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[Poll] The "Bad" End Part 4 - The zebras punish you

And we punish each other with poll options. First... the panel.

So... I only received one option from patrons. And it broke a rule. This is okay. I took liberties, and kept the option intact.

If anything, I expected difficulties because it'...

It's very close!! [The Bad End - Progress shots]

As promised, here's the update as of now. It feels done.

I never feel completely done with lighting and shadows, so I might try some extra tweaks next Tuesday to get the style to match the previous panels. The Zebras have really come along, though, and I'm taking a backup before botching anything.

If it changes before the poll, the p...

Progress shots for "Bad End" is a bit delayed...

Part 4 of "The Bad End" is still in the works, but December was a very busy month outside of art. I'm going to dedicate this Tuesday evening to continuing work on the Zebbers and getting it to a more finished state, but I wanted to leave a little message here so there isn't any immediate disappointment.

I also plan to do a retrospective ab...

Ideas Monthly (December 2023)

Goliath month! Goliath dump (of art)!

This month was always building up to be the big one. Also tight, due to prior commitments over the month, and with XMas and the New Year packed in too. However, we're here. All seven remaining ideas sketched or otherwise experimented.

I'm often worried about rushing these sketche...

Bad End 4 (Progress Shots November 2023)

I'm not happy with my throughput as of this month. It's been difficult to balance newer obligations against this project, so it's slowed to a crawl. I also think the style I chose is a little too ambitious, though I plan to finish it in this way. One way or another...

December will also have a similar slowdown, so I want to come up with so...

Ideas Monthly (November 2023)

Another on pace month! I wanted to try to squeeze more, but there wouldn't be enough time to get the approval from the Ideator, so it'll have to go into next batch.

Some of these were a little strained because of the new job in my personal life, but I'm happy to have given interpretations to such strange and innovative ideas again. The ide...

October Celebration

Happy Halloween everybody!

Don't leave yet; root in... we'll stick around and bark at the moon.

Patrons can see the earlier "Idea from a Hat" version posted just a day ago.

Based on the animation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PtuVA4NOm0I ...

Ba Dend is progressing a bit slow...

The large-scale, high detail, painted CYOA bad end adventure is still ongoing, but it's getting clear that it won't be complete before end of year. Life distractions and stressors are making the project take long (and it doesn't look good that I sporadically dive onto random one-day projects seemingly on a whim).

I have to pause on art str...

Ideas Monthly (October 2023)

Barely on pace month! I still feel able to finish them all by end of year (only lagging by two)!

I received a lot of interesting ideas this month (I often do), though I run out of time pretty quickly...
I also have a bad tendency to bias a little hard; it mostly depends on perceived free-time.

Thanks for a rare "freebie" wild card...

Ba Dend 4 (Progress Shots Sep 2023)

Slow start, late start. Zebras WILL GET THEIR REVENGE! It's also very Madlibs and I hope the resulting image looks good.

Because it was a slow month, I feel it's fair to toss in a few extra, unrelated sketches into this post too. They are vaguely more polished, but I don't know if that means I'll do anything further with them.

Best t...

Ideas Monthly (September 2023)

Catch up month. I may be able to finish them all by end of year! We played with a lot of wild ideas too! Hopefully there's something for everybody (especially those that didn't know it was something for you!).

Lots of wide screen! Kinda just happened! Hope that's okay!

Special thanks to my Ideators for the ideas I completed this mont...

The Bad End - Page 3

It's been a lengthy build-up, but we've made it to part 3!

The zebras are angry, the zoo is Lamina-ted, the voters are masochistic, so we're awaiting punishment! Together! (Actually the poll was close, a 60:40 split)

2023-09-14 09:03:22 +0000 UTC View Post

[Poll] The Bad End: Page 3

Heckling the Zebras had some consequences!

This image had a huge build-up, and it took a long time to get all the details in to get it to you.

Thank you everyone for your support and patience with this sequence in particular! It's been a l...

[Fan-art] I like Kainik's reptile stuff

Sometimes I'll see something I like and I'll make a spin on the same thing, or an imitation, deliberately trying to capture a style. I like Kainik's style and this pose is great, so I thought I'd take a crack at it.

The legs probably wouldn't bend that much, but I wanted to mimic the pose mostly.

Original image:

2023-09-01 19:14:24 +0000 UTC View Post

You angered the zebras (Progress shots - August 2023)

This was a big picture. Two months in total, from story to madlib, to drawing, to painting.

