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Wowie buildings? Scenery? Perspective? Madness!This was one of two finals for my Environments, Props, and Structures class!
This piece isn't perfect by any means and was colored using a super rough brush to speed things up (the project didn't have to be colored, we could do it only if we wanted). It was also done in a method I wasn't used to so it's very quick and dirty. I thought it was just clean enough to post up, though. The picture in its entirety took about 2 weeks from pre-planning to finish. If you'd like to see the process of how this was completed, check it out here! [link]
And even though it's not perfect, I'd still like some critique on it! So if you see anything, feel free to say so, regardless if I'm aware of it or not. I'm putting on the critique button, but you can critique in the regular comments too!
And wow, also presenting for those not following my Tumblr the last year, a new alien world with AU characters! They are a collaborated race by myself and . These will be the race that will "replace" my old characters (I hate to say "replace" because I still care deeply about their old versions for sentimental reasons, but it's the best way to really put it). We've been working on them for over a year now, and they are still in heavy development but there's enough solid stuff to start posting.
Below is some context for the image and info on the species! Read only if you want! If not, you can skip it!
Rozenich live on a very diverse planet environmentally--not unlike Earth--but in the case of the main characters, they live in a very dense foresty area. It's not to the vastness of a tropical rain forest, but not your typical backyard woods either. Trees are usually extremely tall (much taller than presented here) and vary in being extremely dense to more spaced out with more open clearings. It's also warm temperature wise, ranging in the high 80's on average.
Rozenich are a primitive race, currently in something akin to a Neolithic phase. They do not have technology of any sort, they are very nature-oriented, and barter, scavenge, and trade for items and necessities. They tend to have "flocks" but not necessarily villages; they form communities but may live as neighbors or in solidarity, only choosing to have contact with others when needing to trade. Their homes are crudely built of whatever they can find lying around and typically built in trees. They do have buildings built on the ground, like those pictured, but they have no residential function. Instead they can be used to store property, tools, or livestock. Commonly, trading businesses will be in these sorts of buildings. Their homes in the trees are usually decorated inside with very dazzling shiny items they happen to find, like pretty feathers, stones, and gems.
Much like Neolithic humans, despite being very primitive they have an insanely impressive ability to build things with what little they have. It's extremely common to see shrines, henges, and buildings made of heavy stones that take some crazy organization and intelligence to build. They are also very clever in problem solving with their limited resources.
Then came the second race; the kurri are a race on the opposite end of the spectrum, being much more advanced. A small quantity of kurri came to the rozenich planet in search of resources for use in curing diseases and illnesses afflicting their race, and stayed because of their attraction to the peculiar raptor people. Fast forward to "present day" some several decades later, the kurri have made certain to not infiltrate the rozenich culture too deeply, restraining their location to only one primary area as to avoid tainting the entire race's development, but have settled down to further their research. For the rozenich surrounding them, they are curious and eager to learn about their alien immigrants, but still retain their primitive culture, only few "converting" to the more advanced luxuries of the kurri.
With this context out of the way, the picture! I really wanted to show a juxtaposition of the rozenich versus the kurri in their structures. Kurri have architecture that is very sleek, bright, and sharp. Rozenich are very toned down and organic. Funny considering rozenich themselves are quite bright while kurri are very naturally colored!
Also pictured are some characters: George, Linda, Harlin, Keyona, Audrey, and Picard. Their designs are not accurate as they haven't been finalized yet, but they're there! Audrey is showing off his display to some children, who are trying to mimic him. Too bad Audrey doesn't know that showing your display to children isn't appropriate in all cultures... but Picard is too mesmerized to stop him. (Displaying is either used for attracting a partner or intimidating others. So think of it as either flirting or getting up in someone's face for a fight; in Audrey's culture, however, displaying is a means of showing off, so it's much more innocent)
ALSO MY QUARTER IS OVER AND I HAVE A WEEK AND A HALF OF FREEDOM! REJOICE!
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Thank you so much for this lovely critique! <3
I definitely agree with everything, and will try adjusting said things when I touch it up later! I didn't even notice the treehouse bit, so that's another thing to experiment with! I'll play around with the colors too.
Thanks again!
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I'm glad it was constructive! I enjoy your ridiculously unique creatures so very much and figured I could apply what years of art classes taught me. Don't get me wrong I'm no expert, I just want to see a good artist with some serious potential to grow bigger and better. Good luck!
