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Or rather, a fanfic idea. This is a scene from a fanfic idea of a friend of mine (Delete_Lover) entitled "Lord of the Flyers". Here is the summary of the fanfic:

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Lord of the Flyers: (Land Before Time) Shortly after his expulsion from the Great Valley, Pterano, now entirely alone, is attacked by a group of Flyers--and is saved by another. Finding himself in the midst of a tribal civilization of Flyers, he realizes that he is in a world that is everything he could have ever hoped for--and more. After becoming a member of the tribe and reconciling with Yaari, one of the warrior Flyers, Pterano discovers that the Flyer tribe has an enemy beyond their world--a pack of vicious creatures called the Night Flyers. Things go from bad to worse as Pterano discovers that Sierra, his former henchman, is one of them--and Sierra has not forgotten the events of the past. When Sierra makes one of the most threatening claims of all time, Pterano must abandon his former ego-centric life and fight...even if it ends up killing him.

Inspired by this idea, I drew this picture: http://i165.photobucket.com/albums/u72/Inf...enesketch-1.jpg

In this scene, Sierra is making "one of the most threatening claims of all time" while Pterano and Rinkus stare at him, horrified. And a group of evil flyers stands nearby to make sure the two don't attack Sierra.

Yeah, to clarify, Rinkus is, far as I know, one of the good guys in "Lord of the Flyers", since Sierra turned on him and attacked him after they escaped at the end of LBT7.

If anyone would like me to ink and color this, I will.


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I remember Delete_Lover. :)

AND I remember this story idea she had. Was always excited for it to be out, now I guess it really is in progress?

Definitely color it! It would look awesome! ^_^




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I just spoke with Delete_Lover about your question. And the answer is that she would love to write it, but she has other projects in the works now, but she may try to write it this summer.


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I kind of hope that Pterano and Rinkus team up, to be on the good guy's side!

Because in a couple of other stories (Shadow Fire and Cyrstal Blaze) Pterano and Sierra team up as good guys, because they were brothers named Silver and Shadow in a past life.

Plus I would like to see Pterano and Rinkus working together and Sierra by himself for at least one story? Just like how Rinkus and Sierra were working together behind Pterano's back in the LBT 7 movie.


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OH MY...that Look Solid (Awesome)


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Very good drawing and an excellent job on the facial expressions in particular. I would love to see a colored version of it :yes


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That's one lovely sketch! As malte said, it has got some very good facial expressions. If you have time you should definitely colour it! :)


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Nicely done, indeed! The detail given to the expressions is astonishing, too!


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Wow! I agree, really nice expressions. Sounds like a very interesting fanfic idea, too.



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Wow! Looks really awesome! Love the night effect to it, honestly.


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First of all, the picture is really lovely :yes
Whatever criticism I give is not meant to depreciate the picture, but only to suggest further improvements in future pictures.
As for the positive things I really like the shading of the characters. It is quite tricky to adapt the colors of character to a nighttime scenery and I think you have done really well. Perhaps there could be a few minor corrections about the way some shadows fall (with the major source of light, the full moon being behind Rinkus the shadow still falls in his rear) but these are just small elements.
One thing that I think is a little exaggerated are the glowing eyes of the flyers in the far background. It can happen that eyes reflect light (many will have probably seen the "glowing" in the eyes of a cat when it looks into the light from a dark spot) but I think it looks just a little too strong so the eyes of the flyers look too shiny and a bit too similar to the stars in the background.
One more thing that I think can be improved are the rocks. You took a prepared pattern from photoshop for the structure of the rocks (you did so before), but I think it looks a bit too regular for rocks to look natural. Photoshop has several functions which can work really well for rock or wooden structures. The function Filter > Render > Fibers can create some nice effects. In combination with some own shading (there can be very sharply cut shadows along rocky walls if there is an edge with two parts standing in a different angle towards the light) one can do something really awesome about rocks.


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Nice! I really love the lighting. And Rinkus looks fantastic :)



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Rinkus and Sierra were in a later movie of the land before time im surprised they are so popular in all these fan fictions.

I like the idea too - reminds me of Kenneth Oppel's Silverwing series.


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Later movie? You referring to LBT7?


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From what I remember Pterano, Rinkus and Sierra were going to be in LBT 12, the Great Day of the Flyers! But it never happened?


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None of them ever made any reappearance for all I know. There are a few cases of flyers resembling Pterano's outward appearance, but they never speak and are never referred to in any way either, so I don't suppose they are meant to be him.