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Commission for Kiru996 [WIP]

This may be one of my most interesting work files, just for the sheer need to repaint so many parts. 

As usual all the WIPs and original files in the attachment.

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Commission for Kyru996

This commission had 4 variants plus a censored version. I've never handled so much work on a singole piece, and I ended up wasting a ton of work detailing covered parts.

Also, I tried to get back on painting over a greyscale study: it may be overkill for a simple painting technique, but I want to investigate this more.  

In attachment: all of the variants in full resolution.

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Distractions [WIP]

Included in the extras, all the WIP steps, and two working files, one finished and one in the middle of the painting process, showing the original layer structure.

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Distractions

I guess sometimes it's just hard to focus!

Commission for (at)hyaoberus on twitter of two characters from his ongoing game project.


Full resolution version in attachment

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Commission openings

Hello! 

As usual I'm opening commission bookings in advance for patrons (limit: 4 slots, expected delivery, early March). All conditions and pricing on the linked form.

This link will be made public on my twitter account in a couple days.

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2021: Back to art

In the second half of 2020 I focused exclusively on game dev and stopped posting and charging on this patreon. For the first half of 2021 I'm going to do a 180 and return back to doing mostly art and art related projects. I took a long time to decide, but I wanted to be sure and not second guess myself.

So why back to art? The original game concept I was working on didn't work out: the main core feature (the ability for the player to inject narrative and customize the story) ended up be...

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That elusive PG rating [WIP]

Not much to add from the previous wip: I'm again experimenting with working from soft edges into hard edges, and also experimenting with other software other than clip (there was a bit of Paintstorm Studio here, I will likely return to this software in further pieces).

WIPs and the actual working file are included.

One caveat about this new working method is that Clips Studio forces the artist to work on a single layer in order for blending to work, a lot or the original file stru...

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That elusive PG rating

Commission for SummonTheElectorCounts (https://www.furaffinity.net/user/summontheelectorcounts)


In this commission I pretty much took what I learned from the previous and run with it. Also, I will slowly be co-opted as a scalie artist with all those commissions XD

Full resolution in attachment

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Drackonthanri [WIP]

The biggest challenge with this commission was how to handle so many detail area (wings, arms and leg scales, and the two massive custom dragon bits), I decided to turn upside down my painting method by starting from a heavily blended figure, and then detail the hard edges of areas like the scales, cutting away my typical overwork. 

To do this I modded my usual brush to allow for fast soft blending directly when first laying color (this brush is included as an extra to this post, i...

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Drackonthanri

Generally speaking I'm a pretty vanilla artist, but along the lines sometimes I want to challenge myself with something more unique, so there we go! Drackonthanri is also the most complex character I've ever painted, to the point I had to invent a new method of working to handle him.

This along with the previous painting are among the first I do after dropping the requirement of a background for painted work. While I do enjoy painting scenery I feel they tend to steal focus from the cha...

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The Embrace [WIP]

In attachment: sketches and the final Clip file.

It's a big crazy how much i worked to get the body shapes just right. There is a bit of a story there with Zale's head: to get the angle just right I took the head of an anthro fox I sculpted in 3D and posed it in that exact angle, then proceed to use it as a reference for the volumes while dog-fying the facial features. Turns out Zale is a fox and somehow I completely missed it at first, and he preferred the original simple turned head v...

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The embrace

This commission was painted for Larx https://twitter.com/LarxRakshult, with a guest appearance of Zale (https://twitter.com/gallantzale)

In attachment two high res version of this image. The second version (the name ends with c) shows a different depiction of Zale's head at a different angle, but was off-character (especially the hair which a...

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December commission openings [Full]

Hello, here's the commission preorder I promised in the previous update.

I can only take only 4 commissions at this time, and will deliver them between December 2020 and January 2021. In a week if slots are still open I'll have a public opening on Twitter for the remaining ones.

There are a few of differences between the pricing of this opening and going forward and the previous ones: my prices were not updated in years and were not aligned with similarly skilled furry artists, so...

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Game Update & Stuff!

Hello! Here's the monthly update about the game project (and again, no charge this month because no fully playable demo is delivered).

First of all let's start with the bad: I really didn't like the tentative release I did last month (available on my discord channel). In order to deliver a full demo on time I crunched so hard all of September and October and ended up compromising so much of the original idea that the end result was a crushing disappointment. I spent the first 10 days of...

