My art work

[Ptyra]

If I draw Rosa again, I think I'll consider your suggestion.

Here's the one of Ptyra and Pteano. I did a color test to try to get them closer to "actual color"...at least in Pterano's case XD

Coincidentally, I think they look like Michael York and Susie Amy (who played D'Artagnan's daughter Valentine)

[Pangaea]

Beautiful! The colors are fantastic!

The background’s a little blurry, though, and it looks strange that there’s no texture to the (presumably grassy) ground.

If I were to suggest any changes to the characters themselves, it would be some editing and smoothing out of parts of the outlines, such as on Ptyra’s wing, and where a line from Pterano’s ruff crosses onto Ptyra’s arm. (Pterano’s face is literally flawless, though, as far as I can see. Nothing you'd need to change there.)

[karkovice]

Wow! You're becoming quite the "artiste", my dear!  

Just a comment, though: I find the red eyelids on Pterano make him look like he hasn't slept in days... like he's tired, or something... But I'm sure you have your reasons for colouring them that way...

But these images make me look forward to reading your fanfics even more!  

I'm also offering an idea: While I was looking at your new images, I was listening to the Abba song "Chiquitita". It's one of their more popular hits, and it's a ballad about heartache and pain. My mother was a big Abba fan, so I grew up listening to their music.   There are clips of the song on Youtube you could listen to to get a feel for what it is.

Having said that, this'd make a pretty good song Pterano could sing to Ptyra as a way to help her feel better. I'm guessing the image of Pterano consoling a sobbing Ptyra was after she just gave up her adoptive child over to a domehead family. You could maybe include that song in one of your fanfics. I'd change the word "chiquitita"(which is Spanish for "little girl", if I'm not mistaken) to something else, though.

Since LBT has traditionally included songs in the movies and TV episodes, it'd be a nice way to carry on that tradition. I know I always include at least a couple of songs like this in my fanfics.  

Ciao dearie!  

[Chiletrek]

Hello:
 I like the pic, I think it is a very touching one.
 I am looking forward to see more pics from you. Keep it up!

[Kor]

Very good and very touching drawing.  Hope you continue to draw.  You're a good artist.

[Sky]

A very good picture indeed.  
Say, what do you do to make your lineart? Maybe there is a way to improve it, making it look smoother.  

Can't wait to see your next works!  

[Ptyra]

I'm glad you liked it.
@ Karkovice: I actually took your advice for the "Comfort song", but I decided to go with some form of "Remembering". Maybe I can lead that into a different version of "Always there"
@Sky: With my LBT pictures, I draw on paper first, and sometimes I got over with pen or fine point sharpie. When I work on it on Photoshop, sometimes I use a bigger brush point so I can see it better.

I should have posted this yesterday, but it was really late when I got to the finishing point.

I actually wasn't intending this to be a Valentine's Pic, but as an attempt to look into Ada's personality a bit more. In the original sketch, Pterano looked extremely shocked and could possibly have been saying "Why is your hand on my beak?"
I guess this kinda puts Ada into the flirtatious category.

[karkovice]

Okay... I was also gonna suggest a variation of "Bad Attitude" by Honeymoon Suite as kind of a description song somebody else could use to describe Pterano; but if you wanna include some of the more traditional LBT songs in your fanfics, that's entirely up to you.  

I just hope you'll put down some kind of link to your stories once they're done. I'm very much looking forward to reading them.  

[Pangaea]

This picture made me laugh when I saw it.

It is also, in my opinion, one of the best images you’ve done so far. Mostly because the flyers are so well drawn. Pterano looks nearly identical in his proportions and physical details to his canon self in LBT VII. (You deserve particular commend for drawing his beak so accurately. ) His head and left hand particularly stand out to me as being outstandingly drawn.

Ada looks good as well. Like Pterano, her entire head looks fantastic, and while her left upper arm looks a little long, the forearm and hand of that arm are very well done. Also, if "flirty" was the look you were going for with her, I’d say you succeeded. (The look on Pterano's face, by the way, is hilarious.)

I’m a little disappointed that the rocks prevent us from seeing Ada and Pterano’s feet (or was that intentional, because I nitpick you about your characters’ feet so much? :) but they look excellent. You should definitely stick with this new style of drawing rocky backgrounds. Also, while the horizon looks to be a bit wavy (that is, not perfectly horizontal; nothing to do with the fact that it’s the ocean ), I really like how it sort of blends with the sky, rather than sharply contrasting with it. I like the way you colored the sky as well. Both the sea and sky seem to have a more natural feel to them in this image.

