kuroonehalf

Announcement: new merch tiers!

Hey guys! Some of you will probably already know this, but for those who don't, I added a new tier to the Patreon! 

Actually, it's two of them. They're essentially merch tiers, with the same content that's in my store ( https://kuroonehalf.com/store/ ). Do you own a Chinatsu keychain yet? Perhaps your walls are a little bare and in need of some prints? Maybe you should get in this tier! /Marketing pit...

New tutorial: water rendering

My newest tutorial is out! It's about rendering water. I was asked by a few folks to make one explaining how I paint my water, so I worked on it over the past week.

You can check it out on my website: 

https://kuroonehalf.com/2023/05/01/water-rendering-tutorial/

Enjoy. :3

April sketch pack

New sketches! Less anemic pack, finally. :p

Enjoy the cuties. ❤

Filia shower (source files)

The source files for the Filia piece. Enjoy. ❤

Filia shower (hi-res)

I sketched this Filia back in 2020 or so, and have wanted to color it ever since. This month I decided I was gonna do it. >:3

It was quite outdated so I had to completely redraw it. Even still, some stuff was challenging. You can see I redrew Samson (her hair parasite) a few times. There's not a lot of art of her from behind like this, so it was a lengthy experimental process. In the end I think it came out pretty good, and I think I'd be able to do it much faster next tim...

Vix & Naé (hi-res)

New commish for Flargo of his two megane cuties. You might remember Naé from the multiple view bar piece. And Vix I drew as a colored sketch reward a few months ago.

This time we're mashing both of them up. Naé in a more sub pose, Vix more dommy, both big tushie. 

The tushie is so spicy in fact that I ended up doing the latter work of this off stream. I don't wanna get sniped by mister twitch, so I erred on the side of caution. *sweat*

Julie shower (hi-res)

New commish of Maya's Vtube model Julie! 

Maya had a fancy model made with new outfits and wanted a piece to showcase them. We got: one piece, frilly swimsuit, and a gold bikini with tshirt combo.

Since the outfits were a bit focus of a piece, I wanted a pose that would showcase them well. I went with this one in an outdoor shower setting, which makes for some cool framing and lighting, and let's us do some soggy action. >:3

Speaking ...

March sketch rewards

New set of sketch rewards is here. With this I have cleared mister Raidanos' backed up slots. Next month I should be able to clear out a few more. But now I'm going back to color work. Enjoy!

March sketch pack

This month's pack is very smol, sorry! I managed to nail every sketch reward on first try, and the color pieces I worked on this month I actually sketched on months prior. The only new thing is this Filia that I'm hoping to color soon. 

Enjoy. ❤

Reina & Chinatsu 2 (hi-res)

Reina and Chinatsu have a new get-together. Commish for Boppy!

Lots going on here. We have big boobie action. We have boobie docking. We have ponytails. We have feetsies. We have booty honking. And then we have two outfits: casual shorts and tanktop + bunny girls.

These are easily the fanciest bunny girls I've done. I did a new kind of floppy ears. Boppy coerced me into doing fishnets. They were pain to draw, so I hope you enjoy them.

I also ...

Tamamo (hi-res)

Commish for go10/Lucario of FGO's Tamamo-no-Mae at the beach!

Soggy swimsuit action + no shirt variant. Employing my latest techniques in water streaks and wet fabric. >:3

You'd think I'd have summer lighting figured out by now but it's actually a problem I'm very much still working through figuring out. You can see around WIP 4 that the shading was pretty much there already, but it just didn't cohesively read as a bright summer scene yet. Figuring out how...

Rachel (hi-res)

Sketch reward turned full color for Nappo of this cute patoot.

This is the first piece where I've gotten to use the new liquify tool in Clip Studio. Turns out it's quite handy for doing small adjustments. There's instances where something needs a small adjustment and you end up having to sketch the changes on top, fix the lineart, then fix the color, and with liquify in some instances you can streamline that process a lot. The added agility feels great.

I hav...

Rae ref sheet (hi-res)

Reference sheet commission for TomTheGameNerd of Rae. :>

I forget but I think this may be the first proper ref sheet commission I've done. I wouldn't be opposed to doing more. The simple poses and not having to worry about backgrounds for a change is nice. :p

Maybe I should make more of these for my girls.

Anyway, enjoy. ❤

Mona (source files)

Mona CSP and PSD is here.

ps: Does anyone use PSD? If no one does I could avoid having to export PSD.

Mona (hi-res)

Well, are you???

Here it is, it's Mona. You guys wanted tushie, so I went for the tushie. 

I wanted to try some undies this time instead of swimsuit. It's something I don't have a great foundation of knowledge about, so this was a good opportunity to study up. Of course, I decided to do the big round of research after finishing the piece, as usual, and did a big redraw. Mistakes were made.

