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Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 5: Part 2

Hi Deluxe Tier!

Here's some new WIPs.

1. XXX-Mas Poste Sketch: It's almost December, so I want to make some Christmas art. Here, I drew Poste wearing a Santa outfit. This will have a uncensored version that doesn't hide anything.

2. Tsunade WIP. I added color to the sketch. This...

Art Tip: Choosing Shadow Colors

Hi everyone. Happy Art Tip Tuesday!

Here's a tip on choosing shadow colors. Instead of just lowering the brightness, also increase the saturation and change the hue to another color. Which color you change to can depend on the background and light source, but a good rule of thumb is to chan...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 5: Part 1

Hi Deluxe Tier.

Happy Sunday. Here's some stuff I worked on the past few days:

1. Tsunade Sketch: The poll has ended by now, but I checked it early and saw that Spread Eagle was winning by a wide margin, so I decided to get a head start to save myself some time. I'll add a huge boobs ...

Fav Art Survey Nov 2022

Hi everyone.

Here's a survey where you can vote for your favorite artworks from the past 4 weeks.  You can vote for multiple favorites. This helps me know what kind of art you like, which will help me when making art in the future.

I've included previews of all the art that has b...

November 2022 Artwork Week 4

Hi everyone.

Here's this week's artwork:

1. Previews.

2-3: Prof Sada Sketch: Sada got 3rd in this month's poll. I recorded this drawing from start to finish. I'll upload this after the artwork publicly releases and I learn a little video editing.

4-5: Matsumoto Sketch: Mat...

November 2022 Artwork Week 4 Hi-Res

Hi everyone.

Here's this week's artwork:

1. Previews.

2-3: Prof Sada Sketch: Sada got 3rd in this month's poll. I recorded this drawing from start to finish. I'll upload this after the artwork publicly releases and I learn a little video editing.

4-5: Matsumoto Sketch: Mat...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 4: Part 1

Hi Deluxe Tier.

Here's updated WIPs for this week's art.

1. Prof Sada WIP: I added colors and started the render on the skin. I'm going for a complementary color scheme with blue shadows to contrast the orange of her clothes.

2. Bayonetta WIP: I started the render on her skin an...

Art Tip: Types of Shadows

Hi everyone. Happy Art Tip Tuesday!

Here's some notes on shadows. Form shadows are soft when the form is round and cast shadows are hard. There can be soft cast shadows under certain conditions, which I can cover later. I usually make the artistic choice to have cast shadows be hard when th...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 4: Part 1

Hi deluxe tier!

Here's what I worked on this weekend.

1. Bayonetta WIP: I've got a sketch started and added the base colors. From here I can start painting.

2. Prof Sada WIP: I've got a sketch done and a simple background color selected. I'm going to add color from here. I'm rec...

November 2022 Artwork Week 3

Hi everyone. Happy Saturday!

Here's the art I made this week:

1. Previews.

2-3: NSFW Del Pinup. This is something I sketched up last week, but didn't have the chance to paint. I painted it for this week and I'm pretty happy with the result. I tried to really focus in on the rend...

November 2022 Artwork Week 3 Hi-Res

Hi everyone. Happy Saturday!

Here's the art I made this week:

1. Previews.

2-3: NSFW Del Pinup. This is something I sketched up last week, but didn't have the chance to paint. I painted it for this week and I'm pretty happy with the result. I tried to really focus in on the rend...

Animation: Poste Shake

Hi everyone.

Here's my latest venture into animation: Poste shaking her butt around.

1. Preview.

2. The normal GIF.

3. The GIF but with a different lighting overlay. It's like Poste is in a dark room with light shining through some blinds on a window. I tried to animate th...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 3: Part 2

Hi Deluxe tier,

Here's updated WIPs for this week's artworks.

1. Melony Christmas Pinup: I added the lighting and started rendering. I'm going for a Christmas card look.

2. Del Pinup: I added a little more lighting and some color that was missing. I also started cleaning up the ...

Art Tip: Shading with Hard and Soft Edges

Hi everyone.

Here's a new art tip.

I've seen beginner artists rely on soft shading too much sometimes. Shading with too many soft or blended edges makes a drawing look blurry. Not every edge has to be blended. I think shading with all hard edges is generally accepted as good. It's pre...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 3: Part 1

Hi Deluxe tier.

Happy Sunday. Here's some WIPs for this weekend.

1. Del Pinup WIP. I cleaned up the line art from last week's sketch and started the paint job. I want to try to make the straps feel like they're really squeezing her skin with the lighting.

2. Christmas Melony WIP...

November 2022 Artwork Week 2

Hi everyone. Happy Saturday.

Here's this week's art.

