[Art] Short-Tailed Paradigalla, Rhode Island Red, Chuditch and Barnevelder as Totems...

[moonvoice]

Well, I decided to post these all at once,
rather than break it up over a series of days.
This is the last in the current batch of totems.
But not the last of my current request list!
But I need to get back to inking a magical forest...


Short-Tailed Paradigalla as Totem

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Rhode Island Red as Totem

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Chuditch as Totem (also known as the Western Quoll, or Western Native Cat)

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Barnevelder as Totem

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Comments

[white_rabbit]

*bounces!* I love them all! I don't know why, but I always pay attention to the swirlies and how they flow, because I feel like it tells me a lot about the totems, if only abstractly. I love the way Barnevelder is right in the middle of the swoosh of black, with very gentle looking swirlies all around. :) And those FEATHERS. So much shiny!

[moonvoice]

Eee, I'm glad you love them. I showed Glen last night and he was quite impressed with the shiny. Particularly that epic Barnevelder.

[laturner]

Those are simply gorgeous!

[moonvoice]

Thank you so much! :D

[hrafn]

Wow. The feathers on the chickens are really awesome! The iridescence and the shininess, on top of the color - yay!

The chuditch's energy spirals - that angular shape doesn't happen often, does it!

[moonvoice]

Yeah the angular spirals really aren't called for that often! But they're very much fun to do.

[tangledaxon]

Love them all, but I especially love the chuditch! I'd never heard of them until now. :D

[moonvoice]

Chuditch are awesome. They're an example of convergent evolution, as they're a marsupial carnivore that fills the niche weasel/small wildcat, that lactating mammals would normally fill. They're vicious and adorable all at the same time!

[ariestess]

I am completely in love with all four of these, especially Rhode Island Red and Barnevelder. The coloring in their feathers is exquisite!

[moonvoice]

Thank you so much!

[silverjackal]

Expressing everything I think about these is going to require a list!

- I love the richness of the Paradigalla's plumage
-the background on the Rhode Island Red is wonderfully lush, and you can just *feel* her looking at you.
-the Quoll is about 17 different kinds of fantastic! The background, the fur, the *eye*, those power circles!... *sits on hands to avoid an imprudent move* towards email to ask friend to make purchase!
-and the Barnevelder is just glorious. I liked it very much uncoloured, and the colour is stupendous. Not just those intricate feathers and their iridescence, I also like the background (which is odd for me -- I generally don't care for pink).

This is a stunning group, and how hard you've worked on them really shows. (Not that it normally doesn't, but these are practically incandescent from what you've poured into them.)

[moonvoice]

I did work hard on these! Those damn feathers. Lol. They were a lot of fun though. I think I like the Paradigalla's colour scheme the most. That white + forest greens + pink suggesting rainforest fruit.

Quolls are amazing. In energy and general disposition. I've had the fortune of meeting them both in the wild for tagging/science purposes, and at a local wildlife park, and they're just... wow. Like if god put an angry cat and some kind of Mustelid together, gave it a pouch and some spots and the ability to be very very arboreal.