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Mint Chok-Lit (Painted, 300dpi)

More pixels is more blue.

Mint Chok-lit (Final painted)

I've managed to get this one done just before the new year rolls in.  The 'roaring 20's' are almost here again.

Depending on time to sketch tomorrow, this will probably the final Patreon post of the year.  In many ways I'm glad its an image of Cinders and her (still un-named in this universe) bear friend.  A gentle exit to what had turned out to be a pretty turbulent year.

As a reminder, I'll be sending out the e-mail to the next person on the list for a sketch in t...

Mint Chok-lit (300dpi)

Now with 50% more TREE.

Mint Chok-lit (Flats and Inkwash)

I'm not too certain that I'll get this image done in time for Christmas, but so far its progressing along nicely.  I struggled to get the colour palette to that 'cold evening' but I think at least at this stage its working and at a fairly uniform saturation.

I added in a quick series of where I want the lights in the windows to be, as well as a snow overlay.  The signs are going to be done separately and placed later, so the placeholders are still there.

There is also a ...

Mint Chok-lit (Inks) - 300dpi

More pixels means more mint.

-T.J.

Mint Chok-lit - Inks

The inks finally came together on this after some trial and error (That tree is the bane of my existence, for example).  These are less detailed inks since I plan on colouring this.  I'm definitely thinking something 'snowy' and a little cold.

I think the one part that will take a fair amount of time is the signage.  I'm not sure if I'll be using Affinity Designer to set everything and then just skew each into perspective, or just painting something out in Clip Studio for...

Mint Chok-lit (Sketch, Very mild nudity)

The Bear from the 'Chok-lit' image is back.

She was thrilled to find this mystical thing known as 'Mint Chok-lit' and had to show her friend.  Cinders didn't have the heart to tell her that it was common in Cydwyllan around that time of year (The mint there is renown).  It was an excuse to get out, have mint chocolate and visit.

I wanted to try a holiday-esque image and the more I worked on this the more I start dreading actually figuring out the colour palette and paint...

Solstrivik - Shaleharrow Thaneship

I've finally started filtering through the 'world folder' and realized the sheer extent of things and places I've worked on.  There are probably hundreds of different files, some just small sketches, others fully fleshed out places that even players in the various campaigns I've started over the years never laid eyes on, or have encountered.

Apparently I've done more work on this weird little ball of monsters than I could have possibly imagined.

In wandering through the folde...

Plotting a Strategy - Roughs (NSFW, mild nudity)

In around 4 or 5 months I'm going to be wrapping up the current campaign of D&D.  The first one that I have ever finished.  I've started probably 100 different campaigns over the years, but I've never had the opportunity to actually go through all of the character arcs and finish a full campaign before.

As a bit of a 'commemorative' image, I figured I'd draw a picture of the group (though absent a few characters that dropped off over the years).  I wasn't planning on ...

When the Hill Workers arrive II - (NSFW, mild nudity)

"Ay gnome gal, got yer eye on that stallion yah?"

"What?  No!  What?  That's absurd!"

"What's absurd about it?  Yer playin' stopped the moment yer eyes crossed him"

"Not at all.. I just.. broke.. every.. string on my violin.. at once.."

"Dat one is a plower y'know!"

"W-wha.. Excuse me??"

"Ey' plows fields 'round north of town fer work y'know."

"Oh.. uh.."

"I think ye jus' broke the stringy bit on yer bow.. Didn't think them s...

The World - A bit of a preamble.

For a really long time I've debated whether I should go into the more detailed bits about the world I tend to create things in.  I didn't want it to feel like I was clogging the feed with things that some might find boring, straying and filling things with a feed of non-painted or illustrated images and writing.

In short, a feed where the 'D&D-isms' start flying.

I tend to constantly do what I call 'head-writing'.  A way of exploring and escaping reality without sitt...

When the Hill Workers Arrive - (NSFW, Mild nudity)

What started out as one of about a dozen anatomy practice sketches turned into this.  Most sketches like these are 'Throw-away' images (Not in the literal sense) since often they're just half done layering of muscle over a crude skeleton, and gesture stick-figures to attempt to get my mind into some sort of creative space.  

Trying to get it to tell a story.

In this case I found a few of the sketches triggered what will be a trio of fairly tongue-in-cheek images.  I...

Leonardo (not that one)

I've been a bit creatively wiped out in the last week or so.  I'm feeling really down on both my art but the strange little worlds any of it belongs to.  This could just be the after-effect of both the illness and seasonal 'blah' setting in, but its made it a bit tough to really come up with anything interesting to sketch out.