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I am always wanting to improve so I'm game for any kind and constructive critiques! Thank you so much, I hope not to dissapoint! <3
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Most of what I would have said in terms of art critique have been said before in older comments and this is an older post, so I'm going to focus on the concept instead. (though I will say that the little ones tormenting one another makes me very happy).
I was mostly wondering about the intellectual and cultural gap between the two groups. You mention that some of the Rozenich leave their traditional existence to join the Kurri. Is this more a matter of they just want all the pretty shiny things, and the Kurri pat them on the head and are kind to them while also being unable to contain their intrigue about how the natives will deal with everything in their society, or are the Rozenich advanced enough that they can really comprehend everything the Kurri have to offer? With the same coin, other side: do the Rozenich live as they do by choice, or because they really aren't capable of rising to Kurri standards in terms of tech (yet at least). And since assuming the Rozenich are just inferior is a fairly unfair assumption to be made (and which my comment has suggested so far), what are the Rozenich better at? Do they have a different kind of logic than the Kurri or have they developed seemingly simple tools that the Kurri never thought of and which are absent in their own culture? Long story short, cultural interfaces are always interesting, but when you have differences this extreme, things get extra interesting.
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These are all really good questions I didn't think to consider. Very much so, Rozenich are like natural engineers. They are fantastic at solving problems in very simple, crude ways. Kurri, on the other hand, tend to overthink it. Of course, the results of these methods differ wildly by circumstance, but generally speaking that is how to two races function.
As well, the rozenich very much enjoy the kurri's "shiny pretty ooh I want that!" technology, to which the kurri sort of use as a rewarding factor as they study them. Otherwise, most rozenich don't have the faintest idea or interest in what the kurri do both because there is a massive language barrier, and also because their culture is not nearly developed enough to understand (if you showed them a movie, they'd think WITCHCRAFT! or "omg tiny people in this box!").
The kurri have only been able to communicate properly with the rozenich through patient communication methods. Rozenich language is a mixture of vocals (screeches, growls), words, and sign language, where-as kurri are completely word/grammar/English-structure based. Once they were able to make some semblance of communication, they sort of "took in" some rozenich as infants and rose them up to understand language which helped significantly in communicating. Those rozenich generally are the ones who "convert" because they've been "enlightened" and grew up with it. But not always. Some understand it, but just prefer the simpler life anyway, either by choice of through instinct.
All rozenich stay their way mostly because kurri don't allow them to really understand kurri-life (they don't WANT the rozenich to advance unnaturally, not in high numbers anyway) along with kurri being a minority. I don't know exact numbers, but kurri are a small settlement of less than 5%. So that's a 5/95 kurri/rozenich. So the influence is simply not great enough.
Thank you kindly for the feedback! This rose a lot of alternative questions as well. I very much want to dig into my race more with these things... and honestly, I want to try your method of making text-pieces to compliment the artwork. If people care enough, they'll read it!
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I have definitely had that happen before
The two problem solving styles sounds like observant types versus intuitive types from the myers-briggs types. Observers look for the most obvious answers and test whether they work one-by-one, while the intuitive sit there and stare at the problem until the "best" solution becomes apparent.
I like that you look at the technological differences between then as a matter of culture and language barrier. I feel like we as humans have to this of assumption that we are a race are always becoming smarter, but there is a question of whether we are actually becoming smarter, or do we just have more prior knowledge to benefit from? You don't get to calculus in one generation if you are only just designing your number system. And since the Rozenich that are raised with the Kurri have the capability to become enlightened, that suggests the race at large has the raw potential to reach the same technological standards, even if the race isn't ready to actually do so yet. It's a more optimistic way to look at societal advancement (that simply having knowledge allows for advancement) than a strict evolutionary one, where it is rolling loaded dice that decides what a species is ultimately capable of.
Is there any loose line where the Kurri are thinking "once the Rozenich reach this technological milestone, we need to start integrating" or are they hoping to stay completely neutral until eternity and just watch how things change over time?
And I'm glad my rambling questions are helpful. 
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Yes, very much so! Having the knowledge and learning capabilities is truly a good way to advance. Ignorance has a very negative sound to it, but getting out of ignorance can help moving forward. It's something as simple as "don't drink dirty water: learn to purify it to kill bacteria and other icky things and you'll live longer" and once this basic knowledge is understood and passed on, the entire race can learn this and it instantly benefits them. Just a random example, but it's sort of how I think of it. Rozenich simply don't know certain things yet. They're still in the rock-n-natural-tools stage. Once they grasp how to, say, come into a bronze age, advancing will undoubtedly occur. The Kurri simply do not want to force them into learning this. They want them to learn on their own. It's like a nature documentary: your purpose is to document and record/learn from the creatures, you don't interfere with them. When they do interfere (such as raising rozenich children) it is more-so to benefit understanding over manipulating.
