Raster Dreams

Short note

First, I've got plans to complete a couple paintings in the next few days.  One is at least half complete.

Second, and I've thought a lot about this one: I'm dropping the one month early access from the 'perks' of supporting my patreon. Primarily because I feel that it's had a huge cooling effect on what I...

December WIPs 2

Merry Christmas! Final adjustments have been made, and I'm set to move on to the actual painting part. If all goes to plan, it'll be done today.

December WIPs 1

A couple pictures half-and-half in the sketching phase. Needs a little more tweaking for perspective and proportions, but they're coming along well enough.

I've taken to writing little notes for myself in the gutters of my paintings as I go. Sorry if they aren't too legible.

Anyway, I'm just happy to be back on th...

Piece #7

For high-res version, see attached file.

Breaking a couple of my personal rules here, especially in regards to my stance on fandom work. But, at this point, I wanted to have done something.

There isn't too too much to say about this picture in particular. I looked back at the work of a few arti...

Late September Sketchdump

Some fusions and a couple new 'sona candidates that're in limbo.

August 2020 Sketch Dump 2

Closing out August with the rest of the loose doodles from this month that didn't make the first post. I'm still pretty fixated on Arlean...

August 2020 Sketch Dump 1

Hope y'all are having an okay month so far. I've been taking a bit of time away from commissions to clean up around my house and mostly just draw whatever I want. I upgraded to the newest version of Painter as well, so I'm itching to try that out with something big-ish. We'll see. :eyes:

July Sketch Dump

First, I'll briefly mention that I've paused billing for this August. I might do so for September as well, I'll think more about it in a week.

Most of my doodling's been focused around a remake of Arlean into his own thing, instead of 'just' a fan character. All they really share is the name and some vague canininity. H...

Late June Sketch Dump

Hey all, sorry it's so late for this. Things have been...tumultuous, to say the least, hope you're all doing okay. Last three pics are vore.

Mid-May Sketchdump

It's mostly stuff I doodled up to tease the hubbo, collected from the past month or two(?) since the last time I did one of these. But there's also some real deep cuts in there too, so...hope you find something in these you like! I know I personally want to revisit a couple of these.

Piece #6 Completed

And in just about record time! For this piece, I set up all the major elements as part of a rough sketch, flattened the layers, then painted over that flattened image. It wasn't as bad as I initially expected it to be, and I sort of like the result...but I'm not entirely convinced this mostly-lineless thing is for me. Or, may...

Piece #6 Update 2

The bulk of the lighting's done, and just about all the colors are laid out. There are a bunch of fine details to paint in, but it'll probably only take one last session to finish!

As for the second image, in the last post I briefly explained why the black gutter around the WIP is there, and then also said I'd go into d...

Piece #6 Update 1

I actually uploaded a really basic sketch of this on Twitter MONTHS ago and...well, it seemed like a waste of potential not to finish it! So I took it up. 

Not a whole lot of images on account of there not being a whole lot that's particularly novel going on here, just the setup of what a lot of my WIP work actuall...

Piece #5 "completed"

I may have overestimated my abilities. It's been nigh on two months, and I'm not about to spend a third trying to fix this.

So, "complete" isn't quite the word for what's going on here. 

Pretty shortly after the first update I realized there were a few things in the picture that just weren't working out, in t...

Piece #5 Update 2

Nothing super groundbreaking this time, but I did want to point out something I do in most of my finished work that isn't in my commissions right now.

The difference between an object in the light and an object in the shade isn't entirely as simple as adding a little white or black to its colors. Areas of the subject th...

Sketch Dump 1

Some of these guys look a bit...familiar? I'm not going to pretend they aren't.

Special mention to a few sketches of Hazel and Imir being size-differency, and Tarou's deer man.

Working on a comic

The current piece I'm working on isn't ready for an update quite yet, but in the meantime, I want to talk about what else I've got planned for the month.

The sketch dump is happening on the seventh.

I'm also, as the title says, working on a comic. It's sort of something I've been meaning to do for awhile ...

Piece #5 Update 1

Landscapes aren't really my strong suit. So, how better to wreck myself, than to make one an important part of a piece? All things considered, I think I'm doing alright.

For the background I cut the canvas into sections so that I could approach them one at a time. Even if the progress feels glacial, at least I can zoom ...

Feb20 Update

Hey everybody.

I'm stepping down to one painting a month. This isn't really a massive bombshell or anything, it's more or less just changing the reward descriptions to reflect my actual output. I've got something in the works for this month anyway, you'll be seeing the first of it in a few days.

If I do a poll for...

January Piece Complete

Late, but completed nonetheless.

Getting this one into a state I actually felt comfortable calling done was a bit of a trial—but I'm not just weary, I'm satisfied! But yeah, sorry for the wait. 

I've got more planned for this month and beyond, but I'll talk about it tomorrow, once I've gathered my thoughts ...

January WIP part 1

A touch late, but getting there nonetheless.

So, making a sketch from the thumbnail proved much more difficult than I had thought it would be, but I think I got something good enough. 

The linework is actually two separate layers—one layer is entirely "vector" strokes, mathematically solved from a series of...

January 2020 Thumbnail Vote

Hope y'all had a good new year! Since I've got the time this month, I figured I put which thumbnail I finished up to a vote. The poll ends in about 24 hours.

Pick the top one or two you like most, and I'll turn the winner into a finished piece.

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December Extras

So essentially, I was putting into practice a couple different things I'd seen or heard pro artists do.

Every once in awhile I've heard of people getting all the shading out of the way before doing any color. I think that, for what I want to accomplish, it's a useful change in process, because a lot of the lighting tri...

December Painting

With the yule tide receding about as quickly as Christmas dinner leftovers are eaten, it'd be no good to hang onto this any longer...especially given my recent (lack of) performance.

I can't say I'm unhappy with the work I did do. I wanted to put a bit more emphasis on the difference between matte, glossy, and ...

October Piece Completed

It's finally here! Things didn't go entirely to plan and I think I'm going to change how I do things from here out... I'll talk about more about that tomorrow.

There are two versions of the finished piece. The regular version (mult) and the "cinematic" version (shade) that's a bit darker, but has more vivid colors. Inte...

October '19 Update 2

So this time I wanted to try out "clean" linework. The result isn't exactly what I was hoping for, however, I think I'm going in the right direction, but I'll save it for my next crack at it. I have to finish this one SOMEday, after all...

Pretty much the first order of business was to SUPERSIZE the thumbnail I'd selec...

v smol scale study

I don't generally do studies even on a small scale (haHAAAA), but a part of all this is to improve myself however I can. And why not tackle a little texture?

The idea I've got right now is to use a very basic, drawn-on scale texture to inform finer, more detailed lighting. As it stands it's not perfect, a bit too reali...

Thumbnails for 10-2019 Piece 1

And now, the first work is underway. Not a big group pic this time, I'm trying to push myself in another way. There're a few technical things I want to try out, like giving things actual texture, and varying levels of shininess.

I didn't really have an idea of how many thumbs I wanted to do this time, I just sort of we...

Plans for October

I'm absolutely sure what my first painting for October's going to be. You'll hear about it in a couple days, rest assured.

As for the second one? I was thinking something Halloween themed, because of course... The trouble is, I'm kind of stumped for ideas. So, if you have any, I'd be happy to hear from you.

As for...

September Painting Complete

It's finally "done." I don't know, it came out okay.

I learned a lot of little things about myself while pushing to make something presentable—lessons I can actually apply, for once! I think two that stand out is that setting any kind of schedule is a recipe for stress disaster and resentment of the work, and that I o...