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Quick skin shading tutorial! This tutorial works for Adobe Photoshop

note: the layer style is “inner glow” NOT outer glow, although I encourage you to play around with layer styles and see what fits your style best!

here is a still of the settings in case it’s too fast!

teal-chimera

make magic

Druid 🌿

#D&D #oc art #faun #art

plorkart

20 years of my life and this is all ive amounted to

My family just visited a psychic to get some advice (asian stuff). She looked at me for a bit then straight up said "he got the soul of a woman in the body of a man" and "He probably won't get a wife." so my parents just sat there like. Anyway, I currently play DnD.

#bigender #lgbtq

snackpony

friend make :3 ⪩༏⪨

thedeerus

some old stellaron hunter!stelle concept

c-rowlesdraws

I love Sweet Pea so much, I never realised how gosh darn CUTE hyenas could be, but now I'm hooked

thank you very much!! I'm so glad my art has helped you see how cute hyenas are! I honestly think that every animal can be cute in its own way, even ones with complicated insect faces or even no faces at all, but I feel like hyenas are very conventionally cute if you open your heart to them. I did this sketch (from photo reference) highlighting just some of the cute things about spotted hyenas:

The most well-known stylized hyena designs, the ones from The Lion King (which I've loved my whole life, don't get me wrong), work really hard to make them look villainous and threatening through choices like giving them broad, sly grins full of sharp teeth and desaturating their fur from tawny yellow and ginger to gray and black. That look is iconic and all, and I've seen plenty of other hyena character designs lean that way, but I think a design could easily go just as far in the other direction and be almost teddy-bear cute-- it's all about the personality the design is meant to convey and what features are exaggerated to do it. In real life, spotted hyenas just look like fuzzy normal guys, just as cute as any other large carnivorous mammal:

On a related note, that's also part of why I like drawing animals from photo reference rather than from stylized artwork. I love looking at other people's art for inspiration, but I also like being able to ultimately pick for myself how to stylize an animal character's looks, rather than copying someone else's choices. Plus, using references means getting to look at cute animal pictures while drawing, and who wouldn't want that?

Also, as one last thing, I think it's really important when considering hyenas' inherent cuteness to know that they can tuck in all their limbs and loaf like cats:

nikkiophan

imagine u lived in elder scrolls and your khajiit friend was like "ah, come and look upon khajiit's son, a fine warrior that one will be one day, yes?" and he just shows u this