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cybre β Dragon Huntress :sketch:
Published: 2005-02-09 17:45:44 +0000 UTC; Views: 2316; Favourites: 38; Downloads: 193
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Again, a drawing mostly done at work... I like having slow days ^^This was a fun drawing! I was thinking I haven't drawn a dragon for a while, so I thought I'd try something different. I guess she's a bit of a dragon/dinosaur hybrid. I have been inspired by the fabulous lately. She draws the most amazing raptor anthros! Go check her stuff out... now! ^_^
[col-erase blue pencil & .05 mechanical pencil on cardstock]
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Lovely pic! Reading the previous comments about anime looks though, Anime styles of today evolved from american cartoons at the dawn of the animated era of film. Betty Boop and the early Disney cartoons for example. Big eyes, simplified looks and form in a stylized fashion.
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Great facial expression! It's so mischevious and coy, I love it
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Awesome, awesome ^_^ I love her costume and her markings. I'd love to see this one colored.
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Thank you! ...and you can! ^^ See my recent deviation
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What kind of raptor anthro were you looking to base your look off of? I just noticed that her feet have the big scimitar claws on the outside and most raptors I know of have them on the inside. If you based this off one whose claws are on the outside, please link me. ^^ I'd love to learn about a new kind.
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I was wondering who would be the first to point that out 
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*dances* Woo, first point out. I'm a geek! But that's okay. Artistic license! Besides, you called her a dragon, not a raptor anthro. XD
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I love the pose, and the physique of this huntress, very well done.
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Thank you for your compliment and fave ^_^ I'm glad you like the physique. I didn't want to make her your typical skinny girl, she is a warrior afterall! I hope she would have the strength to back that spear! ^^
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WoW!! This is so amazingly good !! I really love it will you be coloring this is the future ???
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Thank you for the compliment and fave!!! 
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Very sexy, yet strong. This chick could looks like she benchpress a bull dozer and then shag the operator of that bulldozer without busting a sweat. The raptor claws are a nice touch, but on most such dinosaurs I believe the big claw is on the inside toes, not the outside. (granted this is a long way from a dinosaur). Nice drawing!
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Mua ha ha! That's a very interesting way to describe her ^__^ Thanks! I'm glad you like it! And yeah, you are right... I made a mistake with the claws... DOH!!!
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Pretty neat line art, I'd love to see it colored. The posture really looks good, the lean against the rock looks accurate with the anatomy. Great job!
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Thank you ^_^ I struggle with anatomy so I'm happy to hear it came out well. I will be coloring it soon!
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Once again, our beloved Cybre-kitty has produced another masterpiece while at work! 
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YAY ^^ Raptoress, Iam not the artist who loves anthro art, but I do love this one ^^, its kind of..cute..I duno and sex 
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Thank you for the 
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this is a very well-done drawing, the details of her outfit and her trident, awesome weapon design indeed, it's hard to find people that pay enough attention to weapons in their works....believe me, it looks very awesome, but colored it would look super-obnoxiously (??) awesome
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Thank you! 
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i also love weapons....i wanna buy a black katana sword i saw at a weapon store bout 2 weeks ago, though money's a bit scarce these days, so i'll have to wait a while....what style of sword-skill did you study?
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That's would be cool... but yeah, swords are expensive 
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coolio 
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Wow. Lovely chara, I really like how she's turned out. 
I really like her, she's pretty! 
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Thank you very much ^_^ I greatly appreciate your taking the time to check out my drawing and for your kind words. Thank you also for the
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Slow day at work huh? Nice, isn't it? Great looking picture, she certainly has an interesting expression. Love that spear.
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Yeah, I did it while copying data and buring CDs ^^ You like my pointy thing of death? Hee hee... thanks!
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All fear the pointy thing of death!! *cowers*
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Wow, that was a nice experiment for you. I really like how it came out and it is really different from anything I've seen you do for a while now.
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Yeah it is, hence why I did it ^_^ Thanks! I'm glad you like it!
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Too heavily anime-inspired for my tastes, but your skills with a pencil are uncanny. There seems to be a slight deformation of perspective which makes it look like she's about to fall off the rock. Maybe gicing her lower foot a more distinguishable place to stand on? Or just make it obvious it's standing firm on the rock, by using shadows..?
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Anime inspired??? In what way do you mean that, because I am not inspired by anime at all. I'm not even a big fan of anime art. I really want NO traces of anime in my style.
Perspective is not my strong point
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it doesn't look anime though
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this is really cool i can't wait to see it in color! you should have it like a water type dragon like blues and light greens for skin colorings. but keep the stripes black. you can color any way you want but i'm just giving suggestions.
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She actually is already colored ^^ Thanks for the suggestions tho!
[link]
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Just took a better look at your whole gallery... Sorry to say but I see hints of anime everywhere, from hair styling to furries (especially the furry/dino ears)... Clothing style too.
I would however like to point out that apart from the furries, the anime influence is not saturating, but to me it's obviously there.
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Are you saying anything anthro is anime? Yeah anime has a lot of "cat girls" and stuff, but I am taking animals and giving them human characteristics. I'm not just drawing humans with "kitty ears" and tails. Pointy/animal ears does not denote anime... if anything I would call it fantasy.
I'm sorry to make a big deal out of this, but I have really tried hard to eliminate all traces of "anime" from my style.
