Onyx Pirate

2022 Art Summary, and Year In Review

Hey there Patrons! Hope your New Years celebrations were fun, memorable, and/or relaxing, depending on whichever one you were going for!

I meant to get this out yesterday, but I was distracted, so we're getting it out on the closing hours of the first of the year instead. Just a heads up that this post will probably be a bit wordy as I go through everything, so if you want to skip all the fluff, I'll summarize real quick by saying that I'm proud I was able to get as much done this year ...

Patreon Reward Change Poll: File Types

Howdy Folks! Got another poll for potential changes to the operations and things here on my Patreon page, and this poll is going to be public because broader feedback is going to be helpful, as the poll centers around file types!

Now it’s all well and good to get art packs bundled in an archive file, but if you can’t open it, it doesn’t do you much good! I’ve been using .rar files so far, but I’m realizing that not everyone may have programs that can open those file types, or ...

Patreon Reward Change Poll: Art Pack Content

Hello patrons! This is going to be the first in a series of polls that are going to feed into changes for how things are run in the new year. Some of these polls and posts will be for more minor changes, while others will have a more noticeable impact on things, and some of these will be public for general feedback and others will be limited to current patrons. 

This first one is a patron only poll, but it’s a pretty massive potential change, and it has to do with art pack conten...

A Christmas Kobold!

UPDATE: Alternate versions have been added! Enjoy! Zip included at the bottom is a compilation of all the files for easy download!

Hey there folks! Got a little holiday themed pic for y'all, though there's not really much of anything that's little about her, huh? Still, if she's what you get for being naughty, who'd want to be nice?

All patrons, regardless of support tier, get this image at High resolution, as well as getting to see it early before the standard resolution images a...

Snapshot Sunday - December 18

Hello there Patrons! 

It's the last weekend before Christmas, and more notably for updates here, this will be the last Weekend Snapshot of the year! I'll be out of town next weekend and while I don't have solid plans for the weekend after that as of writing, I'm going to specifically take it off from Patreon as an end-of-year break kind of deal.

So let's get into what we've got for this last Snapshot post! First off, you'll notice a trio of character concepts. You may have no...

Snapshot Sunday - December 11

Hey there folks!

It's a bit late in the weekend for this week's Snapshot, and it's a bit of a light one on content, mostly because I've been intentionally trying to keep the number of projects I'm working on low so I can focus on getting more work done on them.

So for this week, I've been spending time on making additional tweaks to Hibiscus' design per the buyer's wishes. She's going to have some glowing bits which I absolutely love, but the tricky part is figuring out the right ...

November 2022 Art Pack (High-Res)

Here's the High-res monthly art pack for November 2022! This was a mostly sketch month, with a lot of new character concept sketches, plenty of beefy babes, and of course, kobolds! Enjoy!

November 2022 Art Pack (Full-Res)

Here's the Full-res monthly art pack for November 2022! This was a mostly sketch month, with a lot of new character concept sketches, plenty of beefy babes, and of course, kobolds! Enjoy!

October 2022 Art Pack (High-Res)

Here's the High-res monthly art pack for October 2022! Kobolds abound in this pack, containing all of the reference sheets for the adoptable kobolds (so far!), and for Claire, as well as pinups of Brisket and Willow! Enjoy!

October 2022 Art Pack (Full-Res)

Here's the Full-res monthly art pack for October 2022! Kobolds abound in this pack, containing all of the reference sheets for the adoptable kobolds (so far!), and for Claire, as well as pinups of Brisket and Willow! Enjoy!

Snapshot Sunday - December 4

Hey everyone! You know what time it is! 

Last week I was out of town for Thanksgiving weekend (and a bit of extra time on either side as well), so there wasn't much work done during that time, but the work done that week is rolled in to this week's update as well!

To start, I did actually do a little bit of drawing while on vacation, and it's in the form of that Kobold on the top left! I'm still working on figuring out the best workflow and getting comfortable drawing on my i...

Snapshot Sunday - November 20

Hello again Patrons! 

It's the weekend, so it's time for another Snapshot Sunday! 

As expected, this one is a bit smaller than the last, because it's only just one week's worth of stuff instead of several. But it was a pretty productive one by my standards. Notably, there was a lot of progress on Hibiscus' Redesign, with it being pretty much completed, pending additional feedback from the character owner. Commission work continued as well, and I manged to get an inked an...

Snapshot Sunday - November 13

It's been a couple weeks since the last Weekend Snapshot update, partly due to being out of town, partly due to unexpected events needing attention IRL, and partly due to the dreaded Seasonal Affective Disorder rearing it's head on a few occassions. But we're back at it, so lets jump right in!

Without a doubt, the big piece to talk about is the Halloween picture. I had plans for a larger piece of Vallory and an assistant kobold making a witches brew (knowing the characters, almost certa...

Happy Halloween! (Patreon High-Res Bonus!)

Hello Patrons!

Just a quick post for this one. As a thanks for supporting me, all patrons get access to this first Halloween picture and it's alt version at high resolution, regardless of support tier! 

As always, thanks for your support, and have a Happy Halloween!

Quick Update, No Snapshot Saturday Post This Week!

Hey everyone!

