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A redraw of an old drawing of Angelo from 2014, motivated mostly by the fact that a friend on Weasyl seems to have a bit of a crush on him.
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I know what all the people involved in this, including the character, deserve... HUGS AND GOOD VIBES!!! Sending those your ways!!!
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Aww, thank you very much!
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Straight to favorites because... he's just gorgeous and he knows it. I like all three following the link but this latest is really good, your art has developed a great deal, who would have thought seven years hard work would have an effect. Little details such as the slight striations between dark, tan and white plus the tiny dimple at the end of the smile make all the difference. I am truly smitten.
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Thank you very much! Indeed, 7 years is a lot of time to practice and experiment. I'm glad you noticed those little details and consider them an improvement!
I think one of the most noticeable yet challenging things (that I'm still trying to figure out) is eyebrows--I used to omit those almost entirely because I could never quite seem to get them right, it's honestly been quite the struggle to get them noticeable but not overwhelming, if that makes sense. My roommate has a very noticeable unibrow, I wish to avoid that level of prominence with them.
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I feel their pain, I also have a unibrow and the special nose (never caught anyone sheltering under it in the rain but it's a matter of time). I think a lot of artists struggle with eyebrows, even the Mona Lisa is famous for not having any so you are in good company. The artists I follow Making CATastrophe also have problems and have resorted to almost always covering them with hair then making it translucent to outlines only, it's quite a unique style. Until you mentioned eyebrows I hadn't noticed but looking back I can see how you have changed your style there as well. That said some dogs do have very pronounced eyebrows a friend of mine has a very old Boxer, Rottweiler cross with a dark tan head but large square lite tan brows, similar colors to Angelo though differently distributed, he tells me people have selectively chosen puppies with more anthropomorphic faces, possibly subconsciously.
Every time I go back through your past catalog I find someone I have previously missed, the saber toothed fairy is an interesting character, it's the sort of thing my daughter would have wanted to be at the right age, she went to a princes and pirate themed birthday party a few years ago and insisted on being a pirate but had to have a pink eye patch.-
I guess I never noticed the absence of eyebrows on the Mona Lisa, and I had to actually look this up! Well, never gonna be able to unsee that...
I have my own areas where I struggle, and hair is honestly one of them. The "everybody has a glorious anime mullet" thing is also how I cover for a multitude of other weaknesses and gaps in my skill, since it can be used to cover parts of the neck and shoulders. That, and from a stylistic standpoint, when I first started drawing anthro stuff, I just gave everybody long, shaggy hair and beat-up clothing because I figured they were a bit more "animalistic" and would spend time doing animal things like hunting for food and fighting over territory, and it just sorta carried over into everything else. While Chance Whitefang is a man (err, saber-fanged monster wolf) of the wilderness, I get the feeling Angelo wouldn't last a weekend without access to a supermarket--yet they both have the same sort of mane going.
I think I prefer dogs with more clearly "canine" faces, from a purely aesthetic standpoint I tend to like dogs that are more wolf-like in appearance--collies, huskies, German Shepherds, and the like. On those dogs, the eyebrows seem a bit less pronounced.
Magaira is a character I never did much with, I think I originally designed her as a joke character/species of sorts back in high school and just sorta rolled with it. If you're interested, here's a couple old drawings of her from 2005... https://sta.sh/22tzd36xb7v
And this, in turn, reminded me of some other long-abandoned fairy creature designs from the mid-2000s I should try to revise sometime... https://sta.sh/2qiy4z4t2kq
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Looking into the Mona Lisa eyebrows issue some think she did originally have them but they were lost in a restoration. Other thoughts following in depth scanning of paint layers seem to show several attempts being scrapped off before the final version, pre a restoration that we see today. I like to imagine Leonardo in desperation sending a team of highly trained assassins to "shave that dam woman's eyebrows off!" Unlikely I realize but I have no problem rewriting history because it's better my way.
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