hibbary

I'm gonna go ahead and call this done

It was really just a speedpaint I decided to add to. 

Big painting updates

Hey y'all. I've just been trying to figure out painting in general and making new stuff for anthrocon. Here's some of the stuff I've been whacking away at.  Slowing down and really picking an image over has been good for learning but not good for output. :C

Two WIPs

I'm hacking away at a number of works in progress right now, trying to get better and smarter about art. Here's two of them.  

Three new tiny paints

Small things for the adult anthrocon art show

New Tiny Paint

Finally got a full night's sleep last night. It was broken, but I'll take it!!!

Wee paintings and others

Oh man, I have been sooooo tired. But I've been working slowly. 

Things got a little crazy for a while but they simmered down

Hello all!   Sorry I've been so quiet lately.  Had some drama come to a head in several areas all at once. Suffice to say, it took all my energy for a while.

But things seem to be going ok.  My cat, Mu, went into surgery and is recovering very well for being such an old cat. 

Spiritwater WIP breakdown

I'm going to start putting far more work into just thinking about art. It was a luxury I have not allowed myself in the past, but I'm tired of just being an art-producing machine. I want to be an art-thought machine as well.  I want to live like an artist, think art, rather than just produce. It means I'll be producing a...

Today's art

Aside from the commissions I put some time into

Paint experiment

just fooling around with my process

Tiger design

I've included the PSD for anyone who wants to play with it.  

Aardwolf sketches

More just noodling around.

The five grouped along the top left are sketched from photos. The rest are just made up. 

Free char design for any patrons who want him

Two experimental paintings

I feel like I forgot to post the mask one.  If not, well, you get to see it again. 

I've got to come up with stuff for Anthrocon. None of these are Great, but I had more fun doing them than picking away at purely representational artwork. 

Some commission WIPs

Nothing too terribly exciting. Just progress shots. 

Gold 2

I'm not toooootally sure where I'm headed with this. So I'm going to sit on it a bit.  I might just print as is if I get too close to Anthrocon with too little work :C 

Gold

A WIP.   I'm one of those artists cursed to find fiddly detail work from the start the only relaxing way of doing things, which is, of course, the Wrong Way. So I challenge myself to work from large to small a lot of the time but often I just get so exhausted and just want to 'color pencil' the thing, that I return ...

forest dragon greyscale

I've got to come up with stuff for Anthrocon. I'm not going but I have an agent for the show :O   

So here's some greyscale. It might be a little too smushy and unclear. I'll fiddle with it. 

An update

Welp I ended up quitting my volunteer 'job' as I've just been overwhelmed with work and cons and insomnia and packing and so on.  

Here's a finished commission for Knut and a little noodle for Clapperson. 

ballpoint

Went through a spate of insomnia. Slightly better now. have some ballpoint sketches.

Pet Dog WIP

I was very much enjoying just piddling away with monochrome. 

Strong arcanine

Something quick-ish, for fun

A work in progress

I've been noodling on this very slowly, a few hours at a time, when I feel too zonked to come up with something new.  

I remember overhearing a painting teacher talking to another student about how painting was a series of finding something that was sticking out and pushing it back, over and over, and I'm totally ...

Matting Matting Matting Matting Matting

Guess what I've been doing!

It's matting.

I've got a show headed off to TFF. I'm not going myself, but the show allows artists to ship in art. 

After that I've got a few commissions to finish up, then art for Anthrocon.

I feel like I'm very slowly learning more about composition. I hit a hug...

Ode to Billy Joe

Speedpaint based on the weird old song

Dream Coyote

Something swift and experimental 

Ocelot

I've been painting feverishly for Texas Furry Fiesta day in and day out, making some simpler stuff that will hopefully be reasonably priced.  

varied leopard

Painting like a madman for TFF rn

Thrush Fox

I saw the redwing and thought it'd make a nifty fox coat

A dump

Pshew I feel like I've been losing a lot of time lately without being very productive. Some days/weeks are just like that!

But I'm chugging along all the same. Here are some thumbs, some sketches, and just some silly nonsense that I made. Sometimes when I'm stressed out first thing I'll browse twitter or my telegram a...