White Raven

Illustration & worldbuilding - [email protected]

[whiteraven90]

I draw and write for my world called #Tetra, and work as a concept artist. I did a lot of freelancing as an illustrator, and I like doing #animation for fun. I picked this username when I was ~13, and later decided to keep it for the irony. HU/EN

🔹 General world info post 🔹 Pegasus reference sheet: full - condensed 🔹 Griffin reference sheet: temporary 🔹 griffin species description

🔹 Useful tags: #Tetra #Pegasus #Griffin #Phoenix #animation #sketches #worldbuilding #art tips. There is #whiteraventxt if you don't want to encounter text-only posts.

I'm active on: 🔹 Bluesky 🔹 Cara 🔹 YouTube

mail: [email protected] portfolio (not updated often but has links to socials)

[whiteraven90]

A hare and a bunny 🐇🐇Closest I ever got to drawing girls kissing? Characters of mine

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My gel pens. :v I typically use black, red, and gold, while the rest of them watch, wondering the meaning of their life. That thin dip pen is the only dip pen I ever found that I like. Isograph is great but maintenance is a pain (many of its brethren have perished), so I tend to go for a black gel pen. I really want to try out that Hunter Green with the browns one day, preferably before they all dry in

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post house-horses.

Kinda like, a spacious big wooden horse? Into which many soldiers fit? And maybe it even has wheels? Interesting idea

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It's been ~9 days and my last post is still marked as having mature content despite it having no mature content, so I thought I'd leave a note that 1, It's flagged against my will and 2, I don't feel like uploading to/using tumblr in its current state As I understand they have a new automated filtering system. It seems futile to try and figure out how to avoid setting it off. It flagged several other of my posts as mature, one of which is a literal architecture showcase. Most of the other posts are drawings of horses, and people wrapped in clothes as thoroughly as a medieval nun. I'm not putting up with that

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All the posts are still in jail, so I assume tumblr fired the mod team and replaced it with an AI. I guess I'll continue posting horses and houses until I get banned for them. It's been an honor, ladies and gents

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year of angry horse (gel pens on paper)

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Unfinished Cat - White Raven's Ko-fi Shop

A detailed, semi-realistic oriental shorthair cat. Partially finished. Made for use in Blender. Includes: - High-poly multires mesh - Groom

Hey! Just here to let you know that I'm releasing a WIP version of the cat I've been working on. It's free to get until the end of the year. After that probably not, so as to cover my ass. It's for Blender. Probably doesn't export well. Also, it's my first time releasing a complex 3D thing, so if you run into any issues, do let me know! Merry Crisis

[whiteraven90]

It's been ~9 days and my last post is still marked as having mature content despite it having no mature content, so I thought I'd leave a note that 1, It's flagged against my will and 2, I don't feel like uploading to/using tumblr in its current state As I understand they have a new automated filtering system. It seems futile to try and figure out how to avoid setting it off. It flagged several other of my posts as mature, one of which is a literal architecture showcase. Most of the other posts are drawings of horses, and people wrapped in clothes as thoroughly as a medieval nun. I'm not putting up with that

[whiteraven90]

Everything is a WIP about these but I felt like sharing. Baseball bat grandma is my first human sculpt + rig. She's a character of mine named Kata. I have been obsessed with rigging, I can't believe how fun it is. Unironically my favorite thing to do in 3D right now The cat is Bee. It's my first retopology endeavor. The version with open fingers is the retopo. I have a multires modifier on it. I did the fur on the sculpt just to get a feel for it, I plan to redo it with a different method I'm making these primarily as drawing references, any feature than a basic sculpt and basic rig is an extra. The rigging is kind of an anatomy study. I enjoy doing the shoulder girdle rig and the face rig the most. I blessed Kata's hands with my partial hypermobility, haha. So it is accurately rigged. Those are my paws. The tattoo and clothes are placeholders (I made them tho).

[whiteraven90]

Ask Pegasus for linguistic trivia.

If I asked him directly I'd get told "Do I look like a clown?" His trivia depends on how you classify languages (and dialects). But if they were from Earth, they all would probably belong to 1 language family. Their origins are relatively easy to trace back to a single common ancestor.

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When you drew Pegasus making a cat hiss + seagull scream + bullhorn sound, does that mean like a cat and a seagull screaming into a bullhorn, or like those two combined with that weird whine/doot feedback sound bullhorns can make? this is important for my auditory bastard immersion

Natural cat/seagull but much louder. :') He's not a vocal/chatty animal, but his few vocalizations can be heard from a great distance in his natural environments (coasts, sea, ocean, cliffs). The cat-like hissing and yowling are for close-range, but he'll lean on that horn real hard if we are talking about getting jumpscared Closest thing to a feedback sound might be if he screamed in an enclosed space that reverberates (just typical echo). Might give himself hearing damage with that though

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Warm-ups and wind-downs with the horsie (I haven't LOOKED AT humans in six months, let alone draw any) Pegasus doesn't neigh and doesn't growl, he honks and hisses. u_u" Occasional yowling/screaming; generic terse English, to tell people to fuck off (unlike Griffin, he doesn't eat people, even when offered 🙃 He will maul people at the drop of a hat tho)

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Anotherrrr WIP. A while ago I added Pegasus's teeth in with a placeholder tongue, both sculpted in Blender. Also made a quick animation test, started working on the façade of the building (and on partitioning it into sections that can be hidden easier), and the horse temporarily got very fluffy

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You get more heavily unfinished WIPs that I have to pause working on Holly happens to be my first full-body human model! I modeled Pegasus's head once but we will not talk about that. I think I will try again and then we'll talk. The fire of my enthusiasm to try again can be compared to a thousand burning suns. I have been designing creature heads in 3D & 2D simultaneously and I think I should be doing the same with people. It's so much faster and clearer. You can almost immediately see if the features you had in mind will work for you or not. And you get to roast your own anatomical knowledge in real time with no end in sight

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EMOOSE I included my corrections separately. I don't note my thoughts down when I do these, but I did this time because some people seem interested. P.S.1: When I decide how to position the corrections, I consider things like whether I started sketching at and/or focused mainly on e.g. the bust or some other part. Frequently, in the case of starting with the bust, the backside ends up being the less precise afterthought. Ideally I'd start with the whole silhouette of the figure so there's no room for error in the details, but hey. Shit happens. P.S.2: These 1-3 minute things are called croquis. I like them for being high risk, high reward - you could either end up feeling like "I should never pick up a pencil again" or "wow I nailed it on the first try" with nothing in-between.

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I had to make emoose

[whiteraven90]

hey what was that about eating people?

Oh lol. Griffin's natural diet doesn't include humans (too small to be worth it), but he does eat people, *when offered,* and only in his own form. Let's say, after a battle, you have a lot of dead bodies you don't know what to do with, but there's a t-rex sized polite carnivore right there that likes food. A match made in heaven, some would say.

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I almost didn't post this anywhere - for one, I figured social media compression would obliterate it. But let's go anyway My first sketch of Griffin had such a specific expression that I could not reproduce again - or rather, not when I tried to immediately pair it with another key expression. It was either one or the other. This is the first attempt that I feel like with a little polish it would finally match what I had in mind. His range is alien to me, and at the same time, he reminds me of my grandfather who I unfortunately seem to have inherited my sense of humor from. The issue is like... let's say I inherited a sword, but, I'm a featherweight and it's a zweihänder