Gone Batty

I’ve finally gone batty. Well, in so much as that I’m drawing them. Several months ago while perusing the used DVDs at FYE, we came across an animated show called Silverwing which seemed to be based around crazy hair color bats. It cost us like 8 bucks and I love furries so we bought it. It seemed a little corny at first, but then the story really picked up and we watched like the ENTIRE DVD (13 episodes) in one night.

After doing some research we found that it was an adaptation of a book which I’ve finally gotten my hands on and am reading now. It’s a pretty neat story and whatever animation company worked on it did a pretty good job. Wasn’t Don Bluth… but they put in good effort nonetheless.

In any case, it’s inspired me to draw some bats… I drew Aero the Acrobat and Rouge from Sonic the Hedgehog a lot last year, so the style is close to theirs. I like the idea of drawing their wings correctly… but it’s easier to give them both arms and wings separately. Maybe I will try to do it the other way… This guy’s name is Demetrius, and when I have time I will try to design his counterpart, Lysander. Yes, he’s wearing reinforced panties held up by a belt and bandoleer.