Yava and Stian collaboration

Totally random collaboration with my reallife friend !
Mystic drew Stian – the well-known white guy – and I drew my black female character Yava. Both are ‘cheederians’ ; Mystics fantasy feline species; a huge Oriental cat-tiger-lynx hybrid. For more information about the fantasy cats, go visit her page *BlackMysticA and group and don’t forget to support her graphic novel!

Mystic moved out of country (to Norway) 1.5 years ago, so we sadly don’t see each other so often anymore. Only a few times per year for a couple of days or weeks. I visited her in her new home this summer (1 to 13 August), and Mystic wanted to give me a tutorial about how she draws. We decided to turn it into a ‘tutorial collaboration’. We came with a random idea to draw our main characters in a dynamic pose to study the anatomy as well. Then we drew ‘parallel’ – every phase, so we got nearly everything the same. Since we didn’t plan a background initially the characters don’t blend perfectly in the background. We had chosen a simple background, the same as in Yavas character sheet, but Mystic decided that the background needed more details and thus it became a bit difficult to match the background and the characters... Anyway, I really like how the background turned out to be something nice snowy cold with birds and mountains and typically Stian and Yava nonetheless!

Stian (white) by *BlackMysticA, Yava (black) by ~RiverRaven. Cheederian species and background by BlackMysticA. Please don’t copy and/or use without our permission!