This drawing was largely influenced by Chinese art styles, from everything including the simplistick layouts, of figures to backgounds, and foreground props, such as the pine bows.
The color it's self was also influenced and refferenced from a Chinese painting on the cover of an old 1970s Chinse Mythology Comic book.
My orginal coloring version of this was more blue, green 7 browns digitally... but since then, I didn't much care for the drawing any longer. In fact I just threw this together last night with markers, then touched it up with color pencils this morning.
On a whim I submitted it to Epilogue, and theire only crit was cropping it... so this is what I've done with it so far.
Enjoy.
Comments
shadowwolfgirl Says:
Wow =3 thats awsome, large horn oo
Trash Says:
This is lovely...I love how it's colored. X]
Sapphire Says:
nice. the colours work very nicely together ^^
orena Says:
The colouring and background are both wonderful.
belle Says:
Ahh wow, it's been a while since I've seen a unicorn drawn as they were in the original tapestries. This is absoloutely beautiful, the proportions are spot on and you've shyed away from the stereotypical 'horse with horn'.
The background is gorgeously smooth for traditional art - so I take it that it was done with markers for that certain part. ;) The background itself is simple enough to allow most attention onto the main figure, yet detailed enough to allow the eye to wonder a bit.
But the main figure is most certainly my favourite. Great propotioning, silky colouring, a wonderful pose and just the right amount of flow. Not to mention that shadow - a difficult detail most viewers overlook.
Beautiful work.
Neri Says:
beware of immense prettyness^.^ Another lovely pic! Looks really very good...as always
Northstar Says:
Wow. lovely. Elegant.