Sketches n' WIP's

As we can tell...I have fun drawing literal Tatoba.  And each time I draw him he seems to get toonier.  But that's a good thing I think.  He looks really good toony.

The top WIP started out as a bit of vent art.  I was feeling (and still feel to a degree) very stressed with the change from being in college to being thrust into the real world.  So I drew my optimistic fursona (L. Tatoba) consoling Sombra.  There was something I liked about the look of the shaded characters in this flat looking universe so I saved a WIP that looked like this.  I've painted up the background a little more since then but it still needs to some more work.

Second is a plan for a future fursuit.  I knew I wanted to make a fursuit based on my literal Ratoratah design.  But I didn't want to make a male Ratoratah.  Yeah, making the mane might be fun but I wanted to make a more female version of the design for me.  So I cut the mane back into a mohawk.  Unlike most of the anthropomorphic animals that I draw, I decided I didn't want to add any body padding to this.  So she has plantigrade legs instead of digitigrade ones.  And I want to make the feet fairly small since I want the suit to be pretty form fitting.  And yes, I want that tail to be dragging on the floor like that.

I'll make a better, turn around reference for her when I get closer to starting this project.  I've got about 2 or 3 ahead of this one.  She's kinda on the back burner for other costumes (depending on what I want for the conventions I'm going to).

Mini Husky Tail

Sewing practice.  I have plenty of fur and fur scraps left over from various other projects so I decided to try to make a tail. 

I'm not all that happy with it.  But it was nice sewing practice.  Next time I do the belt loop I won't be using that style.  Not to mention the tail turned out too small and I'm not happy with the purple and white heart marking.  That looked better in my head than it turned out sadly.

But it was just practice so it's fine.  I'll be better at it in my next projects.

Name Your Own Price Commission Batch

I think the "name your own price" option for commissions is decent.  It's a good way to start taking commissions.  Thought I'd set up a price range chart for what types of pictures you can get for certain prices.

1) Icon commission for Likeshine.  I've always loved her character.  Green or black...doesn't matter.  Still a really beautiful gryphon.

2) New years picture for FurrFreak.  It was the first anthropomorphic picture I'd draw in a long while and I'm actually pretty happy with how it turned out.  Really love this guy's colors and the way his feathers were.

3) Badge for Aledaroth.  I still need to get this printed, laminated and mailed out to him.  I might not do too many badges until I get a good printer and laminating machine.

4) Chibi for ooSukioo.  Complete with a Nyan Cat plushie.

I need to redo the prices however for these commissions.  They will be raised in the future because for the work and time I put into these, the price is too low.

Power to...Regret Nothing?

I'd drawn a literal version of the Tatoba combo as purely a joke and it was supposed to stay that way but...I didn't anticipate falling in love with my own design.  So I wanted to draw him more, gave him a personality, and wanted to draw him under the influence of the Putotyra medals.

I also uploaded progress shots of this months ago but didn't finish this until recently (a few weeks ago).  Most of my digital paintings take forever but I didn't mean for it to take so long.  Class work got in the way of me finishing this before halloween so I could use it for an icon  I can use it for an icon this Halloween though.

Mostly practice for 1) drawing a bird's beak from a front view, 2) semi-realism (drawing something "realistically" but not going all out on texture like I usually do, 3) drawing a semi-realistic literal Tatoba, and 4) lighting/shading.  While I like doing realistic work, I think I prefer this way of painting it more.  Mostly because it's more time efficient and it doesn't wear my hand out as much.

The eyes turned out more pink than purple but the effect still works just as well.

I don't know if I'll draw him under Putotyra's influence again.  I like him much better as a happy character.  Yeah, he's a joke character and thus technically "not mine", but I still gave him a personality and everything for fun.  And I made him happy, optimistic, and a bit "derpy" (for lack of a better word).  So for the most part he'll stay that way.

Listen to The Stereo Tonight, Tonight, Tonight...

Hayaku...Let's play again...

I dunno why but every time I look at this that's what comes to mind.  That song from Katekyo Hitman Reborn.  Probably doesn't help that DJ's mix music and the word stereo's in there...

I might not be a hardcore pony fan, but that doesn't mean I don't like drawing the characters.  Especially in my own style.  I prefer it to Friendship is Magic style.  Which isn't to say I draw it better.  I just add in the details that I want to see is all (like hooves).

Anyways, love DJ Pon3's colors and expression and everything.  She just looks cool.  I was dying to draw in this toony style again so I did.  Every now and then I'll break out this style.  But I do want to figure out how to draw the ponies in my regular style instead.

Commission- Sibertyger

A commission for Sibertyger on FA for a character design based off of a Tiger, a Red Fox and a Red Panda.  After doing the OOO literal versions that I've done I was dying to try doing more hybrid characters and opened up a few slots for them.  This is the only one that took but still it was good character design practice and ended up being a pretty cute character.

I do think after looking it over that maybe the body could be a little shorter but that's about it.

I love Red Panda tails.  They're so fluffy.

Gift and Request Art: Chival and Akio

Getting back to uploading art here.  I often forget about my own art blog or rather forget to update it so I'll try to regularly keep up with it and update it with what I've done so far.

Starting with two pictures done as freebies.  One as a request started over the summer (the top one) for DaggerLeonelli of her character Akio shown two ways.  I don't do requests.  I decided to take a few over the summer and only offered over Twitter.  If I decide to do it again, they'll only be offered over twitter.  I hope people don't assume that I take requests because of that.  But I'm always free to turn them down regardless.  Besides, this was a fun albeit tough picture to draw and it turned out nice in the end.

Second was a gift for Chival on FA of her character of the same name.  I just fell in love with that design.  Especially the face and the back legs.  I just had to draw her.