oooh the juicy butt of http://blitzbolt.tumblr.com/ apparently she likes to show off brushing even her tail away :x
For the longest time I wanted to do some fanart for the gory, but nonetheless brilliant blog of http://harpoonkelpie.tumblr.com/ So enjoy this evil but handsome bastard ^^
Request sketch for http://xthetiger.tumblr.com/ of his fursona together with the pony sona of his girlfriend having some cute snuggles =:}
This time I will be talking about my own art style, because a lot of people said that they would like to know how I draw. People who visited any of my streams, probably saw everything with their own eyes.
I am not saying that everyone should copy my style, draw the way I do or even listen to my…
Really nice! Pay special attention to the parts with inverting the picture, not zooming in more than 100% and how the shadows are done (this especially was new to me, very nice approach on it)
Sabertooth diaries 1: excavating old sketches by Mauricio Antón
“As the publication of my book ”Sabertooth” comes closer, I am trying to put some order in the mass of material I have been working with during the last few years. It is interesting to leaf through those fat folders full of sketches, some of them dating from MANY years ago: it refreshes my memory about some of the main subjects I have dealt with in the book, and in fact, it motivates me to tackle some of these subjects again, in anticipation for the next book (title to be disclosed at some point in the future…).
Here are some of those “paleo-sketches” (in the whole sense of the word!). They date from more than 15 years ago (Gosh!) and were my early attempts to put together observations about key aspects of big cat anatomy, especially related to hunting…(these drawings do not appear in the book or anywhere else in this form, so this is a sort of exclusive…)
In the years after I did these sketches I have found many fascinating things about these aspects of felid anatomy, which I have tried to reflect in the new book. These days I am preparing a short video about some of these things, I expect to be posting it soon!”
- First image: “compares the “primitive” skeletal porportions of the early cat Pseudaelurus (left) with those of the very different cheetah (Acinonyx) and sabertooth (Smilodon). Obviously, the skeletons and cats are not shown to scale”
- Second image: “shows aspects of the anatomy of the cheetah, with special attention to the lumbar vertebrae. For the fun of it, I also included a body size comparison betwen the modern cheetah and the extinct species Acinonyx pardinensis. Back then I was already puzzled by the possible meaning of the changes in body proportions during the evolution of sabertooths, and in particular in the shortening of the lumbar vertebra in many species”
- Third image: “shows the sequence of events during a hypothetical hunt by the sabertooth Smilodon: the chase (top); the wrestling struggle (middle); and the killing bite (bottom)”
- Fourth image: “shows the crucial point when the cat attempts to pull a large prey down to the ground, and it highlights some of the muscles relevant for that action”
(Image and text source: Chasing Sabretooths; via @Laelaps on Twitter)
Source: len-yan
thanks for taking the time to divide the file and upload it^^
oh cool, thank you. i think i might try starting out in grayscale and see if i can work out how to do it.
Art Challenge anon has not visited for a long while! I challenge you to draw something with THICK linework!
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I couldn’t come up with any original idea for it, so have a crude panda baby I guess o.O
The never ending fight under the shower for each single drop of water! Alas it’s an odd place to pinch somepony. They are pinching, are they? o.O
Here my next pony portrait that a couple of people won from Vexin’s contest. I noticed that I’m drawing the muzzle way too big and long, tried to remedy this here. Still not sure if I’m happy with that shape, but the hair is getting better with each try ^^
This one here is from
http://the-undying-flame.tumblr.com/
hope you enjoy!
