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Here's a picture I drew to help promote a Kickstarter project for Ratha's Creature, which will (hopefully!) be a graphic novel based on one of my favorite books as a kid (which is also a great read for adults), by the wonderful Clare Bell.
The Kickstarter project is here: [link]
It is a fantastic project with cool incentives, so please do check it out!
The artist Seasaidh proposed a challenge to help promote the project, and you can read about the challenge here: [link]
For more art for the challenge by other artists, please see here: [link]
Note, I'm not involved with the project myself, but I love the book (and series), and I had a little time to draw while recently snowed in, so I hoped to help by drawing and spreading the word. I have been a huge fan of the Named series (Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, etc.) since I was a kid (in the 80's!), and have been dying to do (new!) fanart, but I have very little time to draw lately. Having been snowed in recently, I had a little time to do some drawings.
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Here's how I saw Ratha in my head when I first read the books. Now, I understand her species (a sentient prehistoric big cat) looks more cheetah-like now (the author discusses it on her website, [link] ), but back in the 80's I had pictured her as a kind of puma/leopard mix, with some prehistoric sabertooth too, so that's what I drew. Here's my little homage to a fantastic character from a wonderful author of an excellent series.
For a detail of this drawing, please see here: [link]
For a WIP of this and another piece, please see here: [link]
The Kickstarter project is here: [link]
It is a fantastic project with cool incentives, so please do check it out!
The artist Seasaidh proposed a challenge to help promote the project, and you can read about the challenge here: [link]
For more art for the challenge by other artists, please see here: [link]
Note, I'm not involved with the project myself, but I love the book (and series), and I had a little time to draw while recently snowed in, so I hoped to help by drawing and spreading the word. I have been a huge fan of the Named series (Ratha's Creature, Clan Ground, etc.) since I was a kid (in the 80's!), and have been dying to do (new!) fanart, but I have very little time to draw lately. Having been snowed in recently, I had a little time to do some drawings.
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Here's how I saw Ratha in my head when I first read the books. Now, I understand her species (a sentient prehistoric big cat) looks more cheetah-like now (the author discusses it on her website, [link] ), but back in the 80's I had pictured her as a kind of puma/leopard mix, with some prehistoric sabertooth too, so that's what I drew. Here's my little homage to a fantastic character from a wonderful author of an excellent series.
For a detail of this drawing, please see here: [link]
For a WIP of this and another piece, please see here: [link]
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Oh my gosh-- This kind of thing is what I strive for in my art. ;_; Do you have any tips for getting the head right at that angle? I've been trying for the longest time but I can never settle/be satisfied with the outcome. ;0;