Further Delay
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2020-05-10 18:30:12 +0000 UTC View Post
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Nerws about this week's update
Great, my computer had a crash and it deleted the miserable amount of work I've been able to put together today. So frustrated. With this COVID craze I cannot have a day entirely for drawing.
I hope I will release a double update this Sunday.
2020-05-07 19:52:57 +0000 UTC View PostMermen Designs #7 - Nerites
Nerites was a sea god mostly known for being the lover of Poseidon and having made a son with him: Anteros, the god of requited love. Not quite male-P, but the force of love that generates beings out of nothing.
And like Poseidon had a soft spot for Nerites, I have a soft spot for these creatures, that I designed a good two years ago, out of speculation about the appearance and biology of cetacean mammals.
They should have been featured in my "serious" comic, The Hunter, ...
2020-05-04 20:54:00 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn's Adventures - Captain my Captain!
Little break from mermay just to remember us that the most voted of my mermen will be the species that these guys will meet. And those guys are Gokong the Lieutenant Gorilla and Bastoro the Captain Bull.
I had very few doubts about the winner of this pool from the moment I posted it. So few doubts that I've worked out a reason in-story for Bastoro to be the first choice: beasts with hooves don't make good swimmers.
But I wanted to let you play it anyway.&nbs...
2020-05-03 19:27:18 +0000 UTC View PostMermen Designs - 2nd Selection
Okay guys, time to decide who is the best between the new three mermen designs. I decided to put them in groups of three for don't overwhelm you with too many choices at the same time.
So, between the crocodile, the sea h...
2020-05-01 19:29:33 +0000 UTC View PostMermen design #6: Delphinus
Delphinus was a daimon (being between the human and godly realm) that assisted the god Poseidon in his quest for the hand and dowry of the daughter of the original god of the sea (Nereus.)
As a reward, the gold digger Poseidon made a constellation out of him, and that's all. Dolphins appear in a couple more of minor myths, enough to say that Greeks found them quite nice animals.
And they're truly nice, with those round appearances...
2020-05-01 18:42:28 +0000 UTC View PostMerman Design #5: Hippocampus
Maybe you know that Hippocampus isn't just a part of the brain but also the name of the genus of sea horses.
The name comes from Greek mythology and describes the horses with fish attributes that sometimes pull the chariots of sea gods.
Coming up with an anthro rendition was pretty intuitive to me.
Far less intuitive drawing properly a horse's head. God, those things are very long. Also, the equine cock took a while.
I'm not into anthr...
2020-04-30 18:54:56 +0000 UTC View PostMerman Design #2 - Sobek the Croc
Back on track guys, with another merman design.
Remember that there's still this pool for the winner of the first round the mermen selection going on. Go vote!
This time quite different.
The inspiration comes from this article about mermaids biology, that discusses the appearance of reptilian merpe...
2020-04-28 16:34:12 +0000 UTC View PostMermen selection, first round
Okay guys, time to decide who is the best between the three mermen designs I posted so far. I decided to put them in groups of three for don't overwhelm you with too many choices at the same time.
So, between the classic, the walrus, and the 2020-04-27 19:01:03 +0000 UTC View Post
Mermen Design #3: Proteus
Hey guys, I'm back with preparation for the #Mermay challenge. Not so many days left, he.
After the Nerei and the Sirens, time for the Protei.
Mythologically inspired by another old man of the sea, the god Proteus, and zoologically to the genus Proteus, an amphibian endemic of Alpine water caves between Italy and Slovenia, similar to the Southamerican axolotl.
Like the axolotl, this species performs neoteny 2020-04-27 16:30:58 +0000 UTC View Post
Wrestling and Merging
Hey, guys, I'm back. Elaborating the loss of a dog that was my shadow (seriously, I still walk looking at my feet for not absent-mindedly kicking her) and finished the commission I was talking about.
Here we are, hairy and muscle dudes wrestling, face-fucking each other and fusing in a double-headed creature. It's astonishing how many fetishes I share with this dude.
It looks like something I made out of passion, not for satisfying a client.
I hope you like this fantasy feti...
2020-04-26 16:14:43 +0000 UTC View PostMore schedule meddling.
Sorry guys, currently I can't give you a proper schedule for this week, I'll post something, but I don't know in which order.
This good girl died this afternoon (16 years old, hit by a car) and I'm still very confused and sad.
See you soon.
Schedule meddling
Okay guys, I warn you that, due to this pretty heavy commission and the approaching of may, I will delay SkyHorn Adventures' updates to the next week. In the meanwhile I will publish my mermen and let you vote on which will ones will be the species of SkyHorn Island.
Hope you will be appreciate this sop :-)
2020-04-19 14:15:31 +0000 UTC View PostDelay alert
So guys, I have a commission to finish, and it will be some very juicy stuff, so the Sunday update will be joined with the next Wednesday update. That meand two pages of Wednesday!
2020-04-17 16:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn's Adventures - Which one first?
It goes without saying, the first one that you'll choose will become your companion for the rest of the adventure. The other two will find their own way out of this situation. So don't worry.
And, yeah, daddy 'rilla is a classy dude who doesn't use swearwords. Especially the less creative ones.
Which one we will save?
2020-04-16 15:35:00 +0000 UTC View PostMermen Design #2 - The Siren
Siren is actually the term roman languages use to translate mermaid, intended as the female gender of this fantasy race.
Quite funny, because in Greek mythology Sirens were, like mermaids, marine creatures known for enchanting seamen with their songs, but they were feathered.
Like harpies, but they were hot, while harpies openly described as ugly crones.