The kurri certainly would prefer just watching how things happen, and not integrate, for the only reason being that this planet is not their own. They have no intentions of moving their whole race here or anything, their planet is perfectly fine. They are merely visitors. There's a very high possibility they will never do much more, even thousands of years into the future, if they stick around that long.
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Hey. I'll be honest. Did not read all of your description but I will say this. I saw you picture and it gave me and instant feeling of happiness. I do love the mix between primitive and tech. It makes me think of how I believe we can have both for the planets sake.
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Aww thank you! I'm so glad it made you feel that way and that you enjoy the concept ^^
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Ooh, very interesting! I love your raptor and kitty species and they dynamic between them. Makes me wonder if there are raptor thieves who try to steal the technology? Or if there's a very strict "Prime Directive rule" for the kitties and if those who break it get severely punished.
For critique, dido what cutie-pink said about the perspective on the building. Estimating, it should easily break the top border, though that would block off the sky area and ruin the composition. Dido on the atmospheric perspective too. The ground shadows exposed directly to the sky should be bluish (or cyan-ish in this case). James Gurney put it best:
"Most of the time we think of shadows as blue. Surfaces in shadows do tend toward blue if they are facing upward beneath an open stretch of sky. We can make a general rule if we hedge it a bit: “Upfacing planes in shadow are relatively blue on a sunny day.” But planes in shadow that face downward are different because they pick up the warm reflected color of illuminated surfaces below them. So let’s revise that quick rule of thumb about the color of shadows: “In shadows, upfacing planes are cool, and downfacing planes are warm."
Same with the shadows on the people. There's a lot of warm colors but not to many cool ones. Maybe bump up the contrast between warm and cool colors instead of using more neutral ones.
Other than that, it looks great! I hope you got an A for it.
Speaking of which, how was your semester, aside from draining the life out of you, because that's what all SCAD classes do.
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Thanks so much! I definitely think there'd be some thieves stealing stuff, though more than likely for resell-able value than learning what they were for, or just stealing them because of their fascination with shiny colorful things. Definitely there is a general "Prime Directive" but not to that extreme. They don't mind educating the raps in some things or, of course, putting themselves in the middle of their world and collaborating with them, they just refuse to do certain things like tell them how advance technologies work or give them things like guns and tools. Generally they just try their best to research with the small population and stay out of the population in its entirety to preserve it. The planet is large and they are unknown to the majority, save for those that travel. I'm sure word gets around but it's better than being slapped there for everyone to see!
Ooh, that's a great bit of advice! I never think about that sort of thing. It makes a lot of sense, though, and I'll have to consider it for future pieces. Color theory things in general are hard for me!
The size thing is confusing to me, too, because it seems like it would be bigger but I made size-accurate versions of the buildings in Sketchup and this is what it looked like: [link] I even measured out the horizon line with the characters, so I don't know if it's just an optical illusion that makes the building look too small, something with the characters is off, or people are expecting the building to be larger than it actually is? Granted the building is still huge, above three times the size of the front building. I'm not quite sure what's going on!
My quarter went well! This was my favorite one so far. Love all the professors and what I learned and felt I improved the most. It wasn't THE busiest quarter I've had, but it was up there. Definitely draining for sure though! xD
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Hmm...I think it's a combination between the tree house in the background and the character coming out of the building that makes it look off. And the windows. The windows being different colors and lines separating them makes it look like each color is a separate floor, like a skyscraper. The windows could be colored that way and only be one floor, but because I've only seen skyscrapers with that kind of effect, my brain automatically thinks "this must be tall". If it is one floor, I would suggest using a different design that doesn't invoke that effect, like designs on church windows, or just making the window panes vertical instead of horizontal. If it is stratified, it just needs to be taller, or the character and the door they come out of need to be much smaller and further away. Those are some pretty small floors for the character to walk through; they'd hit their head on the ceiling!
The tree house in the background looks about the same size as this tree houses in the foreground but in perspective, so that looks fine. However, it's slightly behind the main building, which also makes that building look tiny. For the very back building, atmospheric perspective would probably do the trick. From this angle we can't physically see how far away the back one is because of overlap. Do you have a different angle of the sketchup model by any chance?
