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SteinWill — Mutual Distrust
#anthro #bandits #diesel #goat #kidnapping #rogues #sair #tavern #wiesel #volcanins #muslid
Published: 2016-08-27 14:39:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 2153; Favourites: 29; Downloads: 5
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Angris is the capital city of Samur, a city of prosperity and progress. The heart of the Southern Church.However every major city has its underbelly and Angris is no different, take one wrong turn and you'll find the poorer parts of the city where all the scoundrels and ne'er-do-wells have their dens.
In one particular shady rogues' den we find a trio of sairs gathered around a table, distrust hangs thick in the air.
Duncan, the biggest sair of the group glances down at the detailed map spread across the table and flatly states "NO", a deep frown on his dark furred face.
"What you mean No?" Azemn answers with touch of annoyance in his voice "We've gone through the plan and it will make us rich!"
Duncan looks over from his comrade and across the table sneering at the newcomer to the group "I refuse to work with a HERETIC"
The newcomer folds his arms and stares back, frost in his eyes. "I have name and it's Wayne"
Azemn sighs rubbing his black spotted forhead "Duncan, when did you become such a stickler for religious stuff? I seem to remember you didn't mind robbing those nuns a wile back"
The bulky sair snorts "Petty theft against the clergy is one thing but to burn the holy church itself is.. unspeakable." turning his gaze back to Wayne, the big sair sneers "I'm surpriced they let you live."
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So this is a drawing I've had in the works for some time, ever since I encountered intriguing bandit character Wayne I've been wanting to draw a fan art of him. www.furaffinity.net/view/17047… and www.furaffinity.net/view/17047…
A wile ago I bought a awesome looking commission of Diesel_wiesel and Volcanins where they redrew my medival bandits into sairs set in their world www.furaffinity.net/view/20362… .
So then I naturally had to draw a team up between my two bandits and theirs^^
To be honest I'm really pleased with the lineart but sadly the shading or colours came out flat and boring. I tried so many attempts on improving my shading but oh well, now I'm just sick of this drawing.
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Not sure if I commented yet or not or FA whatever.
Anyhow, nice work here Stien. Good work with the expressions.
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ah thanks mate! yea I spent alot of time to get those expression looking right as there is little else going on in this drawing^^
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I honestly thing this is one of my top favourites of your pictures so far, I think it showcases your best work in a lot of areas. The detail is excellent, little things like the zig-zag lines of the stitching down the guy on the left's jacket and the realistic scar on his face. The subtle pattern on Duncan's jacket and the suspenders just showing near the belt. Each brick in the background given proper shading and highlights. It's great when you look closer and see that the little things are all where they should be.
Facial expressions are on point as usual. It's hard to pick a favourite, but I think the middle character's gesture and overall posture just matches his expression so well that I'd say that I like his expression is the best. It'd be a tough choice though since the other two are pretty damn good too!
The composition of the picture is great, the eye is drawn to all the right places and he background has just enough detail to present the foreground well without being distracting. The texture on the wallpaper in the background is great and how you've applied a similar brush to the character's jackets in places makes them look realistically worn. I feel as though you've been a bit bolder with the texture here than you have in the past and I think that's a good thing. I use a lot of blotchy brushes for texture and I think it really helps.
The lineart and the colouring are both so good in this that coming up with a good critique is quite difficult, especially as I've already seen this on Skype. After looking over this thoroughly, I feel that the weakest link is the hands. I think where you have the palms exposed like this, you run into an issue of deciding which point between paws and human hands you want to go for. If you're going for pretty much human palms, I think you need to de-emphasise the line going across the wrist between the forearm and the hand. While there's a rise there, I think it's communicated well enough by the outline since the hand is thickest right by the thumb. If you wanted to add a line there, you could do one running along the palm. I just did this in paint so it's super sloppy, but it shows what I mean: i.imgur.com/P05j3yH.jpg
Additionally, the centre of your palm is the thinnest but it gets thicker again on the opposite side to your knuckles and you don't really show this. I scribbled this comparing top (how I think it should look) compared to bottom (how you've drawn it). Here's an attempt to show the curve of the palm from the side. I think you're missing that second rise: i.imgur.com/TzxAXDG.png
If you're going for more of a hybrid between a human hand and an animal's paw with paw pads on it, then perhaps what I've said is wrong, I haven't studied paws very closely. I think most anthro artists that I've seen if they want to do this give their character human palms and pads on the tips of the fingers. I think trying to make the hands much more paw-like would be making life a lot harder unnecessarily though. Either way, I totally understand that hands are really hard so I certainly don't judge people harshly for not having them perfect, but I thought I'd mention as I think if you were going to practise drawing something, hands might be a good one to do some sketches of.
But yeah, that's only a minor concern. An excellent picture with many great pieces combined to make an awesome whole. I'm very glad to see you've taken up using cloudy brushes to make texturing, you're onto something very fun and very effective there! I certainly hope to see more of these characters. You mentioned that you don't especially like writing freestyle, but have you considered doing one of those character quizes for some of your characters? Where they have to answer a set of questions? I always found those fun and you can cover a lot of ground about the characters without having to do much writing. Something like perhaps: illogical-lynx.deviantart.com/…
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I'm not sure why I didn't reply on this but I might as well do now since I absolutly appresiated your long and detailed comments, especially on a drawing like this where I put my life and soul into it and it pretty much overlooked. I guess that's what happens when you draw something outside your normal gallery^^
so yea a million thanks for your kind words and suggestions I think I must have read your comment twenty times by now and that's probably why I didn't reply to it since I wanted to keep it in my message center
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Haha you're very welcome. When people put such effort into their art, I try to write a comment worthy of being displayed under it.
I'm very glad you enjoy reading them that much- It's nice to know I'm doing a good job with them haha!
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Man it's been a while since I saw your drawings XP, also how have ya been?
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.... why is it apparently so hard for people to actually say anything about the damned drawing I've used 12++ hours on and instead keep asking me "how I am !?" you're not the only one and I'm frankly feeling rahter disheartended by the fact. so no I'm Not fine..
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well it's been a while since we've saw your last activity dude, of course some
are either worried or curious, specially since your last journal you mentioned you
had a Broken leg, Of course I'm WORRIED, I saw your drawing, as usual it's
Amazing, and I love seeing it, your work never stops to amaze me, specially at
how you made the fluff of their heads it's well done, geezus
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ah thanks for enjoying the drawing then^^ that fluffy took me AGEs to lineart porperly. you should watch the artist who I drew this for, they are simply amazing
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I already do it xd(you)
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It's been forever since you've posted anything! I got a little worried
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aww that's nice of you to worry ^^
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It's internally installed you can't tell unless you whack it
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Their 'den' looks pretty modest, it's only got one emblem on the wall and a table???
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What exactly is a "sair"?
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These two have different standards for what's acceptable and what's not, isn't that so? And i thought they disagree because their horns are broken.
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oh sairs are just a combination of goats and muslids, it's a species these two artist draw for their world^^
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Goats and mustelids?
That explains the horns.
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