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http://www.furaffinity.net/view/2530269/ might help. Or your profile picture, now that I'm looking at it. Maybe http://www.furaffinity.net/view/14430884/ if you're looking for something less snarly.

Hmm, I don't feel there's a lot to critique with this most recent update, at least in a meaningful way. You did well drawing out the shape and contours of the face. It really just comes down to 'practice more'. Art is a very time-intensive skill to develop, so you're on a very long road that's going to take a lot of dedication. The improvements and increased level of detail you're probably hoping for with this picture will come from that.

Dust: An Elysian Tail is a wonderful game, made all the more impressive because one person put almost the whole thing together from what I've read. I enjoyed the soundtrack quite a bit too, plus what's been mentioned above. There was another thread about it quite a while back that ran around the time of it's XBox launch and Steam launch. Good times.

Oh right, the obvious one to put here. Selections of the Narnia series by C. S. Lewis. The Horse and His Boy sticks out the most in my memory.

There's the Hugo winning Digger Comic by Ursula Vernon, which we can pretend is a graphic novel and is in print, so counts. There's The Firebringer Trilogy by Meredith Ann Pierce which I remember very fondly. Which isn't to be confused with Fire Bringer by David Clement-Davies as I kinda got bored with it towards the end. There's the first three books of E. E. Knights' Age of Fire series. The last three books he phoned in. I've heard good things about the Warriors series by Erin Hunter, but have not read it. Similarly, there's the Guardians of Ga'Hoole series that the movie was based on and I also haven't read.

Thanks for sharing.

Congrats and well done! I'm almost jealous.

You certainly have some talent for it. As a bit of a warning, I know just enough about talking music to be dangerous. Mixing is more my bag, so I had to try really hard to ignore the quality of the sound fonts/instruments you were using. Eerie2 has a nice melody line. The bass line was more of a distraction, kinda like it was trying to play counterpoint, but it didn't quite work. Theme1 offended those mixing sensibilities most because the tones of the instruments you used stepped all over each other. It really made the soundscape seem cluttered, like you were trying to put too many notes into too confined a space. Got better as the song progressed with the stretches where there were fewer instruments playing, but even then, the instruments meshed well only rarely. Piano1ChronoTrigger has potential, mostly starting after you remove that 8-bit organ-y instrument completely. That instrument sounds terrible to begin with, but especially when juxtaposed against the higher quality instruments you were using otherwise. The organ line also highlights one of your big weakness that most young composers seem to struggle with - you haven't yet grasped how to use negative space well, that is, pauses and parts where certain or most or all instruments stop playing to emphasis something else. Sometimes it's about which frequency ranges you aren't using too, not necessarily all about what instruments you're using when, and the frequency footprint on that organ was the bigger piece of my problem with it, due in part to the volume being too high for it among all my other issues. But I digress. Negative space is really important in music in general, and the organ part just destroyed your negative space completely in this arrangement. Still, a good showing for your first songs! Keep it up.

Something I just stumbled across, but the SyFy channel has a show called 'Face Off' where makeup artists compete by creating crazy creatures and characters and such in a matter of days. This is more set and movie sort of jobs that don't last a long time and take a small army to put in on the actor, but has a lot of crossover appeal with the fursuiters I think. Could even give some ideas and inspiration. They've been doing a marathon of it today, and it's been a lot of fun to watch.

Here's another online offering that's basically a graphic novel - Digger by Ursula Vernon. It takes about 90 pages for the thing to really solidify, especially the art style, but well worth the read. http://diggercomic.com/blog/2007/02/01/wombat1-gnorf/

That's okay - I still bite. At least one of us has to represent even if I ditched the scales for fur long ago. <.< Also, Hello.

Analogue: A Hate Story is the closest thing I can think of. Also the only thing I can think of. It basically follows the romance sim tropes, but doesn't sink to their level for the most part. Well worth your time in the general case. (No romance scenes since most of the cast is either long dead or a computer program, and mostly told via journal type entries, as far as I can remember.) As far as more standard graphic novels go, you can get the first two volumes of Dream Keepers for free online. Dream Keepers can throw you on it's visual style, but it's really quite mature and well done. Earlier stuff can be rough, but it steadily improves and I quite enjoy where it's at and where it's going - http://www.dreamkeeperscomic.com/home.html Years ago, I followed another online graphic novel that had potential, but didn't quite grab me at the time. Great artwork, well written, but missing that magic touch I think. The only problem is, I don't remember the name and not sure if I have the link somewhere in old backups. May not even exist anymore.

Heartfelt and wonderful. But someday, Cody, I hope you can let go of the people and incidents that make you think and feel this way. US civilians certainly don't all stand on the other side of divide you see in your mind's eye. And even for those who do, it's doing yourself no favors to internalize it like this.

Sure, I'll toss a few your way. Alectorfencer is a must. She is a soul with both the vision on the talent to really breath life into her work - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/alectorfencer/ Arphalia has done some amazing things with ink in the past - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/arphalia Fighterjet has a gift for detail, but moves older stuff into scraps so some of it is buried there - http://www.furaffinity.net/user/fighterjet/

Hello.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9n4dY4PbE8 I also just really like this cover. <.<

It's not often you find a critter figurine with this much detail, and it's even rarer for that critter to be a fox, so when I saw it I thought two things: I need to get that. This is totally Direlda.

Wonderful news! And I think I'm more the sort of soul who'd be quietly amused and pleased by Ren Faire's generally take to Tusken. A change to what you're use to, sure, but shows that Tusken was a success for what she is. Well done. Certainly can sympathize to showing the newbie the ropes - I'm sure I'd need a lot of coaching in the same place - but it's usually worth it in the end! Again, I look forward to your next project! ^^

More than a bit late to the part, but... Hello and welcome! ^^

Hello and welcome! Glad to have you around. ^^

Hello and welcome. ^^

You're doing very well, Chakram. I especially like the one from 9 Oct. Keep it up. ^^

That is quite lovely. I really like the feathering on the feathers.

Yep, I'd totally trust him. It's the new avatar, same as the old avatar (only fixed up some). I'll figure out shading later. And maybe get to redo the mane again. >.<

Sadly, I don't think I can really commit to this project, so that research is yours to do. But I would recommend creative commons type assets for an open project that doesn't otherwise have the resources to make them on their own. And this link is one I saved long ago as a good place to start.