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Published: 2008-11-14 09:16:40 +0000 UTC; Views: 4555; Favourites: 131; Downloads: 0
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This is the finalized sketch for the current painting/illustration I'm working on for my Illustration class. It is going to be painted traditionally in oil glazes. The background is already done, it's a gradient (red to yellow) over a textured base.And that is blood he is leaping from... Pegasus was born from the blood from Medusa's severed head. Yay, blood FTW!
Art © *Freha '08
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cool, but, how did the Pegasus stick in the water?
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I love his face, perhaps you could photo copy it and do a photo with effective colour, so you've got a rough idea of what it would look coloured but i'm speechless it's brilliant : )
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He is all painted now. I forgot to update this with a link. Whoops. It was a color contrast experiment for me. -> [link]
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ooh can't wait to see the final of this.
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You always pull off muscling and expression so well and this image is nothing short of that.
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Creepy but very cool! I love the way you sketch/draw, it has so much freedom to the lines! And you are so good at getting that teeth bared expression in the face of horses, it's hard to get, but you accomplish it so well! And the wings are so beautiful!
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Thank you!
Some of my sketches turn out brilliant (like this one) but most of them are too crazy and scribbly to understand. When I sketch I don't take the time to erase any mistake lines I just sketch over the top of them, lol. Thus the reason why they usually end up so messy and I don't upload them.
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wow I love this sketch! I have been keeping it in my devwatch for days just admiring the thumbnail 
I'm not as good at horse anatomy as you, but to me the back hind leg looks a little too far back.. maybe it is just me
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I have him in perspective, so that my be why his legs look too far back.
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I love the face! It's so expressive!
Personally I don't have a problem with how the wings are attached (reading :despotted pegasus
Alas, wings look fine to me, but I did notice something else... 
It's hard to explain jsut what it is that feels wrong - teh perspective will of cours emake them look askewed as is, but I think it almost feels as if the body is curved with the way Pegasus' right hind leg is placed, but it conflicts with teh fact that when you look at the entire body, it does not look curved at all. I think I'd play around with teh positions a bit, and try to find teh skeletol position of the legs, and then try to add flesh and muscles on top of that too find teh right position. I can't say it will work, you mitgh not find teh rigth angle anyway, and mayeb it even is the right angle. Sometimes when you look at a photo and really start looking, you'll see that it looks real strange with leg positioning sometimes!
This is my favorite myth (of course) and I'm dying to see how it comes out with paints!
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hoohoo wowzers! anatomy is very well done for this angle! Good dynamic pose and movement indicated too. It realy works
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I can't wait to see this finished! Sounds like its going to be something else! I really like the expression on the pegasus's face, really brings it together
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Thank you! He is finished and posted now!
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ooh, so cool!! That expression is awesome! and the pose!
I can't wait to see the finished product
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Before reading the comment, I sort of wondered if this was the illustration of a Pegasus birth.
I'm enjoying the expression on the face, and the way the cheeks shape, around the mouth muscles. You also have some nice foreshortening going on with the horse body, leaping forward, out of the water. This puts the viewer closer than most pegasus pictures do. Odd thought there I guess. I'm enjoying the picture very much.
I have one complaint, that shouldn't even be a complaint because it has to do with the wings, and everyone draws wings differently. The way they are placed, it feels like there should be a muscle that comes lower from the shoulder, connecting them, for the flight support. and where the balance would be. If that makes sense. Other than that, I'm enjoying the rest of the anatomy. Especially the way the flesh around the hips folds when it stretches around the muscles, and budges.
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Thanks hun. I gave up the goat and didn't worry about making the wings anatomically fit... it is mythology/fantasy after all.
But in just about every image you see of a pegasus, and even in classical paintings of Pegasus, the wing is just attached there. If I worked out the anatomy of how wings would actually work on a horse's frame, it would still resemble Pegasus but it wouldn't be "the" Pegasus that the Professors here are used to seeing. So I just went with the trend and placed the wings at his shoulders.
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I'll agree with that, and they bug me. 
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hey! a traditional birth story painting for Pegasus!! sounds cool!
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Thank you.
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well at least you'll have this digital copy to fall back on if you do! ^-^ I'm sure you'll do a great job
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Blood FTW indeed. That's my favorite version of pegasus's origin, yet it's rarely used in modern adaptations.
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Version? There are others?... this is the only one I knew of. Most of the times that you encounter Pegasus he seems to have simply sprung to life, they totally ignore the creation part, probably because of severed heads and blood birth, lol.
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Version might have been the wrong word, since it's the original mythology story. I meant in any sort of mythology shows/movies they don't use the blood thing. Ie, in Disney he was made of clouds and in Clash of the Titans I think Zeus just created him somehow.
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