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YOU MUST FULL VIEW IT!!!!!
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This was done for a Portfolio that I was invited to participate in: Music in Fur Minor Portfolio

My song chozen is "The Last Unicorn" written by Jimmy Web.

I will be posting the Movie versions of the song by "America", but for now I only have the versions by Kenny Loggins & "In the Mood; feat. Juilette".

You can download the MP3s here: [link]

The Original Sketch of this is found here: [link]

W.I.P.s found here:

Sketch
1 [link]
2 [link]
Coloing on Charcoal Paper, markers finished gone onto Pastels: [link]

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I used the French Unicorn Tapestries as my inspiration and refrence. But, the main subject must be an anthro. That's why it's an Anthro'.

The song mensions a lion and a fountain. So, you can see I included them from the tapestry.

If you want to look up the original refrences you can search for "Unicorn Tapestries" on Google.com There really isn't much photos available other than the Metropolitan Museum site.

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NOTES:

The Initials:
In the Original version of the Unicorn tapestries there are anicials in the tapestry, some say they are clues of the artist/designer, others say it's about marriage, and the names of those whome were to be wed... however, it's all speculation since know one actually knows for sure.

I do actually have my Original Signature hidden inside the bushes, but I desided that my typical signature wouldn't fit. I generally do my signature really big as a a mark of who I am. Like John Hancock (If you don't know USA History he was the man who signed the Decloration of Independance and the Bill of Rights REALLY BIG, on July 4th 1776, specificly to be noticed and vex the King of England).
So, since I wanted to keep with the theme of the tapestry, I put my initials in the composition.

KKZ stand for my real name: Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman
So, please understand that. I don't want to have any teasing about it, I've heard it all before. I'm not a racist, so don't make any rarcist jokes like "well if you last name started with..." or the one about "KZ" in Germany. YOU ARE NOT FUNNY. It's not original, and I've heard it all before. So, keep it to yourself.

Mixed Media:
I did the color version on Charcoal paper with graphic markers for the base colors, then the highlights were done in Color pastels and white charcoal. Altho' I have done some shading with the pastels also.

I wanted to let the paper color show through as much as I could. I wanted it to have that warm old yellowed look to it, even tho' it's brand new.

Plants:
I didn't put nearly as many variety of plants as in the original tapestry.
However, i did include the Clover which really stands out to me in the tapestry. I kept the rises, but I did a different version of them. I redid the feild greens, and eddited the bushes.

The Lion:
I only included the male lion, and omitted the female.
Since the paper is small, I can't really have too many things in the peice. I knew I would be working with pastels, and you can;t really use pastels very well when you work small. They have blunt tips, and the trick with pastels is to make things blurry. If I had works with bigger paper, I definately would have no problem including more things, but, then I wouldn't be able to scan it. I'm not working all that time and energy into something then have to play with scanning it and the frustration of trying to line it up only making it worse. NO WAY!

Birds:
To even out the comosition I kept 3 birds in the peice.
You can see both a male and female pheasent.
You can also see what looks like a sand piper... at least it looks like one to me... not really sure what it is... but, for arguement sake, it's a sand piper!

The Fountain:
I really changed the fountain allot. I still kept it "a little bit off", but the one in the tapestry is rendered without any real sence of depth or structure. In the ancient tiems people had no schooling in perspective like we do today and figures and furnature was often done without regaurd for structure, since they had no concept of it. That's just how they did it.
My ego really had issues with this, because I want things to fit together. So, I wnet 1/2 and 1/2 with it.
I really simplified the fountain allot. I had to squish it to fit, and I really could have all that detail on it. There's just no way it could fit on such a small peice.

The Unicorn Maiden:
I know it's a kind of boring pose. It's profile, but that's just how they did it in this style of art, from this time period. I exagerated the arms, because I still wanted some kind of depth in it... it's not exactly forshortening... but that's just me inserting myself in the picture.
I felt that a tail wouldn't fit with it, so I omitted it.
I really wanted to keep the composition as minimal as I possibly could.
In case you didn't know, 1 of the miricale abilities that unicorns do is purify things, such as water. they can detoxify poisons, purify water, cure illness, and the list goes on...
In case you haven't noticed, the mane on the unicorn is nothing like the original unicorn in the tapestry. I had to throw in my style somewhere... so since I'm know for the way I draw hair, I threw that in. It adds more movement and depth to the picture whcih is more or less flat.
Another obvious thing about the unicorn is that it's an anthro, plus it's female. The original unicorn in the tapestry was a male unicorn with a beard. No beards here.
Also, the Unicorn is supposed to be bemused by a Maiden/Virgin. That is the only way to catch a unicorn.

