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Akatsuki

This is another one I had also shown the sketch of a while ago. Its a pretty typical scene for me, something very cute and feminine with the girl lying in bed wearing a babydoll.

The standout thing here is actually the background, or specifically the pillows, with the combo of royal blue and gold, which was something the commissioner specifically requested. I was a bit worried I wouldnt be able to make it work since I dont usually use those colors for the background, but it actually tur...

Tifa Lockhart

And here is my Tifa! She really seems to have trouble getting that top to fit in, I guess she wasnt expecting them to grow that much. When I was sketching originally I was playing with the idea of giving her an annoyed look of "Why wont it fit?!", but I was also open to giving her a soft smile and the commissioner liked that more as well, so thats what I went with in the end.

I did do a process thing as youd expect, so ...

Burii

Since Ive been posting a lot of busty girls lately, here is something different. I enjoyed drawing this a lot more than I thought I would. She has this cute little devil look, like you know she is up to something. She also has a pretty unique look, almost alien like... I thought she would fit right in on something like the Void Ark, so thats what inspired the "background" if you can call it that.

The commissioner didnt actually didnt want her to have the little horns at the top but I th...

Octavia

Finishing off 2018 with another of my favorites, and one which youve seen a sketch of a few weeks ago. I really love how this one turned out and how much the full version improves upon the sketch, thanks to the lighting (and also the addition of the maid headdress).

Since I was going for a scene where she is revealing her body for the first time, I wanted her to have a very shy/fragile look, and it was key that the mood in the room matched that as well. So I went for a low light setting...

Shattered

This one is from early November but I didnt wanna spam people with pics of her so I decided to wait a while since the last one before posting it. Its a bit different as you can see, and I used it to try some things, almost like a "study". 

There are some things I love about it, and others not so much. The pose and the way she looks in general is great, but the colors are pretty dull and it lacks the intimate mood I usually do.

I wasnt going for any idea here in particular, ju...

Wrapped

Here is the other Marie pic I mentioned, with the red ribbon theme again, which I had already done last year with another character. It always looks super cute though.

I also did a steps thing for this one so here it is. I love how just adding the highlights on the ribbons gives them that shiny silky look, which is a much more accurate representation of the texture they should have. Also notice how the windows in the bac...

Present

So as I said, this year I have 2 xmas commissions to post, and one of them being Marie, I wanted to post the other one first. Of course this is also a character you should know well, even if only seen from behind here.

It was fun giving her a xmas look, especially with the hair accessories, and I think the whole color combo works really well.

Lately Ive been taking a break but since I have so much stuff to post you wont really notice any difference in the frequency of the uploads....

The Secretary

Marie again in another real life kind of scene. Going for that sexy secretary look, so I wanted the emphasis to be on the legs here. Its probably the first time Im happy with how Ive done the pantyhose, since its really hard to get the right texture and color, with how they have to be darker but still have the skin be visible underneath. Basically the goal is to make them so soft looking that you wanna touch them (similar to my approach when drawing breasts), and I think I managed to do that her...

Yang

A naughty miqo'te doing lewd things.

I like how the goggles and scarf give her a sort of steampunk vibe, and then I added the ripped tights as well which I thought was a great fit and played well with the composition here. Also felt like the most logical thing to go with warm colors, with lots of brown, red, orange, with her eyes being the only cold color and standing out due to that.

Also I talked before about a sketch I really wanted to show off so now is a good time. This is a charact...

Lori

Was gonna post something else today but the person who commissioned this posted it to their twitter right after I finished it so I felt like it would be stupid to hold on to it for a month since people would already have seen it anyway. So there, two redheads in a row.

I do love how it turned out, the general mood and lighting, and I always enjoy coloring red hair since it just pops and makes it easy to color everything else as a result. She also has a huge tail so it almost works like another...

Anios

Heres another Draenei! This time Anios, who I hadnt drawn in a really long time (like 4 years?). I couldnt figure out what to do for the background so I just went with something really simple that matched her colors. Same for the lingerie, I thought this magenta color looked perfect on her skin.

I really like that she has an exotic look here almost like a belly dancer or something, its a look I dont think Ive seen in a draenei before (not that I look at much WoW art to be fair).

Anyway, ...

Kaya

So undecided on what to post today, its one of those days when I feel like nothing is good enough so Im just going back and forth. Well, as you can see I settled on this one.

Its a bit different in the sense that you dont usually see girls this toned from me, and Id say this is about as far as Id go really with muscle definition, since more than this looks too masculine for me, but I think here I managed to do it in a way that it still looks soft.

The background was a huge pain to do bec...

Rathenia

Here is the finished version of that night elf I teased a while ago with the sketch. Coloring this one was pretty challenging but it worked out in the end. I did a process thing for this one because its a good example of how much good lighting can improve a scene, so take a look here (for some reason DA has been stupid with direct links lately, using some token system, so Im linking the stash page instead and you can zoom in/down...

Glamour

So here is that portrait that came out of "Reflection". I just liked the reflection so much in the original drawing that I felt it was a waste to not do something with it. Of course I tweaked it quite a bit to make it look good on its own, and while I could have done something more interesting with the pose (like her playing with her hair or something), I still love a lot of things about it. 

I usually give her a more stoic/serious look so here I wanted her to look really cute and with ju...

Fan Art Poll #2

A bit late with this one but I wanted to think about whether Id include FFXIV characters or not before making it, and Ive decided not to, since I already do FFXIV stuff all the time, and the point of the poll is for me to draw characters from others games/anime/whatever. Something different basically.

So Im replacing those with a few new options of characters I think Id really enjoy doing/would fit my style, and I think they are rather popular as well so they should get a decent amount of vote...