I’m out of town visiting family this weekend, so there’s no Snapshot Saturday post for this week. I’ll make a post with everything from the last week and the upcoming week for the next Snapshot Saturday to make up for it!

Until then, hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and as always, thanks for your continued support!

September 2022 Art Pack (Full-Res)

Here's the Full-res monthly art pack for September 2022! Perhaps  unsurprisingly, there was a lot of muscle content this month, including  fully colored and cel shaded pics of KilledbyCuriosity's Joan and  Svanhildr's Hibiki, and kobolds designed for Marjask and Glitch! Enjoy!

September 2022 Art Pack (High-Res)

Here's the High-res monthly art pack for September 2022! Perhaps unsurprisingly, there was a lot of muscle content this month, including fully colored and cel shaded pics of KilledbyCuriosity's Joan and Svanhildr's Hibiki, and kobolds designed for Marjask and Glitch! Enjoy!

Patreon Early Access - Brisket!

And here she is in all her big beefy glory! As mentioned in the last Snapshot update, Patrons get exclusive early access to this piece before it gets posted publicly. Enjoy!

Snapshot Saturday - October 15

Hello again Patrons! 

It's Saturday once again, and the big ticket item is the Brisket piece is complete! But there are additional plans for the future with it, so let's get into the update!

So starting off with the Brisket piece, it should be clear that that's where the majority of my time was spent once again. And while I'm happy with what I've got, and will be sharing this picture to Patrons as an early access piece shortly after this post goes live, I do have additional v...

OC-tober Reward Poll!

It's time for another Monthly Reward Vote! This month is OC-tober! 

Now, you might be asking "What the hell is OC-tober?" Long and short of it, it's a thing I came up with as an excuse to set aside some time and focus on work for my characters, specifically for creating reference material like Ref Sheets and Character Sheets, and lore pieces as well! I won't claim to be the first one who ...

Snapshot Sunday - October 9

Hello again Patrons!

Short update this week, and I'm going to keep the post short as well. This week had more behind-the-scenes/non-art related work again, and the art that did get done was focused primarily on two projects. The flat color and overall design for Brisket (which I will say I am very happy with! I love her look!), and commission work for Chrysabliss. The latter had the prompt change a few times over the course of the week as there was an initial miscommuni...

Snapshot Sunday - October 2

Howdy Patrons!

It's that time of the week again, and this week there's a little bit more to show!

A lot of time went into redoing the Brisket illustration I showcased last week, and I was able to finish a pass on the inks that I was really happy with, as it kept a lot of the character and weight from the initial sketch that I had lost in my previous attempts. I went from there to do a quick lighting pass on a cropped section, which was then 2022-10-03 02:44:06 +0000 UTC View Post

July/August 2022 Monthly Art Packs (High-Res)

Here's the High-res monthly art packs for July and August 2022! These months are batched together because there was a good stint of time I took off from art around Mid-July because of life events that happened. The packs contain a lot of sketches, as well as colored illustrations of Brock, and the adoptable kobolds that went on sale in the later part of August! Enjoy!

July/August 2022 Monthly Art Packs (Full-Res)

Here's the Full-res monthly art packs for July and August 2022! These months are batched together because there was a good stint of time I took off from art around Mid-July because of life events that happened. The packs contain a lot of sketches, as well as colored illustrations of Brock, and the adoptable kobolds that went on sale in the later part of August! Enjoy!

Snapshot Saturday - September 24

Hey there everyone! 

Another weekend, another snapshot! Not a lot to show on the art front this week, as a lot of my time was spent working on behind the scenes things as well as web presence things. For art, we have another sketch that'll be taken to a completed state for Biceptember, this one of Brisket (since she was tied for first), but this one will be released publicly at completion as soon as it's done, whereas the other will be a Patreon exclusive for about a month.

U...

Snapshot Sunday - September 18

Hello again Patrons!

This week was a busy and productive one! Another Adoptable ref sheet was completed, this time for Nyx, which means all the kobolds save for Hibiscus, who's still getting her redesign finished, have their sheets completed! 

I also completed (safe for a tiny bit of polish which is happening later today) the a commission for Sampomon of his renamon character Hibiki, putting her newly buffed body to good use by lifting a positively massive amount of weight! H...

Snapshot Saturday - September 10

Hey there Patrons!

Another Saturday, another snapshot. Much like last week, this one doesn't have a ton of volume (well, unless you're talking about the size of the characters, in which case...), but we've got another completed piece to show for it instead!

This week had a couple of character sketches as warm-ups/free time work, with Brock being one, and a revisit to one of my first OC's being the other. I'm not telling you her name just yet, but maybe soon! ;D

The biggest p...

Last call for Bicep-tember votes!

Only a couple hours left! Get your votes in if you haven't yet!

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Reminder! Get your votes for the Bicep-tember Reward pic in!

There's just over a day left to get your votes in, so get to it if you haven't already!

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Commissions open for September!

Greetings Folks!

I've announced it publicly on other sites, but I'm posting here as well just so you're in the know! Commissions are open for September, with work to start later in the month while I finish up the previous batch.

If you're interested in grabbing one, you can submit a form at the link below!
https://forms.gle/xzQCk7MHRNPDtFCFA

Thanks, and have a great day!