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Finally!

This was supposed to be done by last week but I had a pet emergency start a few days ago.  My cats are both over 15 years old now, and Smokey had suddenly collapsed yesterday.  He had to go to the Vet ER and had to have some new meds added (He's up to SIX pills a day, the poor little squeak).

He...

Sentinels 300dpi

More dots, less rambling.

-T.J.

Coffee Ramble - 1 Sentinels and games

A bit of a double-post for today.

The sentinels picture is coming along though it's taking a fair bit of time since I ended up adding a lot of parts in this illustration that needed some layering, but the flats are largely done, and I think I got the colours right for a cold environment on an overcast kind of day.  ...

Graphic Novel P1 - Preview

Just a little rough preview of the first page of Cinders' story (well, its an ensemble story, but she's the main focus for the first bit at least :).

It feels good to actually be getting this project under way.  I'm sketching on the third page before I start inks and colours, which will let me set a pretty good pac...

Summer Stride - Patron Sketch

A big thank you to Ellis for his patience and letting me draw his neigh character.  I was given an option to draw him walking through a summer scene and jumped on it.  Winter has felt especially long this time around, and we just had some brutally cold days that I had to be out in for various reasons, so getting to ...

Coffee Ramble - Zero

In the last month I've started making a solid list of things I'd like to accomplish over the coming year.  I was never quite able to solidify a schedule when it came to creating anything here on Patreon (Or in general, creating things on any site).  Schedules got interrupted by life and work, and eventually when I g...

Performers (sketch)

A rough sketch of a pair of Lorrnathi performers walking down to the stage area.

Just another image I wanted to get out of the 'maybe pile' in my head and put onto canvas before I forgot to.  I accidentally left in the rough planes/lines layer as well, but it's supposed to be a rough sketch anyway.

Work, work...

Sentinels (inks, 300dpi)

More pine needles.

-T.J.

Sentinels (inks)

Inks for the Sentinels image.  Kept fairly simple since this will be painted.

-T.J.

Double Dragon (Yes, I know, boo.)

Another sketch image, I know, but I admittedly love these two idiots.  Wraethos (The taller Ithskaari) and Eilyrja (The bold-bold) as a bit of a 'tall' comparison.  I used a freebie height ruler for CSP, with Wraethos standing at 6'7" tall, and Eilyrja standing at 3' (Which is fairly standard for kobolds in 'Wroth)....

Proper Panstless (sketch)

"Eyy!  Caught me proper-pantsless this time I guess."

Splitscreen again, this time proper full 'pantsless' and having afternoon coffee.

I'm starting to get used to using some stuff from Sketchup (a 3D architect warehouse) to get scale of things like sectional sofas and bongo-drums (yes, bongo-drums) done righ...

Sketches

Varied sketches that I had done in between running around throwing bits of paper at various people and institutions this month.  

I'm starting to get the hang of this whole sketching thing again.  I'm starting to use reference again after pouring through the backup library of images I have, as well as revisiti...

Sentinel (Rough Sketch)

A view of the rough pencils for a sketch that I'm going to be working on doing colours for, featuring Javarran sentinels taking on an ambush of their long fallen brethren, raised by some unknown force of madness.

I apologize for being fairly quiet over the last couple weeks.  I'm in the middle of getting through th...

Black Gives Way to Blue (and a sketch preview)

The past nearly 2 weeks have been emotionally rough, as is expected.  It's still rough but I can feel the tendrils of adaptation starting to take root.

For one, I've found that my love of just sketching things has started to return.  I have a lot of 'moments to breathe' now and I tend to gravitate towards crea...

Alpha-Yankee-Mike

On January 5th my Father passed away.

Just typing that sentence still feels so surreal.  This was a man who I swear could have outlasted the sun and stars.

He lasted nearly fifteen months longer than doctors initially gave him.  But he was used to that.  I've only known a couple other people who had...

At Day's End

The patron sketch for.. September??  Indeed, very late.  The image was caught at the end of the sketch stage by the chaos of the last four months, and I cannot thank Reya's creator enough for being patient while I tried to put out all the fires going on in my life.

I always love drawing wolves.  They're w...

Boundary.

And here we are at the boundary of the old year, awaiting the moments to cross into the new.

2022 was, without any hyperbole, the worst year I've ever experienced.  Family and friends struggled while the world was on fire.  It was the year my father's health decided on it's final decline.  It was a year w...

Thinking of Snow (sketch)

I wanted to keep trying to get back to where I was when it comes to form.  I struggled with this one a lot but it didn't feel frustrating.  It was just getting those neural little pathways to regrow after so long.

I'm not too sure who this mare is, or why she seems so happy to think of snow.  But at least...

WOOF. Sketch

Oksana making her way down to the pool, showing off a temporary dye tattoo.

Wolves go woof.

The next image I'll be doing is also a wolf, its actually a patron sketch from a couple months back now.  Some tweaks, and then I'll get to inking.

Its likely the next batch of images might be a bit rough.  ...

Into new snow.

November was an unbelievable torrent of chaos.  I'm still kind of amazed at just how  I kept any of it straight.  It was a deluge of medical acronyms, adrenaline fueled frantic calls and travel to six different institutions where I was plied with more medical acronyms, phone numbers, and 'things to watch for, a...

Foxes are Fluffy. (nudity)

It's been one of the most difficult months I've had in.. Well, possibly a lifetime.  

However that's for a separate post, as this isn't the space for it.

An image of Frostii showing off a fuzzy-robe for Christmas.  

Foxes are fluffy.

I'm a bit rusty at sketching/drawing since I've had to take...

The Good Witch (300dpi)

Taller.  Wider.

-T.J.

The Good Witch

This took some time to get inked.  I wanted to do a more complete inking process with this one and while I had hoped to get this out before Halloween's end, I at least got it done soon after.

We basically immediately transitioned to winter two days after Halloween.  It's now in the -16 range and dumping snow. ...

The Wheel Turns, But is on Fire.

I had hoped to have the inked Halloween-esque picture posted by now, but will need another day or so.  

My father, for whom I'm a permanent caregiver for, is in a Cardiac unit at the hospital.

On Monday he nearly collapsed, and couldn't catch his breath at all, complaining of feeling like a horse was sitting ...

The Good Witch

In the quiet town of WÍcian on the shores of ByrÞen lake, those who practice sorceries are welcome as long as they adhere to not invoking blood magics or rituals involving the infernal hosts.

Wydda Hyggan, or 'Birch Song' is one such practitioner.  Drawing the dulcet notes of healing magics from the leylines of m...

Bold-Bold Barn

Roughs of an image I'll be inking for October.

She knows they steal her 'pompkins' and sell them, because she puts out pompkins specifically for them to steal.  Kobolds need their treasure hoards, thus need to sell pompkins for all the shiny things.

She adores her tiny dragons.

Tahoe Walk

Frostii, Dusty and Splitscreen on a fall walk in Tahoe.

The 300dpi version

Larger slices of pumpkin pie with more pixels.

-T.J.

And Soon They WIll Have Faces. (Final)

I had decided to leave this image a little more 'illustrative' with the linework intact.  For some reason my mind kept fading back to 'Its the Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown' and how that had a warmth and charm to it with the linework left in.  

Oddly, when I started this image, the trees were much like they are ...

October Eats People

Last year, my father had to spend three weeks in the hospital in October.  It wasn't pleasant, as it rarely is, and he missed the leaves turning and falling, and missed the garden being 'harvested'.  The man had a bevy of different things wrong with him, all severe, all amidst the 'fourth wave' (I think.. might have...