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Name: Suindara (Know simply as Sage, Old owl or Suindara the Barn Owl)Race: Avian (Owl)
Weapon of choice: Staff
Elemental affinity: Unknown
Personality/Story:Β This old lady has a mysterious past, and chooses to live in reclusive ways, despite her influence and high social status among the avians. Suindara act as a teacher for the young ones, some of the most talented students are sent to her when they achieve a certain level of knowledge.
She is very compassionate and motherly, and enjoys telling tales about the past... However she would get very upset if interrupted during her lectures.
*I'm actually very happy with the result! She is a very nice old lady *-*
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This one is my favourite. I think composition wise, this one just resonates strongest. Her wings are excellently positioned beneath the folds of her heavy clothing, and I love the way her wings almost form a circle-ish shape around her whole body; it makes her look larger and more of a noble figure.
I'm not sure her age (or at least the age category you are projecting), but I feel her face has a few too many "young" features in it. You'll notice, if you look closely, a few significant changes in the face as a person ages, beyond just developing wrinkles. For example, a person's eyes never grow, and are the same size at birth as they are at death (which is why babies seem to have big eyes). Noses and ears, however, never stop growing, no matter how old a person gets. If you google "old woman face" or "old man face", you'll notice that almost none of them have small noses or ears, but they all have small eyes. This is one of many ways you can really get across the age of your characters, and it can be used to enhance the characterization of them. Such as in the case here, I think the enhancing of her old woman facial features would largely improve her characterization as a kindly old woman, whereas her more youthful looking eyes and nose tends to make her look a bit more beautiful (which yes, usually makes character look more intimidating), mysterious, and imposing. Β Just some advice for the future
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Wow, I don't even know what to say... just thank you so much for the insightful comment!
I really appreciate the time and attention you took to give me feedback 
I always had difficulties when drawing children and people at older ages, and I'm really still maturing a style, and as you can see I have some heavy manga influences on my style, yet I try to draw more accurately/realistically the human anatomy, at least a harmonic way to fit my time and needs... but I can see that it really could benefit from more realism
as you so wisely noticed, this character is supposed to be mysterious and imposing, so I really had to struggle to balance things out when creating her design, since I wanted her to appear as a old lady, gentle and warm at first sight, but also someone who holds secrets and the fact that she was someone very vain, proud and powerful in the past, even with age catching in I wanted her to have that personality alive inside her, even with the years and old age might have toned it down a bit
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The more I see of your stuff - the more I want to read this story!
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Wow,don't tell me this makes me so excited 
I'm so sluggish I will probably die of old age before I can start writing this!
btw, this old lady is one of my favorite characters, thanks for the compliment dear
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World building is exciting but also frustrating (and real life always gets in the way) Sometimes i wish I could write down everything in my head fast because some of my stories have changed so much since i first had the original idea e.g. when the manga contradicts them but it would have been nice to have a proper finished AU story so people could see the alternative. I find it really hard to go against canon even if i don't agree with canon.
Oooh seriously your story is so interesting and it has all the things I like - fire magic, mythical beasts, magic lands, bad ass heroines (and sexy villainsΒ )plus some mystery. I can't wait - I must have moreΒ hehe.
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She was so fun to color ^^
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I can see others coming to her for wisdom. I can also see her getting annoyed with everyone that doesn't listen to her advise a well. Ha ha ha! But don't make her angry, she will get you with her walking stick.
Very well drawn and colored beautifully as usual.
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I'll surely put that scene in the story, where she hits someone head with the walking stick
Thank you so much for the compliment 
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Happy to give it.
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Thank you so much! 
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