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Sketchbook (PAGE 19)

The First Day of Summer

Otter color sketch

Juno Shopping (WIPs)

Sketchbook (PAGE 18)

Heartthrob

Sketchbook (PAGE 17)

Heartthrob (WIPs)

Rum and Coke (plus WIPs)

Glaceon sketches

Fresh Snow

Fresh Snow (WIPs)

Pools

Pools (WIPs)

DeltaRedWolf had a birthday coming up a little while ago, so I set to work. Some rough ideation, polished sketch, color thumbnail, and linework (just the sketch but even more polished). I'll upload the finished piece soon! This was a real exercise in color harmony.

Anyone here listen to Glass Animals?

Sketchbook (PAGE 16)

There's couple color thumbnails on this sketch page: "Liminal Spaces" (FA | e621) and "Endless Summer" (FA | <...

Skater Girl Juno (clothed + nude)

All colored! Juno's doing a little pavement surfing in her hometown. She better be careful or she'll get a scrape. Another one, I mean.

This was a beautiful opportunity to try out some new techniques, including a brush for roughing up the wall in the background. Pretty much since the end of last year, I've been more thoughtful about aspect...

Skater Girl Juno (WIPs)

Juno wanted back on the board, so a little idle sketching gave me something to work from. I don't imagine she ever took her skateboarding too seriously, and truth be told she's more of a rollerblader when it comes to pavement-based wheeled activities. But it's a good social outlet either way. And yeah, she's getting a cute skater outfit for this...

Sketchbook (PAGE 15)

Even if fall is only half-heartedly showing up right now, I’m making some little transitions into cozy season. All the ingredients for mulled apple cider are on the counter waiting for me to make a batch. And I guess I can't let this beautiful bottle of dark rum go to waste...

So, I started this sketch page by playing around with a fun p...

Beach Market

The beach has a clothing-optional policy that's embraced by many of the local vendors. And while Juno's comfortably in her element, it takes more convincing to get Petra to shed her clothes outside. Especially when it extends into an unplanned shopping trip.

Petra hasn't had the spotlight in a while, even though I think about her all the t...

Sketchbook (PAGE 14)

This is a more recent sketch page I started after Ollie proposed a little collab. I've been in love with his Lutrai (otter people) pretty much forever and I wanted to do this girl justice. The first idea wasn't clicking -- I just couldn't get the energy or weight I was imagining, even after multiple copy-pastes and variations. So I started over ...

Petra at the Market (WIPs)

A couple of friends hitting up the beach market. I tried out a few compositions, did a color thumbnail, and sketched out the scene. Stay tuned for the finished piece.

Art Pack (2024)

You might say it's about time. Finally, last year's finished artwork in one convenient zip file! While my output in 2024 wasn't impressive, it set me up for more success this year. Not just by improving a living situation that left me consistently and completely drained, but through some focused practice and study in areas that needed it.

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Sketchbook (PAGE 13)

Several genets and civets on this page. Even some rough sketches of Mazia and Malech getting frisky, which is the spark that spun off into “It’s Not About the Mangoes”. I’ve rarely visited their village in recent drawings, which is horribly unfair because I know they’d love the attention…

And playing with the anatomical plastic...

Krystal

I took a swing at everyone’s favorite Cerinian for Krystal Appreciation Month. Not because there’s any kind of Krystal shortage, but because my favorite interpretations give her a little mystery and liveliness. Moreso than cockwarmer for dinogrunts, anyway. I took a few liberties to nudge her in that direction.

My first encounter with ...

Krystal (WIP)

Here's a look at how she's coming along -- an initial concept sketch, a refinement with more energy, and the finished line art ready for coloring. This has been a backburner piece while I work on other projects, but (very happily) it'll be done while we're still in Krystal Appreciation Month.

Sketchbook (PAGE 12)

It may be stating the obvious, but the finished work I publicly post emerges out of pages of artistic experiments and meanderings that go on behind the scenes. It’s like a tip-of-the-iceberg kind of thing. Some of it’s focused and deliberate study. Some of it’s very stream-of-consciousness. But of course it all adds up to that much coveted...

Some recent drawings...

Between larger projects, I've worked on a few smaller pieces in recent months that seemed worth sharing. First a portrait of Bex, who's been a friend for a long long time, and afforded me every excuse I've ever had to draw a panda!

This otter girl showed up as the subject of a very quick color study. She's the result of some recent effort ...

Audrey's Paws

I guess Juno's idle admiration of kangaroo paws got her into a bit of a situation. And it kind of looks like Audrey is teasing Juno with some comparisons of her own.

A gift for Lizet, who's inspired me as much as anyone else to draw up some kangaroos lately, in...

Headband

A wolf mother gets dressed.

I got a little more bold with merging my layers along the way. And the result was that it felt a lot less like housekeeping some byzantine layer structure and more like a naturalistic creative process. This is something I’ll be doing more in the future, letting go of the idea that all these layers are sacred a...

Sketchbook (PAGE 11)

Right away, this page has a little piece to appeal to Foxer421! This was a bit of birthday art, and for drawings that don’t necessarily need to be super high-res I’ll finish them up directly on the sketch page. Which removes some of the intimidation of opening up a whole new blank canvas…

Brandy (the porcupine) also shows up, flopped...