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Unicorn

#my art #traditional art #watercolour and ink #unicorn #the scanner didn't pick up all of the blues on its coat :(

A perfectly normal sheep

#my art #traditional art #watercolour painting #sheep?#i had a lot of fun with this one #i cant believe i avoided painting with watercolours for a decade and thought i hated painting - this is so much fun

Watercolour study of a spotted hyena

#my art #traditional art #watercolour painting #hyena #spotted hyena #this only took an hour #im super happy with how it turned out and it was a lot of fun to make

Super quick practice with soft pastels, using a photo of my dog for reference

#my art #traditional art #pastel drawing #this only took about 45 minutes at most #im not thrilled with how it turned out (i think its a little bit wonky) but it was a lot of fun #soft pastels are a lot of fun to blend and the colours are so vibrant

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Hyena shapes and you: A small reference primer

I see a lot of lovely anthro art that is ostensibly of hyenas, but is stylized a lot more after canines.

This is understandable. Most people assume, from the roughly similar appearance and behavior, that hyenas are some sort of caniform. This assumption leads to some unfortunate problems.

There’s an awful lot of hyena art that ends up just being spotted dogs.

Hyenas are actually a feliform carnivore in their own distinct family. And they have some very unique anatomy that, unfortunately, tends to be lost when building from the canine assumption. This is the most noticeable when it comes to spotted hyenas, who have the most distinct look of the four extant species. And which this primer will focus on.

This primer is in part inspired this excellent reference guide by Kenket, and from my own adoration of these weird, beautiful animals. And my desire to see their funky anatomy be better appreciated.

You don’t want your hyena to look like a canine. You want her to look like a hyena. And I reckon there’s three major shapes that make a hyena Hyena shaped.

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