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Unlocked Highlands sun-bathing (+variant) [WIP]

Included in attachment: thumbnails and the original working file.

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Highlands sun-bathing (+variant)

A commission i took from @RodrigoJacoboS 

The second Covid lockdown started in Italy and I decided to mix the work I'm doing on the game with some traditional commission work to stabilize my economic situation.

The game project is taking a long time (especially because I'm taking very seriously the feedback on the first demo, and working to do deep changes to it), this choice may delay it further, but at least I won't have to worry about day-to-day expenses.

In attachme...

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Work update

Hello! 

Here's the monthly update about the game project.

First and most obvious thing: I'm missing the deadline I set, so no Patreon charging for October. However the first release is almost complete, and a sneak-peek release will happen on my discord channel.

The demo, titled "The Lonely Beast" will be a tie in between the story of White Fangs and the one features in the game proper, and will be released in two parts: the first part on my discord channel right now, fo...

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September update

Hello!

Here's a work update for September. First, as I promised: there won't be any billing until I deliver the first demo of the game, so this month won't be charged.

Work is going great, you can see a roadmap here on https://trello.com/b/rIsIcDUd/project-golden-claw including a daily updated dev journal (recently I slacked a bit on it because I'm crunching on this like crazy).

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Come Here! [WIP]

Included here: the original file, thumbnails, and the inked sketch.

I'm developing a new inking style to use with the rpg project, and you can see it at work on the last commissions I've been working on.

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Come here!

A commission for @fizzy2

This is the last commission I needed to do before fully dedicating myself to the rpg project, and a quite neat one!

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Updates, and announcing The Golden Claw

Hello! I'm writing this as I'm almost done with the commissions I owe (only one remains) to illustrate how this Patreon is going to roll in this second half of 2020.

Now that commissions are out I'm going to focus exclusively on the visual novel demo: with a tentative release date of October 2020. I plan to not charge on Patreon any month from now to the release of the demo, regardless of how long it will take.

The Patreon won't remain without content though, as I...

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Beach Balls [WIP]

Included in the extras: original working file, thumbnails, an only-inks version and even the original working file of this follow-up doodle I did!.

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Beach Balls

A commission for https://twitter.com/RodrigoJacoboS

Full resolution file included.

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Summer embrace [WIP]

Here are the extra content for this commission: thumbnails, WIPs and the original working file (which is pretty neat to see which layer types i used to get that cell shaded look.

As an extra I'm including the inking brush I used to get the fuzzy linework on this piece.

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Summer embrace

This very wholesome commission was requested by Larx ( https://twitter.com/LarxRakshult ) an old supporter of this Patreon (many thanks!).

I did a double experimental work on this one, first I tried a new inking style, with a soft rough-edges brush (which will be included in the extras), then I went on and rendered both characters in a bright cell-shaded look, to empathize the dreaminess on top of a softly painted ...

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Seaside Change [WIP]

I guess the funnest thing about this commission was the on-stream suggestion to to got an AESTHETIC look, so here's a quickly rough sketch version showing just that!


In the attached file, as usual, you can find extras: thumbnails, wips, and the original working file.

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Seaside change

I have little to add to this painting except I enjoyed working on the crazy lighting!

I ended up rendering Incineroar's flame belt as some sort of bright flame-shaped fur, I think it's more fitting with a realistic painting of a pokemon-inspired character.

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Welcome to the Jungle [WIP]

Included in the attachment: 

-thumbnails

-a WIP version

-the original file,

- 3 clip studio brushes: the two I used to texture his fur, and the one I used for the metal belt. Enjoy :3

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Welcome to the jungle

Hello! I took half of July as a vacation month, being the first time I could leave my home this crazy crazy year: I hope soon all of you will be able to take a moment to relax, be with family, and decompress this year, especially all of you following from the US.

 Obviously I'm not going to charge this month, but I'm still going to post some work, starting from this commission for DubFox (@Dubfox1 on twitter) starring his character in both nude and clothed version :3

In attac...

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Sketch streams [01 - 03]

I started to experiment with doing quick commissions on the fly while streaming. It was a fun endeavor, and I thought of sharing the results here. Perhaps offering quick work like this could be a way to keep doing some art while I refocus entirely on the VN work later this summer.

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