Wanted to make a separate thread just for animal references.
Anyone got any cool animal poses we could use for reference in the Novel?!
Basically, I don't draw animals a lot (mine tend to look crappy ;D) and don't have that many pictures to help.
So, if anyone finds or got any animals pics they want to share, please do!!!
Any artists would love a rich library of images for reference, and essentially that's what I would like to make this about.
Animals doing cool actions and photos taken from cool angles. Anything you could picture working in a comic.
ALSO, don't limit it to the big animals also. ;)
I am still looking for some microscopic images of close-up anole, ants, roaches, spiders, etc...
Do you guys realize how challenging it can be to draw animals?!
Because of the variety of shapes and textures animals have, it can be real tricky to convey it in a style.
Very few artists achieve good results in a graphic format.
Any of you read DC Comics' Pride of Baghdad by writer Brian K. Vaughan?! If not, get it out, for Niko Henrichon, Vaughan's illustrator, did a splendid job.
(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_53VFjJ7D-VQ/R1RpOJ2fvlI/AAAAAAAAAds/BD9HyQYzkww/s1600-R/bagdad.jpg)
There are some awesome panels! You will note that, even though he gave them a somewhat anthropomorphic 'feel', he used a lot of image references.
THIS is the level of artwork I had in mind. It's the kinda look I had in mind for when the Anis' morphed. And I could see it going real well with the way I draw my Hork-Bajirs and Taxxons.