samurshalem

ART: Yoga

POV: you're helping Loona take pictures for her other job.

BEHIND THE SCENES: Sketch Dump 1

In the process of going through my old work I've been rooting up some sketches in various states of completion--some of these were intended to be full pieces, some were just spur of the moment things. Some of them I might pick up again and finish one day, who knows. In any case, this seems like a good place to share em for th...

ART: Old Stuff, Part 1

Hey Patrons! I'm still working on some new stuff to share, but something I've got some requests for is high-res versions of my older work.

Unfortunately, past Samur didn't really plan to be doing this Patreon or do a good job of keeping track of files, so it's going to take some searching.

Here's the first install...

ART: Cherrywhisker

Gentlemen, you can't fuck in here, this is the green room!

This is my half of a trade I did with buddy ArchieTHare, of his characters Jix and Rage in their band Cherrywhisker. They're taking a quick personal moment while the opening acts warm the crowd up.

BEHIND THE SCENES: Cherrywhisker

This was a fun one to work on! With this and the Valentine's Day comic, I've been trying a slightly new way of lining stuff, doing a second pass of thicker lines after the first one. I think it makes the lines pop a bit more (I almost like the lines here better than the finished colored piece). I might experiment more in the ...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Happy Love Day

It's been an insanely busy last couple of weeks! I've been wanting to do more multi-panel stuff for a while and Valentine's day seemed like a good opportunity. And it gave me a chance to bring back these two freaks. ;)

I'm continuing to enjoy trying to compose values on the page. It's always tricky to strike a balance b...

ART: Happy Love Day

A tale as old as time. Rabbit buys rose, rabbit gets pricked by rose, rabbit eats rose.

Happy (early) Valentine's Day, patrons!

BEHIND THE SCENES: Gris Suit

This one was really fun! I'd hoped to fit Moses in on the side here, but I couldn't make it work in this aspect ratio. He's standing just offscreen.

Clothes are one of my favorite things to draw, especially bulky utilitarian stuff. I also love the contrasts of the flashy swimsuit and the black jacket, Alexis's light and...

ART: Gris Suit

I'm wildly late on this art meme on account away from home the last couple of weekends, but here we go.

I wasn't going to do this one but I like the combination of the swimsuit and the battle jacket because it speaks to Alexis' kind of Amazonian personality--not friendly or approachable, but also not modest. I also foun...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Faye

This was a challenging one--I realized pretty late in that I drew all of the buckles backwards, except one! Fuck! That's a Coyote Researchers exclusive.

I'd not originally meant to do any kind of a background on this, but I learned a good lesson on one of my first Zootopia drawings--if there's a strong perspective angle...

ART: Faye

My frend Sloppy's character Faye! Captured!! And not totally unhappy about it.

BEHIND THE SCENES: Home Security

Not TOO much exciting stuff going on with this picture. I've always had trouble with standing oral pics, because the Zootopia-proportioned characters have really short legs. It's a bit of a mess. I've gradually been moving toward human-scaled proportions, though, which makes things a little easier.

The other thing I'm e...

Welcome everybody!

I meant to make this post earlier, but wow--overwhelmed by the support you've all been showing me. I'm excited to come up with more fun stuff I can do for yall on here. In the meantime, enjoy the new sketch and I've got some more stuff in the pipe!

ART: Home Security

Moses has a guest over while he's housesitting. He might have wanted to look around a little more beforehand.

Starring Korichi! He's done some amazing art of Moses recently and I wanted to do a little something back.

BEHIND THE SCENES: St. Loona

Here's the PSD! I wish I had a bit more process to show with this one, but here's what I've got.

The imps are pretty tiny here in comparison to Loona, but watching the show I found the character scales weren't that consistent. There were some scenes in episode 6 where Loona picks up Millie and carries her around, and th...

ART: St. Loona

This isn't a new piece, but it's one of my favorite things I've done visually. I figure it's worth posting the sketch for this one.

Helluva Boss episodes have been hit or miss for me, but episode 6 had a couple of shots of Loona being absolutely huge, and...well...

3D Experiments

Here's some more behind the scenes content to get things started! The first is an attempt at a 3D Moses for use as some kind of Vtuber. That project sort of stalled out, but I'm pretty proud of the scruffy look I was able to give him.

Second might be a treat--some time ago I did little sculpts of Moses and my buddy Otte...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Branding & New OC

As promised, here's the PSD file for the new "Branding" piece. Like I mentioned on the main post, this was going to be the Patreon banner before I realized I can't do a NSFW banner. Maybe this would have been PG enough but I didn't want to risk it.

In any case, here also are some WIP pictures--I was reconsidering the br...

BLOG: Patreon Kickoff!

Hello and welcome! This is going to be a relatively small-scale Patreon. I work full time, so I won't be able to expand the amount of art I'm creating past what I already do.

BUT, I want you guys to feel like you're getting something! For all patrons, new pieces I make will be available here a few days early, and in hig...

ART: Branding

The band has an idea for an album cover. Alexis isn't optimistic.

Moses's band is meant to be "pred-punk" so Alexis is sort of the token prey animal. Ironically they're probably the most intimidating and dangerous bandmember in person, but the band's always looking for opportunities to be provocative.

I started th...