GAX Febuary

Posted Sep 10, 2007, 4:49:55 PM UTC

At the start of this year, I joined an art exchange on livejournal.com. Since I'm pretty good with gryphons and I have a few gryphon characters myself, I joined up with GAX, a gryphon art exchange. I've signed up off and on depending on the month and how busy I figure I'll be during that month. This was the first picture I did for the exchange way back in Febuary. I can't for the life of me remember who it was for though.

Anyway, the lineart was done in real-media ink, the color and everything was done in Adobe Photoshop 7.0. I went for a more DIsney-ish look for it, simplified and all that from what I normally do for gryphons.

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Nov 6, 2007, 9:23:28 PM UTC
Oh very pretty! I love the way you did his/her wings, and the stripes on the flanks.

*twiddles paws*

Um... yeah. Hee hee.

I like griffins. ^^
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- Thalion
  Jan 28, 2008, 3:47:43 AM UTC
  XD Thanks! It was a fun little project. :3
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860
Sep 11, 2007, 12:16:12 PM UTC
The background is stunningly beautiful here! The gryphon looks like that is a scene in which he belongs- his white and black wings with the clouds, moon and black sky...
Anyway, real crits- The legs are awesome, but his head seems a bit too small. I 'unno, I draw wolves and lions, so maybe I am just in a habit of drawing longer snouts, but still. I like yoour transition from fur to feathers. It blends nicely and makes sense; it isn't choppy. Very nice pic! Molto bene!
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- Thalion
  Sep 24, 2007, 6:11:50 PM UTC
  I agree that the head's kinda small. All the references I had for the gryphon had a smaller head. I figure it was just how the gryphon was. ^_^ I've seen a few 'pinhead' animals. Larger bodies with small heads, mostly mutt animals like my cat or my friend's dog. XD
  
  And thank you! The background was actually pretty simple. Adobe Photoshop 7.0 has a brush that looks like a faded oval that if you just tap it, it creates a cloud effect. >_> I use it a lot but it always creates a nicer effect than I can with just freehand.
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