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[summer_jackel]

Some Shard and Danielle cuteness. Poor Shard looks a little bit uncertain. Courting a lady you really fancy isn't an easy feat, even when you're dead. Possibly, especially when you're dead. Also on FA.

Drawing 'Bone Shard' is a long, slow, time-consuming process, which of course I knew perfectly well when I started it, but we are so very close to Shard's entry into the story proper and I want to be there. (Technically, she's already been introduced). I'm totally impatient to get to the interactions between these two even though, as I may or may not have mentioned here, Hazyl appears to have hijacked the story.

Also, check out way cool new icon from Mulefoot. Bleeding ears and dangerous eyes, whee!

Comments

[cphoenix.livejournal.com]

I was just in a museum looking at ancient Egyptian art. (They were doing really cool things with art glass, including extremely intricate cane work, thousands of years ago! As near as I can figure, they must have had a way of working the whole piece warm in a kiln, like Fimo or clay, rather than heating it in a flame.)

Just now I looked at your art, and thought... wait, that's animal heads on nearly-human bodies... very much like the Egyptian gods/goddesses!

I'm curious, not being very familiar with furrydom, whether animal-headed humans (as opposed to anthropomorphic animals) are 1) not really furry, 2) totally furry, 3) a matter of taste, 4) a source of political tension.

Are any furry folk identifying with Egyptian deity images?

Chris

[summer-jackel.livejournal.com]

Egyptian art is amazing; I've loved looking at it all my life, especially the divine animals. And hey, anyone who gives jackals the veneration we deserve...

The Egyptian pantheon has definitely been explored by furry artists. (I have just the sexiest Dark Natasha print of Anubis hanging on my wall, oh my). Most furries, self included, have drawn them more fully anthropomorphic than the animal-headed people of the source material; however, I think that there is certainly room for both interpretations.

It does kind of make me happy that Anubis is the popular one, though, because otherwise the wolves and foxes get all the attention, and really we jackals are severely more cool. Even though he and Bastet appear to have switched roles. Oh hell, that gave me a plot bunny.