Cup o' Love.

Nothing hits the spot on a cold winter day like a hot cup o' love: cocoa, cider, coffee or tea.
My entry for January's equinexchange: Dogsoul's mule gelding Mavado. This might be the last exchange I get to do for a while so I wanted to make it a good'un. Was going for an Art Nouveau type thing with the steam...considered darkening the ends there but methinks it'd look too much like smoke then...? And yes that's supposed to be the Heartless emblem on the mug.
Heehee. His mane's in need of a trim. X3

Pens and markers on some funky-textured cardstock [which is why the background's noisy: I couldn't get rid of the texture without obliterating a LOT of the colour, sorry!!].

ACEO: WolfPearl

My entry for December's ACEO exchange, this time for WolfPearl of her persona by the same name. I think I levelled up on this one...Kyle will know what I mean. As cliché as this sounds the scan honestly doesn't do it justice. It's gonna be really hard to part with the original.

...I freaking love her eyes. :D Didn't touch them with pencil — that's pure paint.

Micron pens, watercolour paints, and Prisma coloured pencils on a cold-press watercolour ACT blank

Laban with Chain

Mostly-random gift for Dogsoul 'cause he got stiffed on yet another art exchange community.

Laban © K "Dogsoul" Lawrence.
Draekards © Psycrowe.

ACEO: Baumwolf

My entry for the first-ever [November] round of Crescentmoon's ACEO Exchange! My partner was Alpha_Ki, who is wonderfully easy to draw for. That's supposed to be a beech tree.
This was done in Micron pens, watercolour paints, and Prisma coloured pencils, all on some kind of awesome ACEO stock specially designed for watercolour. SO TEENY.

Yule Cards 2006, Set 3

The wolf is for the older of my two brothers, bearing the markings and collar of his fursona.
The scorpion is for my arachnid-loving youngest brother, whose late pet scorpion is mounted on his bedroom wall.

Micron pens, Prismacolor markers, & metallic pens on smooth bristol.

...Scorpions are fatasses. XD

Yule Cards 2006, Set 2

The armadillo is for my father-in-law, who has a "pet" armadillo that helps keep the septic system of their country home working by digging up encroaching roots. No that's not a candy cane.
The Lab is for my father, who's quite fond of chocolate Labs, particularly his "brown dog" Cocoa. Similar lettering was later added.

Micron pens, Prismacolor markers, & metallic pens on smooth bristol.

Yule Cards 2001, Set 1

Borderline? ^^; *cough* Instead of buying pre-made greeting cards for our family members, I cut some bristol and illustrated them by hand.

The pig is for my mother-in-law, an avid pig collector. Sorry if the anatomy's a bit off — I can't recall ever having really drawn a pig before.
The horse is for my mother, who used to ride competitively and whose longtime nickname is "Redbird." Was so damn worried I'd botched the shading so I just kept adding layers 'til it worked out. XD

Micron pens & Prismacolor markers on smooth bristol.

So Dogsoul became a pirate on a temporary basis [no specifics, sorry]. He made pasta during this adventure. He declared it pirate pasta. I decided it had to be drawn. X3

I don't think there were meatballs involved but I could -not- pass up the opportunity to make an FSM reference.

exc || blitzava

October's equinexchange pic: Blitzava's Dare Not, a kelpie. Not the cattle dog, the murderous water-horse fae. He gets all creepy when wet. Methinks I didn't make him skeletal enough on the wet parts. :S This was also cutting it EXTREMELY short on the deadline. Shame on me. ¬_¬; Think this scan is a lot more contrasty than the actual painting. Just a wee bit new to the actual technicalities of using watercolours. Several things didn't come out quite as I'd wanted...several things came out far better than I could'a hoped. Also, I have NO idea where his right foreleg went. D8 Was almost done with the waterfall when I realised what I'd just painted over was supposed to be a hoof. That would be my bad. o_____o;;

wxc || blitzava

My submission for the first-ever round at were_exchange on LJ: Blitzava's vampire/werewolf hybrid, Radgon Lyanzi Figorti. It is never a bright idea to interrupt a vampire's meal....
This method of digital painting is entirely new to me, so I'm afraid the lighting and shading are a bit on the inconsistent side. Oh well — I really like how the victim and Radgon's mouth came out!
Created with pencil, openCanvas, and PhotoShop.

There are links to close-up detail shots here:
http://www.furaffinity.net/full/265136/

A sketchy-commission for Marc "Crevan" of his fursona, being his sexy, dominant self. That bit o' red is just a -very- small preview of what he has to offer....

His arms aren't as muscular as they ought to be and his torso perhaps tapers a bit too sharply, but I'm pretty pleased with the fur texture and the circlet in particular.

exc || risawn

this month's theme was autumn [my idea, woot!] and this character, magic [as in that's his name], is/was apparently stuck in this interdimensional gateway thing, so i tried to suggest that his surroundings were unreal, immaterial...illusions floating in a void.
the end result just looks kinda messy but oh well. :P

pencil & photoshop.

uxc || rantingmule

what delightful irony that for the very first round at ungulatexchange i should get my best friend's character, whom i'd never actually drawn before. XD

the shading on everything but his face and deltoid is iffy at best. >:P ah well. i'm still acclimating to this method.

pencil, opencanvas, photoshop.

exc || beerhorse

this came about from ruminating on beerhorse's username, a few things in her gallery, and the origin of the clydesdale — which is scottish, in case you hadn't gathered as much. X3 she has a teeny head and manhands, but i'm in love with the shading. not bad for my first horse anthro.

pencil, opencanvas, photoshop. background photo from pentagoet.com.

[German for "lick me," as if that really isn't obvious. It's also a short form of a phrase that means "kiss my ass." X3]

The fifth and final sketch meme quickie, this one for Mottenfest. Now that I think of it, starting with a rainbow base was a Bad Idea. ...Ah well. There's turgid cock showing, does anyone here honestly care? :P

Misako's mate Yotey for the sketch meme. There's a nice little rant about vore on FA that's too long to enter here.

He's...leaning against a wall or something. ~^; Regent Shaw's sketch meme thingy for FA. I've always loved the confidant, near-manic little smirks with which this character is usually portrayed, and I tried to tap into that a little. Iunno if it succeeded. *shrugs*

Actually timed this one. Just under two and a half hours.

Yay twisty bodies! This'un's for Cur, a quickie of her namesake for the sketch meme at FA. My apologies for taking a few liberties with the details -- call it stylisation? ^^;

Clearly I have a long way to go with mastering this fur technique. Getting the hang of the process itself; next will be learning to show depth and modelling with it [which has always been a problem for me with textured works >_<], and then getting the actual lengths right.

openCanvas.

Quickie for Wyla for that sketch meme that's rampaging all over Fur Affinity. Went a little overboard, methinks, but the effect if a good one. 'Sides, the fur-texture practise is a good thing.

openCanvas. Wyla © Megan "Wyla" Williams.

exc | whippetluv

My first submission for yet another LJ exchange group, equinexchange -- this is Whippetluv's Appaloosa colt [stallion?], War Eagle, who is described as being a real jerk. X3

Danke schön once again to my athro in herbivore anatomy, Dogsoul. <3

Pencil, Photoshop.

such a sorry little thing at this resolution. ;A;
my half of a long-due trade with ratrina. *dies* this is easily the single most ambitious piece of artwork i've done in my life. this motherfucker is monumental. it pains me to have to show it at such a dinky resolution — originally it was 2400x1800 at 300dpi, weighing in at a staggering 62.4MB filesize.
with that in mind, there's a 1280x1024 wallpaper version, which is 50% resolution. please give it a look-see. the detail is tremendous....
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v115/defilerwyrm/general-art/thechase_wp.jpg

100% digital: opencanvas & photoshop.

wxc || wilder

meh. honestly don't have much to say about this other than pointing out that the colouration surprised me. i'd anticipated smudging it all over the place but it turned up looking pretty damn good on its own, imo. [though goddamn do i regret having to put "hair" on this guy.]

opencanvas, photoshop, tablet.

wxc || endurian

vague st patrick's day theme, turned on its ear and given a nice heaping dose of bitterness. the composition is screwed to hell. next time i swear i'll pay more attention to the subject's colour scheme. e____e

watercolour, coloured pencils, pens, & gouache on 11x14" bristol. endurian's fur colour was tweaked in photoshop.

one of the sketch commissions i'm currently offering. now his feet really don't look like they're supporting his weight, but if you consider that he's likely either about to leave the ground by a jump or just touching down, it makes sense. *shrugs* this was refreshing work.

opencanvas, photoshop, tablet. reference pulled from all over the fresking place.

wxc || griff highwind

the pose eluded me for the longest time; the harder i tried, the worse it got. that is until the muse struck and struck hard — BOOM there she was!
totally copped out on the background. rainbow gradient, what the hell was i thinking?! but oh well. aside from that i'm proud of it.
...this was supposed to be a simple cel-shading job, too. gods i suck. XD

pencil, photoshop, tablet. background photo is from www.ourvictorianhouse.com, used with gracious permission of the webmaster.

gates-of-annwn says FECK YEW!
a young fianna ragabash being his charming, agreeable self. his legs are freaking stilts, his coat's supposed to be black, i forgot the shotgun-slug scar on his chest, and i fail miserably at brass. also note how a few nifty details got EATEN. oh well, at least his player loved it. :P

watercolour & coloured pencils on 9x12" smooth bristol.
david "gates-of-annwn" donnovan © jon duncan.

wxc || caffeinatedmazz

truth be told i'm kinda iffy about the whole thing. :| on the one hand i'm thrilled to death that the rock doesn't look like a deformed ottoman; on the other hand, the composition is shaky at best and the style is terribly inconsistent. bleh. anyway, hope there's no major errors as far as character design goes....
mad props to skippykangaroo for the invaluable help on the rock, even if it took me months to figure out how to implement it.

pencil, opencanvas, photoshop, tablet.

wxc || insanemuffin

hoping the character & background don't clash too much. i'm iffy about the paws, hind legs, and use of blue for the highlights but very pleased with the background and forelegs.

pencil [for the initial sketch], opencanvas, tablet. text added in photoshop.

random gift for mah dawg, 'cause i loves her and her skeptical-of-your-intelligence ways. <3 forghot her collars, though. damn.
pen, opencanvas, photoshop.

wxc || dreamaria

aside from mucking up her tail markings, hair length, and number of piercings...i'm very pleased with this. ^.^ just hoping dreamaria likes it, too.
pencil, pen, photoshop, opencanvas.