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Hunting Lesson"Just stay low to the ground..."
this is an old piece of art that i uploaded on TLKFAA back in 2006. i am kind of proud of it, and so i thought i would share.
i will occasionally upload some of my better FAA pieces here...
GHAAA! MY LINES SUCK!!!
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*laughs*
Oh come on, others must have mentioned the spots
In anycase, I love how young Kovu is, fits with the overall implied timeline
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thank you.
my favorite time of a cat's life is when the mom will bring in small prey for her kittens to kill. to most people, this is a dreadful thing. but i think it's soooo cute!
(but then, i have some severe emotional problems, so.....)
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*nods* I like watching that too, worked with wolves for a bit and foxes, the foxes do more of the bringing of live prey thoug neither of the canines '
It is cute, but I'm weird too, so *shrugs*
Oh! What did you think of the Pridelands map(s)? I keep forgetting to ask.
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foxes are very catlike in most of what they do. also, they are so cute!
the pridelands map was very good.
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Foxes are fun, aye
*blushes* Wow, thanks! Anything you like/dislike about it, or points you think I got wrong/on-the-button?
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Oh, dear.... That butterfly doesn't know how long he truly has.
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butterflies taste good on toast
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And if he had stalked zazu it would have been a bad ending^^
Incredible good work
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thank you very much. yes, in zazu's case, kovu, even as small as he is in this pic, would not be "just playing".
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You mean like:
"Young master Kovu, there are hyenas in the pridelands!" "Shut up, i'm eating!" "Ahhhhh"
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Nothing like some mother-son bonding time.... it didn't seem like Kovu would get too much of that, so this pic is nice ^^
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she was training him full-time, so he probably got a lot of mom-son time... but maybe not in a good way...
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thanks. i have a soft spot in my heart for that crazy kitty.
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Me too! Zira is my favorite psycho villainess XD
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When I first watched TLKII, the first thing that struck me about Zira was, in her own way, she saw her exile as a way to raise her cubs and her clan in her devotion to Scar. Whether or not Disney intended to show this soft, gentle, playful side to her, on top of all that harshness and sadism, Zira was a patient mother, if a little cuckoo.
In a sense, in my opinion, Zira's "madness" was brought on by Kiara's "undoing" of her hard work. She had taken all that time to program Kovu, shown him her gentler, kinder side (only to him it seemed, in regards to her feelings about Nuka), and felt 'replaced' by Kiara in a way.
I love villainesses, and villains, and though Disney could have left the original take of the film alone instead of cutting it down (re: hacking and slashing it in parts), Zira was left pretty much as she was. Her madness and the strength of her rage was toned down to make her slightly more "acceptable" for a children's audience, but apart from that, she remained a very likeable, and humanistic, villainess.
Looking at this pic, yes, I can see this happening. Zira's coyness, her slyness, her gentleness is on display here. I don't think she would not have done this with Nuka, but perhaps Nuka was less graceful, less "killer" with his approach given his cowardice in the face of his mother. Kovu here is eager to learn, please and show off his skills. It wouldn't surprise me that long before his maturing years, he was taking down targets thrice his size due to her teachings.
And don't tell me your lineart fails. You got Zira down to the scraggy, exiled leader she was. Straight lines in the places where you believe you could have done better would have made Zira feel as if she was pasted onto the background, not a part of the whole picture. Zira was tough, and her appearance (cleanliness) meant very little to her. She was a shaggy, slightly unkempt creature and your lineart does her justice. This is the Zira I saw when I watched TLKII, and you got her down perfectly.
I ramble far too much. You deserve this:
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awww, thanks!
something else to consider: she was able to organize and hold together a clan of very hungry, disaffected lionesses - for YEARS!!! that would never have happened if she had not been an effective leader. so there is definitely more to her than meets the eye. as crazy as she is, i really admire her, the way i admire hannibal lector. i certainly wouldn't want to be her bbf, or meet her in some dark alley, but i still can't help liking her.
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Exactly. Zira is a timeless villainess in many ways, and definitely deserving of the title. And it's always wonderful to see artists peeling back the many complexities and layers great characters like her have.
I have no doubts whatsoever that her leadership came at a heavy price, and kept going with similar heavy prices to endure. Her eventual suicide (not death by slip and fall, I don't believe that watered down ending Disney fed us), came as the ultimate satisfaction, to herself, to her madness and to her memory of Scar. What I always wanted to see was Vitani's reaction to Zira's suicide, as we only saw Kovu's. Losing Nuka possibly escalated her madness, and hatred, for everything that was going wrong with all her best-laid plans, especially Kovu.
Zira ranks right up there with the Wicked Stepmother, Maleficent, Ursula and Medusa. So many layers of complexities and so many ways to discover them X3
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i think until zira came along, i think that maleficent was my fav. disney villainess. she was so elegant, intelligent, and just so freekin cool. but more than that, she was patient and willing to wait years to get her revenge. she also made one hell of a cool dragon!
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When it's a villainess, they've gotta have a back-up plan or three. Maleficent's was her Dragon form. And jeezus, it was freakin' AWESOME to boot
Mmm...must watch all th' old classics sometime this weekend...
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wish the wings had been larger, but yeah... that was one amazin dragon.
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she's nutzo, but she luvz her cubbies!
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Ah this is one of my very favourites from your TLKFAA gallery
Naturally, it has to be faved again ^_^
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yeah, it's old. but i figured that a lot of people on DA hadn't seen it yet. i will also continue to upload some of my better FAA pics and comics cuz i am kinda proud of them.
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and so you should be
I'm always in two minds on whether to post TLK stuff here, I'll probably re-post them here in a few years like you're doing
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i had meant to only post non-tlk stuff here, but someone said i should post "shadows". i get way more comments on DA than i ever got on FAA, so i get more feedback here. i guess that's why i decided to do this.
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Awesome! The background is excellent!
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You know, if Zira were a good lioness I don't think she'd look quite so bad. Take the nip out of her ear, put a little meat on her bones and age her down a little and she wouldn't be bad to look at.
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which is probably why scar fell for her.
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this pic was my apsulute fav!! 8D kovu is so cute and the bg was so great!!
fantastic job!!
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