Legacy LD5

Hi everyone, RipRoarRex getting my artwork ball rolling for 2013!





I'm sure some of you here have seen my practice sketches of Captain Gantu from Disney's Lilo & Stitch over the last year or so within my 'Character Training Compilations' on FurAffinity (Volume 1 last year and, more recently, Volume 2). I've probably teased folks for long enough wondering what I was planning to do with him... so here he is.



Considering how many furries seem to express their love for Gantu whenever he appears in fandom artwork, it's astonishing just how scarce Gantu fetish art is. It's even more surprising to consider that, for such a huge muscular character with massive pillars for legs and enormous elephant-like feet, there seems to be virtually nothing out there of him stomping on anything. I mean, come on, people!!



Hence, my first (yes, first, as in number one with further numbers to follow ) picture of Gantu seeks to fill that gap. I've never actually seen anything of Lilo & Stitch (films or TV), so I don't really know much about him as a character. As such, there's no real story behind this picture and nothing particularly imaginative about the idea - I just wanted to see such a sexy character doing some gratuitous macro rampaging.



Kicking off my newfound philosophy of using a more simple style and not obsessing about my artistic accuracy (as mentioned in one of my FurAffinity journals over Christmas), I didn't worry too much about drawing this to a particularly accurate standard or bothering with much of a background. I wanted to keep it relatively quick and simple. I know the face and chin is a bit off, I know the perspective is a little wonky, and I know the whole thing is very empty for a city rampage scene...

...but, seeing as I'm not gonna give myself a hard time over that kind of crap from now on, I don't much care.



As you will notice, there are two versions of this picture - one 'clean/tame' version and one with a bit of blood going on. Just click the link/thumbnail under the corresponding label to see the version you want.

Enjoy - oh, and more of Gantu on the way, folks...


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Watch out, Planet Earth. A gargantuan Gantu has arrived, and he's developed a fondness for squashing little doggies...

TAME VERSION
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BLOOD VERSION
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RRRex

You've done an excellent job of making him look heavy there - the squashing and compressing around that planted foot really gets across the weight factor!

Awesome stuff, RRR!

Thanks Diablo! You know me - I'm a sucker for conveying weight pressing down.

You once again captured the look and feel of the character very well I'd say. (Making the image very credible, graspable. As in, Yes, I buy that the character would look like this when doing such a thing, and I thus buy that they're doing it. As opposed to just drawing the character with the limbs in an appropriate position.)

I am sooooo gay for Gantu, I swear. Awesome work!

I think you've put it very well, actually. "Buying that they are doing it". I don't like my pictures to appear like a standard near-traced pose of the character with a couple of body parts adjusted, or a completely different style of the character that doesn't make it believable as themselves.

So I'm glad you appreciate it! Thanks Blue!



Yes. I think I might have read that somewhere... Oh that's right...





Thanks again, Dino!

You are so very welcome. I'd love to see more!