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ChakotayDgryphon — Free Style
Published: 2007-12-03 08:50:36 +0000 UTC; Views: 1090; Favourites: 32; Downloads: 0
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This was a "stress-release" picture from last night. (Combination of job and family issues... fun~
) So, I didn't ink this picture to be serious. I know the background's kinda sloppy, but I don't care. Some of you might even recognize it ( Hey, the page was laying underneathe the desk... and I was too lazy to draw anything different... 
)I gave it the title "free-style" because usually when I have gryphs in the air like this I use photo refs for wing placement. A free sketch ( Honest and for true! ) for the first person who can correctly name both birds these two clowns stole their colors from.
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how cute is that?
I really want to do a piece like this but I haven't been brave enough, its the WINGS
I like this one too
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your art always makes me go wow. you are quite the artist, and so humble about it too! Come on.... give yourself some credit man! your art kicks ass!
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Redtail hawk and golden eagle? (bet that's wrong, figured I'd give 'er a shot anyway)
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The tan gryph's pretty hard to name because nobody can see the top-side of his wings. But one's a robin, (some have guessed him correctly) and the other's a cedar waxwing.
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(ack! This is so horrendously late! 
The picture is most definitely a beautiful sight to see. The contrast and mixture of color variations and shading is fantastic and the background is just fabulous, I believe. Great work with positioning the characters in a very flowing movement.
Beautiful setting overall. A wonderful piece.
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Ooh wow, this looks lovely. The colors look amazing, and you've drawn the background really nicely. I particularly like the look of the big tree.
The two gryphons look awesome too. Nice movement to them.
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Great poses and good composition. Beautifully colored.
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That's simply awesome! I love the poses, you're so good at drawing gryphons, I wish I was that comfortable drawing them(it's the lion part that really gets me >_<
They look so free, ah I'd love to be right there with them.
Great choice of colors, the sky and background are really eye-catching, but the gryphons definitely draw all attention to them, I like the one on the top the most, I love his expression.
Awesome piece!
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Aww~ The "lion" part of a gryph isn't so bad. If you've got kitties roam'n around your house you've got perfect mini-lions to learn different poses 'n stuff from. What I have trouble with the most is the angle of a gryphon/eagle beak looking right at you. I don't have very many of such references hanging around. ( Notice not many of my gryphs look right at the viewer... 
If you want to see some really good gryph-art, go check out the art of or
Those two ladies will knock your socks off!
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Yeah, I could do that. Thank you for the suggestion.
Oh yeah, I've tried several times, it's really hard and I usually end up with horrific heads XD I once found a good picture of a bald eagle that helped me out a lot, I'd show it to you but I've no idea where I got it or where I put it :/
I'll defnitely check those galleries out
You're a great gryph artist too so yeah 
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YI'm not particularly good at drawing horses, mine are more of a stylized cartoon than anything realistic, but I apply the same rules to them. I watch/touch the animal and let my brain put what it's observed down onto paper. The thing to remember, is just to stay loose. You gotta sketch loosely and not be so exact the first couple of times. Don't get stuck or keep your focus on the head. Cat heads/faces are tricky. Just get a feel for where the joints are and how they're supposed to move. After a while, the critter you're drawing draws itself. ^^
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Yeah, I do that with horses while I'm at the barn where I take riding classes, I'm always watching their legs and joints and all, I probably should start doing that to other animals too ^^ I agree with what you said about the sketches and stuff, I can be too perfectionist sometimes and if something doesn't look exactly like I want, I'll stop but now that you said that, I guess I just have to pratice and not expect that I'll get everything right on my 1st try
Thank you!
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Thanks very much, need to go to that stupid inetclub again... Didn't I tell you such files can be *easily* downloaded with Opera program? 8/ You've already watermarked the picture to prevent it from stealing, why do you need to download it in PNG-format, in addition to all the problems? 8/
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Oooh... Pretty :3 They look like they're having fun ^^
I'm gonna say... A robin and a scissor-tailed flycatcher?
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*is knocked speechless for the first time in her life (
Wow! This is incredible! Simply incredible. Though you claim the background is nothing special, it sure as the day is long blew me away.
I'll be quiet now and give you several Oreo cookies since Chakotay seems to adore them so much.
I guess these are the DA cookies.
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OMGosh COOKIE!!! 
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Wha! 
