1. The reason why there are two Nemean Lions on the Elder Council is because Dr. Hobbes represents the Nemean Council, while Nuala is the official Nemean Elder. Hobbes answers to Nuala.
2. Everyone thinks you're irresponsible, Jon, because you're irresponsible.
3. I had never heard of Bahkauvs before, but I like them! They apparently...
2024-03-09 01:42:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy March! It’s time for PIN CLUB! Sorry I didn't open this on March 1st, I was busy with Emerald City Comicon and TOTALLY forgot.
This round features WONDERLAND! One Wonderland Rabbit and and one Cheshire Cat! The Cheshire Cat will be 1.75" wide and made with hot pink metal with a blue, yellow, and white UV print on t...
2024-03-05 23:09:27 +0000 UTC View Post
I'm going to Emerald City Comic Con on Wednesday, so I did TWO weeks worth of Reader Questions today so I wouldn't miss any as I recover from convention!
Week 9
1. I had never heard of this creature before! I have a rule that if something is described in ancient Greek or Roman mythology, it most likely exists in Skin...
2024-02-24 01:40:27 +0000 UTC View Post
For this week's reader questions I turned to the Skin Deep Discord!
1. Gabe is fine, probably. They are trying really hard to ignore any call to action they see.
2. Merial and Greg went to High School together, so their parents know each other.
3. Removable horse shoes are also an option for hoofed individuals that don't partic...
2024-02-15 22:03:27 +0000 UTC View Post
1. One of my weaknesses: drawing pokemon. I love drawing them. Making gryphons out of them? Heck yeah okay.
2. Do you remember Zech?? He hasn't been in the comic for quite a spell. But he's still hanging around, being surly. He likes Freakazoid, like every good red-blooded American millennial.
3. Despite all the wild gryphons I draw ...
2024-02-08 21:33:55 +0000 UTC View Post
For some reason this week's questions took a LOT out of me. Why was it so hard to draw these? Some days are just bad drawing days, I guess.
1. Oh Anthony, never stop being a surly 16 year old
2. Finally I get to show off my knowledge of drop hammer coin presses.
3. Fun fact about Jim's little round glasses: i used to...
2024-02-02 05:06:36 +0000 UTC View Post
1. Lucky for y'all, I have recently been doing a re-listen of TAZ Balance so I have these boys on the brain again. I normally keep totem animal species to those native to North America, but there are a few populations of feral peacocks in the US nowadays, so it counts.
2. It's actually quite hard to draw a female Opinicus without the signa...
2024-01-27 07:15:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Next Arc Writing Update: I have the FIRST SCENE written and an outline for the rest of it. It's happening, I'm writing it!
Reader Questions!
1. Bloodcarver is the oldest dragon that's not Dis Pater. It must've been very hard for him to see all his younger siblings turn on him like they did.
2. Lily will tell you everything you ...
2024-01-19 02:31:48 +0000 UTC View Post
1. This gryphon is just a little creature. This gryphon lives in gardens and goes on little adventures in Middle Earth.
2. Most Avalons are small, like the Springfield Avalon, and aquatic Avalons are usually even smaller. There are a few to be found in very deep waters like abandoned quarries. Saltwater Avalons are even more of a mystery, ...
2024-01-13 03:43:33 +0000 UTC View Post
1. Don't worry Greg, everything is fine! I'm sure.
2. For bird people born as bird people, it is not difficult to use your feet as your primary hands. Marshall and David certainly don't have any issues. Anthony, on the other hand. Well he doesn't like it, no sir.
3. Despite having SO MANY BOOKS, I usually always start at Wikipedia li...
2024-01-06 22:07:20 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy 2024! I am very glad to see 2023 in the back mirror. Y'all know I got covid not that long ago, but I also lost my father on Christmas after many months in the hospital. So it's been a rough season for me, and I haven't made a lot of headway on Skin Deep in the past couple months.
I appreciate everybody's endless patience with me for ...
2023-12-30 05:27:33 +0000 UTC View Post
I still have covid but I had enough energy today to do some reader questions! Hooray!
1. I know the question asker wanted to see some proper australian possums but I took it as the chance to get very american about what we call possums up here, lol.
2. I would imagine that a lot of bird-eyed creatures can see in some form of UV, but ...
2023-12-21 23:40:50 +0000 UTC View Post
I wasn't going to do any reader questions this week because I am still recovering from Covid, but then I had an epiphany: old art I drew over a decade ago! Why not. I hope you enjoy this absolutely ancient art!
2023-12-17 20:51:09 +0000 UTC View Post
I was looking through some of my ancient art and found this drawing of Colin and Jim that I posted to DeviantArt November 10, 2005. I used to draw SO MUCH in the 2000s, what happened to me.
2023-12-17 00:22:23 +0000 UTC View Post
There's only one gryphon this week!
1. A nixie biting someone would probably do...something. Would it do a full-on nixie transformation? Merial is willing to experiment, for science.
2. Stairs aren't impossible for snake-legged creatures, but they're not comfortable or very fun. If given the choice, they'll avoid them.
