here's the process video for shiver, a recent drawing of my blacksmith werewolf qaragan and his husband na'im! you can download the .mov file below.
once again, you might recognise the pose from a sketchdump i uploaded months ago, and once again i originally doodled that pose without any particular ...
2020-05-20 16:46:47 +0000 UTC View Post
allow me to present: my current obsession. you know when you get *super* into a character or pairing and you just can't stop drawing them or thinking/talking about them? i live and breath tsaga & latif right now.
you may remember tsaga from the five (!) design posts i've previously made, showing how i came up with his look and fine-tuning his various forms. the most recent two dealt with his 2020-05-17 11:23:03 +0000 UTC View Post
another round, then?
ciyu asked for more nian & tu shen and specifically suggested something from early in their relationship, so here we go! nian may have been inexperienced when he and tu shen first started fucking, but he was a very fast learner—and cocky about it.
// art + nian © me; tu shen © kubi.
2020-05-16 18:03:51 +0000 UTC View Post
the voting period is over and it has been decided: HOW TO MONSTER 10 is going to be about concepting, designing, and drawing dragons.
this post is your chance to pose questions on this topic and to tell me what kind of info, tips, and ideas you would find most useful and helpful.
i currently have ideas for discussing both 'conventional' and more innovative dragon designs. i want to look at how dragons have been depicted in different cultures, what...
2020-05-11 13:55:17 +0000 UTC View Post
so you know that meme of a goliath cuckatoo captioned with "[something dangerous]," intimidating another cuckatoo covering in the corner all poofy and captioned with "me, secretly turned on"? well i straight up decided to design a character based on it and here he is. aside from the harbinger of death vibe of a goliath cuckatoo i drew inspiration from the shiny sleekness of a dobermann, the agile power of a big feline, a sith lord's fashion sense, and the mysterious stoicism of an an...
2020-05-11 11:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
trembling from head to toe, as he feels it slowly trickle out of him.
so when i invited people to tell me which of our characters they’d like to see, lostmisfits suggested any werewolf characters that i haven’t drawn yet. you might recognise qaragan from an OC spotlight and a <...
2020-05-10 18:23:51 +0000 UTC View Posti'd like your opinion about the $3 process posts (which currently consist of a process video + commentary).
thing is, a) both editing the videos and typing up the commentary takes quite a bit of time that i would rather spend drawing and painting; b) i've done like 60+ process posts by now and i honestly feel like the commentary has gotten a bit repetitive; c) judging by the number of likes/comments and a past survey, the process posts are not *your* favourite type of content either. 2020-05-07 19:42:52 +0000 UTC View Post
biting their lip, pleasure rushing through their every nerve.
kedolla and lostmisfits both wanted to see more of our coral reef monster + sea witch pair, kaulana and kohura! it’s been two years since i first painted them, because ‘coral reef monster’ was one of my very first monsters of the month. time flies. <3
on that note, this is already my 15th weekly piece! yay!
// art + kaulana © me; kohura © 2020-05-03 21:34:55 +0000 UTC View Post
some of my witches, a couple of my sphinxes, and ... scrap.
i really need to draw more of vasilisa's wardrobe. she's spent many a human lifetime travelling and makes her clothes herself, so they're inspired by several different regions and traditions, with her own unique touch. but the 'core' aesthetic is based on historical costumes of her native russia and other parts of eastern europe. you've seen leah before but that's the first sketch i've posted of elvira, who is exactly as much...
which one of these characters should i write about in june? you can vote for up to 3 options!
(the upcoming may spotlight will be all about my fox faerie, elena!)
(...also, it was so close between ishmael and elena last month that i'm giving ishmael another chance already. admittedly it's partly for selfish reasons--i'd honestly really ...
which of these monsters should i draw in june? you can vote for up to 3 options!
thanks to the following patrons for their awesome suggestions: hasard (a well-endowed alien), xan farley (a magic-wielder domming & overstimulating their monstrous lover), lostmisfits (a monster themed on a galaxy aesthetic), ciyu (a muse's kiss for their chosen artist), and coldau (wha...
2020-05-03 10:35:38 +0000 UTC View Post
the story of akhuru and ilan takes place in our underground desert empire setting, and relies heavily on certain pieces of lore and mythology. for that reason it was challenging to write the following OC spotlight in a way that’s informative but still pleasant to read. i did my best to include and explain all the lore necessary to make the story below self-sustained, so you don’t *need* to have read any of the others before reading this. however, it might make even more sense if you have,...
2020-04-30 21:38:13 +0000 UTC View Post
here is the process video for my recent painting of cian and elena--access it by downloading the .mov file below!
if the pose looks familiar, you might remember it from the upper left corner of this sketchdump i posted a couple of months back. i sketched it long before i even knew which characters ...
2020-04-28 10:20:45 +0000 UTC View Post
riding her thigh while whispering sweet nothings.
(remember a smutty sketchdump from a year ago that included a doodle of these two ladies? yeah, me neither. but today i rediscovered that sketch and decided to finish it. never too late to turn a doodle into a drawing!)
