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This picture (in the original) is much bigger than my drawings usually are-it's 12" by 18" at 500 dpi. This is because I'm going to use it to make a full-size poster. The poster is only printed at 200 dpi, of course, so it can be made bigger for that. 12x18 isn't really all that big, but (even though it's only in black and white) my computer was straining with it. That's why I don't do color much: with my style, I prefer to color using virtual paint, which my Pentium 4 and standard video RAM just can't handle without being PAINFULLY slow.


I did a little hunting around to find the bow I liked most for Rish there. One of the neat things about fantasy is that I can have a Jewish Native American otter living in a Roman city in the middle of the American Desert using a traditional Mongolian bow.

Good old fashioned bow and arrow. Love it!

I did a little hunting around to find the bow I liked most for Rish there. One of the neat things about fantasy is that I can have a Jewish Native American otter living in a Roman city in the middle of the American Desert using a traditional Mongolian bow.

Interesting...Good Work!

Are they supposed to be bald like monks? Or does their fur doesn't show up?

Good old fashioned bow and arrow. Love it!

Seconded

Are they supposed to be bald like monks? Or does their fur doesn't show up?

That's kind of a hard one. Otters have short fur which is usually wet, making them look like they don't have any; on the other hand these otters, being in the desert, are rarely wet. Basically, Rish there has a good pelt of fur, but it doesn't really show except as a general fuzziness in close-ups. I considered drawing them (especially the women) with hair, but it looked weird. In the end, it's easier to draw this way, and I have problem with the way it looks, except that sometimes it makes Rish look too much like Fone Bone.

Why am I not reading Lontranus? The art is so incredibly beautiful.

I don't know, there's something about your style that just hits me in the right way.

And I like that it's in black and white.

Nice!




On second thought....





Very nice !!!!!

This is a quick sketch of what it looks like just before shooting with one of these bows. Note that this is obviously not Rish-he's more, um, sturdily built. I used a photo ref, of course.

An interesting thing--this is the very first time I've ever drawn feet on one of my otters. Managed to avoid it for 22 full pages. I've been thinking about it for a while, and I don't think they look too bad, now that I've actually drawn them. What do you think?

Looks pretty good to me Cameron ^-^

An interesting thing--this is the very first time I've ever drawn feet on one of my otters. Managed to avoid it for 22 full pages.

Meanwhile, I've lost track of how many "Downscale" strips I've done without ever showing a human or rat walking (not an issue for the snake).

There's nothing wrong with your otter feet. Except that I can't tickle them.

They are very good otter feet. They're exactly how I would have expected them to look.

Also I feel like I need to use that last image for something. But I don't know what. It's awesome.

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I decided I really did want to use it as my wallpaper, so I (badly) coloured it. I didn't really pay attention to getting the colours right. I just chose what looks good to me.

Very nice drawings.

Hmm, Javs, the green you picked there gives me the sudden urge to... there, done.

I guess I need to draw a more detailed version of this, since you guys liked it so much.

Oh, and I'm going to draw one of Rish with a sword a bit later today.

Oh cool.