The fact that I've never made a Spirit OC until now is insane. I've been obsessed with this movie since 2002.
This gal is based on a drawing of a Spirit x Rain baby I drew as a kid, which was a neon yellow splotched mare named Spira. Little me was sooo good at naming things.
You can probably see this movie's influence in a lot of my artwork, honestly my usual style is quite similar. This movie lives rent free in my brain, if anything I pay it to stay there.
My monthly ko-fi member drawing for December, of Felina! I do a monthly art raffle for my members. I currently have 8 (awesome) members, so you have a pretty good chance ^^
If you want to support what I do, enter the raffle, and see behind-the-scenes art, consider joining one of my tiers!
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I decided to practice a bit with some traditional media to give my eyes a break from the screen. So, here's First Draft in all of his watercolor (and some colored pencil) glory!
I've been learning a lot about underpainting and blending watercolors. Watercolors are kind of my short-suit in terms of media, so this was a challenging (but worthwhile) practice. I don't consider myself an expert on it by any means but I feel like it's a strong improvement from the past.
May I introduce you to my main lore horses in Star Stable Online! War Path the Paso Fino, Honeybee the Appaloosa, and Brass Demon the Marwari.
These three make up the roster of my character Vivienne’s little troop. She picked them all up one way or another on her travels and they’ve all bonded to her in their own way. She tends to take in the more unsavory or harder to deal with horses. War Path and Brass Demon both for their personalities and Honeybee for her coordination.
War Path is the pseudo leader with Honeybee keeping the boys in check from butting heads too much and Brass Demon as the motivator. They all have pretty detailed histories so I’ll spare you but here’s some simple refs both for practice drawing horses and also for my own visuals