I'm glad you're semester went well. I'm going back this quarter too, though with only one class this time because expensive (you wouldn't happen to know any part time quality engineering jobs in the Savannah area do you? Because that's the only job I seemed to be qualified for. XD) What classes are you talking this quarter?
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Ahhh that's an excellent point about the sky scrapers! I think making the windows vertical or maybe making them more "shapely" instead of straight might change that effect. I'm liking the idea of verticals or slants more, though. Verticals in themselves might create the illusion of height.
Though there's no context, the main pyramid building is all one floor with a really high ceiling! It's a bit tricky too without more size references to go by, but the adult kitties are considerably shorter than the raptors. Their heads top out about 5 1/2-ish feet while raptors go up to about 7 feet. So their doorways account for each species height so there's no consistency there. Guess that's just unfortunate contextual issues, but something that definitely needs addressing. I think adding a rap back there next to the adult kitty would help that a slight bit more?
Oh and yes! Here's another angle. I put in a line to show the height of the smaller to the bigger: Sketchup
Gahhh, nope, can't say I do xD And boy do I know it about the price tag. Uck! And it keeps going up! What's your major, may I ask?
I'm taaaakiiing Survey of Sequential, Comic Book Scripting, and Materials and Techniques. I'll be living at the sequential building this quarter essentially xD
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Yeah I think it is mostly contextual issues. I thought the building was supposed to be a huge research facility or a large supply building. Maybe adding a sign indicating what kind of building it is? Adding a raptor would probably help with the scale issue as well.
Yeah that sounds pretty normal. If my friend would have slept in Monty Hall if she wasn't already assigned the to the dorm next door. XD My major is also Seqa, though it will be a loooooong time before I graduate at the rate I'm going (I think we talked about this before, actually.) I'm also (re)taking Materials. Do you have Ralph or Larison for that class?
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Ahhh gotcha! I'll have to play around with that a bit and see what I can do. Seems like a relatively simple fix overall (once I find time to do it of course) ha!
Ohhh that's right! I completely forgot you were the one I talked to about that xD I still find it startling when I find other SCAD students online, though I haven't a clue why. I'm still used to my old college where barely anyone had an online presence (or... actually drew).
Ralph! At least I hope. I signed up for Ralph but SCAD has ripped out and switched professors on me before.
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We're all over the internet, but not so much DA I've noticed. It's mostly Tumblr and Behance (definitely Behance).
Cool, you got Ralph! He's awesome, and very easy going compared to Larison. You will not die of stress under his reign.
Are you in the TR 11:00-1:30. Cause if you are, we're in the same class.
Yeah, that's happened to me before too. Last time it was because they put the wrong times on registration.
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Tumblr is where I see folks the most from SCAD (especially from friends I met). Gah, I need to update my Behance, speaking of.
And yes!! I have TR 11:00-1:30 too! 8D I'm glad to hear that about Ralph, I hear he's really cool. And the stress thing especially xD Although, granted, I don't usually get stressed out necessarily, just... endlessly busy with little free time. Which is pretty much every student's life aha.
I can't stand when it happens. Last quarter they switched out 2 of my 3 professors; thankfully one of them ended up being fine as it was Rashad for my Intro class and he was cool, but the professor I got for Drawing 2 was absolutely horrible. He was one of the worst professors I've ever had and I was not happy I had to deal with him the whole quarter.
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Yeah, I need to rework my Behance entirely, but I'll do that when I get more stuff done.
Cool! It'll be nice to meet you. 
Ouch. Who did you get for Drawing 2?
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I need to completely rehaul it along with finishing up/touching up more portfolio pieces in general. Maybe during the summer...
Same! It'll be nice having someone else in a class to suffer with aha! And give support on a lighter note.
And awesome! So far the syllabus seems rigorous but not too bad. So far my schedule for this entire quarter has limited projects so I'm hoping that turns out to be a good thing.
Langley. He taught a lot of interesting things, but jeez were his organizational skills terrible. He would warn us to have our portfolios ready by Monday so we would stress over the weekend to get things done only for Monday to arrive and he suddenly pushes the date back. At the end of the quarter he never even took our final portfolios because there was no time left and just kind of farted a grade out for us. That class was absolutely miserable and would have been torture were it not for my friends in that class (one of which is also in our Materials class).
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can I be a fuzzy raptor pls
I really like the concept of the species and the world! It reminds me of Starbound and how diverse it's races are.
