This is unicornbar's ( http://unicornbar.deviantart.com/ ) lovely character Vesper, whom she asked me to draw on the seaside with a general yellow and blue color scheme. I understand the character is supposed to be partly (or entirely?) a (literal) dragon -- so she is or can be a dangerous person. Hence the scary eagle in front. I was just gonna put a couple of swans in the foreground, because I'm a boring person, but then the client suggested an eagle instead, that being more suitable to who the character is, and the end result was much more interesting.

The eagle is some sort of sea eagle ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sea_eagle ) -- probably one of these ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White-tailed_eagle ), though it's verging on the size of one of these ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steller%27s_sea_eagle ). My understanding is that fish eagles/sea eagles sometimes eat water birds as well as fish, so... that poor little ibis in the right corner is maybe gonna get eaten.

The beach is based on this one ( https://www.flickr.com/photos/andrepipa/2071286155/ ), and the background and colors owe quite a lot to that specific photograph, as you see.

And I suspect that these scarlet ibis ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scarlet_ibis ), and that sea eagle would not really be found in the same place at the same time IRL -- but since this is a fantasy setting, I just chose birds and locations for shape and color; I did not check to see what parts of the world they come from.

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(This is a pretty damn large picture -- it started out relatively small, but the background kept expanding.)

These are Crysomandiaz's ( http://crysomandiaz.deviantart.com/ ) characters Evariste, Sylvia, and Maria (in order from left to right). They live in a post apocalyptic world which is similar to the present day Mediterranean, as I understand, so I had a lot of fun looking up appropriate plants and architecture.

The town in the background is pretty much a chunk lifted out of the real life town of Manarola ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manarola ) -- and so I take no credit for the design of the town, though I did construct this perspective myself, using a rough plan of the buildings traced off satellite images of the area from Google Maps, and eyeballed elevations of the individual buildings from photographs.

The clothes are a bit of a hodgepodge of eras and styles; I was going for neo-Medieval (as with Evariste's clothes), but then I really wanted to put Maria in some sort of bolero jacket ( similar to this, in this case: http://www.mccord-museum.qc.ca/en/collection/artifacts/M8371.1?Lang=1&accessnumber=M8371.1 ), so I figured in the end that folks in a post-apocalyptic (or indeed in any) future would have access to designs from any and all eras preceding their own.

The boats in the foreground are a couple of Melonseeds ( http://www.melonseed.com/the-remarkable-melonseed-skiff.html ) (something like these ( http://fineartamerica.com/featured/italian-fishing-boats-fishermens-wharf-san-francisco-circa-1903-california-views-mr-pat-hathaway-archives.html ) might have been nice also, but they were too large for my purposes) which I modeled and projected into the appropriate perspective in Rhino; I then popped them on top of the perspective drawing I'd already done of the town in Photoshop (I'll post a WIP of this little monster on my Tumblr later today :D).

The starfish is one of these guys: ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pisaster_ochraceus ) (I admit to choosing it for color and shape; I don't know what part of the world they live in; in a post-apocalypse type situation, though, I figure you can be a bit fast and loose with stuff like that) and you should not of course pick up starfish off the rocks you find them on, because you will hurt their little feet (not the arms, but the feet inside the arms). I'm assuming either that this guy was already floating free, or that Maria... coaxed it onto her hand? Can you do that? I don't know. Anyhow, the starfish is fine.

The foreground plants are yucca, which I was intrigued to find are now naturalized in Italy (although they aren't native to that area). (I understand the internet's been interested in color lately: so, for anyone interested, the yucca in the foreground are white and green. Any other color you think you see is entirely a product of your own imagination.)

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Here's a drawing of uyudong's ( http://uyudong.deviantart.com/ ) lovely character Season, feeding chipmunks. (when I was little, I was told that the trick was to lay a trail of seeds from the chipmunk burrow and then lay a distance away with a handful of seed and wait for the chipmunks to emerge and follow the trail to your hand -- this may or may not be a real chipmunk-taming method that works, or it may just be something older people tell children to get them to spend long periods of time being quiet; it's a nice idea anyhow)

Also there are budgies.

Flowers/trees/hair ornaments:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taraxacum
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malus
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaenomeles

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Ah, this was fun. :D Some shippy Jojo's Bizarre Adventure #5 (Vento Aureo) fanart (Bruno/Giorno), for gyolove, who draws gorgeous Jojo fanart that y'all should check out, even if you're not familiar with the series in fact, and loves this pair.

Kisses somewhere between the cheek and corner of the mouth + accidentally turning your kissing friend's shirt into a flowering vine, because Giorno's stand powers are delightful. (although you probably would want to treat that little vine very gingerly and not, uh, inadvertently squash any part of it)

(If you want to know what the flowers/trees are:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papaver_rhoeas
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lavandula_angustifolia
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calendula_arvensis
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passiflora_caerulea
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cupressus_sempervirens

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Hey, the latest SSBB issue is out! ( http://bb-shousetsu.livejournal.com/102609.html ) I illustrated a neat story about 18th c French court ladies in love ( http://s2b2.livejournal.com/281491.html ) . And you should get over there and read the story.

(I was going for one of these "casual" ladies' muslin dresses from the time; I had to make it a bit more colorful, but otherwise, it's somewhere between this ( http://www.thefashionhistorian.com/2012/03/chemise-la-reine.html ) and this ( http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/works-of-art/1998.222.1 ) Also, roses from the void, because ( http://v2012.mangapark.com/manga/Rose-of-Versailles/c10/8 ) )

These are sweep_stakes’ (http://sweep-stakes.deviantart.com/) characters Mordan and Seth, who make a very good looking couple. She asked me to draw them sharing a cigarette, so I did. (Admittedly, as we know from Tennessee Williams (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/180369) it may not be the best idea to smoke in bed)

Also, I take no credit for the design of the little table. (http://www.skinnerinc.com/auctions/2661B/lots/507)

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A commission for Coboye ( https://www.weasyl.com/~coboye ) of their awesome shape-changing character Miguel Vargas, coming in his apartment at the window and leaving at the door (and then going across the street). The wisteria there must be tougher than it looks.

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This is TMirai's ( http://tmirai.deviantart.com ) antelope-horned and eared character Rashmi, who has a regular thing going with the moon. (That's rough, buddy.)

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This is an illustration which ladysisyphus commissioned for one of my favorite SSBB stories of all time, the Revelation of Orev. 

The best I could do for figuring what the architecture in the world of that story might look like was one of these columns in the background of a more recent modern looking apartment. And the flowers in the foreground are these.

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So, how about that web series RWBY, huh? With the color-coded uniforms and the magic school and the magical girl rivalries.

Have a bit of gratuitous Ruby/Weiss magical girl porn. With gratuitous roses. (That Ruby sheds rose petals as she moves is canon, though.)


Weiss looks a bit like Eeyore here, but the grumpiness is part of her charm. And magical girl heroine levels of indestructible cheerfulness might get a little old for anyone (I can't quite imagine Ruby stopping smiling)


I'm gonna be so cheesed off if they make these two turn out to be long-lost sisters or something like that.

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