// art + characters © me.
lately i've been sketching floral character portraits to sort of warm up, wind down, or take a break between working on icons and smut paintings. i love drawing flowers, especially in a tattoo-esque style, and find it very therapeutic to just turn off my brain and ink leaf after leaf, petal after petal. the first one i did was vanu, the wolf demon to the left, surrounded by some random fantasy flower; the same goes for alva, the sphinx in the right hand corner.
but with iskandar, ...
2020-04-25 06:53:14 +0000 UTC View Post
download the attached .mov file below to access the process video for april's MOTM painting!
whenever i do a monster of the month painting, i always want to make sure i show off enough of the monster's design. i pour my heart into coming up with what they look like, so i don't want to obscure them too much or hide the features that are the most reflective of their theme or aesthetic. i often c...
2020-04-24 21:18:14 +0000 UTC View Post
thanks again to nak for suggesting a monster that lives in the deepest caverns! <3
it's been a while since i used a specific habitat as the starting point for a design, so that was fun. the very core of this MOTM prompt is that this monster belongs in a cavern. i immediately pictured a labyrinthine system of tunnels and chambers, a sprawling subterranean hunting ground for this monster to roam. it would be dark and damp, partially filled with water, and a ce...
2020-04-24 10:32:37 +0000 UTC View Post
don’t worry about the ripped diving suit. once they’re done, this human won’t need air tanks and equipment to breathe underwater.
// art + characters © me.
2020-04-23 20:50:29 +0000 UTC View Post
who knows what you’ll find if you dive deeper and deeper into one of those endless labyrinths of underwater tunnels and caves that few humans have ever dared to explore...?
thank you to nak, who suggested this MOTM theme! (comment on this post to leave your own monster/theme suggestions for future motm polls!)
i included some close-ups with this one since the scene is ...
2020-04-22 20:15:47 +0000 UTC View Post
*three* wallpapers this month too! wow! yay! you know the drill--download the attached files below. <3
// art + iskandar + elena + nian © me; renza + cian + tu shen © kubi.
2020-04-20 12:02:48 +0000 UTC View Post
i got a bit carried away with detailing these pose ideas... <u<
art + characters © me, except for ariel and rin, who are both © kubi.
2020-04-19 18:28:25 +0000 UTC View Post
so snug, and warm, and slick.
cian and elena, just because i felt in my heart of hearts that it was time to draw these darlings again. <3
// art + elena © me; cian © kubi.
2020-04-17 21:32:07 +0000 UTC View Post
the theme of this sketchdump is canines! ishmael and mirza are both werewolves, and luca is a pricolici—which is basically a vampiric werewolf (or a lycantrophic vampire. both descriptions work). marjani is a fennec fox spirit, and elena is a fox fairy. nobody knows what sekai zuri is, but they sometimes wear masks resembling coyotes, jackals, or foxes, which are associated with the cunning trickster god helwusah. finally calu is an etruscan wolf god of the underworld, who adopted cian when...
2020-04-13 10:22:16 +0000 UTC View Post
nian didn’t know what a gentle touch felt like, until he met tu shen.
// art + nian © me; tu shen © kubi.
2020-04-11 18:36:22 +0000 UTC View Post
a mishmash of characters and random creatures. you might recognise huangwu from an old OC spotlight (although i have yet to draw proper art of him and renxia) and the colour portraits of kouta, isra, and farai from recent OC spotlight polls. sitri's demonic face might be fairly familiar by now but he also has a fully 'human' disguise. then there's a grumpy nian, a snarly march (one of the doodles i made for a sample icon of him), and my goldfish merman aiyu (who's 100% aware of how pretty he ...
2020-04-09 10:18:36 +0000 UTC View Post
a warm touch, like rays of sunlight on his skin.
after writing my latest OC spotlight, i felt compelled to draw iskandar and renza. if you’ve read the iskandar spotlight, you know how emotionally attached i am to these lads, and yet i haven’t done that much art of them? it’s mostly because even years after their creation i still haven’t got iskandar’s design 100% figured out, but fo...
2020-04-05 20:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
which one of these characters should i write about in may? you can vote for up to 3 options!
(in april i'm gonna finally get to write about akhuru, my wholesome sphinx with an 'unlucky' fifth eye!)
2020-04-04 15:41:24 +0000 UTC View Postwhich of these monsters should i draw in may? you can vote for up to 3 options!
all these options were based on patron suggestions, and many of them are combinations of ideas put forth by different people, which is always fun! "curse bearer" is coldau's idea, while both xan farley and marissa want to see a mantis-inspired monster. patrick m mentioned being really fond of happy-loo...
2020-04-02 19:11:55 +0000 UTC View Post
iskandar and renza are basically the main protagonists of our desert empire setting. there’s many other characters and stories that are also really important, but it all began in earnest with iskandar and renza, and they’re very involved in many of the political and social ‘world events’ that take place in that setting. their story is pretty epic and never fails to get me emotional. moreover, they’re the first proper pairing kubi and i created together about five years ago,...
2020-03-31 21:16:37 +0000 UTC View Post
it's happening, people: i'm making some icons. the tier is $75, and i'll start with opening up 4 slots for april. this means you have to pledge before midnight march 31st (central european time!) to get an icon in april. sorry for the short notice, i tried to get the tier live earlier but Life Kept Happening.
(towards the end of april, i'll make a new post about my icon-related plans for may and future months, since the number of ...
2020-03-30 21:06:26 +0000 UTC View Post