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And I respect you for that, you're one in a crowd that doesn't follow the herd and want to draw anime. My point about all cartoons being anime-inspired is not concerning the origins, but instead that people discovered the style was popular and 'new', so a lot of traditional cartoon drawers began to show bits and pieces of influence from the japanese style.
To you it must seem like a frontal assault that I'm carrying out here, really, the traces aren't saturating, as I said, but per definition I percieve cartoon drawings with the characteristic traingle-formed faces and cute eyes as being influenced by anime. Today that takes many forms, and many styles I might call anime aren't part of the 'traditional' anime styles.
When it comes to eliminating traces of one style or another in one's drawings... It's hard, believe me... Personally I have some hints of it too, though I am aiming more towards realism than cartoon-ism. And the start-up half a year drawing some close-to-anime pics can still be seen one and a half year later.
What I cought on to about your drawing the most, was actually the creature you were drawing. Taking a human shape and changing it into somethign that looks like another animal is of course not strictly anime, but I'd say it's what made the style popular. That, and it has some similarity to a character drawn by another artist, who manly draws anime. I'll dig up a link to her works if you want, she's not strictly anime. More of a fusion, like you, but still closer to anime when she draws cartoons.
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I can see where you are coming from, and no, I don't see this as an assult at all, I am very interested in your opinion and not upset at all. I am always curious to hear how others view my art. It helps tell me how close I am to getting my vision to paper.
Thanks for the link, I'll go check her stuff out.
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Good to know I'm not getting too rough.
( leaves space for improvement, mwahaha! )
Anyways, i just noticed something I'm ashamed I didn't see earlier. Being a dinosaur-nerd and all. The main claws on her feet are placed on the wrong side, they're opposed to eachother like thumbs. As they say, you learn something new every day, would be boring otherwise. Keep it up!
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Heh, heh
Yeah, that's been pointed out... oops *smacks forehead*
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I think the word you may be looking for is to "Stylized" for your taste. When generalizing any style into parts it is hard to say where they come from. This is because the original creators put that in their style because they were inspired by someone else. Anime was actually in the beginning trying to mimic Disney. So are βcute eyesβ a Disney thing or an anime thing. Anime took certain elements that they liked and created other elements around it. This is the normal process of style creation for any art form. This is why it is never a good idea to try place people in categories. People might lean one way but they never fit exactly. No two people draw the same way. In the end, it is all art. Some of it you will like and some you wonβt, which is why comments on someoneβs style really arenβt fair. Oh and by the way, giving an animal human characteristics, or anthropomorphic art, can be handled very realistically if the artist chooses that style.
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Agreed on that, but I think we can also agree this drawing is slightly more like anime than your average Disney drawing. If you take a look at Horus-Goddess' gallery, which is where Cybre got her inspiration from in this case, you'll see it is indeed anime inspired. Though both artists manage to turn out the 'good' part of anime (that is, non-DBZ, non PokΓ©mon, with a definite and unique line).
So what can I say? Cheer up, there's good and bad anime. The good part is a rarity, since there are so many inexperienced people doing it, because the basic anime concept is easy to grasp (these are the people that watch DBZ and PokΓ©mon). There is also over-the-top anime with eyes filling up at least 1/4 of the head's height. Luckily, Cybre is doing a far more 'real' style. Though she does have some anime-like hairstyles and the obligatory furries lying around here and there (not that they're bad either).
Also, one of the main reasons I burst out 'anime' at the beginning comes from the art of Tina Leyk, very skilled painter as well. [link] Things like how the furry is grinding her teeth and the way her hair is styled shows up as anime to me (correct me if I'm wrong). Thus I also quickly associated anime with the other character in that picture, which as you might notice has horns, pointed ears, and the same type of nose as Cybre's drawing. While it might not be an anime influence, I quickly deemed it as such, as it was pictured along with the furry.
If you want to see more of Tina Leyk's art, here you go: [link]
And the reason I mentioned it in a negative way at the start is the abundancy of anime going around... It's a popular style because you can have very well looking drawings, but as I'm chronically opposed to anything popular, well... There I go.
Hope this will clear it up a bit...
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Okay, first off Tina Leyk defines her own artwork as Science fiction or fantasy. Itβs right at the top of the page. Cybre's hair style could have been as easily inspired by anime as art nouveau, itβs not exactly the same but similar. In the picture you linked you can clearly see a difference in the line work and expressions. The "obligatory furries lying around here and there" or a pin up layout dates back to the 40's and has nothing to do with anime at all. This is what I meant earlier about taking one piece versus another. In the end you have to decide if it is a good picture, which will be based on taste. Some people like seafood some don't. It is really that simple.
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I'm a sucker for a discussion, and I often turn the heat too far. I think this is enough discussion for today, and we're really in kind of dead lock, yes some people like seafood. Some people like blue, and don't even like sea food.
What it all ultimately comes down to is that I've always connected furries to anime, which I was pretty sure of until you came along. One learns something new every day. I'd however like to bring one final comment, that I think T. Leyk's Fur-Lo comic is inspired by japanese drawing to some extent, but let that be the closing remark!
If you want to know what I think of this picture in specific, I kind of forgot to mention that after my first post, but I do think the line has some personality and the figure itself is very clear. Apart from the slightly off perspective and the lack of a shadow under her foot, the pic is more or less perfect, style taken into account.
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