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Published: 2011-09-04 00:06:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 893; Favourites: 39; Downloads: 0
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Description Adolescent Agouti Falcolf stands nervously on a cliff, preparing for her first 'real' solo flight on her own down along the coastline.
Having crashed and burned clumsily on branching flights before she's got more than a few reasons to be intimidating by the winds blowing off the sea and the long drop to the beach below.

This STARTED as a la-de-da sketch and turned into a three hour lineless project. I'm not sure when Falcolfs start flying but the eagles near my old house didn't start their flying lessons until they were nearly as big as their parents, and lacking their bald-white heads, or at least getting sootyish gray patches. It was fun watching them loop back and forth down the river with their parents from one giant cottonwood to another. Seeing as Falcolfs are QUITE a bit bigger I would think their first flight fails would be a bit more extreme I tried to mute her stripes as much as possible to make her look more like an adolescent and not full grown... dunno if I achieved that or not.

I really like this peice Especially her PAWS! ((which you totally can't see cause I covered them up with grass D: But for the past few days I've been studying and sketching canine paws because my canine paws were full of errors and fails. Now I'm getting more confidents that they look like they belong to a canine vs some random generic pawed animal

Thanks to a Pawlygone Tutorial I found here on dA But practice is the best tutorial I should draw more paws in a bit

Next thing to practice are dog/wolf type faces... That should be fun... They aren't really my thing but I need to improve lest they look like weird elongated cougars forever!

Anyways, unnamed Falcolf is based on the creatures created by
Art is mine
Off to draw some paws and quail and stuff
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Comments: 39

KippinJuice [2013-05-31 19:29:37 +0000 UTC]

This is very impressive! I love everything, the wolf, cliff, water. Very amazing<3

Is there any tutorials or such to teach me how to do a lineless drawing... I always wanted to do lineless... but I can't seem to teach myself the shading and stuff..

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Ski-Machine In reply to KippinJuice [2013-05-31 20:13:14 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

haha I just started messing with it myself, but I know has some excellent tutorials

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KippinJuice In reply to Ski-Machine [2013-05-31 20:17:52 +0000 UTC]

thank you :3

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Ski-Machine In reply to KippinJuice [2013-05-31 20:33:34 +0000 UTC]

No problem Check out her tumblr archive too because sometimes she reblogs some really helpful stuff too

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Falcolf [2011-09-13 07:47:46 +0000 UTC]

I like this! The first time I saw this and the landscape nearby I thought he/she looked like a member of Kayli's clan. I love the expression of anxiety! Poor thing!

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Ski-Machine In reply to Falcolf [2011-09-13 15:28:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks
I didn't know what the terrain looked like but I remembered you said the coastline was drakoon/falcolf territory so I made it a coastal cliff place Fraidy-Falcolf
I still need to buy/read Ashes of Hope x.x

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Falcolf In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-14 20:11:23 +0000 UTC]

Well, the Sapphire Coast of Escavia kind of varies between areas of sand dunes and areas of really high sea cliffs, like the Cliffs of Dover. Beyond the shore where it's meadowy for quite a while (good farmland - people on the Sapphire coast mostly raise sheep for wool) it's all rolling hills and woodland. This was originally the home of a clan of falcolfs which occupied the territory and while there are still falcolfs along the coastline elsewhere, nobody knows what happened to that clan, which was Kayli's. I say that they left. (This is after AOH and BOF.) The drakoon only ever come in very small numbers (1 or 2) and are only there temporarily as ambassadors. (They're more like spies on the humans. They also spend a lot of time eating people's sheep.)

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Ski-Machine In reply to Falcolf [2011-09-14 22:41:28 +0000 UTC]

Sheeeep, om nom nom. Fuzzy food

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WolfsNeverDie [2011-09-09 10:21:43 +0000 UTC]

It's quite impressive and nice work there~ >w< i have to say i really enjoy the feeling of piece >w<

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Ski-Machine In reply to WolfsNeverDie [2011-09-09 15:22:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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WolfsNeverDie In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-09 17:32:19 +0000 UTC]

welcome >wo b

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SorrelHawkfire [2011-09-04 20:22:21 +0000 UTC]

That's really good!

