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Turning the Page on Feather 6Hello all, just wanted to share some updates and thoughts with you, particularly those who follow the Feather 6 Group.
As you know, the annual Spring Parade is coming. On or near Easter, as per tradition. And I really feel good about how it's coming along. I'm finding a strong flow when it comes to working poses and angles to really bring out the beauty in each birdy. Believe me when I say this could be my best work yet ^V^'
With that in mind, it will also be my last work for Feather 6, at least on a consistent basis. In so many words, the Bunny shows just take too much out of me. Sure they can provide a couple to several gems that sparkle in my gallery, but in the end, I'm just ready to move on. I've done what I set out to do, which was to make the Feather 6 club and the Bunny Birdy collective more accessible to those who follow me and my friends. In other words, I was trying to grow the brand.
I feel I've done that. I now feel comfortable with putting an end to the month-long maratho

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Defianceby *stroppy-mchorseguy

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Surgical rotations are a killer. I'm at the hospital 10 hours a day starting at 7:30am, and I also get 4 hours of Saturday classes plus after-hours teaching during the week, meaning I don't have much spare time anymore.

Oh wait, yes I do. It's called sacrificing sleep!

Did this in an evening while trying to tweak a "pencil emulating brush" in SAI. No matter how I try, it just doesn't feel the same as that visceral sensation of furiously hatching across the page. But the end result wasn't too bad for what it was. Looks a lot more like I did it with a pacer, though.

So yeah, this is Orlestat, the character I've kept around for yonks trying to create a novel for. The novel's almost set to take off (i.e. start actually getting written), so I guess I got really excited and wanted to get an actually DECENT visual of what the character was like. If you're wondering where the right wing is, it's not there. He lost it. How, is for me to know and for readers to find out!

But more importantly this is the first picture in which I'm really happy that I've caught his current character, situation, *hinted* at a story in a single image. So it'll be the official image I bandy about when talking about the character now. For the first time, I also kinda glossed over certain anatomical details such as the exact structure of the shoulders, and I think I prefer it this way. Shaping him entirely like a human would really mess up the aerodynamics.

~IgotisticalManical Aug 18, 2012

Jesus christ. Daily Deviation please.

*stroppy-mchorseguy Aug 31, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Such a comment is greatly appreciated... but surely I'm not at that kind of level!

~IgotisticalManical Aug 31, 2012

Oh yes you are.

~trunkasART Mar 27, 2012

is this real?

*stroppy-mchorseguy Mar 28, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

I used a pencil tool in PaintTool SAI, and nothing else, if that's what you're asking.

~trunkasART Mar 28, 2012

i was being sarcastic cause your work is amazing! ^^

*stroppy-mchorseguy Mar 29, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

oh lol! Thanks, in that case

~trunkasART Mar 29, 2012

np dude!

~Aerophoinix Feb 19, 2011 General Artist

This is amazing

the glare and body stance perfectly fit the description, or rather the other way ^^ this defenitelly deserves some more views

*stroppy-mchorseguy Feb 19, 2011 Hobbyist General Artist

Thanks a bunch.

Feel free to plug it if you want

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