stasisdelirium

Of Bees and Dragons

After a couple of days of struggling with getting an older tablet to work on the old desktop that I've set up in the basement (which is about 20 degrees cooler than the rest of the house) I think I've managed to set up something that is at least workable.

I was hoping to use my old Yiynova tablet, as its a larger and at least more modern one than my old Wacom was, but I forgot the absolutely arcane rituals you needed to perform just to get it running.  Including command line hard-s...

Meanwhile in the Canadian Robot Army..

I've received my second shot this afternoon which is an immense relief.  Its a weird feeling to suddenly have the last of that anxiety slowly bleed away after so long.  Given that our province is going to be throwing the doors wide open on Money Rodeo day.. Er.. Canada day, the more protection I can get, the better.

It has been stunningly hot here.  I haven't felt a wall of heat like this since I visited Baltimore in the U.S. for the first time.  I'm fortunate that I...

The Sky Came Down to Tear Off Their Hides.

Welp, I guess I'll be working early morning for art for at least a week if not more.  In a place with no AC these temps are gonna be a nightmare for the studio.  The up-side is that it means I'm forced to go to bed at a decent hour.  The bad news is that I might be getting up at 4am now to get anything done :P

I hear there's similar heat-wave hitting the west coast as well.  Stay safe out there folks.

-T.J.

Coffee sound-check.

Oksana, Prophets of Dust.

More etchings from the elder times.

The next batch of higher res uploads here from the 'dead link place' years back.  Realizing these were done 6 years ago is kind of insane.  There are still a few pieces left to post as well before month's end.

I apologize for being a bit slow.  Some family surgery stuff sprung up here recently.  Something that was planned for months ago that was put on hold due to the virus, so when the slot opens up, you gotta grab it.

I might be a bit spotty over the next wee...

Pony Petting on Lazy Days (NSFW)

This is one of those pictures I debated posting here, since I don't do many like this, but I couldn't help wanting to share the sheer *happy* that Cinders had on her face.

They've been together for many a year now, they've raised four kids, have a strong herd, and he still loves her with the raw adoration that he did when he first fell in love with her.  To this day he still is amazed that she'll be there when he wakes up, and still has a heart big enough to love all things.

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More skribbles from a bygone era

More of the images that had lost links pointing at them.  

I guess I drew a lot of Cinders.

Scribbles from a foregone age.

As promised, I'm re-posting some of the art I did in the 2015/2016 era that were linked from a third party site, of which all of the links are now long dead.

I'll dole these out in small doses if I can help it.  Some of the art from that era I can't post again as it was work I did for other people, and some from patrons who have moved on.  I also don't have the work file for a couple of them, but I do still have the high res file to post.

I won't provide much commentary ...

Short stack of bla-bla-bla

A couple short notes.  

I'll be sending out the note for the next Patron on the list for an illustration on the weekend.  I'm going to try and get these done within the month they're given out just to keep things straight in my head.

I'm also working on about four things at once.  I'm starting to do some of the Cinders story for the (hopefully) comic series, now that the lockdowns are starting to clear up, its getting easier to actually collaborate and ask questions...

Do you care if there are 'game stats' in world-lore posts?

I realized that there was a poll function on this site (Yes, I'm fairly oblivious).  I also realized that I'm not sure if my having to go through and strip 'game stat' notes out of posts is really necessary.

I know a lot of folks here don't play ttrpgs, but who might not really care if things like that are provided as long as they don't muddle the whole lore-dump post.

Smatterings of natterings.

I've been thinking over the last couple of days of starting to add written posts here detailing things about the world that the characters live in, as well as some information on the characters themselves.

Part of my thinking here was due to my almost losing about 25-ish years of notes on the world.  Admittedly that was fairly heartbreaking as a feeling, and having a space to add these odd musings and histories too would help out.

Another part is due to my memory failing a li...

The Forgotten Sketch

I forgot about this first sketch of Kai that I did, clearly trying to figure out her look.  I sadly don't have the work-file anymore because I might actually be clinically stupid, and didn't save it when shutting down Clip Studio.

But I had a high-res enough file to at least post here.  I still really haven't figured out what she should be looking like, but she's got a knife.. Probably dangerous.

-T.J.

Kai (300dpi)

Slightly more otter, slightly more feesh, slightly more dots.

-T.J.

Kai.

I had an inkling to draw otters again.  Tried out drawing Kai from a pretty distant mental image of her.  I don't know much about her, other than she'd never steal someone's fish.

-T.J.

Tired - 300dpi

More dots = more tired.

-T.J.

Tired - Inks

One of two inking projects I'm working on.  I wanted to do a colour treatment of the sketch of Berrand this time around, and did some basic inks so I can add some flats later on.  The trees in the background will have some leaves starting up, but I tend to paint those on rather than ink them all in, and he'll have his tats painted on after as well.

-T.J.

Adventure!

Now post-jab, my rather wild ride with hypertension for 14 months has evened off significantly.  That said, despite the 'busy' of daily life, I've been sketching some fairly random warm-ups in addition to doing some paid work, and slowly inking on an image that I'm going to be trying to get coloured for this month.

This time around its Hyrahittia (Little Fire), kobold, doing her best to adventure along a mountain path.  Admittedly she likes the journey more than anything. &nbs...

Skraables.

I've been doing some warm up sketches to get back into the swing of doing art a little more often.  The rule is as always:  leave things rough, don't go back and fuss over any of it.

I wanted to draw more modern-day characters this time around (Though poni is still poni).  I went a little more 'cartoon' than I usually do as well, just to get into a more dynamic mindset.

I'll be sending along the next patron note for an illustration in the coming week or two.  I...

Tired.

Since I did a picture of Cinders earlier this month, her husband Berrand needed a picture done as well.  Taking a break with the dragon-pipe after digging a cartload of mulch in preparation for the upcoming growing season.

When I sat and looked at this I was a bit amazed at how rough the figure drawing was compared to the background.  Until I realized that the software I use has rulers in it that allow for these amazingly clean lines.  I utterly love the perspective ruler...

Beware the Aldr Vharrow. (Patron illustration)

I haven't had chance to draw a centaur in what feels like over a decade.  When I was given the subject of getting to draw a scene with a centaur character it reminded me just how much I used to enjoy drawing these people.  

But it was a huge learning curve again.  Two creatures having to merge at the right place used to be much easier for me to do when I used to draw them all the time :D

I picked a spot in the Aldr Vharrow, a space rife with ruins of ancient and lon...

Dancing with Tiny Friends (300dpi)

Where there's a pixel.

There's a size.

-T.J.

Dancing with Tiny Friends (final)

I've had this picture near completed on the drive for a couple weeks at least.  I still had to do some correcting and painting, but it was nearly complete before the health chaos spun into full swing.

Indoor scenes tend to scare the hell out of me when it comes to painting, since light can be from several focuses at once, and shadows can be kind of anywhere depending on where windows, lanterns, hearths, heaters, or out of control kitchen fires might be situated.  I think 2021-04-10 23:02:13 +0000 UTC View Post