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2023 October Post 04 - Image for Umbrefolfgon

Some kind of thing with maybe video game characters going on.

2023 October Post 03 - Beastly Critter Test

Trying out a different way of doing fur, again iterating slightly on this art style. Also trying to see how much interest there is in this type of creature, it's been ages.

2023 October Post 02 - Aquatic Critter

Got inspired by a recent chinese creature feature (that was a far superior ripoff of a different movie) so I decided to draw this. I may come back to it to tweak the shininess later.

2023 October Post 01 - Waking Harpy

Most of the focus here was on improving my lighting. This took forever and a half, and it's still not quite where I want it, so I'm 100% coming back to this and editing it. But for now I'm calling it done.

-edit: made minor tweaks

2023 September Post 03 - Xeno Micro to Macro 11

Originally this was going to be the final image, but I have an idea for a better one, so there will be one more after this. Unless I get more great ideas.

I may edit the picture if it turns out the light levels on Iota need to be adjusted, it's hard for me to judge at the moment.

Edit...

2023 September Post 02 - Xeno Micro to Macro 10

For this image I was going for something more intimidating and monstrous. And, I wanted to draw the mouth in detail, so this happened. I've included a version with blood on the teeth as well, to suggest she's been eating ...things. Gotta say, drawing this head from this angle was tricky and took ...

2023 September Post 01 - Red Demoness 00

I wanted to practice humanoids, and try to create more interesting lighting, as well as improve my coloring. So, this picture took a lot longer than it otherwise might have.

Consider it a prequel to the red demoness pictures, where she's still just a lowly imp being experimented on.

I...

2023 August Post 05 - Giant Sphinx Creature

Giant bird/person creature that bears an uncanny resemblance to a character from some show. Some sibling rivalry/one-upsmanship might be going on.

Not quite sure I'm 100% happy with this, I might need to try this again in a different art style, see if it works in a more serious tone.

2023 August Post 04 - Xeno micro to macro 01a&b

edit: Made a version without the goo (01a). The one with goo (01b) is still included.

I had an idea for what is making this xeno grow, and found a use for the all-purpose 'plot goo' from the alien prequels. This one goes between 01 and 02.

Also I'm trying to improve the lighting in my...

2023 August Post 03 - Xeno micro to macro 08

Xeno embiggening will continue until morale improves.

2023 August Post 02 - Xeno micro to macro 07

Always wanted to draw a xeno doing that thing with their inner mouth.

2023 August Post 01 - Xeno micro to macro 06 and Harpy Edit

Got a little carried away drawing background stuff. But, it makes sense for there to be such bones in the ground in that world.

edit:

I figure I should upload the higher res version of the redone harpy pic too while I'm at it.

Made a very minor edit.

2023 July Post 05 - Xeno micro to macro 05

Gonna do a few more in this sequence.

An update on my shoulder: It's now been diagnosed as a 'frozen shoulder'. It's a condition that will take a year to heal; during which doing art (or anything else) will be a balancing act. Until then I've more or less figured out a working solution, whi...

2023 July Post 04 - Becky's Dream

The Spirit Realm lay barren and bleak under an ominous sky. The pack marched towards something not known to Rebecca – they never told her anything anyway, why would they start now? The alpha told her small group to go this way and so they did. It was ridiculous, that they had a pack alpha and o...

2023 July Post 03 - Umbrefolfgon Commission

For his commission Umbrefolfgon wanted a comic page of his character devouring a few universes.

Included is a separate hyper version.

2023 July Post 02 - Xeno micro to macro the new 03

Decided to add an inbetween to smooth out the transition. The previous 03 now becomes 04.

2023 July Post 01 - Xeno micro to macro 04

This turned out to be a bigger jump in size than planned. Perhaps I was just too eager to get to the fun sizes. Maybe I'll do an in between, and make this one number 4, dunno yet. Might be an opportunity to draw her doing something else, like eating.

2023 June Post 04 - Xeno micro to macro 02

I think I'll be doubling her size each picture, at least for now.

2023 June Post 03 - Xeno micro to macro 01

I got all inspired to do a xeno sequence from reading the trade story 'Iota Breed' by Neopuc recently, where a xenomorph queen, after years and years of experimentation fails to grow, is slated for termination. Until a scientist takes her home...

My take on Iota starts her at half the size ...

2023 June Post 02 - Bigger Engineer Rat

She ended up bigger and with grey fur, but just imagine it's the same engineer.

As usual with this kind of work, it'll get polished and tweaked in the future.

An update on my shoulder situation, I had a procedure done a week ago, but it's only going to have an effect in the...

2023 June Post 01 - Engineer Rat

"Go fix it yourself then."

I wanted to iterate on this art style some more. Moving further away from cell shading and doing little bits of hints of texturing without going all-out. Also I wanted to draw a rat engineer. Maybe I'll draw her again, I think I like her.

2023 May Post 03 - Red Dragon Reclining

Trying out the current style on the old red dragon design. I think it works, but it could do with some refinement.

edit: upped the contrast and saturation here and there, it felt really washed out looking at it a day later.

On a different note, there's an update on my shoulder issue. ...

2023 May Post 02 - BirdTaur and edits

Sort of a dragon/bird taur thing.

Also included is an edited version of an old mermaid pic (did the best I could), and the high res of the edited version of the sorceress pic.

2023 May Post 01 - Chimera Experiment

Thanks for all the well wishes, everyone. :) It helps me push on.

I suppose this is an experiment gone awfully 'wrong'. It took me forever and a half to finish. Mostly I wanted to play with a human-ish face and then decided to add the rest. 

Just an update

It took a month, but it was finally my turn to get some scans at the hospital of my shoulder. It turns out I have a calcified tendon in my left shoulder and an inflamed bursa.

The good news is, there is no actual damage. The bad news is that this takes a while to heal, until then there will...

2023 April Post 03 - Relsinth

Picture for Neopuc of his giraffe character 'Relsinth' taking a bite out of a castle.

This took a long time to do, in part because I hurt my shoulder and need to take it slow for a while. But, I have now officially drawn a giraffe.

2023 April Post 02 - Owlbear Shenanigans 03

So this art style has become sort of an in-between of painting and cellshaded. I'm really in an owlbear mood right now, so there might be more of her, or of other owlbears.

If this is going to be a proper sequence though, I'll need to come up with a narrative beyond 'owlbear absorbs magic a...

2023 April Post 01 - Pilot Error

"Oops."

"Guess we're stuck here with only each other to keep us warm."

Been meaning to draw something like this for a while. Had most of the body sketched for a while. I think I'm going to focus on improving my pencils on the next picture.

edit: made some tweaks to make the tail...

2023 March Post 05 - Edax Draconis 31

Alrighty, and that's a wrap. :) For the comic, and all of existence.

Thank you all for being eaten.

(There may be edits depending on the commissioner's requests.)

2023 March Post 04 - Edax Draconis 30

(I had to adjust the numbering to match the new inbetween page, it shouldn't affect your order.)

Here she is bursting out of the empty universe and moving on to devour other ones.