Patron Reward, and first specimen for #mermay
Patron reward for Nik S, who wanted something regarding classic mermen, and inadvertently prompted me to start 2020 Mermay with a serious effort.
Well, because my passion for Greek mythology makes me mad when it comes to "mermaids."
"Mermen" are often considered a modern declination of a folkloristic figure that should have been mono-gender. Like female orcs or male fairies.
Well, that's maybe true for Nordic mythology or even Mediterranean ...
2020-04-13 20:23:48 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn's Island - The Mixed Tribe and the Daddy Gorilla
Ok, that was kind of a low blow: before posting the pool for the switch of the PoV character, I didn't show you that the tribe of the paleo dudes is a mixed group of feral humans and bats. I'm sorry.
I hope that you will like the companionship of the gorilla character. Here shown, in the night of the shipwreck, in all his almighty strength and personality.
BTW, yeah, mixed tribe. Specism in this world doesn't exist because the author finds...
2020-04-12 17:22:48 +0000 UTC View PostMermay preparation
So guys, if you don't yet know, there's this thing called Mermay, a May art challenge that has merfolk as their inspirational subject. I always wanted very badly to participate to this challenge with a decent amount of decent pics, so I decided to prepare them per time and involve you.
From Monday I will post (almost) every day a concept for a mer-something, I prepared 12 of them, and you'll get to decide which one is the best and will be the kind of oceanic hunk that inhabit the waters of...
Happy Easter?
Hey guys, due to this coronavirus craze (don't worry, I'm fit as a fiddle) my schedule got screwed again, and now I have to work at my laptop that's not good at displaying colors.
It's a page with a lot of characters and a designed background, so I don't want to waste my efforts with a dull color choice.
So I decided to wait and post two pages Sunday, the last of the first chapter and the first one of the second.
So, be patient, have a happy Easter and remember to don't touc...
2020-04-09 16:54:24 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn Adventures - Bear-Dragon?
ome lore here. There is a lot of expository dialogue that I had to cut out just because it didn't fit in the yet crowded page.
And it would have covered my efforts in making a more colorful and flashy illustration than usual.
I wanted a more blurred and kind of mystical representation but I made the error of starting from the lineart, but I won't repeat the error the next time.
This is to say that's not the definitive design of the Father Dragons...
2020-04-05 19:03:33 +0000 UTC View PostThe other castaways
So, guys, I planned a couple of chapters to explain where the other members of the crew are gone and how they survived.
As you can imagine, the other members are the remaining characters of the roster you had to choose from at the start of this "play-comic":
The bull, the gorilla, the human and the carnivore.
(The carnivore can be both a feline and ...
2020-04-05 16:31:00 +0000 UTC View PostThat's Sam the Bear
Sorry for the delay, at least I didn't add more delay to the previous, I'm a semi-reliable artist, but I wanted, for some reason, to create an animation funnier than the fading you've seen 'till now.
This is Sam, the bear, one of the characters from the roster you had to chose from at the beginning of this play-comic.
Now you can choose his skin.
I'm pretty sure about the...
2020-04-02 20:59:25 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn Adventures - After sex introductions.
Because we are civilized people in the end.
Hagon and Rubor their names, and, as you can see, their miniatures are now visible in the lower bar, because they show a game-like dynamic that some of you requested: the TT Bars.
The first T stands for Trust, and it's the green bar that measures how much that character likes and trusts Kondar, both from a romantic and ...
2020-03-30 16:48:51 +0000 UTC View PostCrappy week
So guys, at this point is better for me to post two pages on Sunday. There won't be choices to make for a while, so nothing is lost, and the idea of applying colors now with these tired eyes just makes me sick. I'm sorry
2020-03-27 19:27:32 +0000 UTC View PostFurther delay
Sorry guys today I have to deal unexpectedly with a different kind of painting. My house.
Unexpected because my uncle, who is doing me a solid, had the brilliant idea to do it a week earlier, with the Siberian wind howling outside, and maybe tonight I may have to sleep on the couch because the paint in my bedroom will still be wet.
It's has been a nice dive in the past to empty all my wardrobes. 'Till now I found my first, cracked, cocking, the sweater of my ex, the notes from t...
SkyHorn Adventures - A remade page
Sorry guys, I have to postpone the new page to tomorrow, in the meanwhile I post a page from my re-composition of the previous panels in a comic layout. Enjoy!
My statement about replanning the previous panels in a printable version of SkyHorn's Adventures isn't an empty promise. But I'm working on that, giving priority to the new pages, of course.
Here you can see an example of what I'm doing: the remade page and the same segment of the story in the original panels.
<... 2020-03-25 19:13:29 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn Adventures - Thinking about that…
It has been a fun ride, but it's time to move the plot forward. Spells to collect, mysteries to unravel, more creatures to bonk!
So choose guys, should K. use the Communication Spell and start understanding what the brothers are saying, or be a selfish jerk that considers men sexier when they can't talk to you?
EDIT: I forgot to explain to you that yes...
2020-03-22 20:03:41 +0000 UTC View PostMinotaur's Maze
Do you remember my pool for the Sunday morning dresscode of a bull? Here the result! This lucky bastard that can build muscle with carbs.
2020-03-19 19:41:47 +0000 UTC View PostSkyHorn Adventures - Sibling love
Yeah, you guessed it. I decided to play both the options. I set a precedent that will haunt me for the rest of this project, but this time I felt it was needed: the "switch the brothers" option won with a very small margin, and most of all, my bigger patrons voted for the "complete bottom option." So I had to find a compromise, to make their bigger support value something, 'till I publish the edited version of this comic.
Both win, no?
2020-03-18 18:20:26 +0000 UTC View Post