More artwork from Sky! Awesome!
Soon to be Parents:Aww, that’s a perfect mother’s day card!
That’s a very sweet scene.
Sky looks a little like he’s preening Star (or about to). Do wingtails preen each other? I’d assume they need to take care of their feathers, and mutual preening is something a lot of birds engage in as a social or bonding activity, especially between mates. Evidently it is important to their psychological health as well as their physical; some social birds, if deprived of preening partners, will apparently suffer much as a human would if cut off from social contact with other humans. Anyway, just putting preening out there as something wingtails might do.
Colorful Wingtails:Holy buckets, that’s a lot of wingtails! :blink:
I love the excited-looking green one vaulting over that brown one’s head.
Her expression is great, as are those of all three of the other wingtails who are reacting to her (though personally I think it’s a little odd that their reactions include sweating). I like that unreadable (at least, I can’t read it
) expression Glide has as well, though it looks like part of the line that forms Glide’s mouth has been erased. And Sky and Star’s chicks are adorable, especially Cloud, and the one on Sky’s head.
Petrie:This picture reminds me a lot of your older LBT artwork, but in a much more sophisticated style. I like it. In some ways it’s a fairly simple picture (I particularly notice that most of the outlines are extremely marginal, if they’re there at all), but the shading and highlighting adds an amazing amount of depth to it.
What I always wanted to tell you:That’s a
really pretty one.
The background is nice, but Sky and Star are just gorgeous! I
love their expressions. There’s just something incredibly cute about them. And such shiny eyes! *mesmerized*
So do wingtails use flowers in place of engagement rings?
Like the Petrie picture, it looks like outlines are minimized in this piece, but somehow that only makes the details stand out even more. I particularly like the feathers on Sky’s wings, the “fur” on both wingtails’ backs, and the fluff on their chests. The lighting on Star also looks really nice. I can’t help wondering, though, if Sky and Star (Sky especially) should really be that brightly lit from this angle since the moon is behind them. Maybe it would be possible for the water to reflect some of the moonlight back at them, (especially if the water was shallow with light colored gravel or sediment on the bottom), but then their feet and tails might be more brightly lit as well. (Seeing as there’s a full moon right now, I actually brought a water-filled pan and bowl outside and held a little dinosaur figure over them to see whether the reflections from the water illuminated it any differently.
) Of course, you probably know a lot more about lighting than I do, so I could be wrong.
Personally I love this new art style. I wouldn’t want to see you completely abandon your usual style, but I definitely would like to see more pictures like the last two above.
By the way, Sky, I recently updated my own art thread with a picture I made a few years ago, and if you happened to have the time and inclination, I would be honored to receive a brief comment from you on it.
