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Eternal Garden - Wallpaper

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Gonna call this finished before I end up dancing around it too much. ♥ I've got one more of the dragons to draw in this theme, the last one being Sotka, the little toerag.

Happy spring everyone!

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Woodcarver - Adding colour

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Quickly edited the clips I had of this progress. This is from before the last clip with Jack. ♥ The highest quality for this is 720HD as its one of the older batch.

Next video will go over adding light sources and ambient lighting. We did a small amount of that with Jack's clip already but there's a lot more still to ...

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Woodcarver - Jack

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Clip from the colouring progress. Jack specifically.

I have a few questions for everyone:

  • Would you like to see the Layers/History/Toolbars while I work or would you prefer to see just the canvas?
  • Would you find it useful if I added some commentary on certain stages (likely going to be writing and n...

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Woodcarver - Colour WIP

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I've got a video of most of the colour progress, but I have to edit it before I can share it.

I wanted to go for a more fitting colour theme for Woodcarver in this setting.

The Wild Gods are meant to adjust their appearance to their surroundings. And what's the closest you can get to an untouched wild place in an ...

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Woodcarver - inks

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Inks this time. ♥ I'll definitely do a compiled version from start to finish once I've worked out how to add audio. Watch me battle with Jack's face.

I rendered the video on a much higher quality this time. If the option for HD (1920x1080) doesn't show to start with, please refresh. There seems to be a delay with what...

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Woodcarver - Wallpaper WIP

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Next one in the dragon wallpaper series. Testing to see if I can use the 'unlisted' function to share videos just with Patrons. ♥

Could you please let me know if you can't view it? Also if you think the quality should be higher. Right now it's been rendered at 1280x720.

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Jack & Chickens

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Yaaay it. It works? Here's the finished version. I've been trying to find a video editing program that'd let me speed up my sketch progresses without losing quality, and I've recently discovered DaVinci Resolve.

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Druid

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WIP. I wanted to try and do a lineartless paintover sketch for a change, not actually got to the 'lineartless' part yet, heh. I'm hoping I could offer them as an option for clients in the future. I feel a bit out of my depth with them at the moment!

Would you like to see more of the client work I've been doing? Progress...

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Argent Dawn

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Warcraft stuff this time round. I have a long history on a server called Argent Dawn where I occasionally have clients approach me for character art. It's also where Tistow took off from originally. ♥

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Adventurers

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Client works. ♥ Folklore and foresty stuff.



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Dragons and sheep

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More client works. I get a lot of requests for scenes in nature. ♥

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Everything from pets to comics

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I spend most of my days doing client work, but I don't think I've really showed much of it here. It's very varied, everything from pets to real people and character art to comic pages. There's a lot of it. 


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RPs

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I've never actually drawn these three together. I've been massively busy and feels like I haven't really had much time to do anything fun for myself. I try to find the time to play my WoW characters on the occasion though. ♥

One of them is Squirrel of course, character that started Tistow off back in the day. I don't ...

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Reward picks

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Here's a little list! I've numbered all the rewards, but if anything is unclear, just let me know.

If there's a reward on the list you've not received but would like to have, especially if you've been a Patron for a long time, toss me a message and I'll get it sorted out for you in the next sendout. ♥

No. 1 and ...

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Springs sendouts - addresses & rewards

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Hi everyone! Just a reminder for March. ♥ If you've moved houses recently, could you please check to make sure your address details are correct on Patreon.

We'll continue sending out physical rewards around 4 times a year at the moment. I've fallen behind a tad ever since the big change, but I'd like to keep the old s...

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Equine primal

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Still trying to work out what to make her look like. It's likely Ma'am will end up looking just like the other primals. Slightly ethereal and starry.

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John and James

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Loksley's two boys. It's no great secret she's got two sons. I wanted John to resemble her a lot more than wee James. 

They're both due to be introduced in CH2.

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Potatoes and pancakes

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Ratties. ♥ 

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Spring card - progress - Spring sendouts

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I don't have the very basic bits of the colour progress saved, but I've got the bases at least. ♥ 

Winter cards have all been sent out to everyone who were active Patrons in December and January. The spring card will go out in March! As long as you're signed up for our Patreon in February, you'll...

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Familiars

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I had some board leftover and I love inking on it. So here's some skulls! I've got a little watercolour set now, I'd like to paint them. See how that works out.

I've been struggling a bit the last two weeks. There's been a death in the family and my motivation and confidence has taken a big hit. I've decided to stay awa...

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Yay!

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Gosh it's so cold and grey outside. Not much daylight to take these photos so apologies for the camera quality. ♥

But the prints are finally here and they turned out amazing! Despite the mess up with the printers I'm pleased with the quality.

I'm going to start sending the cards out ASAP to all our eligible patr...

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Witches

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Tried repainting the cloud BG a little for this sketch. ♥

And I've finally got word from the printers to let me know my order has been dispatched with a lot of apologies and a free delivery. =/ I really like the quality of the printer I use, but they always seem to mess up my initial order one way or another.

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Spring

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It's not quite spring yet! But. I was saving this for release in February, but unfortunately I'm -still- waiting on my card order for the winter + spring cards (I've been in touch with the printers about the delay), so I figured I'd share this with you early! This is the card design for Spring that you'll be getting in the po...

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51 - colours

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Happy new year everyone! ♥ This isn't quite done but it's 99% there. Just got to do some finishing touches and fix the bubbles. This'll be the first page of the year and I'll hopefully put it up tomorrow.

I hope you all have a lovely new year's eve/day!

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Page 51 - inks - full page

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Inks done! ♥ Colours next. I decided to amend the previous page ever so slightly as well. I realised I forgot to add glass from the shattered window by the fallen rocks. So that'll be updated once this page goes up.

Two new characters in this scene. One of them you've actually met before. Rob from the first chapter wh...

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51 - inks

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Just the bottom three panels this time! I've got 2 more of the top ones to finish on this page.

There's a lot going on in these pages and for 50 I had considered adding the rats as they're observing everything that's going on (nosy buggers), but as they're something only Jack & Alfie can see and the focus is on our ...

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Mother Effra - Progress

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Progress of this illustration. ♥ I changed my mind about her ribs halfway through (hence the random squiggle on the side). And bugger, Jack looks well complicated.

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Mother Effra - Wallpaper

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Jack'll go mudlarkin' in the river one day. Happy New Year everyone. ♥

I have a high res version of this illustration available for anyone who has a 4k monitor, just let me know if you'd like one!

This is a follow up to the Rooftops wallpaper and print, one of the wild gods of our story. There's a good chance I'...

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Calm waters - wallpaper WIP

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Absolutely tons on this still to do but I wanted to do another dragon themed wallpaper, similar to the previous Rooftops one. You'll have seen some concept art of this girl before. She's one of our wild gods and she goes by many names.

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50 - values

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I've actually coloured most of this as you can probably see, but the current atmosphere doesn't quite work. So I got to work on that a wee bit more!

..Happy Christmas!

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