Miho

Something a bit more explicit today. I havent done many of these lately, its been mostly just top half nudity and such. I love this one though, the way it all comes together with the angle, pose, lighting, and her body in general (especially the breasts, of course). Definitely one of my favorites this year.

Not much to say today but I dont want to turn every post into a wall of text anyway, and as the saying goes "a picture is worth a thousand words".

I think next up Ill post that portra...

Alael

Since I havent been posting much FFXIV stuff lately, here is a miqo'te in a red dress.

These are always nice since they look so classy, and there are a few things I really like about this one, like the tanlines, the peek at the thong, or the shoes. And yeah they wanted a bright japanese-like setting for this one which does look really good with the character.

There is also the curious fact of her looking so much like EZ which some people have apparently already mistaken her for, and I ca...

Scarlet Night

So here it is! The coloring went super smoothly so I did it pretty much from start to finish in one go. Of course I have a process thing for this one so here.

I already mentioned a lot of the important things in the last post so Ill just talk about what changed and why I picked this setting.

Originally when I did the sketch I had a night time scene in min...

Nephirin + Velvet Sketch

Today Im posting another of that set of 3 non-patreon commissions on the free sites so go check it out if you want. 

As before, for patreon I picked another favorite of mine that I never posted anywhere else, this one being from 2017. Hot springs are one of my most requested settings so yeah. Youll also notice this au ra has a different scale pattern, particularly having the hands covered in scales so they are more like claws. I do like it when people add unique touches to their character...

Layla

Another returning character, the blind miqo'te Layla. 

I wasnt too happy with the last one and we both wanted her "assets" to be more accurate this time, so thats what I focused on. I rarely get to draw breasts this big so it was a lot of fun to try to give them a natural shape while keeping the size. I also decided to play around with the puffy/inverted nipples look, w...

Reflection

So here is the finished version of that sketch! I have a lot to say about it so prepare for wall of text.

I worked really hard on this one because I felt the last few were all kinda underwhelming in one way or another and I hadnt really been happy with a drawing of her since "Vanity" or so.

Ive been wanting to try a reflection pic for a while, but its actually really hard since not only do you have to draw the character twice, its kind of impossible to know what the reflection would look...

Red

So as I mentioned last post, there will be 3 specific commissions I wont be posting here, with the first being todays post (Elin) which you can find on any of the other sites you probably already follow me on, so go have a look if you want.

To make up for it here is something I havent posted anywhere else. This one is actually from 2016 but it aged really well and I still like it a lot. The all red-pink theme looks great and Ive always liked this ninja/monk set.

Also I mentioned how I go...

Selaria

Here we have another au ra wolf mix, and I think it look great with this hairstyle. I also really like her colors, it was one of those combos that was really easy to work with.

As you can see they asked me to include the carbuncle bed in the background, but I thought the in game model was pretty bad (awful stretched texture) and made him look really derpy, so I kinda did my own take on it. I think it turned out really cute, and I love how much the carbuncle blue/aqua color adds to the pic.

Witching Hour

Heres the Mika pic I also teased with a sketch a while ago. I also have a process pic for this one but no commentary so Ill just talk about it here. And I figured Id link it earlier in the post so people dont have to read it all the way through so here it is.

This one started out with me having an idea for a pose, based on what a cat looks like when they are st...

Bloodlust

So here is the finished Baphomet pic. It started out as a commission based on the MGE character , but as you can see we changed it pretty drastically. It started with the commissioner wanting a dark/black theme to it and then giving me freedom to do my own thing with the rest, so it turned into this.

I think you can see the Velvet infl...

Halina

This was a commission of a character for a flash game. The art will probably be used as some kind of reward Im guessing, similar to what happens in visual novels and just hentai games in general.

She has the usual hentai body type, which isnt exactly my thing but I tried my best to keep it natural looking as always. 

For the setting I was asked to do something sci-fi, and while I do love sci-fi its something I rarely do, so I thought having it in space with a view of the earth in th...

Silvia

Wasnt sure which one to post today (lots of options) but this was one of my favorites from September so there.

Au Ra face 4 is interesting in that Im not a fan of how it looks in game (overly angry), but when I draw it and give it a more gentle look, I like it just as much as face 1. And the face is definitely my favorite part about this one.

Then you have the lace bra which is my other favorite thing. I took a slightly different approach to doing the lacey bits and I think it looks quit...

Monthly Fan Art Poll

So its finally happening, the long awaited (lol) fan art poll. I think the way Im gonna do it is, for now Ill list only the characters I was already planning on drawing, but Ill also be taking suggestions for the next poll, so you can leave those in the comments (obviously, Ill only take those of characters I like).

I feel like for the first poll I should only list FF characters since one of them is gonna win it. But Ill still list a few other reasonably popular ones to see if they get a...

Amaria

"What the hell is WoW art doing in my Soranamae feed? BLASPHEMY!"

So yeah, unlike what people would have you believe, Im totally fine with doing WoW commissions, its just that people never ask.

It had been a really long time since I last drew a Draenei (I think the last one was the one Ive attached below, which was requested last post), but I do like their design (horns and tails are always welcome), so of course Im always up for drawing them.

This one was also nice in that the com...

Rhela

This was an interesting one, because lately Ive been doing so much bright stuff that when I got to this I was like "how do you color dark scenes again?", so it took me a while to get the right color balance.

Night time scenes in general are always tricky because there is a thin line between "dark enough to look like night time" and "too dark, cant see anything", especially with the character having dark skin on top of that, which makes it even harder to balance it out.

That said I really...