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DolphyDolphiana β Drabbit
Published: 2008-08-27 18:21:29 +0000 UTC; Views: 13851; Favourites: 737; Downloads: 291
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Half dragon, half rabbit. *lol*
And now, worship the Drabbit, give all your carrots to it!
Photoshop 7.0.
Drabbit(c)myself.
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Wuaaah that's just too darn cute! XD
*worships the drabbit and buys tons of carrots for it*
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Cool idea: Wiger. Half Tiger, Half Whale. Tiger that lifed underwater. Whale tail. Sirene like (or whatever).
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It kind of reminds me of Figment from the old "Journey into Imagination" ride in Disney World. I love it!
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NO! you can't have my carrots!
*looks at it. heart melts*
here, have my carrots!
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I love that clueless expression of his. Don't let that thing come anywhere near my gardens!
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hahahaha cute cute cuteeee
I want one! XD
very well done!
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haha cute!!! My fursona is a drabbit too. My friend showed this to me xD
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He looks almost hypnotized! xD
A very nice mix of two very different creatures
and as always, your coloring is supreme!
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Hey Dolphy! Cute little guy, I love his dorky face.
I've got a suggestion for your future art... it's one thing I've noticed in a lot of your character images, and I'm not sure if you're aware of it, so let me try to give some concrit.
It has to do with balance and center of gravity. I've noticed the error in some of your pictures showing characters in sitting poses, and also occasionally in standing poses. The characters look ok anatomically, but the way they're interacting with the ground plane doesn't look right. Either they're tipping too far to one side (misplaced center of gravity) or it doesn't look like their body weight is distributed logically (issue with balance and mass).
Let me start with this deviation and try to show you what I mean through redlines and a little copy-pasting.
[link]
In the case of the drabbit, from his chest up he looks fine relative to the ground plane. But the arc of his spine curves a little *too* much, placing his feet too far to the left and making him look like he may topple on his back.
[link]
This picture has a similar issue with balance, but also with weight distribution. It looks like you couldn't decide whether the dog was leaning onto his front paws or shifting his weight onto his butt. See the picture for redlines and suggestions.
[link]
With the siberian tiger, it's more an issue of lack of apparent weight: it just doesn't look like the massive cat is using any of her muscles or bones to prop her up into her sitting position.
And in something like [link] , watch the perspective of the characters relative to each other and to the background. The apparent weight of the tiger is very confusing.
Even though this tutorial ( [link] ) is for human figures, the same principles apply to animals. The center of gravity section is especially informative and may help you.
I'm not an expert at art, character drawings, gravity, etc. by any means, but I hope my redlines and suggestions help clarify some things for you, or at least give you some ideas.
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Thank you very much for taking the time to write this comment and doing those redline-drawings, I really appreciated it and will keep it in mind for future pictures. This really helped me a lot. 
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You're welcome! I'm glad it helped. Weight and gravity can be very tricky to incorporate into character drawings... I still struggle with it myself! That Elfwood tutorial is a good reference to have around. Also, I find that it helps to draw out your poses from different angles to work out exactly what parts of the body are going where, which direction they're facing, etc.
I remember seeing a video somewhere in which Glen Keane (I think it was him) suggested that animators should "draw as if you are sculpting": even though you're drawing a character on a flat piece of paper/screen, keep in mind how it would look and feel in a 3D environment.
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Ingenious! 
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'Kay. I like pea pods more anyway.
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So Cute. As if gardeners didn't have enough trouble already with normal rabbits. Not only can they eat the crops, but burn the rest and fly away!
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*squeaks* Aw! I noticed this lil guy in your sketch dump the other day.. so glad you colored him!
So goofy, yet so cute...
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>< freaking awesome. I know that isn't very constructive, but seriously... Freaking Awesome!
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D8 *surrenders all of my carrots* Please don't hurt me! *cowers*
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Aww, it's so cute!
Now...does it breathe flames like normal dragons, or carrot cake?
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