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Melinda Vass
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artists, what's your favorite part to draw? quote this post!

I like drawing wings a normal amount
A detail from a larger digital painting, centered on Pegasus. He's carefully lifting a soggy book out of a shallow river, on a sunlit morning, surrounded by greenery. A detail from an unfinished reference sheet of the shapeshifter Phoenix. Two peacock-like red birds fly up, side-by-side. The left one's tail gradients downward into fire. The right one's extravagant tail emits little wisps of blue flames here-and-there. There is a portrait on the right. A stylized frame surrounds them. Digital figure drawing of Griffin and Pegasus. Griffin seems to be basking cheerfully on a rock. The much smaller figure of Pegasus sits on top of him. Digital drawing of Griffin and Pegasus, twirling mid-air. They appear to be fighting each other.
October 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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I realized just now that I did do a second take at Pegasus. Also remembered why there isn't a third. 😀 Because WHO IS THIS. I don't want a noble steed, I want a scrawny a-hole. Mission was already accomplished at first attempt, go home
Sketches of another variant of Pegasus, from 2013. A sturdier horse with a flowy mane and wider wings.
September 6, 2025 at 8:55 AM
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Early Pegasus exploration sketches from ~2013-2015 🙃At first he was pretty much a toothy akhal-teke with wings. The full-body drawings are a bit older than the headshots and a bit more well-cooked IMO. Like a soup
Sketches of Pegasus from ~2013-2015. Headshots, expressions, and a doodle where he exclaims "I'm not a fucking horse". Top left sketch was rather influential for the final design. More sketches of Pegasus. A full-body one on the bottom left without wings, top-down. At the top, headshots with and without a mane. Bottom right shows him angrily holding a cartoony cat in his mouth. Even more sketches of Pegasus, most of which are full-body shots. Some with wings, some without. There are two scanned sketchbook drawings on the bottom right.
September 5, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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A commission straight from 2017 that I still like. :')
A strong anthro crocodilian stands in front of an ominous black circle, his back slightly turned to the viewer. He props his polearm against his neck, and rests his hands on it. His outfit gives the impression of an outlaw.
September 4, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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An older commission I still like! I forgot why I looked it up but here it is anyway
A figure of a shapeshifter making a kind of uncomfortable eye contact while also striking a strange pose. A faded green glow seems to be coming from under black feathers at the neck. The tail is black-and-white striped. There is a single gnarly horn on the head pointing straight up.
September 4, 2025 at 6:17 PM
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Blendering (my hand)

I have hitchhiker's thumb and the others bend back enough that I can kinda shake hands backwards. Any pre-rigged 3D model I tried posing before it always went like "Why does this only bend so little?... Ohhh right, I'm a freak"
Screenshot of the palm of a hand being sculpted in Blender, lit from behind. A work in progress. The middle and index fingers are particularly unfinished.
August 28, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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I don't think I posted this here yet so here it is. Griffin is pushing some boundaries, because he's Griffin.

#Tetra #Pegasus #Griffin
Digital, colored, shaded comic page about how Griffin does Pegasus's tie, and how Pegasus thanks him for it.
July 7, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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Trivia for anon. Pegasus speaks *all* Tetrakian languages, because he's a nerrrd. He'd be more than capable of sharing trivia, but getting him to share is not so straightforward

#Tetra #Pegasus
A two-panel, grayscale comic strip that attempts to address the question of Anonymous. First panel: Holly states to someone off-screen "There are more spoken languages on the Southern hemisphere than on the Northern!", then "And I can speak two and a half of them!". She seems to be lying down on the back of Pegasus, and they are flying. Second panel: Pegasus telepathically interjects: "All human languages come from the same family. It's not as impressive as she'd like you to think." The group of three is shown from above to be flying in a straight line. The third smaller figure is probably who Holly was talking to earlier. Holly briefly replies to Pegasus "well fuck you too then"
July 7, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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It came up with Griffin on tumblr so I'll mention that unlike Griffin, Pegasus doesn't eat people, even when offered 🙃 He will maul people at the drop of a hat tho (Griffin won't)

#Tetra #Griffin
Three rows of expression sketches of Griffin, with smaller sketches of the same nature sprinkled between them. The text says, from top left to bottom right: "Kid is telling a tall tale. He's adorable. Indulge him" - "Kid is telling a tall tale. It's actually pretty good? Indulge him" - "I eat people but I wouldn't even touch you with a ten-foot pole, friend" - "Someone got pranked. Everybody immediately suspects it was you. It was you. Play innocent" - "Watches obscenely expensive vase slowly roll off the table" - "No, I still wouldn't like to crush your head between my thigh like a watermelon, Souzan" - "I lost Ryan"
July 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Warm-ups and wind-downs with the horsie (I haven't LOOKED AT humans in six months, let alone draw any)

Pegasus doesn't neigh and doesn't growl, he honks and hisses. u_u" Occasional yowling/screaming; generic terse English, to tell people to fuck off

#Tetra #Pegasus
A dense pack of digital sketches, the subject of them being Pegasus in both human and Pegasus forms. Top half of image is warm-up sketches. The hand-written magenta text says "I wanna show you my world, where the beat goes up and down" which is a lyric of Elevator Operator by Electric Callboy. The bottom half of the image are wind-down sketches. One of them tries to illustrate the vocalizations of Pegasus (a mix of cat screams and seagull honks, on a megaphone). All but one sketch are portraits.
July 5, 2025 at 12:26 AM
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Here's some weird horse

