Questing Beast WIP

Posted Nov 14, 2006, 7:51:49 AM UTC

Alright, I changed the format of this a bit...sorry about the problems.

But you know, I hate this picture more every time I have to look at it. < < I'm going to change it into more of a sitting form like it was in the original here-http://www.paperdemon.com/userimgfolio.php/id/930.html

-and I'm going to talk to my art teacher. Because right now, it looks to long and dragon-ish.

All comments welcome.

Comments

Keenarnor
Nov 14, 2006, 4:50:51 AM UTC
Hmm...looks pretty good to me, a little messy, but it's not as bad as you make it sound in my opinion
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- eegirlee
  Nov 17, 2006, 7:22:17 AM UTC
  Thanks. Something about it's back and shoulders didn't feel right though, so I fixed it up a bit.
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  Keenarnor
  Nov 18, 2006, 8:52:36 AM UTC
  Yeah it looks better now, good job
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ArkillianDragon
Nov 14, 2006, 12:30:44 AM UTC
Is it ment to be the lion looking thing? Or something inspired by the picture?
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- eegirlee
  Nov 17, 2006, 7:24:20 AM UTC
  It's the one and only Questing Beast! In the painting though, yes, it's there to replace the lion.
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  ArkillianDragon
  Nov 17, 2006, 5:07:12 PM UTC
  So it's not ment to be a lion? If you can tell me what you want it to look like I can help you
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  eegirlee
  Nov 18, 2006, 4:55:43 AM UTC
  I posted an edited version of this-http://www.paperdemon.com/artview.php/id/9171.html
  
  "It had the head of a serpent, the body of a leopard, the haunches of a lion, and were footed like a Hart..."
  I'm using ref. pictures from a leopard, snake, and red deer. Which are surprisingly hard to squish together, and I'm going to have problems painting scales and spots.
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  ArkillianDragon
  Nov 19, 2006, 1:18:56 AM UTC
  OK- well, IT's too late for my advice, but I'll give it anyways. See, the thing about combining creatures is although a snake by itself is long and skinny, to attach it to a goat or whatever, it needs to get a wider base, just like any other creature of similar type. Now, I'm not normally a creature drawer- I normally do humans, but my red line has sort of how I'd draw it. Note how the legs ben backwards- horses and other fast running creatures are like this for speed and bouncing etc... Us bipeds bend with our bottom- they do all the bending in their leg. You didn't put in a ribcage- very important for organs, but easy to forget, The hind stomach area is a little iffy- I went for a stream line cheetah look, but lions are bigger there. Lions have hair on their tail too. A GREAT readilly available referance for the front legs would be a horse, and the lion is the most identifyable for the rear.
  
  Another point I may put in is fantasy creatures like this sometimes blend the hair of the lion down the neck, and scales in areas cause it's ment to be an amalgamation, not a cut and paste creature.
  
  The big thing with amalgamtions like this though is not nessecarily the accuracy of the part seperatly, but how tey work as a whole- the disbelief thing. If it doesn't look like a creature that COULD exist, then the likelyhood is the veiwer wont believe in it. That's why artistic liscence is SO handy
  
  Hope this helps Hope the pic goes well too
  Image attached
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  eegirlee
  Nov 29, 2006, 1:36:20 AM UTC
  Thank you for your support and the wunderful red line! :3 I'm still scared about painting this, but my under-drawing looks much better now!
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