Flower child: the hippy

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So I did an art trade on the RPG I rejoined after a 3 year break, and this was the other person's character she wanted a picture for. A pegasus, named Hippy, but instead of regular bat or feathered wings, she has flower petal wings. It took me a couple days of thinking about it, how would I implement that and make it look...semi-realistic and believable? Well I had the idea just to cut some daisy stock out and add them in "wing" form on the sides and be done with it, then I thought: too easy and would be boring/drab/not executed well. And came up with the overlay reference idea. well minus the reference on the actual picture in the end...so I found greencheek's "how to draw wings" four part picture and built from there.

I think...I'm done with manipulation this week; possibly this weekend I'll pick it up again.

I have to thank my reference, guide person for helping me build the wings. has a great reference for drawing or in my case, building realistic wings. some parts of the wing were of course modified for this endeavor.

Flower stockists







Background


Brushes


Wing reference


horse stock is my own.

time: 8hrs+
program: cs5 photoshop
tools: brain, intuos4 wacom tablet, hands

Please do not take and claim as your own, sell for money, redistribute in any way. There's a reason I don't put big nasty deviantart watermarks on my things...it so you can enjoy them

Only thing I allow is desktop background useage.