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Ski-Machine In reply to SorrelHawkfire [2011-09-04 21:46:16 +0000 UTC]

Thanks

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SorrelHawkfire In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-04 21:52:56 +0000 UTC]

You're welcome!

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Kevari [2011-09-04 19:04:34 +0000 UTC]

Where is this tutorial of which you speak?

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Ski-Machine In reply to Kevari [2011-09-04 19:08:52 +0000 UTC]

[link]
This thang

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Kevari In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-04 19:15:52 +0000 UTC]

thanks!

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moSHypants [2011-09-04 17:23:14 +0000 UTC]

I LOVE TH GRASS AND THE ROCKS
JUMP JUMP JUMP

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Ski-Machine In reply to moSHypants [2011-09-04 17:30:12 +0000 UTC]

Thanks! I love the rocks towards the top

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moSHypants In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-04 17:35:52 +0000 UTC]

they look so cool!

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Ski-Machine In reply to moSHypants [2011-09-04 17:40:57 +0000 UTC]

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crf450r9 [2011-09-04 05:21:59 +0000 UTC]

SO AMAZING LOOK AT THOSE ROCKS AND WATERRRRR! Ugh, and that one rock in the water is so coool! I love how you made a hole through it, that's just so cool And her feathers are so gorgeous! Your lineless art is so great
GIVE ME YOUR SKILLS CEDAR, PLEASE?

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-04 06:09:33 +0000 UTC]

Thanks
Here ya go, though yours skills are just as good as mine I want your fire and skyyyy!

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-04 21:26:31 +0000 UTC]

Hahaha, YESSS, now I can be awesomeeee Haha, no way, the sky was just a fluke

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-04 21:47:31 +0000 UTC]

NOES IT IS AWESHUM

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-05 05:02:53 +0000 UTC]


Haha, I've never tried so hard to make a picture look nice before

I did a panel on page 30 - is the line size alright so far? Haha, if not, I'll go back and do it again in a thinner pen size

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-05 06:20:57 +0000 UTC]

It looks epicful. Epic+beautiful

PERFECT you rock so much Thanks a jillion and ten for doing this again Tawn You deserve copious ammounts of gift art now what do you want

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-05 07:13:42 +0000 UTC]

Haha, thanks Cedar Just hope I can stick to it and not get bored

Haha, great! I'll line them up real quick then Haha, and I deserve nothing, it's my pleasure to help out

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-05 07:24:20 +0000 UTC]

I'll pester you to finish it

Yays!
And NOES I must draw you somethinnnng So pick something!

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-05 07:37:05 +0000 UTC]

Haha, that would be great, thank you

Haha, well, um...how do you feel about drawing a person? I luff your people's style, but you hardly draw them Haha, or from what I can see, anyways.

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-05 18:36:45 +0000 UTC]

haha what kind of person

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-06 02:17:12 +0000 UTC]

Haha Loki from the Thor movie? I'm totally obsessed, I'm sorry. Haha, if you don't want to though, that's alright, honestly I'd be fine if you didn't

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-06 03:49:42 +0000 UTC]

haha ok I'll draw him, got any refs?

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-06 05:10:51 +0000 UTC]

The best I could find on Google were these: [link] [link] [link] and [link] though they aren't really that good.
Tumblr has better pics of him, but it's messing me around and I can't go on without my entire computer crashing, sorry

Haha, thank you so much Cedar

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-06 05:52:24 +0000 UTC]

Ok I'll work on that in a bit

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-06 06:10:25 +0000 UTC]

Thank you so much! You're way too nice

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Ski-Machine In reply to crf450r9 [2011-09-06 06:43:37 +0000 UTC]

haha

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crf450r9 In reply to Ski-Machine [2011-09-06 06:50:36 +0000 UTC]

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Truewolfwarriors [2011-09-04 00:10:06 +0000 UTC]

Cool, a wolf woth wings! I love drawing those(but the feathered wings are a b*** to draw!)

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