Hey all hope you've been having a good enough time through the holidays! This is the last set of sketches for the year—I didn't really get up to a whole lot this December, but I did draw The Deer at least.
2023-01-01 01:42:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Made a couple more scrunkle-likes, and drew some other stuff.
2022-12-01 01:10:10 +0000 UTC View Post
With September ending we are now thrust headlong into the final three seasons of the year—where ALL the holidays are concentrated. Personally, I'm quite excited.
Toward the end of this past month I've been thinking about going hyena... I don't know though, I really feel at home with the ink bunny. /shrug
2022-10-01 01:03:28 +0000 UTC View Post
Nothing much to say this time. I dried using Photoshop for one of these instead of my typical program. Not a huge fan tbh—although, the ui was comfortingly familiar
2022-08-31 23:41:01 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a whole lot to say this time. Been trying to take it easy and BEEEEES cute into what little relaxation time I feel I had. Alas!
2022-07-31 21:27:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Tinderoo's tummy getting touched. Not a super complex thing, but, like, it's been a thousand years since I did anything remotely like my top output and I want to get back into the swing of things.
Mildly interesting note, I opened up Sai 2 to do the linework for this one, as it was both relatively simple, and my plan for the lighting on this will, at some point, call for thin, clean, almost-nonexistent lines. And Sai 2's vector-based Linework Layer is quite nice for it, IMO....
2022-07-18 00:13:00 +0000 UTC View Post
El creaturo nuevo.... I decided to name it tinderoo...like the tinder you light with flint and steel? You see, because their tail's flint and their paws are steel and they...ah whatever, you get the idea.
Otherwise, pretty light this month, lots of stuff started going down in the latter half that made it kinda hard to want to do much of anything.
2022-07-01 15:31:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Not a whole lot to say here that isn't just repeating myself like last time, when I uploaded two months' worth of sketches.
I've been trying to spend more time designing creatures and anthro characters. And also trying to branch beyond my sausage comfort zone. I don't have a whole lot of readily available (and reliable) female reference sources, so it's a little scary, but I think I'm headed in the right direction.
2022-06-01 01:47:52 +0000 UTC View Post
Oh boy, here I go mixing cute wholesome things in with racy drawings again!
It's a bunch of pictures, but it doesn't feel like a whole lot for two months. At least, to me.
I think I've settled on a good design for dallbeam, and maybe some variants, but it's probably time to move on to others, because the favoritism is starting to show...
2022-03-31 22:45:17 +0000 UTC View Post
A combo post of my sketches from December and January.
Some of my OCs have species names now!! Prairyu and Dalbeam. For now, at least. I think I'm going to try and steer away from more obvious portmanteaus in the future though—something about them doesn't seem, eh, quality? I'm mostly happy with the designs, they more or less accomplish the goal of being recognizably similar to their previous lives while also being mostly different.
Anyway, hope you've all had a low stress Janua...
2022-01-31 23:27:33 +0000 UTC View PostHey all, hope you've been having a great new year so far!
Just wanted to let you know, I'm pausing billing this month and next while I collect myself and decide how to move forward. I'll let you know when I've got that figured out.
I'll be uploading December's sketches soon by the way, sorry for the delay!
Keeping up the winter tradition of not finishing the Christmas-themed art by Christmas! On the bright side, I'm closer to on-schedule than I was last year. I think.
I was looking at some of my art from a couple years ago, and found an old drawing I'd done of Avus from ~2019, and I figured it'd be a swell idea to remake that image with the skills I have now. Still needs work, but I'm much more experienced than I was two years ago.
Just wanted to show this off early, since it ...
2021-12-26 04:19:12 +0000 UTC View Post
I don't feel like I did a whole lot this November, between friend visits and mysterious colds and sleeping in. But I suppose that's just part of adapting to winter?
Anyhow, there're a couple things I've slipped in here, like design work for winter inkbun, and more not-pokeymon replacements for OCs.
I haven't made a whole lot of progress, I feel. Where all my time went, I can't really remember.
The numbers in the first one are me keeping track of time spent on the picture. I initially started it was a way to test out Clip Studio's timelapse recording feature when it was a new, and also to get a rough idea of just how much time I spend on things. I don't know, I think it's turning out okay, but I might have to redo a couple things here and there.
2021-11-01 00:38:54 +0000 UTC View Post
Hope you're all enjoying the (probably) autumnal weather so far! And finding a way to stay safe through the coming winter wasteland.
I experimented more with female forms and pretty much came to a conclusion with the little sheep monster thing...and doodled them as a pear creature at some point, because I couldn't help myself. All that's left is finding a good base color palette and they're ready for whatever I put them in!