Is this the new sauciest piece? Probably the sau...

February sketch rewards

New bundle of sketch cuties is here. Requested by the Lifeguard patrons. 

Enjoy. ❤

February sketch pack

Sketheronies are here.

Enjoy. ❤

Nebula (hi-res)

Commish for OneBadCupOfCoffee of his floofer Nebula (you may remember her reading a book in a previous duo piece) wearing one of those sassy party dresses.

It's a bar piece! Sitting at the corner of the bar by herself, lookin cute. 👀

There's also a sassy slingkini variant. Extra blushy and extra sweaty.

Enjoy. ❤

Unryuu & Chinatsu (hi-res)

Chinatsu gets roped in for a Kancolle cameo shoot with Unryuu. Commissioned by 3xlneet!

Sippy and licky. Light skin and tan skin. Boobie and tushie. The duality of man, contained in one waifu piece.

I got to do Unryuu's hair better justice this time. Also, Chinatsu in a ponytail! It's been a while since she wore one. :p

Enjoy. ❤

Couch girls (hi-res)

Commission for Kasha of a bunch of his girls hanging out and playing games.

It's a big ol' furry fest. This is one of the chonkiest pieces I've taken up - 5 characters! - and praise the lord nothing caught on fire during the making of it. But it did take a while to come together, as expected. I'm done with big pieces for a good while.

The blonde flat one is actually a boyo. Sandwiched by boobies in every direction.

Pls don't bully me for my k...

Okayu (hi-res)

Commish for Merit of the Hololive gamer cat Okayu.

Another steamy bed cuddle scene. Don't ask me where her panties went.

Enjoy. ❤

December & January sketch rewards

I took some more time to cook on December's batch and decided to merge it with January's. Thus, we have twice the amount of sketches this time.

Lotsa cuties. :>

Enjoy. ❤

January sketch pack

New pack is here!

It's still a little short. Haven't been able to work as much this month either due to the hand. ;w;

But it's making slow improvement again. Fingeys crossed.

Enjoy. ❤

Aiko Family (source files)

See how the Aiko family piece is made. :>

Enjoy. ❤

Aiko Family (hi-res)

Aiko won the last poll (thanks for voting for her ❤), and I thought immediately about this old sketch for what was intended to be an ingame CG.

I didn't expect Aiko's mom to take the spotlight as much as she did, but I guess it's to be expected. I might've made her too strong.

It's fun to see the family (sans dad, sorry dad) together. Even though Miyu's kinda just photobombing the pic. It kinda counts. Cute happy family. :3

The lighting her...

Botan (hi-res)

Commish for Merit of the lion from Hololive. Checking another off the list.

This is actually a contest entry for a pixiv contest going on! I don't tend to participate in contests anymore - I find my art tends to not be the kind of contest type - but Merit offered to finance it and I came up with this interesting idea so I took it on.

Why go to the beach when you can enjoy it from the comfort of your own room? Pretty interesting take, and it was fun to flesh i...

Chixie (hi-res)

Commish for Salvo91able of Chixie from Homestuck!

First time I draw a Homestuck character. I've never read it myself (I've been told it's a breezy holiday read) but apparently it's making a resurgence, and Salvo wanted her drawn.

Inspired by the Rutee piece (this one https://www.patreon.com/posts/39779865) and the old Misaki piece, but with Chixie chilling by the moonlight. :><...

Mio (hi-res)

Commish for Armarillo-kun of the Hololive gamer wolfu Mio.

She's chilling out in her room, reading a book. Because I'm obsessive like that, I tried to make the room as faithful as possible to the one she uses in her streams, even down to the cat pictures she has in the back. 

Sorting out the lighting was tricky. Indoor scene lighting is still an ongoing learning process, but I think I'm making progress. Also took me a bit to get the face and tushie just ...

Summary of art 2022

The new summary of art pic! 

I'm pretty happy with how it came out this year. I was trying some stuff and then it hit me, ah! What if I went with like an orange soda motif? I've been doing the summer sky motif for a while, so this was a good change of pace. Add some compliments graphics and bam. :>

More cuties to come this year. Thank you for your continued support, and hope you all had a good holidays! ❤

Status of things

Hey all. You might notice there's less pieces uploaded this month. I wanted to go into why, and give a general update on what I'm up to.

The hand

Sadly, for the third christmas in a row, my hand has been hurting quite a bit. I don't know if it's the cold, the christmas sweets, the lack of PT (my PT lady caught pneumonia /o\), or something else. Probably a bit of everything, and it's just been hurting too much to stream some days the past couple weeks. I...