I spent a long time brainstorming this one, and a long time drawing it out. I had to really pull out all the tricks I know about to get this image to come out the way I wanted. I'm so happy it worked out.
A guy stands in front of a broken mirror, but something is weird. Where did his clothes go? There's also something else weird about this broken mirror. It seems that shards of it are reflecting him as a bipedal mouse, but also female?! Which him...or rather, her, is the real one?! And when he looks away, which self will he be?
This submission was done to enter
izzyizzy's contest! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7827218/
A guy stands in front of a broken mirror, but something is weird. Where did his clothes go? There's also something else weird about this broken mirror. It seems that shards of it are reflecting him as a bipedal mouse, but also female?! Which him...or rather, her, is the real one?! And when he looks away, which self will he be?
This submission was done to enter
izzyizzy's contest! http://www.furaffinity.net/journal/7827218/
Category Artwork (Digital) / Transformation
Species Mouse
Size 1280 x 1280px
File Size 1.78 MB
I actually thought about doing that. Probably would have been smart if I had. But I sketched out one image, of the male. Then I overlayed a broken piece of glass to help me get the design correct for the shattered glass. Then I colored in the background and used the lines for the break to erase everything I needed to inbetween the pieces. I wrote out which pieces of the glass I wanted to remain human and which ones for the mouse. And I used those marking to help me while drawing the line-art for each fragment. The human parts followed the sketch, and the feminine mouse parts I adjusted the pose based on female body composition and skewed them for each piece.
An interesting concept and one that you pulled off quite well. Brings to mind what conflicting sensations would be occurring as he remains in this limbo of flesh and perception. While looking at the mirror would he feel a swinging tail and not at the same time? The twitch of an ear as someone calls him simultaneously a reverberating echo and clear, the myriad of smells around him fighting to conceive of mouse fur and human sweat, or perhaps it's the slow downward look towards him hand... all previous knowledge of reality thrown away into an abyss of uncertainty until he sees what he senses are simultaneously denying and confirming. What is the final conclusion in front of this shattered surface? Or like his current perception will he be forced to carry this melded dichotomy with him for the rest of his life? To live as both the male human he was born as and the female mouse that was introduced to through a simple broken veil.
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