[Art] Five commissions; completed.

[moonvoice]

I streamed almost all of these in various stages of completion, via Google+
If you're interested in watching, or lurking, add me @ Pia Ravenari
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Northern Goshawk Gryphon as Totem

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Rhino Viper as Totem

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Melanistic Persian Leopard as Totem

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Leo as Totem















Rough Legged Hawk / Buzzard as Totem

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Comments

[white_rabbit]

I was expecting to be most drawn for Northern Goshawk Gryphon or Rough Legged Hawk this round, but Melanistic Persian Leopard is really, really drawing me into its depths. :) I could sink into those dark blues forever.

And RHINO VIPER. *trips out on all the colours!*

[moonvoice]

Rhino Viper is hallucinatorily happy to see you! *g*

[herlander_refugee]

Ohhhh, serpentine goodness!

We loves us some snakeses! (Might be why I have four of them tattoo'd up my arm...)

[moonvoice]

Oooo, snake tattoos! So win. :D

[herlander_refugee]

I apparently do not have a good picture of them any more. You can sort of see the top two coming up to the shoulder in my icon pic. They are not nearly so ornate as your lovely work, but simple as emblems of the four elements...

[moonvoice]

From what I can see of them, they are beautiful; as are the rest of your tattoos! I love them!

[herlander_refugee]

Thank you.

[tangledaxon]

Love love love! Especially Leo!

[moonvoice]

So excited for the client to receive Leo, for seriousness! :D

[goddess_incarnate]

I love the colors for the viper and leopard! So AMAZING. I also really love the symbols you used in the final picture of the Hawk.

But why does it look like all the animals have beards or mustaches? o.O

:D

[moonvoice]

Lol. A combination of markings and fate! Lol. The rhino viper has nose horns that point up, but sideways, so they do look a bit like a moustache from an aerial view (which I didn't notice until you pointed it out!)

[darakat]

They are all awesome, especially Leopard and the Buzzard.

[moonvoice]

Thank you very much. :)

[silverjackal]

Coloured my favorite is the Rough Legged Hawk. I really loved it black and white as well, but the colours, those are the colours of the open grasslands on which it winters... :) My second favorite is the melanistic Persian leopard, but you hardly need me to repeat how much I love blue, and you've really portrayed the power of the animal, as well as its' beauty.

[moonvoice]

but the colours, those are the colours of the open grasslands on which it winters... :)

I love hearing things like this so much. I research reference pictures of course, but it's not quite the same as really experiencing an animal geographically; so I become almost entirely dependent on the totem energy itself for the 'feel' of the colours around the animal. So, it's awesome that there's some resonance there.

[outlineofash]

I love love LOVE Rhino Viper! So awesome.

[moonvoice]

Thanks! :D

[shimmerhawk]

These are absolutely gorgeous. I especially like the bird ones!

[moonvoice]

YAY!
Also, that icon = awesomesauce.

[burningbright]

They're all wonderful! I love rough-legged hawk/buzzard, of course, but also that snake! :-o I had no clue it was going to be that colorful! Hoooly crap. The colors and the patterns! Is acid-trip snake. >3 But really, really striking and impressive.

[moonvoice]

SUPER COLOURFUL. The woman who commissioned it sent me a bunch of reference pictures, but then told me that they were WAY brighter immediately after a moult, and so I went in that direction. :D

[1_1_11]

I actually really adore the rough legged hawk too! It's the only one I don't think I saw you work on. The colours and the layout are amazing!

[sidheblessed]

I love all of these but I'm especially fond of the melanistic leopard. Partially because it's the first I've seen you create live and partially because I have a spirit guide who is a melanistic leopard.

[ariestess]

I am HUGELY behind on comments [and reading of ANYTHING] thanks to health issues, but I wanted to take the time to say that these are absolutely gorgeous!

[shadowcat]

I am so in love with and drawn to the Melanistic Persian Leopard. There is just something there that is pulling at me.