Truly, zebras are very stripey. I hope it looks good! That's the final at the very end (minus options). A poll will be up next week for which options to choose.

Speaking of, a quick reminder for the "Sketches and Scraps" tier....

Ideas Monthly (August 2023)

Uh oh! Gotta catch up again! I've got the queue back on track, but I had a few surprises last month. Good surprises, of course. I love all the ideas!

This month was quite ambitious, with colors, a massive OC crossover concept (I guess I have a lot of OCs), and delving into the experimental. Unfortunately, I may be getting too ambi...

"Brainless" WIP Sketches

I'm not sure what I'm doing with this idea yet, but I'm very curious to make a very small animation from it. For now, enjoy some random undefined key-frames.

(Early access) Post da Sketchies!

There comes a time where I just need to share some sketchy things to the public. Most of the time, it's a sketch that has so much added to it that touching it with another brush will more likely ruin it than make it better.

They aren't perfect. They aren't Da Vinci (though some are arguably Picasso). They just have to break free. ...

Promotional Goods...

This is one of those "ad promo" posts, both for patrons and for the public.

This has both the new slides for my art streams on Piczel, and also a new image edit to advertise for this Patreon account (lucky me)! I don't like advertising things in a pushy way, but it's been a long time since the last 'ad'.

This handsome fella will off...

Bad-End Part 3: WIP shots (Julie 2023)

Progress is still a bit slow on this sequence, but I'm happy to take my time and maintain a higher quality. I think the many redos will help the overall story, as bizarre as it is.

Streaming twice a week was a mixed blessing. More snapshots, but way less focused. I'm happy to go back to once a week.

Ideas Monthly (Julie 2023)

Slowly but surely catching up to the queue. I think I'm on track! AND I'm happy to have a little time for cleanup too!

Special thanks to my Ideators for the ideas I completed this month: Benzyl, Bingturong, Denim, and TFGuy67

Poll Result: We're heckling the zebras!

Here we are, the results of the poll! Special shout out to Bingturong for suggesting this one!

We'll get to it very soon. I'm hoping to start the art on it tomorrow evening over the stream, but that does require writing a script ...

July is building up to be a busy month

I don't normally announce things ahead of time, but just a heads up that I may have to juggle around commitments, and there may be delays to Patreon-related things. This is "busy" in a good way, but it still saps my free time for art and other oddities.

I expect to still have sketches and something to share by the end of the month as usual...

Gira F (formerly known as Fari G) (progress shots)

I don't have as many plates in the air as I used to. Most of this is due to stress of juggling a day-job again, but also because I'm trying to start up and meet promised commissions that were on the back-burner a long-time.

I think focusing on one image at a time is the smart thing to do, so expect this image to get more developments as I ...

The Bad End #2 (progress shots)

This is something that carried from May all the way through June. I wanted to provide every shot I saved as evidence I've gotten better about saving in between streams ^^;

This also includes the difficult "biomechanical" phase where I had to backtrack one of the Madlibs; it was just too hard to add on the image. It's neat in concept, but z...

Ideas Monthly (June 2023)

Happy Junly, folks!

I'm getting caught up on "Ideas" more and more, so this month I could relax ever-so-slightly. There were a lot of fun ideas this month to play around.

Special thanks to my Ideators for the ideas I completed this month: Axil, Bingturong, and Denim

[Poll] The Bad End: Page 2

Thanks everyone for your patience. This is a very large project, and I hope each panel is what you're hoping it to be. We got five options, so I don't need to sneak any extras in!

2023-06-26 00:56:45 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP Shots! (Mayflies 2023)

This month has been very progress-heavy, with a large focus each stream being on the "Bad End" page 2 itself (lookit those zebra stripes develop!).

I'm recognizing that this single panel has been stuck for a month in development, and I may need to take some unfortunate artistic liberties about whether "Biomechanical" is still part...

Ideas Monthly (Mayflies 2023)

Break even! The queue has not yet defeated the 'roo! Of course, it's not a numbers game. Just the slight road bump of doing one idea per weekly stream, and needing to polish a lot at the end. And surprisingly, these are the polished sketches.

Special thanks to Ideators for the ideas I completed this month: Denim (...

Crab head

"These crab creatures have a uniquely thicc strategy, don't you think?"

Half-life headcrab headcanon.