Um, um, as a critique, I'm not very good at them but here goes a few things I've noticed;
Your buildings were drawn wonderfully; they're very straight, proportional, and I'm especially impressed with the more advanced looking building in the background. I myself have a lot of trouble with things like that ;_; Another thing I love is the trees-- they're not just sticks of broccoli (like I also have a bad habit of doing) and instead sprawl outwards and upwards like they should. It reminds me a lot of the black walnut tree outside my house :3
The only things I would pick on to improve are two things; first is the depth of the picture. The beautiful high tech building that I love so much seems like it's much smaller than intended, like that big purple guy could take a few steps back and be at shoulder level with the sigil/fan thing above the door. That could be completely intentional now that I look at it though, looking at how small the kitty-taurs in the foreground are. It could also be conflicting with the vast range of the characters sizes. Are those characters on the left really tiny, or just far away in space? One way to fix this is the color/value, which was the second thing I was gunna touch on! As things recede into the background, they should start to fade into a lighter or darker value, like the books in this picture here -> www.zevendesign.com/wp-content… The things in the front should be brighter, with higher saturation, and should pop out against the background. The big purple guy is what my eye is attracted to the most, because he's contrasting the most from everything else! Anything you want to have as the point of focus, have it contrast the most and have everything else lead up to it and be centered around it. There are other things I could recommend, but that would be going into the whole mess of color theory and I'm not sure you'd want me giving you more of a wall of text than I already have XD
Other than that, it looks amazing!! I hope that's an ok "critique," and that it helps any XD; I know I can be messy with my words sometimes. Keep up the awesome work!!
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NO CLOSED SPECIES DO NOT STEAL >8[
Sssssh j/k OF COURSE YOU CAN the more the merrier ahaha!
I am sooo not an architect and have the biggest issue designing buildings. ;n; Usually I just fart stuff out and it never turns out great at all. This time I used a huge mess of references. It's difficult when you have "that vision" but can't accurately put it on paper. So I just picked out everything I though resembled it. Kitty building was this crazy combination of modern art architecture and gothic cathedrals. XnX
Ooh these are all good crits! I definitely think, in addition to all that, adding more folks into the background would be beneficial for scaling purposes. The only real BG character is the kitty by the door so maybe adding some more folks back there, child and adult alike, would give a better frame of reference! The little dirt pathway might need some adjusting too I wager. I'll definitely try playing with the atmospheric perspective on the trees and such too! (Also for another piece I'm working on now that requires some of these same tips!)
Thanks so much! 
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Oh, I already like those two species.
And before I had read the description, I was thinking, that green-and-white one on the right reminds me of Picard... and now I know it IS Picard. XD
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Thanks so much! Ahaha I'm really glad you can still pick out Picard in a crowd!
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Tjhis is one of those pictures I wish I could zoom in more deeply to appreciate the details you have put in here! The Taurish structure adds a nice contrast to the greenery and the Raptor buildings. I like all teh souls running and playing around the area. It is fun to watch the joy of daily life! =^^=
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Thanks! Aha, the picture gets a bit messier the further in you go, but there's definitely a lot going on in here I wish people could see! Alas. Glad you think so! ^^
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Picard be like
Aaah Filly this is fantastic, what a great way to wrap up the semester! You definitely learned a lot in your environments class and it shows in the handling: perspective and details line up perfectly, and the chars and bg equally important. There's just so much to take in, I keep scrollin' up to stare at all the floofs. <3
I love that the [kittytaur] building was just sorta slapped there with no grand walkways or anything, we can get a feel for how shoehorned in these guys must feel. The juxtaposition is great! To push it even further, you could add more "greenery" to the raps' homes: moss creeping over stone, vines and sprouts taking over the huts, etc, to push that these folks literally slap shit together while the [kittytaurs] are careful in their construction. Neolithic-meets-spacefaring is a great contrast, so keep at it!
Great introduction and great picture! I know I've said this TEN TIMES ALREADY, but I'm super excited to see where you and Paro take this universe. It's fun and fresh and you guys'r doing great.
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Aww yeeah you know it!
Indeed I'm super happy with how it all wrapped up! This was a really productive quarter and I can only hope the next quarter is just as much! The only thing I don't like about quarter work is that, although I have a lot of potential portfolio pieces, none of them are refined enough to my liking so they will need touching up before calling them 100% done. Alas... you can only do so much between all the studio work!