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ooo, flowy. Love the dynamic feel of this. ^_^
Secondaries DO seem an 'iddle bit small to me, though.
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Yeah, they are kinda narrow. Especially that floofer up there on the top. I was trying to pull off a picture of kite performing an upside-down swoop from memory. I remember that the angle and picture the photographer's camera caught made some of the feathers appear distorted. Next time I'll have to not be so lazy and actually find my "bird" binder so I can figure out how that angle is supposed to look.
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American Robin and some kind of flycatcher is my guess... But I'm not even that good at real flycatchers, so don't ask me which one.
THey look so happy!
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*laughs* Thanks.
It's not snowing there! I'd be happy too.
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Awesome, very dynamic! Lets hope they don't crash into eachother lol.
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Oh dear. That would be disasterous now wouldn't it.
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Ooo, very nice and pretty, this looks great. I love how the posing for the two works and looks and the colors and details are really well done. Really great work.
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I love how those griffins look here! Great posing and colouring! So cute!
Impressive aerobatic display, too. Flying upside-down is hard, isn't it?
Hmmm, what kinds of birds? I can only guess that one has the markings of a robin redbreast on his neck...
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Flying upside-down is not only hard, but dangerous. Not many birds can actually pull it off. Only the most skilled of them can. When a bird rolls over to swoop towards the ground back first, it changes the pitch and angle over the more natural flow over the shape of the wing. The drag on the feathers are altered and the bird can drop like a rock out of any dive. (I know this because I read about it once in a booK titled, "The Mechanics of Bird Flight." Not that I can properly redraw what I learned...
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Birds are certainly well-designed creatures!
I also recently had this email with a videoclip of a grey squirrel figuring out a complicated assault course to reach a tray full of nuts. No doubt about it, God gave these creatures some good brains!
Some animals even make humans look complete nutters!
I read in one book that ravens are among the most skilled flyers?
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I believe that about the squirrel. We had a baby grey squirrel one year that could do some pretty weird things. Unfortunately, he grew up and got ornery so we let him go. 
Mmmm... ravens could be. I've never really seen a wild raven fly though. I've seen plenty of crows... To me they fly like any other bird. The best "fliers" when it comes to birds in general in my opinion are sea-gulls. Now, I've watched them things fly. Wow! They're clumbsy as a chicken on the ground, but in the air they don't have to shift around very much to turn, ascend, descend in a hurry. Them things can stay aloft for hours without twitching a feather. If you're talking about a more acrobatic flier, I'm going to have to go with a peregrine falcon. This is a bird that likes to eat other birds... (Cannibal~
Yeah, there are some animals that are surprisingly more intellegent than most humans give them credit for. I know I've seen once on TV how they tested the IQ of an octopuss. Someone put some food in a jar, tightened the lid, and put it in a tank with said ouctpus. It took it only 20 min to figure out how to use is muscles/tenticles to squeese and unscrew the lid to find its treat. Pretty amazing.
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Yeah, those gulls get everywhere!
Wow! I've read about peregrines, but that's some pretty nifty tactics they have there! Impressive!
I'm fond of golden eagles, myself, but they're so rare... still, in my canon, anthro peregrines are among the best warriors in the hawkbird community where Marquila comes from.
I've even read about intelligent sheep in a Rolf Harris animal tales book. This whole flock managed to figure out how to beat the cattlegrids laid over the Southern Welsh moorland roads by charging them head-on and going into a roll (ala Sonic spin-attack) at the last second. Their impetus allowed them to roll right over them!
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Oh dear gosh...
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Beautiful 
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Thanks! ^^
So far, you're the closest. But the chat has too much grey on it. This bird, though you can't really tell because we're looking at the bottom of the wing in this picture, has the majority of it's grey focused mostly on the outer primaries. Think of a bird that has more peach on it, and I bet you'll get it.
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Wow, this is beautiful. I'm glad I stumbled upon it.
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its pretty good, I think their wings should be a bit wider though, it sort of looks hard to fly with them.
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Thanks. ^^
Aye, the secondaries could've been a little longer. But I think I've got the angle on the wings a little off. That's what I get for being too lazy to find my ref-book.
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haha, I do that too, I buy ref books and spend well over $80 on them, but Im too lazy to use them or I forget
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*laughs* I'm too cheap to spend $80 on a book.
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No! lol, I didnt dare spend $80 on a single book, thats the approxx of the books together
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