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...for Verlidaine !

First off, this title has dual meanings. Taken as a verb, it refers to Daine (right) speaking to my fursona in the picture. Taken as a noun, it's an opposite, standing for something that's been reversed or inverted. Namely, the dense apartment living found in a city contrasts with other potential habitat for an Aiyre (Daine's species, by Verlidaine ) might be, and foxes aren't known to live in apartments, either.

...so! I wanted this to be a speedpaint, at first, but I've never really been adept at those. Most recently, my 3-4 hour "Edge of Storm" foxstory.deviantart.com/art/Ed… left me unsatisfied with the finished product. As for the 1-2 hour coherent, appealing speedpaints that some other artists create, I'm far from being able to make those. This one took about 16-18 hours over the past two weeks or so.

In this picture, my fursona is visiting Daine in some kind of city apartment with a view of a centrally located park amid other high density housing or commercial office buildings. The pond may be frozen in the park, but snow cover is not present. I drew some little cars and stoplights for the city roads, and I used a snowflake brush. I suppose Mungo isn't that eager to share his space with a red fox, and so he's backed up over there until he can make up his mind. Daine is explaining some matter to my fursona, who is eager to listen. I think we'd also enjoy looking out at the snowfall in the winter night- but then the faces wouldn't be visible to the person viewing the artwork. (Actually, now that I think of it, I could have drawn this from outside the window looking in, but oh well. I like this view of the two in conversation on its own merits.) I really think it would be awesome to /be my fursona/ and of course visit, talk to, adventure with, etc. other people as their fursonas... so this is something of a recurring theme in my art. Of course, this is also outside any central canon, so the circumstances can be adapted however possible to each individual picture. I think the bookcases primarily serve an aesthetic purpose in this scene, since I'm not to sure about the feasibility of using paws to turn pages. However, it should be noted that Daine has a 3DS with Pokemon Y, which shows a shiny Riolu (Leon) in pokemon Amie. Also, there's a crystal vase holding a solitary yellow flower on the right side of the window ledge. As I understand it, yellow flowers can symbolize vivacity, happiness, joy, and energy. I wanted to have art of Daine (left, by me) and art by Verli (right) on the walls, as that seemed like a more appropriate form of decor than simply making up some color splotches or abstract thing just to take up space on the wall.

My own fursona is (c) to myself, and Daine (winged character on the right) is the fursona of Verlidaine , who has the copyright to this character. The cat on the left is Mungo, who belongs to Verlidaine . The drawing on the left wall is an artwork of mine, "An Evening Together" with details here: foxstory.deviantart.com/art/An… . (It features Daine, Verli's fursona and also SkySilky 's zodiac fluffsona.) The drawing on the right wall is a commission (c) Verlidaine of my OC Silvia and my own fursona. "Gone Fishin" is here: verlidaine.deviantart.com/art/… with details.

The bookcases were constructed with images from cgtextures, which also supplied textures for the rug, walls, and carpet. The rug was changed with a hue filter before dry brush / paint daubs filters and transformation (shift-click) to match the perspective. The carpet texture was rotated in 3D as a "postcard" and then overlaid as a clipping mask on the floor, which used a gradient. The bookcase images (four separate ones) were applied to rectangular prisms (3D objects), which were then scaled and moved in space and orientation relative to viewer. I used the Stroke layer effect on the rug and wall paintings. I also used a brushed aluminum texture as a 20% opacity overlay for a finishing effect. This artwork is (c) foxstory 2014, with all characters within belonging to their respective creators.

Photoshop CS4
Wacom Intuos 4 Large
16-18 hours
Full resolution: 3840x2485

Favorites are good, but comments are great! I'd love to know what you all think of this, and constructive critique is always appreciated.

Description
...for Verlidaine !

First off, this title has dual meanings. Taken as a verb, it refers to Daine (right) speaking to my fursona in the picture. Taken as a noun, it's an opposite, standing for something that's been reversed or inverted. Namely, the dense apartment living found in a city contrasts with other potential habitat for an Aiyre (Daine's species, by Verlidaine ) might be, and foxes aren't known to live in apartments, either.

...so! I wanted this to be a speedpaint, at first, but I've never really been adept at those. Most recently, my 3-4 hour "Edge of Storm" foxstory.deviantart.com/art/Ed… left me unsatisfied with the finished product. As for the 1-2 hour coherent, appealing speedpaints that some other artists create, I'm far from being able to make those. This one took about 16-18 hours over the past two weeks or so.

In this picture, my fursona is visiting Daine in some kind of city apartment with a view of a centrally located park amid other high density housing or commercial office buildings. The pond may be frozen in the park, but snow cover is not present. I drew some little cars and stoplights for the city roads, and I used a snowflake brush. I suppose Mungo isn't that eager to share his space with a red fox, and so he's backed up over there until he can make up his mind. Daine is explaining some matter to my fursona, who is eager to listen. I think we'd also enjoy looking out at the snowfall in the winter night- but then the faces wouldn't be visible to the person viewing the artwork. (Actually, now that I think of it, I could have drawn this from outside the window looking in, but oh well. I like this view of the two in conversation on its own merits.) I really think it would be awesome to /be my fursona/ and of course visit, talk to, adventure with, etc. other people as their fursonas... so this is something of a recurring theme in my art. Of course, this is also outside any central canon, so the circumstances can be adapted however possible to each individual picture. I think the bookcases primarily serve an aesthetic purpose in this scene, since I'm not to sure about the feasibility of using paws to turn pages. However, it should be noted that Daine has a 3DS with Pokemon Y, which shows a shiny Riolu (Leon) in pokemon Amie. Also, there's a crystal vase holding a solitary yellow flower on the right side of the window ledge. As I understand it, yellow flowers can symbolize vivacity, happiness, joy, and energy. I wanted to have art of Daine (left, by me) and art by Verli (right) on the walls, as that seemed like a more appropriate form of decor than simply making up some color splotches or abstract thing just to take up space on the wall.

My own fursona is (c) to myself, and Daine (winged character on the right) is the fursona of Verlidaine , who has the copyright to this character. The cat on the left is Mungo, who belongs to Verlidaine . The drawing on the left wall is an artwork of mine, "An Evening Together" with details here: foxstory.deviantart.com/art/An… . (It features Daine, Verli's fursona and also SkySilky 's zodiac fluffsona.) The drawing on the right wall is a commission (c) Verlidaine of my OC Silvia and my own fursona. "Gone Fishin" is here: verlidaine.deviantart.com/art/… with details.

The bookcases were constructed with images from cgtextures, which also supplied textures for the rug, walls, and carpet. The rug was changed with a hue filter before dry brush / paint daubs filters and transformation (shift-click) to match the perspective. The carpet texture was rotated in 3D as a "postcard" and then overlaid as a clipping mask on the floor, which used a gradient. The bookcase images (four separate ones) were applied to rectangular prisms (3D objects), which were then scaled and moved in space and orientation relative to viewer. I used the Stroke layer effect on the rug and wall paintings. I also used a brushed aluminum texture as a 20% opacity overlay for a finishing effect. This artwork is (c) foxstory 2014, with all characters within belonging to their respective creators.

Photoshop CS4
Wacom Intuos 4 Large
16-18 hours
Full resolution: 3840x2485

Favorites are good, but comments are great! I'd love to know what you all think of this, and constructive critique is always appreciated.