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Quick the Donkey

The donkey's name was Quick.

His front hooves were neat and dexterous and opposable, and his back hooves were the size of dinner plates and had unassuming steel shoes. He had a pale grey hide and pale pink nostrils, and ears like enormous fringed fans, and if you lifted up his cowl far enough, you would find large, slightly worried brown eyes, with the devastatingly long eyelashes reserved for beauty queens and large ungulates. He was a small, neat-footed donkey who kept his elbows tucked in and could vanish into a crowd much more easily than a bipedal donkey wearing a yellow robe with checkerboard edging had any right to do.

He had a goldf

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Servants of the Lemming Queenby `ursulav

Digital Art / Drawings & Paintings / People / Fantasy

Surinama was proud to be a member of the Sorcerous Society. Every year, the Society Elders got together and, through divination and a few basic tests, discovered what species the initiates had an affinity to. The results determined the shape of their future lives, and that was as it should be.

Everybody wanted the big charismatic mammals, of course, the wolves and the big cats. There was even a lot to be said for some of the less charismatic species--Diego, Lord of Seagulls, was rather astonishingly powerful in the shipping industry, and nobody but nobody messed with the Rhino Queen or the Mistress of Porcupines.

Unfortunately, the same could not be said of Surinama's lemmings.

It wasn't their fault, of course. You couldn't help but like the little guys--they were cute and fluffy and they worshipped the ground she walked on. That was part of the problem. She couldn't make them understand that sometimes people like to shower without a horde of rodents sitting in the drains and riding the soap around the floor, and if she slipped up and raised her voice, the lemmings had an alarming tendency to throw themselves out of windows and over anything else cliff-like to try and make amends.

Still, it could be worse. She could have been her classmate, Roberta, Lady of Slime Molds, after all.

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Appeasing my inner child isn't a problem. Appeasing my inner teenage girl...urgh. That's the hard one. That's when stuff like this happens. I feel unclean. It's so...the big eyes...urrrggghhh....dying inside...

On the other hand, bein' me, at least there were lemmings.

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~0ArmoredSoul0 Aug 23, 2010 Student Traditional Artist

The story made me giggle quite loudly, and my cousin gave me funny looks until I read it aloud.
And then he gave me an even funnier look.
XD

~NibbleKat Dec 8, 2009 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

I could just eat the colors in this! Fantastic.

~SCARYWIZARD Nov 27, 2009 Hobbyist Artist

Such a cute picture, and the part about the lemmings riding the soap on the floor made me giggle.

~MinorTechnicality Apr 17, 2009 Hobbyist General Artist

As much as I love your animal art, I love the way you draw people just as much. I especially like the little lemming poking his head out of her skirts.

*PickledMonster Feb 26, 2009 Student Digital Artist

what were the materials?
Pastels?

~etheet Feb 15, 2009

beautiful, and a wonderfull backing story. i have more to say but i cant word it right now.

~Kietra-Akine Feb 15, 2009

This is amazing! I want to be in the Sorcerous Society!!

*Damiatrix Dec 2, 2008 Professional Filmographer

Very good designs. You work with lapicez of colors or digital way? You study in some academy or school of art? … you obtain a very attractive climate in your images….I congratulate… Greetings to you

~Sorasha Sep 30, 2008

I adore the eyes, beautiful beautiful ^_^

~PerilsOfRosella Jan 26, 2008 Professional Photographer

This is amazing.

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