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Studies

A few small stylization studies

April Process!

Hey again ya'll! Here is the process for April: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rmxe8ezcsdcy9ws/AABEIhCQLFcME6I7OKQl26CXa?dl=0

For this process, I have named each of the process steps instead of numbering them to make it more clear ...

April's Illustration!

Hey ya'll! Here's the finished illustration for this month! I really tried to focus on keeping the rendering to a minimum but go for extra detail in the textures and some other small places. I really love the effect this gives my work and I want to try to lean into this more. I'll have the process up soon! Thanks so much for ya'll's continued su...

April's Illustration Sketch!

Hey ya'll! I just got the rough sketch done for April's illustration and wanted to give ya'll a little update. I decided to go with a fossa character like Nordeva suggested! I don't tend to think too much about the species which is why I end up doing a lot of cat and mouse characters, so I thought this might help me to get out of that comfort zo...

Ankha!

A little sketch I did to practice a couple of things. In particular, I'm trying to get back into an old mode of drawing that involved a lot of layering and combine that with some of the newer stuff I enjoy doing like thick dark black areas for the shadows. I also got a request from someone to draw Ankha so why not! Any time you can make practice...

Commission work

Commission piece, thought ya'll might want to see the sketch! This is the last commission in my queue and I am so relived to be through it. I love taking commission work because people bring me so many great characters and ideas, but it's also very stre...

Gumroad preview

Pretty early look at the piece for my next Gumroad video. I'm trying to plan it out a lot more than last time and make sure there's less questions while I'm working. Should be done soon-ish. After this I'll be starting the Patreon piece for this month, any suggestions?

March Process!

Here's the process for March: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/758sab92mcrqtlr/AACxUowX4VhdlhrFS_y00Vesa?dl=0

This was a very fun piece! The whole thing came together so quickly but I'm very happy with the results. 

Thank...

March Illustration!

Hey again ya'll, here's the new piece for this month! As always I'll have the process up soon. I'm really happy with this one! 

I've been being very conscious of selecting my palette before starting a painting and I've been zooming way out when sketching to give me a better sense of the piece overall. They both helped a lot here!

Study

In an effort to start sharing more work on this Patreon I thought I'd start putting up some of my favorite studies from each month! I did this one to practice accuracy and a better but far slower method for greyscale to color where I basically paint a pretty clean greyscale image underneath the color so I can always compare it against what I'm a...

Tomato Process! +Update

Process for February's piece: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/diocbl8pr5hhvve/AABZCIkL_ZpskeL4qnabtNl3a?dl=0

Hey ya'll! I just wanted to update you on some plans I have going forward, likely starting in April. First thing, I want to...

Tomato! February's Illustration

Hey ya'll! A strange thing happened this month, I got on here to pause my Patreon because I thought I had not made anything new for it. Then I realized that this Patreon has helped me get into this wonderful habit of just making stuff on a regular basis, so it turns out I actually have multiple things for this month! This was my favorite, I'll b...

Process for a commission!

I was asked about the process for this piece so I thought I'd put something together for it! Here's the link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/7nzsrj5krmrli19/AACaHqdkjhgTdReROOUnk5Vna?dl=0

This one came together surprisingly quickl...

Process and Rendering Info!

Hey ya'll! This took a bit to get to but here it is! The process and a short text doc with my thoughts on rendering: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/9cmz0tadvkkgn8j/AADWX1qxUQwIaEgv8VJkS1ooa?dl=0

Let me know if this helps give ya'll...

BANG BANG BANG

January's illustration! Early! I've posted before the end of the month for once HELL YEAH! The process will have a write up this time so I'll have that up as soon as it's ready. Thanks so much for the continued support y'all! It really means the world to me to be able to have this source of both motivation to do personal work and income so that ...

December Illustration + Process!

Hey ya'll! 

Here's December's illustration, I decided to do a fun tanuki character for this one but more importantly this is one of the first times I've felt comfortable going straight to color! Here's the process and high-res: 2021-01-04 17:22:43 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP of December's Illustration!

This one is taking me a little longer to put together but I wanted to show ya'll a WIP of the illustration I'm working on. Should be done soon! Thank ya'll so much for the continued support into 2021 here, it's really helped keep me motivated to do this non-commission work!

November Process!

Here's the link to the process for November: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/rlg0o19uy5d8w8e/AAChMtGHhsXT0OI__Gs5NvR1a?dl=0

I added some extra steps in this one to hopefully illuminate the process a little more. The process for this...

November Illustration!

A new piece for ya'll! I'll have the process up tomorrow, this one was a lot of fun. I've been spending a lot of this year experimenting with different techniques but I always seem to come back to this look. 

This character is one I designed earlier this year and never used, they're an illusionist and entertainer. The dragon is their ...

October Process (+Updated Illustration)

Hey again ya'll! Here's the process for this month's illustration: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/ombz2z30ngl7jom/AACTPOIE9dgF3RADCju8UM4La?dl=0

I've included some words about greyscale to color and an extra bit that hopefully illu...

October Illustration!

Here's the illustration for October, I'll have the process up tomorrow with some extra about how I go from black and white to color. Thanks so much for the continued support!

September Illustration + Process!

Hey ya'll! Here's the link to the new Patreon high res image and process: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/q4jmgldzm65bqcr/AABk52eKV13esJ7wMCjyhYLca?dl=0

This one was a lot of fun, the drawing and painting was done in a very differe...

August Illustration+Process!

Hey ya'll! I've got a new illustration and process for you. I've been trying to come up with a more clean way of creating illustrations (specifically for commissions but also just for my work in general). Here's the process: https://www....

Minotaur Process + Sketches!

I’ve packed a bunch of sketches and process video for this month in here: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Oeia15dlJ8mZLSxMlSOQrvKiLMiI5RVi

Let me know what you think and thanks so much for the continued support y’all...

June Illustration!

This was a present for a friend of mine! I did this on Procreate so this time I have a video I’m going to upload so y’all can check out a time lapse of the process instead of just images. I also want to collect all of the scrapped sketches and put them in there too since that was what I was focusing on improving for this image. I’ll upload...

Pausing for June

Hey ya'll! I hope you're all doing good! I have had a lot of difficulty creating over this last month so I am pausing for June. I hope to be able to get back into the swing of it soon and have more stuff to share with ya'll. Thanks so much for the continued support and thanks for your understanding on this.

Process and High res for April!

Hey ya'll! Here's the (late) process and high res for April, let me know what ya'll think!

Link: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/3qfyjy73w1z41t9/AABzcr8-144m06JcekoylenAa?dl=0

The technique for this one is something I've been ...

BLITZ! (April Illustration)

Hey ya'll! Here's the new illustration for this month, it's of one of my favorite personal characters, Blitz! These past 2 months have seen a lot of changes to the way I work and how I think about art so the process this month is really important to me. I'll have it ready soon for ya'll, but I just wanted to get this image up ASAP. I'll also be ...

Pausing Patreon for this month + Update

Hey ya'll! I'm working on some cool stuff but none of it is going to be ready this month so I'm pausing my Patreon. I will start it up again next month when I have something to show ya'll!

One of the things I'm working on is a lighting tutorial, is there anything ya'll would like to see for that? I got some great suggestions from Twitter b...

3 Different Techniques

Hey ya'll!

These are very rough sketches trying out 3 different techniques of the same image, all using the same general color palette. On the left, I used a 2 value setup, on the right I used a 3 value setup and in the middle I used my normal sort of organic setup similar to this month's illustration, though closer to a 2 value. The big d...