Like the dragons, I wanted to draw the mythical bird men together, mindful of making them distinct from one another. The gryphon references playing card kings while the phoenix evokes one of my favorite superheroes. Remember, the mythic ballers are the bosses of this series (probably but unconsciously why they have beards.) They also have boss sized genitalia- lol.
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These are both so great! Doing the detail on all those feathers must have taken forever! 😮 What a cool, unique idea to base part of the gryphon’s design on playing card kings! Even the beard feels very much like the beards on those cards. The color palette for Ashbane is perfection. 🙂
Thanks dude! I’ve learned the secret to good looking wings- 1) to closely copy real reference and 2) spines in every feather but luckily I only had to draw them a few times and just copy/pasted most of them. I still wanna draw so many more bird dudes but thought if I really wanted to stop, these two would be good to end on.