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Thanks everyone!
I may do another MLP unicorn at some point. 🙂 I have one more pyo unicorn about. This was pretty fun.
This isn’t really a sparkle critter, and I almost made another thread for this guy, but I spam the art area enough as it is, so he goes here. 🙂
Larger version here:
http://www.sparkcostumes.com/gallery/albums/userpics/kirjac2.jpgI did some experimental stuff with this, mostly in varying line weight. I’m pretty happy with how that worked. Also I put a TON more detail into this than I do into the $5 commissions. 😛 $5 buys you an hour of my time, and that’s a bargain. This thing took two or three hours at LEAST.
It’s a character of mine, who I haven’t named yet. He’s a kirjak, which is a muntjak-based kirin. Muntjak, if you don’t know, are fanged deer, so he’s a fanged unicorn deer. With wings, just because I like wings on things.
I tried to add scales to him a few times, several of the versions of him that other people have drawn for me have scales, and I like the look, but it ended up not looking so great on him when I tried. I may draw them in later on anyhow. We’ll see.
I references real animal photos for all of this. Mostly, of course, muntjak photos, but the tail actually came from a Saluki (breed of dog) the beard and mane came from a goat, and the wings were from a pigeon. I also used the wonderful wing tutorial posted by Nambroth over on Deviantart to help out the wings a little.
They’re 800X I have no idea. I resized them to be 800 specifically for this forum, because that was the rule I understood at the time. *mutter* I guess I”ll just go turn them into links.
Here’s a few more:
Leech in color:
(Just a really quick pencil color scribble, really.)Mammoth color experiment:
(Not my best marker attempt.)Sparkle skunk:
She’s so full of rainbows and happy that she sprays hearts and rainbow glitter, instead of stink. 😆Star-nosed mole:
I found another “bug”. I went to update my old fuzzy stuff post to show that I’d added new stuff today, but it won’t let me. It says “It was not possible to determine the dimensions of the image.” and just won’t post. Kind of annoying if I have to remove my images in order to update the post!
Edited: My new gallery setup moved all my images around, so the links don’t work anymore. 🙁 But the art is all still there, and tons and tons and tons more, here: http://www.sparkcostumes.com/artwork
I haven’t drawn very much for years and years, but for some reason the other day I felt like drawing something, and I’d recently been looking at some “sparkledogs” which are… well, it’s really hard to explain, exactly, but they’ve basically furry characters that come in improbable colors, have lots of accessories, and tend towards Mary Sue life stories. I can’t take them seriously, but I love them anyhow. So I thought I’d do one of my own, and then somebody suggested another animal I should do in that style, and it just got out of control…
(Images were here before they broke)
Anyhow! I am taking commissions for these. 🙂 You can get an animal done in the “sparkle” style with all the silly additions, or I can do one that’s more realistic, or something fantasy and interesting like the leaf corgi, all kinds of options. $5 for black and white, $15 for digital color, $20 for real media color. Paypal, check, money order or cash accepted. I suppose I’d take trades too, but it’d take an awful lot of these things to equal any Windstones! 😀
Thanks for looking!
Larger photo here: http://www.sparkcostumes.com/gallery/albums/userpics/P1020853.jpg
I still need to do the jewelry, I want to do it in silver to match the moon on her marking, and I want to put in a whole bunch of teeny tiny tanzanites that I happened to have on hand. But everything else is done.
If you don’t know what she’s supposed to be, she’s this: http://www.thetoyden.com/toyden/images/mlp/moondancer.JPG My much-loved childhood toy. 🙂
Hey, but all the smilies look right now! The white backgrounds on them, against the black of the forum, always kind of bugged me. 😛
I’m making some dragon horns, as part of a refurbishing project for somebody’s old dragon costume. They’re primed but not painted yet. Still, I thought they looked pretty spiffy, so I figured I should share.
(That and the customer wants me to paint them solidly in a loud automotive metallic paint. *sigh* I want to do them super-realistic in bone colors, with lots of shading and highlights, but the customer always has the final word on these things, and he wants metallics. So I figured I’d better get a photo now, in case it looks awful when it’s done.)
*laughs* The ones I REALLY want are the limited ones. 🙂 (I’d about kill for the violet flame *sigh*) But I’d take any, honestly. I love the sculpt, in all the colors I’ve ever seen. I think my next fav. after the violet flame is the white. I also love the gold, the rainbow, and the peacock too, though I think peacock is at the bottom of the list. I still like it plenty though.
