This is a finished commission for Puma, thanks so much!
You can download the PSD here if you're interested:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1-fr0I7fVbx0eyzre3TRTASoW3Esb6sKY/view?usp=sharing
Patreon billing is still suspended til the end of September, so this one can be considered a freebie. Enjoy! <3
2020-08-11 10:59:20 +0000 UTC View Post
The mission continues to add nice basic brushes for CSP ^^ I tried to make them relatively fast to paint with and practical to use.
Let me know what you think and if you'd like anything else!
2020-07-29 10:57:08 +0000 UTC View PostMy life got a bit hectic recently, sorry for the slower rate of updates and art. My partner and I needed to sort out our housing and do some family stuff.
Annoyingly it doesn't look like I'll get much of a break for the next 2 months, as I finish up a contract with full time hours. As such I've decided to suspend the Patreon until the end of September, since I don't want to be letting you guys down. I'll finish the various rewards for this month and then close up.
What that means ...
2020-07-04 14:11:53 +0000 UTC View Post
A commission finished for Basil, thank you again <3
You can grab the PSD here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZiSXi3_WSTj4YmB8r4o5JBdNnXJDzC1I/view?usp=sharing
If you have questions about the creation of the image feel free to drop them in the comments, happy arting
2020-07-02 11:48:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Brush double feature!
Pack 1 is designed for building monsters fast. Its fairly bug theme for obvious reasons. Future packs will have other themes.
Pack 2 is a big booster pack of thrall tattoos, lots of snakes and flowers. These can be used for other characters as well.
Enjoy and happy creating! If any of you would like these converted for CSP let me know.
2020-06-02 00:21:52 +0000 UTC View PostHi everyone, I'm just going to copy-paste patreon's blurb about the tax here since they phrased it better than me:
I wanted to give you an update on some changes that we’ll be seeing which may affect some of your pledges. Due to new laws passing in several countries and US states, Patreon will be required to start charging sales tax on some pledges starting July 1st.
Less than half of all patrons will be charged sales tax, and for most, th...
2020-05-28 23:02:02 +0000 UTC View Post
A neo-classical painting, showing a thrall revolutionary soldier with spoils.
During the Great Thrall Revolt of 592 AX, many aristocrats were killed or forced to flee their homes. Their possessions were seized by thrall freedom fighters, who took reparations for their years of servitude however they saw fit. The food and booze eventually ran out, but for a period of some weeks thralls ate better than humans anywhere in the Empire, and lived in luxury.
Some of the raid...
2020-05-18 04:23:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey! I'm thinking about what kind of base to do next, care to help me choose? These would be available to Volunteer tier supporters and above, but maybe also as a single purchase on Gumroad depending on what we choose.
Thanks <3
2020-05-08 22:24:16 +0000 UTC View Post
A Larger Lad for those with sophisticated taste!
This is an easy-to-color PSD base that can be opened in Clip Studio, Photoshop, SAI, Gimp and probably other programs. It includes several options for spines, heads etc.
Feel free to chop and change as well, and please share what you make!
Thralls are my original, closed species with extensive lore.
The base contains:
* Organis...
2020-05-04 01:08:00 +0000 UTC View Post
This base is now freely available to use to make your own thralls! Regular MYO rules apply. Please see here:
https://thralls.weebly.com/myo-terms-of-use.html
But otherwise.... go nuts! And please show me your results!
The base includes:
- 3 head types
- 3 spine variants
- 2 world-appropriate corporate tattoos
- Several modular spines, scutes and teeth ...
2020-05-01 07:25:36 +0000 UTC View Post
The first of several packs that should make it quicker and easier to create thrall-like front tattoos. Finally I got round to designing TLO world dice.
The dice symbols are called:
Eye
Dagger
Claw
Cross
Blank/Empty
Scratch
I plan to release more of these packs to go along with the thrall bases which will come out next month.
Thanks again Aquaticas for the commission!
You can download a video of the making of this piece with commentary here.
A PSD is available here.
There's a couple of Photoshop actions I also used to add film grain, which are attached to...
2020-04-21 08:19:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys! It's definitely time for more eggs, and this time I got kind of excessive with the colorus... These are probably the most extreme thralls you'll see for a while. They're inspired by suggestions from the server and ball python morphs.
Egg adoptables are a way to get a fun surprise character design while still knowing a bit about the colours and style. Some previous egg adopts are also attached, to show the style of the final result.
These are $165 e...
2020-04-06 07:56:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Some basics to help with building up my favourite types of environments: gross snowy rocky places!
The rocks and grounds are intended to be used with lasso tool, and that's how I built up the example image.
There's also 2 flavours of grass and a random branch. You know. Just in case.
The brush pack is for Photoshop and is attached. To access all previous brushes click the 'brush' tag.