The main critique I have for the characters is that on certain parts of them, the outlines are excessively thick, most noticeably on the inside of Ada’s lower left leg, and Pterano’s left arm and wing membrane. As for the background, the sun in the distance looks a little off-center relative to the light effect (unless you didn’t intend it to be centered :unsure:).

EDIT: I could just imagine this picture on an LBT-themed Valentine's Day card.

[Sky]

Yes, it looks very good (though I wish the rocks wouldn't cover their feet ) and you're one of a fast artist too.  :blink:

Well, I guess Pangaea said most of the part about the lineart. So you're working with Photoshop? Ever tried the Pen-Tool out? It could make your lineart much smoother and the lines wouldn't have different thicknesses.  

[Ptyra]

Yes, I do use the pen-tool. All the time. I just use a higher brush size because I have a deep need to see the lines clearly.
But for some reason, after I finished this picture. I guess it'll be better later, but I ended up saving it as it is here.

Cute hatching picture number THREE XD

I think that Pterano is older than Petrie's mom, like he had been from a different brood. I had a caption on the original sketch: "Hi, baby sister"
And the tips of their beaks were touching, not like Pterano's beak appearing under his sister's.

[Sky]

Lovely picture!  

Never thought of Pterano being older than her. Though, he looks like a young teen to me in this picture. When Petrie's mom grows to an adult, Pterano would be much older than usually.

Ah, it's just my point of view. It's still a lovely picture of them.  

[Pangaea]

I always thought of Pterano being the same age as Petrie's mother (with an age disparity of a few minutes at best ). I have to agree with Sky that he looks much older than Petrie here.

I always feel bad about saying things like this, but I don't find Petrie's mom (do you have a name for her in your fanfic?) to be particularly cute here. In fact, I have to say that she doesn't look much like a flyer at all. In addition to her beak being very blunt at the tip, the line of her mouth is so far down that her the top half of her beak looks much deeper than the lower half. The leaves and eggshell also hide whatever expression she might have, and the fact that her eye is at the very front of her face gives her an almost cyclopean appearance.

While again I have to complain about Pterano's claws (both on his hands and his feet) looking too rounded, I will say that his head, neck, and facial expression are all very well drawn, and I'm really impressed by the leafy nest as well.

[Kor]

Good artwork.  I hope you continue to draw.  It is fun to see the drawings you do.

[Ptyra]

I considered some of your suggestions. One of the things I did was re-do Petrie's mom completely from scratch. I also shrunk down Pterano a bit to make him look a bit smaller.

I hope this is better. The egg's not quite as good as it should be, but I guess it'll have to do.
I think that the age difference between her and Pterano is somewhat vast. I didn't really think I wanted him to look like a young teen, but I certainly wanted him to be older than Petrie.

And now for one with a proper background

With first flights come first landings, and this one didn't quite make the cut.

[Pangaea]

Okay, first picture: HUGE improvement from the original. Petrie’s mom looks very cute now. Also, maybe it’s my imagination, but her eyes look sort of like she’s squinting a little, as one would expect from an animal that had just hatched. It looks great.

Ptyra’s position and expression in the second picture made me laugh. Pterano’s head looks pretty good, too, apart from his pupils being maybe a bit large and his beak not pointed enough. I can’t quite put my finger on it, though, but he looks kind of strange in this image. Maybe it’s his legs and feet (oh, those darned limbs! ). The joints are a bit rounded, and they (particularly his left leg) look a little misshapen. :unsure:

[Ptyra]

Noooo the feeeeet D8 !!!
And now for an after-banishment picture! It's an "I was so stupid!" moment :

I had issues with the stone in this picture, but I feel pleased with how it turned out...even though Pterano's not looking directly at the Stone of Cold Fire/SS Enterprise, which is pretty annoying. And the rock in the back is downright lousy.

And Ada's daddy makes a come-back in a sketch!

Hmmm...reason for being leader #1?
Geez, Ada's dad went from buff guy to scary old man (which seems like a good transition to me XD)

And now the colored version! I'm a little so-so with this one. I like it, but Pterano doesn't look as "dumbfounded" as I hoped. It looks more like there's a bright light in his eyes. And it's hard to see the chip in Ada's father's beak. Geez, he needs a name

I decided to keep Ada's father's beak 'hooked' to add to the intimidating look.
And gosh darn it, I forgot the scar on his face D8 !!!

[Pangaea]

Pterano looks pretty good in the first image. His fingers, perhaps, are somewhat oversized, and I think his eye ought to be a little lower down. (There should just be a little sliver of brown between the lower part of his eye and the horizontal part of his beak.) Other than that, it’s a really good profile view of him. I particularly like the look of his head, neck, and wing.

The moon, I have to say, looks a little funny (too much color contrast, perhaps). I think the image would look just as good, if not better, with just the Stone of Cold Fire in the sky.

Personally, I like the rocks, though they might look better with a blue-gray tone, given the nighttime setting of the image. (Pterano is brownish under normal light, but at night he appears blue, as he does here. I think it should be similar with the brown rock.)

Colored picture of Pterano and Ada's father:

Wow, even without the scar, Ada’s dad is one scary-looking flyer! :blink: In fact, I don’t know if he even needs the scar; his eyes are frightening enough. (And I like that you kept the hooked beak. ) He’s also very well-drawn overall, though his right leg and wing seem to be missing. Also, in my humble opinion, you should change the little tear in his wing to be more of a vertical notch in future renditions of him. (Right now it looks sort of unrealistic, like ripped paper; a pterosaur’s wing would not tear that way.)

Pterano looks a little creeped out himself. But if “dumbfounded” was the look you were going for, I don’t think you did so bad.

The rock in that image looks really good, by the way. The sky’s not bad either (though it looks sort of like there’s a second, smaller, dimmer source of light to the right of the sun).

[Ptyra]

I actually did try to include his wing and leg in the picture, but they ended up looking really strange being Pterano.

I did this a while ago as something like a "cover" for my story that revolves around Ptyra's journey.

Uncreative title is uncreative. I also labeled the characters XD. I'm definitely going to simplify the background, though.

I honestly imagine this as part of what happens after Pterano accidentally leads his part of the herd into danger

And boy was it hard to draw Pterano here

Speculation on if Ada survived and found her way to the Great Valley (after the Rebellion). I might as well change what happens slightly.

The interesting thing is that Ptyra has no idea who she's talking to. She just thinks that it's a friendly new comer. I decided that Pterano does NOT witness Ada's "death", but a "Milady DeWinter" type of character brings Pterano some of Ada's wing and says that she was attacked by a swimming Sharptooth. Boy is that morbid...
Hence Ada's torn wing and Pterano's extremely surprised expression.
The thing eating out of the tree is supposed to be a Therezinosaurus. After 13, I decided to tweak my Theriz's design. I've tried to draw a "central" one for basic design, and attempted to give his "frill" an Aztec-ish look to make him look even more intimidating.

And this is the point where Pterano is evicted from Ada's flock after her "death". For reasons of irresponsibility for Ada

"You have failed me, Pterano!" The old flier shouted. "You had glory right in your claws and you lost it when you failed to protect my daughter!" He fumed. "On top of that, you blundered in defending her nest against eggstealers and lost one of her children against them!" He glared in Ptyra's direction. "The one that could have been her son!" He said. "Ada never wanted a son, she just wanted her own children! She would be happy with either a male or female child...unlike you!" Pterano snapped back. "That's beside the point!" The old green flier raised his claws threateningly. "Ada is DEAD because of your failure!" Pterano was astounded. "Since when do you suddenly care? You NEVER loved your daughter!" He said. "And for all I know, you'll love your granddaughter even less!" Ptyra, who perched on Pterano's shoulder, whimpered slightly at his unusual change in temper.
"Of course I loved my daughter!"
"Well...you didn't show it very well." Pterano glared at the gruff flier angrily. Ada's father fumed. "Well. If you're going to act like that...then leave and never come back." He hissed. "I was planning to anyway!" Pterano shot back with equal irritation

*sings to "Oh, Clemintine"* Oh, it's a cliche, it's a cliche, what a horr-ible cliche.

[Ptyra]

Let's take a short break from the fliers and see some Egg Stealers for a moment!
Two characters that come up after/during (I'm not sure yet) The Great Valley Rebellion

I look forward to coloring these two. They're supposed to be baby egg-stealers that adopt Strut. You heard me. They adopt Strut...kinda. I wanted to be more creative with their designs and make them look cute. I was trying to come up with how Uther could look like he's wearing a little school-boy sailor uniform, but I couldn't figure it out.  

Speaking of baby Egg Stealers...
This one was roughly inspired by the caption chain on this caption-this. The one that starts with "What do you mean you're pregnant?"

The thing saying "Mama Luigi" is supposed to be a Yoshi, but it looks more like a Bone with enormous eyes.

Now, how about those hatchday gifts, Uncle Ozzy 8D ?