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Navaruh's Pegasus travel from the oasis on the mountain ranges where they live to the canyons on the south in order to give birth and raise their offprings. The nice temperature and the lack of predators makes the canyons the most appropiate place to raise pegasus foals.
They don't live in herds as most of equine breeds on Navaruh, instead they have a monogamous partner and some of them stay together during all their life and others only meet for the breeding season. Both mare and stallion participate on the raising of the foal, and when the foal is strong enough to fly by his own, the family group travels back to the mountain ranges where the food is more abundant.
The journey back to the mountains is very hard for the new flyers and many perish. The ones who survive spend a few years on small social groups until they meet a partner and leave to the canyons for the breeding season.

I finally finished this! Took me forever, and I tried to reduce the use of digital generted textures and try to paint by hand most of the picture. This guy is my Navaruh's Pegasus character named Golden Swallow (not his real name, but everybody knows him for this) who travels around Navaruh telling stories about the bravest mares and stallions that he met on his journey. He is Darion's closest friend. In this picture he was a foal, but his adventurous spirit is already on him.
and this Navaruh thing is a big concept that I'm still developing :) I opened critics because I spent a lot of time on this picture, and I'd like to know what I did wrong(it looks kinda flat, doesn't io?) in order to avoid doing the same when I spend this huge amount of time again on an illustration.

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Hey Georgina!
I gotta say, this piece looks awesome! I really love the scenery and the colors that you used. The Pegasus really sticks out with its warm hues, and I absolutely love the crow and the detail you put on its wings. There's not much to really critique here, besides with the impact of the piece. To me, it seems kind of flat. Mainly due to the crow and Pegasus not having a clear size difference with the perspective. Also, with the intense blue in the background and middle ground pushing the piece back, try adding some warmer tints of black in the crow and in the shadows to let your subjects pop out. This blue really does make the background effective in adding depth to this piece though, so it's not all that bad. Perhaps in other pieces, you could work on pushing and playing with the foreground more. For example, break the space between the outcropping rocks that the crow and the Pegasus are associated with. Some more shrubs might help with that, along with the mentioned color stuff. And yeah!
Hope this helps! ^u^