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Silvixen — From The Shadows
Published: 2011-07-13 06:28:35 +0000 UTC; Views: 668; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 0
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More of an experimental piece than anything else.Fear my bizarre anatomy and strange vanishing rock... as well as an excessively long tail that was definitely done on purpose... yes.
Rock brush by *charfade
Photoshop CS4
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I love the fading background, an awesome thing overall!
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Awesome picture! The painterly style is really cool!! I especially like the sky.
IMO I really like the spots (their shape & distribution is perfect), though they might look a little better if not so blurred and without the glow effect... I can't really claim to have any experience in this area, though. 
Also, big tails are great on snow leopards, since they're one of their most defining features (which IMO makes exaggeration in a cartoon character perfectly acceptable). I know they even like to carry them in their mouths sometimes!! (maybe it's to keep them from getting dirty dragging on the ground 
Really, though, this is a very, very nice picture overall!
Also.. there are rock brushes too?!? I must try them!!
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Thanks so much.
The glow on the spots is deliberate. It was to give the whole image a more mystical feel.
No I've drawn several snow leopards before, just not on DA. It only looks a bit odd because I took the pose from a photo of a kitten and so the body is a lot shorter than it really should be and the head's a bit big.
Yes there are brushes for pretty much everything ever.
Thanks again!
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Yay! I'll have to find me some of those everything ever brushes!
Oh, so the glow IS intentional - I thought you might've done it on accident when applying a filter (i.e. sharpen filter often leaves glowey edges). Still, just 'cause it's not my favorite style ever doesn't mean it's wrong! Maybe it even helps the spots stand out.. dunno how it would look without it.
And now I wanna see a snow leopard with glow-in-the-dark spots!! That would be awesome!
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love that fading background, really done well and adds effect
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The lighting effects are gorgeous! Perhaps the paw in the back could need more shadow despite it's facing the light, cause it slightly gives the effect of being "photoshopped" on the top of the bg (I'm annoying I know <3 ); other than that - expression, fur, coloring, toning, anatomy, pancakes = A+
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Haha yes I had plenty of trouble trying to make it as though it was actually standing with the picture and not on it. It's a lot better than it was at least, but very good point.
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Have a cookie for striving to awesomeness and achieving it!
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ooh, the background in this is gorgeous. and i really like the little lep also. no anatomy beefs here, not major enough. 
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it's really awesome! i luv it! i really need to learn to draw paws more like u draw them cause they are so good!
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u know, i really need to learn to draw like u overall!
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Hehe it took me years and years to develop to this stage and style... and I've still got a fair way to go. Personally I learn from looking at the animals themselves and then taking examples from the way many other people have stylised them.
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i try and do that except the problem is i tend to forget what they look like really easily
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That's why you keep the pictures next to you at all times and draw from reference.
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