Description
*****************************
YOU MUST FULL VIEW IT!!!!!
*****************************

This was done for a Portfolio that I was invited to participate in: Music in Fur Minor Portfolio

My song chozen is "The Last Unicorn" written by Jimmy Web.

I will be posting the Movie versions of the song by "America", but for now I only have the versions by Kenny Loggins & "In the Mood; feat. Juilette".

You can download the MP3s here: [link]

The Original Sketch of this is found here: [link]

W.I.P.s found here:

Sketch
1 [link]
2 [link]
Coloing on Charcoal Paper, markers finished gone onto Pastels: [link]

******************

I used the French Unicorn Tapestries as my inspiration and refrence. But, the main subject must be an anthro. That's why it's an Anthro'.

The song mensions a lion and a fountain. So, you can see I included them from the tapestry.

If you want to look up the original refrences you can search for "Unicorn Tapestries" on Google.com There really isn't much photos available other than the Metropolitan Museum site.

******************
NOTES:

The Initials:
In the Original version of the Unicorn tapestries there are anicials in the tapestry, some say they are clues of the artist/designer, others say it's about marriage, and the names of those whome were to be wed... however, it's all speculation since know one actually knows for sure.

I do actually have my Original Signature hidden inside the bushes, but I desided that my typical signature wouldn't fit. I generally do my signature really big as a a mark of who I am. Like John Hancock (If you don't know USA History he was the man who signed the Decloration of Independance and the Bill of Rights REALLY BIG, on July 4th 1776, specificly to be noticed and vex the King of England).
So, since I wanted to keep with the theme of the tapestry, I put my initials in the composition.

KKZ stand for my real name: Kandice Kathleen Zimbleman
So, please understand that. I don't want to have any teasing about it, I've heard it all before. I'm not a racist, so don't make any rarcist jokes like "well if you last name started with..." or the one about "KZ" in Germany. YOU ARE NOT FUNNY. It's not original, and I've heard it all before. So, keep it to yourself.

Mixed Media:
I did the color version on Charcoal paper with graphic markers for the base colors, then the highlights were done in Color pastels and white charcoal. Altho' I have done some shading with the pastels also.

I wanted to let the paper color show through as much as I could. I wanted it to have that warm old yellowed look to it, even tho' it's brand new.

Plants:
I didn't put nearly as many variety of plants as in the original tapestry.
However, i did include the Clover which really stands out to me in the tapestry. I kept the rises, but I did a different version of them. I redid the feild greens, and eddited the bushes.

The Lion:
I only included the male lion, and omitted the female.
Since the paper is small, I can't really have too many things in the peice. I knew I would be working with pastels, and you can;t really use pastels very well when you work small. They have blunt tips, and the trick with pastels is to make things blurry. If I had works with bigger paper, I definately would have no problem including more things, but, then I wouldn't be able to scan it. I'm not working all that time and energy into something then have to play with scanning it and the frustration of trying to line it up only making it worse. NO WAY!

Birds:
To even out the comosition I kept 3 birds in the peice.
You can see both a male and female pheasent.
You can also see what looks like a sand piper... at least it looks like one to me... not really sure what it is... but, for arguement sake, it's a sand piper!

The Fountain:
I really changed the fountain allot. I still kept it "a little bit off", but the one in the tapestry is rendered without any real sence of depth or structure. In the ancient tiems people had no schooling in perspective like we do today and figures and furnature was often done without regaurd for structure, since they had no concept of it. That's just how they did it.
My ego really had issues with this, because I want things to fit together. So, I wnet 1/2 and 1/2 with it.
I really simplified the fountain allot. I had to squish it to fit, and I really could have all that detail on it. There's just no way it could fit on such a small peice.

The Unicorn Maiden:
I know it's a kind of boring pose. It's profile, but that's just how they did it in this style of art, from this time period. I exagerated the arms, because I still wanted some kind of depth in it... it's not exactly forshortening... but that's just me inserting myself in the picture.
I felt that a tail wouldn't fit with it, so I omitted it.
I really wanted to keep the composition as minimal as I possibly could.
In case you didn't know, 1 of the miricale abilities that unicorns do is purify things, such as water. they can detoxify poisons, purify water, cure illness, and the list goes on...
In case you haven't noticed, the mane on the unicorn is nothing like the original unicorn in the tapestry. I had to throw in my style somewhere... so since I'm know for the way I draw hair, I threw that in. It adds more movement and depth to the picture whcih is more or less flat.
Another obvious thing about the unicorn is that it's an anthro, plus it's female. The original unicorn in the tapestry was a male unicorn with a beard. No beards here.
Also, the Unicorn is supposed to be bemused by a Maiden/Virgin. That is the only way to catch a unicorn.