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Katie Verdigris Smoke

"Darkfyre" by Katie Verdigris Smoke

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This is my magical cat. I've created a whole world with four clans (earth, water, air and fire) and this is the leader of fire clan. Darkfyre. All the cats can do magic and there are many different areas in their forest... etc.

I'm really pleased with how this came out. It was an experiment with shapes because even though cats are my favourite animals I'm not all that comfortable in drawing them. So, practice makes perfect! ^-^

August 2008




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31 Aug 2008:-) Sandra van Iersel
how great! I really have to think that one over, though, the commission I mean 12

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "yup, whenever you want. Just post a comment ^-^"
2 Sep 200845 Kiwi
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31 Oct 2008:-) Anna Moonfrost Grawe
wow! i really like this one.. its really well done and i like cats so i know a bit on how they look and you did great! and have you read the "Warriors" series with the cats of the clans? what you said reminded me a bit about that.........

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "Yeah I have read the Warriors series. That was part of the inspiration fore this one."
10 Nov 2008:-) Glo 'the Bug' Bowden
So is this watercolor? very cool. I love your use of color here.

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "Thank you ^-^"
5 Feb 2009:-) Vineet Aggarwal
He is so cute.. but then m a total cat person so maybe m biased 2

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "lol, me too. Glad you like him."
22 Feb 2009:-) Hayley M Lazo
Kitty! *gwee* I am proud to admit that I am a biased cat-lover as well. The shading is so awesome! *siigh* I can rarely use any medium aside from Photoshop. The tail is so fluffy! Pretty eyes too. Great stuff! *thumbs up*

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "Yay! More cat lovers! ^ ^ I find mediums other than photoshop tricky too, although I seem to be getting gradually worse not better ... -.- ... It’s why I find art lessons at school so irritating. Still, one can but try. I think my graphite pieces are better than my painted ones. Glad you like it anyway!"
6 Apr 200945 Jayde
i love cats, so i love this picture. can you soon do loads more pictures on here so that i can see them for my fantasy dose? perhaps some more in water colour(it is water colour isn’t it?), i like this style . . . *is tired and a little depressed* *needs KT’s fantasy art* byee.

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "Awww *pets Jayde* Yeah.. maybe.... You know how I like never do art of course, it’s not like every evening is devoted to drawing and I sketch throughout the school day in a vain attempt to get ideas down before I get caught is it? *heavy sarcasm* ^ ^"
18 May 2009:-) Connie Jay Mentira
His eyes would look way cooler if they were a bright orange. I like the way you spelled fire. Fyre. If you wrote a story(unless you have), the spelling error thing would always send the red line of annoyance out to haunt you. 17

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "Yes... I s’pose they would. This was kinda based on my old cat, now dead, who had bright green eyes, so... yeah. My nickname is Fyre so that’s where his name comes from. Ty for the comment!"
18 May 2009:-) Jennie Sörensen
Oh.... I actually dreamed about a cat like this once.... scary

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "o_O Quite... "
10 Sep 2009:-) Jeanette M Thomas
More from another cat lover. You have the cat anatomy down very well. It’s hard to draw one in this position. I think the eyes are perfect as green. They offset the orange. For a long time I’ve only had one cat with grape-green eyes (like "white" grapes) - my beloved Boo Buddy - sort of a blue-gray shorthair. Most of my otheer cats have had yellow/amber eyes. Once had a black with green eyes, and once a Siamese with blue. Would love to see Darkfyre’s world. Have you written any of the stories?

:-) Katie Verdigris Smoke replies: "Wow! Sorry, but I haven’t looked at this pic or world in ages. I have FAR too many worlds, seriously. No I haven’t written any of it down - it was really something to keep me amused on a long walk. I have too many of those too! It was meant for a sort of roleplay site really, although I’ve experimented with creating my own rp sites and know I haven’t the time to run them properly. It’s based in part on the Warriors series - basically, four clans of cats in a forest and that’s as far as the resemblance goes. If you’re a cat lover and you haven’t read that series I strongly recommend it btw! It’s very good, if not great literature.

And now I’m whittering. Sorry, but I haven’t looked at Elfwood in ages.... *shifty face* *cough* I never got sidetracked by dA, me get sidetracked by dA? never.... So this message came quite out of the blue. Thanks for the kind comments!"
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About 'Darkfyre':
 • Status: OK
 • Created by: :-) Katie Verdigris Smoke
 • Copyright: ©Katie Verdigris Smoke. All rights reserved!

 • Keywords: Cat, Fire, Black, Magic, Leader, Animal
 • Categories: Magic and Sorcery, Spells, etc., Normal Animals (Cats, horses, fish, etc)
 • Techniques: Pencil/Graphite Pen, Black Ink, Gouache
 • Inspirations: Other Artist
 • Submitted: 2008-08-16 15:18:38
 • Views: 297
 • Resolution: 460x640


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