2020-03-12 06:51:55 +0000 UTC View Post
A speedpaint commission with a more complex process. Building that plane was a fun challenge. Basically I start with lots of blue to reflect the bright sky-light. Keeping the sky dark at the top also increased the impression of looking upward (looking directly up means looking through less atmosphere, so the sky is generally darker right above you.)
There's no VO on this one, because I've lost my voice :p Sorry all~
Grab the video here:
Another painting for my setting The Loyal Ones ^^
A PSD can be downloaded here: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1YB6EJgCgDJ9UZWnyWKY7rGPV6ULE8ozI/view?usp=sharing
Image caption:
Thralls in no man's land, considering their next move.
Thralls are a slave race that were created to fight in endless border wars by transform...
2020-02-27 13:20:46 +0000 UTC View Post
Something to speed up those damn wings :) These probably shouldn't be used as a final pass but can be a good way to get a nice edge on a feathered wing. Brushes are based on golden eagle and parrot primary feathers. There's one kind of dapply one for down and secondaries.
2020-01-28 08:18:52 +0000 UTC View Post
A fun experiment with a more horror-like speedpainting style. You can grab the PSD here:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1Cts0iQKIzSaLuvdi1yZPrZCU2ga__r3M
Thanks for your support!
2020-01-25 10:51:01 +0000 UTC View PostFeel free to make suggestions as well!
2020-01-09 10:31:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! I wanted to thank all of you and let you know where I'm at now.
For me 2019 was a productive year, and a lot of that was due to the amazing support I've had from all of you. I can't thank you enough. Apart from all the commission work, my personal world The Loyal Ones now has several complete paintings, a tonne of sketches and roughly a quarter of a novel edited and uploaded on the site.
A lot of you...
2020-01-09 10:27:19 +0000 UTC View Post
A New Year's speedpaint for Nomad, thanks again mate!
The PSD is available here, this is a simple-ish one with some filter layers: https://drive.google.com/file/d/1_AXFl059pdumlUw3O0HJhNli8qjZvfp3/view?usp=sharing
2020-01-06 06:14:49 +0000 UTC View Post
A fresh New Years batch of thrall eggs!
Egg adoptables are a way to get a fun surprise character design while still knowing a bit about the colours and style. Some previous egg adopts are also attached, to show the style of the final result.
These are $165 each, and for the base price you'll receive a full-body front view of the thrall in Major form (or home form, if you like). The colour palette will be inspired by the egg.
You can let me choose everythi...
Here's a full-resolution file for you guys! Thanks again for making these paintings possible.
Thrall infants switch randomly and obnoxiously between their two forms (human-like 'home' form and monster-like 'major' form). In the first years of the child's life these forms remain a similar size, before rapidly diverging. Babies can also get 'stuck' between the two forms, sometimes for periods of months. This guy is somewhere in between right now, but it's not exactly slow...
2019-12-22 06:07:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Just in time for the holidays... it's teeth!
These are a fairly useful way to start off a big mouth full of chompers. Use them as a base to paint over with colours and highlights, or just to concept with.
2019-12-20 05:41:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all, I just finished editing and recording the commentary track for this painting. Hopefully there's something helpful in there. I talk a bit about making choices and when to deviate from the reference, as well as how I think about rendering certain shapes and substances.
You can download the video here: https://drive.google.com/open?id=1YLTX9euwfL7NLOZFcqgMXIGD71SemmW4
A...
2019-12-02 21:38:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Thanks everyone for your support! Thanks to my patrons I've had time to finish these guys, and the high-res files are here for download if you'd like one for a desktop bg or similar.
Here are the painting captions:
Thralls are a slave race that were originally created to fight in endless border wars. Their population has grown, though, to the point where many are now employed in civilian work like construction and shipping. The human workers being crowde...
2019-11-26 22:52:11 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey all! I'm going to be hatching these babies over the next couple of weeks. These are $165 each, and for the base price you'll receive a full-body front view of the thrall in Major form (or home form, if you like). The colour palette will be inspired by the egg.
You can let me choose everything about the character, or if you want to have some input you can choose:
A mini pack with some helpful brushes for rocks and texture. I'm trying to slowly fill the gaps between CSP and Photoshop. Use these with lasso tool for clean edges with rough fills.
2019-11-18 02:34:43 +0000 UTC View Post
Warwolf commissioned this speedpaint of his Tervuren character. I loved the natural colours of this guy!
I've uploaded the PSD here:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1PKCeIJswilGRV0MRUK8pm3rrfH8mc7Hf/view?usp=sharing
And video (no commentary yet, maybe later):
This was a speedpaint commission done for cutiekitty01 ( https://twitter.com/LostBlueJay)
I've gone over some of the techniques I used to create this in a video with some commentary, and the PSD is also available below. Enjoy, and feel free to ask questions in the comments!
Download the video here: