flutes, trumpets, and tubas. Reed instruments like clarinets and saxophones would require some considerably different engineering, and I haven't actually featured any of them here. That long, thin thing that Chaunn plays is more like a recorder or Flute-o-Phone with a "trumpet" mouthpiece.

Progress shots:

Description
MOOOOOARRRR COWBELL!

This is it. My Predator magnum opus is finally complete, and I can go on with my life.

This is my half of a trade with . She just wanted a couple of our characters interacting in some interesting way, but as usual I decided to turn the project into a tour de force. I wanted to challenge myself, you see. Sporkey has been very, VERY patient with me throughout this months-long process.

Accomplished with ink (about eight hours), watercolor (twenty seconds, and not visible because it's under the colored pencil), and Prismacolor pencils (sixty or seventy hours- seriously). Format is larger than usual at 12 x 18 inches, but there was no way I would be able to cram all of these guys into a 9x12 and still get in all that detail.

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Wanna know who's making all that noise...? I mean besides the guys on percussion instruments. They get going and they just kind of take over for a while. Once they tire themselves out, the rest of the musicians can chime back in.

Foreground left with the long, thin Flute-o-Phone with teeth is my character Chaunn'tne-di.

Behind Chaunn on the mandolin is her dad, Khan'nai (with especial thanks (again) to *Fiji-Fujii for Khan's new design).

Behind those two on the left, playing the sticks and the two long horns are just some random guys.

Center foreground on the harp is ~SporkeyAnonymous 's character Sar'idikk.

Directly behind Sari on the double-drum is her big, tough buddy Kiit'du.

On the tambourine is my scholarly character Bak'udrin-de.

With the maracas is an old friend, Yen-ta.

Behind Baku, seated with the cowbell is another random guy. Honestly, I needed more cowbell.

On the right with the wrap-around horn is ~peanutchan 's matriarch, Tituga. I hope P-chan forgives me for not drawing Tituga in a bikini... I enjoy drawing complicated costumes.

The flautist behind Tituga is another random lady.

Oh, and the fuzzball at Sari's feet is a pfaukal called Yikyik. It's the Predator equivalent of a housecat, and Baku the Scholar belongs to it. Naturally.

.................................

...Yes, I did think about the mouthpieces for the various wind-powered instruments. The tissues within the inner jaws of a Predator form a sphincter similar to the way human lips do. With a little bit of adjustment to the mouthpieces, I think a Predator could play instruments like flutes, trumpets, and tubas. Reed instruments like clarinets and saxophones would require some considerably different engineering, and I haven't actually featured any of them here. That long, thin thing that Chaunn plays is more like a recorder or Flute-o-Phone with a "trumpet" mouthpiece.

Progress shots: