horribly long-overdue trade with reno [http://vcl.ctrl-c.liu.se/vcl/Artists/The-Inimical-Priest/] depicting his character devon. the linework pleases me...even if it's far more of a close-up than i'd planned.

opencanvas. bg is stock photography from corbis.com. 12 dec 04.

one of ox's catchphrases is "are you...edible?"

so, 'tis muffinbutt and my mate, each of whom are © to themselves. funny, the drawing itself took no more than ten minutes from sketch to ink (in blue, as it happens, but i desaturated it, ha!) while the fucking BACKGROUND took several weeks...i blame ursula vernon for her tutorial. blah.
pencil/pen/photoshop

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.

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.

My half of an art trade with DA's SpiritWolfen depicting her were, Spirit Wolf. For those of you unfamiliar with the spirituality of the Plains and Western American Indians, burning a smudge stick made of sage is a part of a cleansing ceremony to purify the mind, body, and spirit. To me, an "unclean" soul is one that has become bogged down with the dirt of the material world — things called sin — and one that is steadily becoming shackled away from the spirit world. To cleanse one's soul is to set one's self free.
Pencil, pen, Photoshop. Stock photography found through google.com; no copyright information was included. If you know the copyright information for this photograph please contact me immediately! Spirit Wolf is © SpiritWolfen.

reuploaded with less suckness. i fixed the smudge stick (them suckers is WHITE!), the smoke (that was just crap), and the left foot (it was too heavily shadowed).
spirit wolf © her creator.

just a quick feel-better giftie for a friend, 'cause she was having a crappy day.

pencil, pen.
her gallery: http://us-p.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Kathleen-Newman/

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.

my half of an art trade with chimera. this is her werewolf, devi dudley, doing what comes natural to a werewolf wrestler: being violent.
i despise the colour job.
pen and photoshop. brushes by digifox (i think).
devil dudley © ashlie "chimera" huseman.

art trade with corruptchimera of deviantart, awaiting colour.
i scrapped two really, really good concepts in favour of this because i just couldn't get them right. bah.
pens of various diametres. typeset in photoshop 7.
devi dudley is © his player.

First of three trades with The Inimical Priest. This is his...uh...character, 403 Error. I don't know much about him but I'm absolutely in love with the idea of him travelling through binary code.
Hey! Look! His hair doesn't suck! And whoot for shiny leather! Lilith learned many things whilst doing this.
Pen and Photoshop.
403 Error is © Reno Maxwell.

so we've come full circle. i've pretty much abandoned dA and the recent bs at sheezy just leaves me feeling empty and betrayed. it's gonna be frickin' may before i can upload new work, too. ~_~;

anyway. landmark piece in the use of opencanvas. the shading is kinda blah, and there are numerous other problems, but arist liked it so nyah. two characters from his "angel down" story. read it! http://ravensmuse.deviantart.com/
[june '04]

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.

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.

NOW GET IN THE PIT AND TRY TO LOVE SOMEONE!

last one for a while [out of upload allowance, hah!]. tried to get the blue light to show up on the white fur but it was a no-go. rahr to white fur!

the background is a stock photo of...er...sound garden, i think, from corbis.com. but i did the floor. *pride*
pencil.pen/oc/ps. 9 january 2005.

Part of an art trade with CloudLeopard; I'm also doing a more complex version with an actual background. Reya, for the record, is an Eohippus (yes, the title is a pun).
Ugh. She has too much hair, not enough streaks, and her head is too cervine. On the other hand, the shading marks an enormous step up for me artistically.
Pencil/pen/Photoshop. Reya is © her creator.

Part of an art trade with CloudLeopard; this would be the so-called "more complex" version with an actual background, though it didn't quite work out the way I had planned. Reya, for the record, is an Eohippus (yes, the title is a pun).
Pencil/pen/Photoshop. Reya is © her creator. And like an IDIOT I had her name misspelled, but I've fixed it.

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.

i get by with a little help from my friends.
for ceol, reirei, ox, and bondagepup: friends who make my life worth living. i love you guys.
all characters © their creators.
FROM LEFT: ceol (nekkid bear), dreamswyld (scarred wolf), ox (nekkid fox ~ sorry, ox, gave ya boobs so no one would think you're a guy), shadow-in-the-rain, and bondagepup.
ballpoint pen and photoshop.

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.

wxc || abyss
spirit characters kick ass. you can do all sorts of fun stuff with 'em. like have 'em jump out of a plasmic-drippy vortex o' gooey blackness into someone's mind to turn a dream into a nightmare. which is what he's doing here. >:3

pencil, pen, oc, ps, tablet, mouse.

abyss: http://us.vclart.net/vcl/Artists/Abyss/
[reuploaded 'cause i misspelled something]

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/

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 || 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.

wxc || darkdelusion
pose based on an old photo...vastly different from my original concept sketch but i think it works. ^.^ also the first piece i've ever done using oC 4.03e+ which is SO DROOLWORTHY!! and yeah, i know that there's a weird bit o' difference between the top and bottom halves...that's because i had to restore the sketch from a screenshot at 1/3 size after oC decided to randomly close the file. T_T yay.

am gonna try to add a background as well. we'll see if oC will let me. >:S

oC, tablet.
[darkdelusion] @ http://darkdelusion.deviantart.com/

wxc || darkdelusion
smaller version with a background, which prolly would've been better if i'd been able to use more than three layers total. :/

wxc || katanawolf

have you ever been wandering around, alone, in a strange new place...take a wrong turn...and by pure serendipity, discovered something truly wondrous?

[gah, prolly too dark.] 100% digital. oc, ps, tablet. reuploaded due to a translation error.

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.

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 || hylian_canine

waow. this is what happens when you pay the same kind of attention to the background as to the figure, rather than bs'ing your way through it. unfortunately my eyes began to hurt like blazes so i kinda...well...bs'ed the last bits of the bg.

tablet, mouse, photoshop.
[...i really do not like that plant on the right....]