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Rottweiler character designs I'm going to use for my entry to the Animclip Challenge. :3 I aim to get it done as soon as I can. I wanted to play around with varying designs/personalities within a particular breed, 'twas a lot of fun!
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DeMysh [2007-10-17 01:49:03 +0000 UTC]

Lovely Rottie studies! I'm in love with the one on the bottom right and I rather like that disgruntled one at the top ^^ I love these dogs. Most of the one's I've met have been teddy bears. It's too bad they have a dodgey reputation It all depends on the owner I say!

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swift-whippet In reply to DeMysh [2007-10-17 02:46:13 +0000 UTC]

oh gosh Rotties are the awesome. :3 I love drawing different breeds, it makes a nice change and in my case I find that I really get to study and appreciate them more aesthetically.

it always depends on the owner, be it a toy poodle or a pitbull!

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DeMysh In reply to swift-whippet [2007-10-17 02:49:48 +0000 UTC]

Speaking of pitbulls. I love those too.
Yeah, EVERY dog (and pet in general) needs a good loving environment in which to grow up in

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silver-dog [2007-10-16 16:56:30 +0000 UTC]

wow it's so amazing how you're able to catch a breeds characteristics and at the same time create variations within the breed!!! i love your style so much! <3 i hope you'll upload more sketches and stuff from this challenge! good luck i have NO doubth that you'll do absolutely great!!

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swift-whippet In reply to silver-dog [2007-10-16 19:59:26 +0000 UTC]

thank you Silver! I'm so flattered and touched that you like them so much!

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akokolupe [2007-10-15 21:38:28 +0000 UTC]

Squeee I love your little sketches. And yay Rotties. I think what I most like about your style is that you have realistic canines that look like the breed, but you can draw them with expression and stylistic. But you can still look at it and say that's a Rottie, or that's a Dobe...they're not the same!

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CatsandDogsUnited [2007-10-15 20:17:17 +0000 UTC]

Lol! Interesting and funny!^^
Great work on the expressions!

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F0ldedSteel [2007-10-15 14:42:50 +0000 UTC]

Rottweilers are a great breed, I like the one in the bottom righthand corner. So many people make their canines have generic wolflike forms, your canine art is always refreshing. Good luck to you in the contest! I hope you win

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Myhecate [2007-10-15 14:07:21 +0000 UTC]

Looks great so far! Like all of your other work...

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Chocolate-Rhinos [2007-10-15 08:12:17 +0000 UTC]

Awwhaha, I adore rotties :3 their neck fat is my favorite <3 and youve captured their big smiley heads perfectly

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scrii [2007-10-15 07:14:12 +0000 UTC]

That's amazing, I love your style! You've done a really good job on all of them. Good luck with the challenge! ^^

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heartleaved [2007-10-15 04:18:09 +0000 UTC]

ohh amazing expressions, they're all so fluid and natural <3333

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Queen-of-Greyhounds [2007-10-15 01:45:55 +0000 UTC]

they look really good. Rotties are one of my favorite breeds. So cute and fat. I want to squeeeeeeeeze him. :3 I like the one in the far right corner best.

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xVivaLaKimx [2007-10-15 00:54:14 +0000 UTC]

I love the bottom right one.
I think Rotties are SO adorable. XD Good luck also! ;D

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terceleto [2007-10-15 00:48:55 +0000 UTC]

Nice Swift! It's fun to see the variation within breeds :3 I've done a similar study in the past of chows [though I would be lucky to find it now] and of huskies.
I love watching your 'scraps' - it's a rewarding treasure-chest of surprises! I'm really liking the sorta front-on view in the middle-left :3 reminds me a bunch of a Rotti I worked with over the summer named Bubba :3 What a lover he was!

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swift-whippet In reply to terceleto [2007-10-15 05:53:25 +0000 UTC]

oh man I would have loved to see you playing around with chow and husky character designs. SO much fun aaahhh. everytime I do something like this I am reminded of why I am in my chosen prefession. :3

I am glad you like my scraps too, so few people seem to. Rotties are such silly dogs, I love them. I love how they're put together too - they have the mastiff stubby roundish bullet-shape without being to jowly. :3 studying different breeds really helps you gain an appreciation for each one!! it's probably why I've formed an emotional attachment to near every breed I have a character of! xD

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terceleto In reply to swift-whippet [2007-10-16 00:10:18 +0000 UTC]

:3 I'll have to see if I can find the stacks of paper. It's not all in one place usually.. rather it's a few faces or expressions here, a gesture or pose there, etcetera

:3 <3 They are silly though, and they do have a nice blend of structures :3 I know just what you mean, I have a strong attachment to quite a few breeds that I have characters of~

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Maplewolf [2007-10-15 00:48:48 +0000 UTC]

Seems like lots of fun!! My friend loves these guys!!