But outside of that, this month was a wash. I reall...
2021-11-01 00:35:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Here's what personal stuff I've been working on this month.
It's mostly just me experimenting with a new process for rendering. It's essentially just Loose Linework -> Ambient Occlusion -> Shadows and Highlights. And not much else, beyond a couple gradients here and there for effects...I'm not quite at that last part yet.
I'm mostly focused on the ambient occlusion step here, as it's relatively new for me to be dedicating an entire layer and leg of work to it... Ambient Occ...
Bunch of stuff this month... Been experimenting more with different species and body types I don't always draw. I don't entirely know what I'm doing, but it's a matter of practice and study, I suppose. The new robot thing doesn't have a name currently, they just exist.
2021-10-01 01:40:54 +0000 UTC View Post
No real groundbreaking reveals here. Just some drawings of R21 the new 'sona, some friends, and the not-mons. Trying to branch out a little. Just a little.
2021-08-30 22:51:05 +0000 UTC View Post
I've been slowly adding more OCs to the list of alt-design-havers. Some of them are really easier to make than others.
Also featured, a couple new anthro OCs, snake, and some sketches of summer bun for the new model I'm making in prep for Vket 6!
2021-07-31 23:59:40 +0000 UTC View Post
These are finished, far as I know, however, the commissioner requested a fourth picture, that I'm working on currently. I'll post more of that once it's further along, since I'm doing some new stylistic stuff with it.
...but also because the ref made them look way prettier than I managed and it's a matter of pride at this point, LMAO
2021-07-11 19:20:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Most of these are self explanatory--mild bass addiction, some noms, some not-noms.
Only real thing of note is that I've been picking out the 'mons OCs I really like and making original designs. Y'know, for use in "serious" projects, and to protect them from the inevitable. The goal was to give them something that simultaneously fit their personality, looked like they were members of a species with maybe of a few of their own defining characteristics and not ultra unique one-of-a-kind c...
This month just kinda rolled by. Lost a couple days to some routine maintenance, did some soul searching...
Anyway, I don't have a whole lot to say, but I do feel a little better about how things are going in my life. Or, more accurately, I've stopped worrying (as much).
2021-05-31 23:08:01 +0000 UTC View Post
These are the comms I'm working on currently. Lots of hatching in the linework...
2021-05-31 23:02:32 +0000 UTC View Post
There isn't much to say here, just some more playing around with Dragster's design and a beast wyvern (?) version of foxxo. I also went with the rope bow for the regular version, 'cause I saw it on a different character and thought it was cute as heck. I also took some time to grab more files from my the S6 Lite I got back in December. Now that I've got that set up, it shouldn't take hours to finagle.
2021-05-01 01:14:51 +0000 UTC View Post
The current things I'm working on (or at least plan to) I've started approaching my art with a more casual mindset, although, it's taking some time.
The second to last image was started as an experiment with Sai 2's 'linework layer' feature. It's essentially mimicking vector line drawing, like a bezier curve tool with a bit more control. I'll talk more about it at some point if it actually becomes more relevant to my process.
The last one is just messing around in Painter, a pro...
I need to be better about actually organizing and frequently uploading these things.
2021-03-31 21:49:00 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm working on another painting of Avus, because, well...look at himmm! I stumbled on the sketch a few days back and figured I might as well. And then maybe give the reindeer a rest 'til next winter/fall. After the last one I did, I realized that my linework isn't quite as important as I initially felt, given that I ut an inordinate effort into making it disappear in the final image—so I opted for some thin, easily-ignored ones instead, solely as a guide for coloring.
The other ones a...
2021-03-31 21:05:12 +0000 UTC View Post
Maybe it's because he managed to sneak out of bed and make a whole coffee without disturbing whoever he's looming over?
My only real regret with this one is that I took so long. I really had to learn accept my own limitations and understand that, sometimes, there's only so much that can be done. Otherwise I'll sit on a single painting for months and months...
Anyway, there's the main, full resolution .png, and a .jpg version that's been scaled down 50%—y'know, so you ...
2021-03-16 23:28:32 +0000 UTC View Post
this has some stuff backloaded from...about October? November? It's been a long while, oops.
2021-02-01 04:57:36 +0000 UTC View Post
something I could've sworn I did earlier. Sorry!
So top to bottom, we've got Avus getting closer to completion, in the midst of lighting refinements; a commission in the very final stages of completion; and a vore pic I started and never quite got around to completing.
There isn't really anything notable to report about these, other than maybe that I've started using even darker layers for my lighting. From, like, 50—70% to 80—95%.
2021-02-01 03:18:06 +0000 UTC View Post