#Pegasus #Tetra
Grayscale sketch of Pegasus, wearing a loose bow in his mane. He's partially leaning on his long wings while sitting. Dated 2020.
June 21, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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Griffin & Pegasus have a disagreement III (2019), retouch

#Tetra #Griffin #Pegasus #illustration
Watercolor-like, sepia toned digital drawing. On the ground, below the figure of human-form Pegasus, there is Griffin, staring up at him angrily. The distance is probably large between them, as Pegasus is balancing on top of a massive flagpole. They might be fighting.
June 1, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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if you ask me, he's a horse

I'm the evil witch that created him, you can trust me
Scribble of Pegasus exclaiming "I'm not a fucking horse"
May 31, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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the monster is performing strange motions

#Tetra #Pegasus
Three digital sketches of Pegasus. All three depict him scratching himself. On the left he scratches his neck, on the top right his side, on the bottom right his shoulder. Logo, signature and date in bottom left corner.
May 30, 2025 at 4:43 PM
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If you see this post, post a monster

It's 4AM, noises coming from the barn. Armed with a flashlight, you go to investigate. There is a horse on the ceiling. He says he is looking for books

#Tetra #Pegasus #illustration
Digital illustration. In a room dimly lit by what seems to be a handheld flashlight, there is Pegasus, crouching on a beam near the ceiling. His eyes reflect the light, his mouth slightly open, revealing his pointy teeth, his wings seem too long to fit comfortably in the room
May 30, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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Griffin & Pegasus have a disagreement II (2019), retouch

#Tetra #Griffin #Pegasus #illustration
Digital drawing of Griffin and Pegasus fighting. The latter is in human form and is clinging to Griffin's neck fluff, looking fruitlessly for a good fluff-free spot to strike, while Griffin is swatting at him to get him off.
May 29, 2025 at 7:13 PM
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In exchange for enduring my architectural misadventures and attempts at dark humor, here's a slightly older test clip I made of Pegasus doing nothing in particular
May 25, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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I can't figure out what the purpose of balustrades are UNDER windows in real buildings. Seems like decor for the sake of decor. That being said, I think I'll put them in front of my floor-to-ceiling windows so that people don't accidentally fall straight from the 3rd floor but do a flip first
3D render of Pegasus crouching on the 3rd floor railing of an incomplete building, with an open window behind him. Another render, more focused on Pegasus taking flight.
May 25, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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I've NEVER seen this lit or rendered 😭It feels amazinggg. I have no need for a decked out building model but... I wanna. I wanna architecture

I modeled everything in it except for the lamps and a stack of books
Grainy screenshot of Blender with the UI visible on the right. The left showcases the back of a library interior, with some book-filled shelves crammed under a staircase. Another grainy Blender screenshot (they are all grainy). This one focuses on the model of an elaborate iron railing on the first floor of the dimly-lit library. Screenshot showing the 3-story-high library room from the back. The walls of the front have been cut out and discarded. Pegasus can be seen sitting on the balcony outside in the distance. Pegasus snoozing among bookshelves on the floor.
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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I realized that I can import my old architectural SketchUp WIP into Blender, and sleep was laughed out of the room that day

#3D #Pegasus
Screenshot of Blender showcasing a large white unfinished building model's façade, lit by the sun. Same model, showing the interior from the viewpoint of the library entrance on the ground floor. Griffin is sleeping in the middle of the room, and Pegasus is sleeping half-hidden among bookshelves. Same model's library room viewed from top-down. The pattern of the floor can be seen from this angle pretty well. Symbols of the four gods - ELI, SOL, ORM, and ARK - are placed around a large world globe in the center. There is a dark hole in the floor's model (not anymore though, I plugged it). Pegasus sitting on the balcony balustrade of the façade of the building, with an unfinished interior being visible behind the similarly unfinished window.
May 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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he doesn't look cold anymore
Screenshot of a 3D Pegasus model with a bit too much fluffy fur on The same fluffy model in a flying pose placed in front of a clear blue sky
April 30, 2025 at 1:26 AM
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I haven't posted an update on this in a while. Here's my first Blender sculpture (the mouth) (WIP). Enamel back-scratchers 🦷

I'm itching to update the eyeballs, but I know how to do that. I want to focus on things that I've never done before and/or are missing or misbehaving.

#Pegasus #3D
Blender screenshot of a Pegasus model scratching his shoulders with his teeth. The wings and mane are hidden so they don't get in the way of developing the base. Screenshot of the same model's portrait. The mouth is open to let the mouth interior be seen. 3D render of an anatomical model of Pegasus's mouth that partially includes the rest of the lower-resolution skull and the eyeballs. Close-up screenshot of the model's lower front teeth.
April 23, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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Rough sketch of a horse kicking toward the viewer.
April 17, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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Griffin & Pegasus from when Griffin didn't have his final design (2019), retouch

#Tetra #Griffin #Pegasus #illustration
Flat color drawing of Griffin and Pegasus spiraling downward in flight, eyes locked onto each other in what appears to be mutual hostility.
April 14, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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QRP your growth!
2006-2024

I'm satisfied with the technological improvements, but the new one doesn't have speedwalking cactus. They just don't make desert flora like they used to
April 12, 2025 at 8:37 PM