I really wanted that "out of place" feeling for it, so I thought making it super clean and shiny would help. Raptors are quite fond of their buildings because they LOVE the pretty shinies!
Ahhh and that's a great idea! I thinking adding in some moss and vines and weeds would be so awesome, especially on those stones! I definitely should add those in later!
Gotta love that crazy Linda <3 It's so nice drawing her again!
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There's nothing quite like that "end of the semester" feeling, hahaha. Hopefully your next quarter will give you time to touch up some of your class work for your future portfolio; I've heard it's good to add concept sketches to an art portfolio, and the past few months I've seen lots of changes in your sketch style that are worth sharing. I love the way you sketch, every concept feels complete if that makes any sense!
(Speaking of which, I really need to leave some thoughts on that Feddruary dump! I am so behind on devs SEND HELP.)
Oh gosh I just love these floofs and kitties, they make a great "duo"! In worldbuilding, as with characters, its always important to provide contrast so I think you guys have laid some very awesome groundwork. Can't wait for more.
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I definitely hope so! I still have a piece from my first quarter I want to fix up and color. I'm hoping, if anything, summer will be my goal for that! Beef up that portfolio in addition to getting some prints and things for cons. Whoo boy con circuit time! 
Not sure about concept work! I have no place to stand on understanding proper portfolio etiquette because my Portfolio class I took was for Graphic Design which... is a completely different portfolio type for Illustration/Sequential. I know Sequential portfolio should have inked pages in them so that's something to work on too!
(oh my same!! I'm far behind on your notes...)
I looove how Linda is turning out! I want to make her a reference really badly now, but I know I need to draw her more first! ;n;
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SPEAKING AS SOMEONE WHO SUCKS AT BACKGROUNDS AND BUILDINGS THIS LOOKS FANTASTIC
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SSSSSH IM STILL TERRIBLE
BUT THANKS!!
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NO UR NOT SHUT UP UR GR8
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Wow super detailed!! I wonder if my girl Zjora would like this place, lol. saoirseranekaera.deviantart.co…
It looks like a really fun place to live!
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Ooh what a lovely gal! I like her 8D
Also holy cow I didn't know BloodSport was still active! And that they allowed non-IZ species.
Thanks so much!
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im serious!
this is beautifully done. I SUCK at doing backgrounds, and especially immersive ones like this, it's gorgeous! And yeah, they allow non-iz species as long as you can explain how they got thrust into the tournament.
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Backgrounds are so hard for me, especially when they involve architecture >.< I'm slooowly grasping it, though. Maybe one day they wont be a struggle!
And ooh awesome! I wanted to enter Season 2 with my hybrid Irken character (old Garin if you remember that far) but it wasn't allowed. So I was going to enter with one of the Slaughtering Rat People but chickened out when people were only doing Irkens and Vorts and I didn't wanna stand out that much xD
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awww a SRP would've been neat
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It would have been so fun. I sometimes wish I was still in the fandom just so I can do things like this again ;n;
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I'm mostly out of the fandom nowadays but I still occasionally draw/write IZ stuff. Also I really like your icon, it's so fluid it's hypnotizing....
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I remember leaving due to being tired of the drama (which is in every fandom unfortunately). I regret it sometimes and don't others. Good memories at least. xD I still remember that big trade I did for you!
Ahh thank you! ;n;
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OHYEAH! Aora, right? My little irken vort hybrid thing XD
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Yup! XD I can't remember what you did for me it's been so long, but I'm guessing it was Garin? Ahaha
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XD lol
maybe we should do another art trade sometime lol
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Oh gosh totally xD Once I get free time, maybe this summer, I'd so be on for it!
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Such colorful creatures! I'm no critic and am not to good at reviewing, but this looks wonderful to me! I'd say I most appreciate just how much is going on in this scene. Fills the picture with life! ^v^
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Thank you! I'm very glad you like all the stuff going on! I wanted to put in a bit more, but I'm rather happy with what I did include. ^^
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These creatures are really cool! The perspective looks pretty good to me! I'm not a master on it yet myself, but from what I can see, nothing looks particularly off. I like the building designs and everyone looks like they're having fun! You did a great job on this piece!
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Thanks! Perspective is super tricky, but thankfully there's this general theory that "If you know the basics and draw it strongly, you can mess up a little without notice" which, if accurate, is good when you have the general setup accurate and not the tiny things. Cause the tiny things are the hardest part!
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That's definitely true! You pulled it off, everything looks convincing for sure! The general setup was well done.
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