Luckily I have a handful of things to actually do colour work on and finish, so there will be a good deal of finished art done for this month.

In ...

Last Leaves of Autumn - Patron Sketch (Oct)

While early autumn and Halloween tend to make me want to draw all sorts of Helsing-esque things from that time period, there's something about the later autumn that just makes me want to draw wolves.  

And leaves, of course.

This time the fates lined up perfectly, as It was suggested by Smokepaw that I draw his character Pihko Misit for his spot on the sketch-list.  An image of him making one last trek to a trade-meet before the snows of the deepening autumn leading to w...

The Spookenday

It was a very 'spook' looking day out around these parts, so I decided to take a pic from around the neighborhood of the grey sky, and wind blowing the trees and leaves around.  A very appropriate day for Halloween.

I honestly wish the month lasted a little longer just out of sheer love for this kind of scenery and weather.  Walking around in it today was quite lovely, and it did have enough of a chill to it that it made you want to get home, get inside, and huddle over a bowl...

Swapmeet Inks (300dpi)

The trees seem bigger up here at 300dpi.

Swapmeet - Inks (150dpi)

There are images that make you work until you are nearly cross-eyed and can barely see, this was one of those.  But it was done out of love.  

I've tweaked some of the things driving me crazy about the image, and while its still not where I thought it would be, I had to ink it.  For the pure fact that it represents the last of the autumn here (though I know November is also autumn, technically, it usually snows soon into that month in these parts).

I find it almost ...

The Swapmeet (rough sketch)

Some sketches don't quite seem to work out.  It can come down to all sorts of factors, sometimes it will be stress, other times it's due to a bad sleep schedule.  In the case of this one, I just wasn't able to 'see' it in my head.  I could see the concept, but couldn't quite get the characters to look even reasonably like they should.

Except for the goblin.  For some reason the goblin caravan guard was nailed the first try at him :p

I managed to get this, I hop...

Small ponies paid in pumpkins - 300dpi

Found a few more dots for you all.

Small ponies paid in pumpkins - 150dpi

More pixels.  More pumpkins.

Small ponies paid in pumpkins - Colour

Colour version.  I kind of want to hide in the Brichlow pub for a few weeks.

-T.J.

Small Delivery Ponies Paid in Pumpkins - 300dpi

So many leefs, in even more pixels.

Small Delivery Ponies Paid in Pumpkins - 150dpi

More pixels means more leefs.

-T.J.

Small Delivery Ponies Paid in Pumpkins - inks

My mind ebbs towards the bucolic during this time of year, and in looking through the archives I found the very rough sketch of this image from September of last year, and decided that I wanted to ink and eventually colour it.

The scene is of the mail-delivery reixa heading home with her trade payment of pumpkins through the streets of her home city of Cydwyllan (Ced-uo-ih-lahn) during the near sunset hour where the sky is bleeding pink into purple to darker blue, and lights are just st...

Records of Sorrow - 300dpi

The ultimate in scrabbly-spooky-skellingtons in the ultimate of dpi.

Records of Sorrow - 150dpi

The scrabbly-skribbly-spooky-skellingtons in 150dpi.

Records of Sorrow - Inks

Given the time of year I couldn't help but ink this one.  I decided to try and figure out what the lighting of this will look like when it's eventually coloured, and it gave me the chance to noodle around with the hundreds of 'tones' and textures included in CSP.  I don't know if this one will be a full painting though.  I might leave it as a coloured illustration instead, but I'll have to wait until I start filling things in to see how it feels.

This also marks the first...

The Old Roads

Yesterday I decided to leave Twitter.

While I realize a great deal of folks here didn't even follow me on that platform (You weren't missing anything, all art is posted here primarily).  Some, however, did follow me there and would sometimes use it as a way to catch when I put an update out.

The reason for leaving was primarily noticing that it had a reasonably large impact on my day-to-day mental health.  I had fallen into it like a rabbit hole and started checking the ...

Weather Is Coming - 300dpi

The big ol' squares of pixels and whatnot.

Weather Is Coming - Final

About a week ago I was going through old folders of artwork to back things up and in search of an image that I remembered doing, but couldn't remember _when_ I had done.  

While I did eventually find that image, I also came across the flat colours of this image from one year ago.  September 2018.  I was surprised it had been that long really.  Time feels like its just been charging along, and suddenly its a full year later and I never even got into laying out the lig...