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LordCheetah [2007-10-15 00:11:47 +0000 UTC]

This is my Nana's most fav dog breed Lovely job, I adore the body posture of the one down at the bottom left

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swift-whippet In reply to LordCheetah [2007-10-15 05:50:00 +0000 UTC]

heh, that was the generic stack pose reffed deliberately off the AKC website in order to understand the anatomy better, lawl. xDD the whole left page is just me drawing from photos and pictures and the right is ref-less freeform playing around. basically how I design characters. it's so much fun. :3

thank you so very much!

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quicksilverstudios [2007-10-14 23:48:17 +0000 UTC]

Nice. My favorite one is the one on the left top.. the largest sketch.

Good work for all of it though

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swift-whippet In reply to quicksilverstudios [2007-10-15 15:42:47 +0000 UTC]

the left page is me drawing from photos. the right is me drawing from what I already know of dog anatomy plus what I learnt by drawing from those photos.

thank you! ^^

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SinjaAussiaAngels [2007-10-14 22:32:04 +0000 UTC]

They're really adorable!
I love the different expressions.

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colonel-strawberry [2007-10-14 22:04:49 +0000 UTC]

AH, why scrap them?
i LOVE seeing sketches and studies, sometimes more than colored pictures!

I need to be doing stuff like this though... it'd be good practice

So why a rot? New character? New story? just for fun?

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swift-whippet In reply to colonel-strawberry [2007-10-15 05:45:42 +0000 UTC]

because if I don't, dA will probably scrap them for me. x_x; eh. as much as I share your sentiments. :3

it's actually for that Animclips Challenge that I told you about! I'm excited to be working with these guys. just need to go to the studios to analyse and scrub the track so I have something to work off of with regards to lipsynch and acting, and I should be able to knock this out in a few days. :3

and it's a lot of fun! I'd like to see your own results, if you do try it!

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ScruffyMuffyFox [2007-10-14 21:57:44 +0000 UTC]

Woah, your Rottie designs are to die for.

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swift-whippet In reply to ScruffyMuffyFox [2007-10-15 05:49:35 +0000 UTC]

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toastify [2007-10-14 21:52:42 +0000 UTC]

xDD Awh~~! Rots~! I love the playful-looking one.. o3o Lawl and I'd like to hug the grumpy one. xDD He looks like he could use a good snuggle.

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swift-whippet In reply to toastify [2007-10-15 05:43:16 +0000 UTC]

he'll probaby eat your head, but okay! xDD

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toastify In reply to swift-whippet [2007-10-15 10:13:09 +0000 UTC]

xDDD It's worth it, lawl~~~!

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Kaylink [2007-10-14 21:47:29 +0000 UTC]

You captured the aspects of the breed really well but managed to turn them into individual personalities instead of generic-mean. Awesome job

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swift-whippet In reply to Kaylink [2007-10-15 05:42:56 +0000 UTC]

eee thank you. I was aiming for that!

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FeatherlessBird [2007-10-14 21:43:13 +0000 UTC]

nice! i love rotties...


you've gotta do goldens sometime......

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swift-whippet In reply to FeatherlessBird [2007-10-14 21:49:55 +0000 UTC]

[link] [link] [link] [link] [link]

hee. :3

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FeatherlessBird In reply to swift-whippet [2007-10-14 21:55:10 +0000 UTC]

ah! i love them!!!!

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NennaFox [2007-10-14 21:39:43 +0000 UTC]

You gotta do daschounds sometime

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swift-whippet In reply to NennaFox [2007-10-14 21:45:42 +0000 UTC]

I have! [link] [link]

and once by your request! [link]

but maybe sometime. :3

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NennaFox In reply to swift-whippet [2007-10-14 22:42:25 +0000 UTC]

I love em so much, noone ever does them enough for me XD

Thanks for those links I faved em and I had NO idea I requested a daschie from ya before LOL I am useless.

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