1. Previews.

2. Poste Reference Sheet. I made a reference sheet for Poste. It has a few sketches and some notes. I'd like to make more of these for the other characters eventually.

3-4. Bubble Butt, Bubble Wrap. Last wee...

November 2022 Artwork Week 2 Hi-Res

Hi everyone. Happy Saturday.

Here's this week's art.

1. Previews.

2. Poste Reference Sheet. I made a reference sheet for Poste. It has a few sketches and some notes. I'd like to make more of these for the other characters eventually.

3-4. Bubble Butt, Bubble Wrap. Last wee...

Poste Fullbody Turnaround GIF

Hi Deluxe tier,

Here's an animation of a Poste turnaround.

This was a warm up project I did this past week. I wanted to see if I could animate a fullbody turnaround that looks 3D. For a rough animation, I think I did okay. This is great practice for drawing the full figure in perspect...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 2: Part 2

Hi Deluxe tier.

Here's some stuff I worked on since Sunday.

1. OCs Walking Sketch. I don't know what to call this sketch. I had the idea to make a poster, something I could potentially sell as a large print in the future, with all my OCs. I guess it was inspired by the Beatles' Abbey ...

Art Tip: Softening an Edge

Happy Art Tip Tuesday everyone.

Here's some methods for softening an edge. Next to each one, I included a stroke of the brush I used so you can find something similar in your program of choice.

I also added a bonus tip for blending skin, but I think that will need it's own more in-dep...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 2: Part 1

Hi Deluxe tier.

Here's some stuff I've been working on.

1. Bubble Wrap, Bubble Butt WIP. This is a sketch of Poste in the post office's bubble wrap storage. I don't why, but I woke up on Friday inspired to draw Poste in this exact angle. I've been getting better at translating the dra...

November 2022 Artwork Week 1

Hello everyone. Happy Saturday.

Here's this week's artwork:

1. Previews.

2-6: 80's Milf Tsunade Pinup. An 80's Milf themed pinup won the Tsunade poll from last month so I drew this. I made sure to have both SFW and NSFW alts. Since it was "80s milf" I looked up some hairstyles f...

November 2022 Artwork Week 1 Hi-Res

Hello everyone. Happy Saturday.

Here's this week's artwork:

1. Previews.

2-6: 80's Milf Tsunade Pinup. An 80's Milf themed pinup won the Tsunade poll from last month so I drew this. I made sure to have both SFW and NSFW alts. Since it was "80s milf" I looked up some hairstyles f...

Behind-the-Scenes November 2022 Week 1

Hi Deluxe tier.

Here's some stuff I worked on since Sunday.

1. Poste Booty Shake GIF. I've been spending time working in clip studio the past few weeks. I tried out the animation tools and made this. It's pretty good. I'm going to render this animation.

2. Tsunade 80's MILF WIP....

Art Tip: Intro to Edges

Happy Art Tip Tuesday everyone.

I'm going to begin making art tips about painting and rendering. I'm starting with edges. Edges are very important to painting. Here, I'm defining what an edge is and showing examples and applications. I'll go into more detail in the coming weeks.

As al...

Behind-the-Scenes October 2022 Week 5

Hi Deluxe tier,

Here's some stuff I worked on this weekend.

1. 80's Milf Tsunade WIP. An 80's milf pinup won the Monthly Tsunade poll this month. This is the SFW version, with every layer activated. Every piece of clothing is removable, so I'll have NSFW and full nude versions as well...

October 2022 Artwork Week 5

Hi everyone.

Here's this week's artwork. There's a lot:

1. Previews.

2-3: Fall Poste. This is Poste on her way to deliver some bad news. The Poste "lore" is that she's known around the town for delivering mostly bad news and junk mail. I also wanted to give her a cold weather un...

October 2022 Artwork Week 5 Hi-Res

Hi everyone.

Here's this week's artwork. There's a lot:

1. Previews.

2-3: Fall Poste. This is Poste on her way to deliver some bad news. The Poste "lore" is that she's known around the town for delivering mostly bad news and junk mail. I also wanted to give her a cold weather un...

Behind-the-Scenes October 2022 Week 4: Part 2

Hi Deluxe tier.

Here's WIPs of stuff I worked on these last few days. On Monday, I worked on the Poste, and last night I sketched the Ivys and worked a bit on the comic.

1. Fall Ivy (and Bee) Sketches WIP. Since I started working on the Ivy comic I haven't been making much non-comic a...

Art Tip: Designing Cute vs Mature Faces

Happy Art Tip Tuesday everyone.

Here's a little tip on character design, specifically for design faces that are cute or mature. Poste is my example of a cute design, on the left. To give an example of changing a design to be more mature I redrew Poste with a more mature feeling on the right...