3. I don...
2023-12-08 04:16:55 +0000 UTC View Post
I was digging around in my sketchbook and I found this page of Fresno Nightcrawlers that I forgot I drew, and I liked the shapes a lot! So I made them into a sticker sheet. Will these be the stickers included with the next patreon pin club? I haven't decided yet!
2023-12-07 04:47:04 +0000 UTC View Post
(this is an UPDATE of my previous post, the second pin will be RAVI!)
Happy December! It’s time for PIN CLUB!
This round features PHINEAS THE RED and RAVI THE CROW! The Phineas pin will have opalescent pearl powder added to the red, to give the mane a fiery sheen! Ravi's pin will be solid black metal with off-white enamel details!<...
2023-12-06 20:17:27 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy December! It’s time for PIN CLUB!
This round features PHINEAS THE RED! This pin will have opalescent pearl powder added to the red, to give the mane a fiery sheen! I haven’t designed the second pin yet, but as soon as it’s done I’ll make a post about it!
Are you new to the Patreon Pin Club and would like to join...
2023-12-01 12:32:22 +0000 UTC View Post
Since I'm going to MFF this weekend, I needed to get another week of Reader Questions done before I left! I didn't mean for this week to be Owl Gryphon Week, but here we are. At least there are two non-gryphon questions!
1. Eleanor enjoying chaos, you say? Don't mind if she do.
2. A wolverine/great horned owl gryphon vs a goose/moose...
2023-11-27 05:53:38 +0000 UTC View Post
20 weeks? No way it's been 20 weeks. If I can just make it past the holidays I'll be golden and I can finally FINALLY make real progress on the next arc. Until then: MORE QUESTIONS
1. This is one of the reasons why Ravi's so frustrating, he knows just about everything but also he's just...he's very flighty.
2. I thought this question...
2023-11-26 03:05:47 +0000 UTC View Post
I got enough gryphon questions that I decided to do a WHOLE WEEK OF WEIRD GRYPHONS. I thin my favorite of the bunch is the sand cat/kestrel. I feel like it would be one of those creatures that would poop and then zoom around yelling at 3am.
The Emu/dingo one...I don't know about that one. I wouldn't trust it.
2023-11-17 02:51:23 +0000 UTC View Post
Skin Deep turns 17 tomorrow (Saturday Nov 11)! Wow! Happy birthday, Skin Deep!
1) I think a prairie chicken/ground squirrel gryphon would make a lot of weird little noises.
2) Bloodcarver can wiggle his whiskers around, but they don't do much more than act as little feelers. He uses them primarily to check out unfamiliar things that ...
2023-11-11 03:40:11 +0000 UTC View Post
1. You know how Cassie from Animorphs was better at morphing than everyone else? It's kind of like that with medallions. Some people have better control over the magic than others, and can even slightly influence the look of their human illusion. To keep the magic user-friendly, the illusion is largely subconscious.
2. Don't worry, both Mi...
2023-11-03 19:52:16 +0000 UTC View Post
I thought I'd put this up on patreon before anywhere else so y'all have a chance to snag one! You can pre-order the new 2024 calendar right here: https://korybing.storenvy.com/products/36661869-preorder-2024-risog...
2023-11-02 05:11:41 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy November! I finally finished the 2024 calendar! I will hopefully get a pre-order going on these soon, and I'll have them available at Midwest Furfest as well as two Mall Rats pop-ups in Portland!
I haven't started printing them yet, so if you catch a typo, let me know!
2023-11-02 04:37:12 +0000 UTC View Post
1. I've been enjoying people pointing me towards South American cryptids, I didn't know anything about them before these Reader Questions! There's a lot of great ones!
2. Most of the gryphon-mashups you're seeing here will most likely never be seen in the comic and are just fun little drawing exercises for me, and I can tell you right now ...
2023-10-27 02:09:18 +0000 UTC View Post
Week 15!
1. I think with creatures that live deep/far out in the ocean, there isn't really a need to hide from humans. So little is known about the animals humans DO know about, like blue whales, so any large, intelligent critter in the ocean probably doesn't have a lot of motivation to move to land and pretend to be human. They are worrie...
2023-10-19 22:03:21 +0000 UTC View Post
I know this isn't the sort of thing you're used to seeing from me, but I'm one of the contributors to the new Book of Shadows project, Paradise Lust! I was in the last one, Buffomet, and it was a lot o...
2023-10-18 05:13:21 +0000 UTC View Post
1) More Answers With the Elders™: Independence, privacy, and the good of the community are all big things in the mythical community, so while there may be some people who post up in high ranking positions in order to use their power to keep everything safe for everyone else, it's not like, a great centralized conspiracy or anything. But there ...
2023-10-14 01:35:25 +0000 UTC View Post
1: I like to think if Merial was a dragon she'd basically be a Nudelschlange kinda thing. Just real noodly.
2: I'll be honest: I've studied a lot of microraptors and I STILL don't fully understand how their leg-wings work. So therefore: i will never understand how Ouzelum bird leg-wings work. Sorry, I've tried.
3: I hadn't heard of e...
2023-10-07 03:25:08 +0000 UTC View Post