Six, pic 2: a vignette of the mysterious tiger-man sitting on the bed, wrapped in a comforter, glaring balefully. Concerned with getting the fabric folds right, I had my ever-patient long-suffering fiance pose similarly (thanks! :D). Pencil.

Six: Part of a splash page for a story by Samuel "Uncle Kage" Conway, from Anthrolations Magazine, issue #5 (www.sofawolf.org - check out the gorgeous cover by Tim "Ravenwolf" Johnson!). The tiger-man is supposed to have six digits per hand, hence the name (five fingers, and the thumb is hidden). This was done last November; I'd hope I'd do much better anatomy if I drew it now. Pencil, some Photoshop shading. (PS: StrRedWolf - THANK YOU! :D)

SpiritFeatherPony! A quick headshot for the Beatlegryphie, from 2003. I hadn't used my colored pencils in a long time (this was done BEFORE Silvermane and Fox Magic II) and it was good practice. If I'd had more time I would have gone back and deepened some shadows. Note that it's my own style of gryph - it's not supposed to be photorealistic. Lemme tell ya, white pencil and orange paper are hard to scan well, and in lightening up the scan to show detail the orange turned bit peachy. Prismacolor and Design colored pencils, toned cardstock.

Long-Lopey-Anthro-Dog-Thing with Square Markings: 1993, pencil. The name says it all. From back when I drew more interesting and original (if not as technically-well-exectued) things.

On a trip to Arizona in '97, I visited a lot of museums and was inspired by the beautiful, highly symbolic Hopi Kachina (or Katsina) dolls. I planned and sketched a whole series of animals based on these figures, but I never got around to completing them (though I still hope to do so, perhaps for a portfolio someday) - but when I was looking for something to color for practice, I stumbled across this sketch. So far it's been the only thing I've colored completely with a tablet - all images colored before and after it were done with a mouse. Tawa is the Sun Kachina, and his face seemed somewhat feline to me, so I made him a cougar.

Sun-Child (Jaguar): 1990 (uploaded 2000), A stylized companion-piece to "Bright One." Prismacolor markers & a white Deco-color paint pen - the materials I used in high school and in college, before I had practice painting. Blend and blend and blend.... This sort of symbolic thing was pretty typical of my stuff then.

Sunlight: 2003, based on an older drawing I'd done; I wanted to see how this female feline would look with tawny coloring. Micron pen, colored pencils on parchment paper. Scanned at home on my crappy scanner, unfortunately.

Syrma! In all her glory... inspired by an art-deco statue I saw somewheres, and Celtic Art (via Dover Books). Pencil figure, frame constructed in Illustrator, all the rest in Photoshop. I really tried on the ornamentation... She belongs to Andwyn AKA Melanie J. Gibbons. :D Thanks, Melanie!

Tacco Hirashima! Property of Reno Maxwell of Side 7 and the VCL. I drew him slightly anthro about the front paws and hind legs like Synn ON PURPOSE; the two characters are not related and any similarity is coincidence. I picked him to draw for our trade because I thought he would be fun to draw in my hell-cat style; he didn't originally look like my Synnabar - it was my artistic license. This is a good example of the "anthros" I draw for myself (not the ones requested or for art trades or commissions); most are, like this, usually more animal than human, but with dextrous front paws. For once, I am pleased with the face. Pencil sketch mouse-colored in Photoshop 6 (and boy is the mouse tired ;P).

Here's the very cool, very generous and all-around-unique Thaily Brimstone in a quadrupedal, non-anthro form. She's a mix of fox and lion (I think she calls herself a "lox"). I based the proportions of fox-to-lion on her own wonderful drawings. This is a quick "thank-you" pic for her; I'll do a more detailed one someday. Mechanical pencil on parchment paper.

The Bribe: An African Climbing Mouse offers an earring to the Serval who's caught him; he's hoping she'll let him go (I'm a softie so I think she will - what do YOU think will happen?). She's a collector of jewelry, which here is a combination of many different African art and ornamentation styles. The neckpiece was the most fun to draw. Micron pen, colored pencils on Canson Mi-Teintes paper. Some Photoshop to fix the crappy scan. This version has even MORE touching-up than versions I've posted elsewhere.

Tiger God (Red): 1995, pen. I LOVE Indonesian art, and I hope to do a painting of him someday, or at least something along this theme.

Tiger God III: A further exploration of an older "Tiger God" idea I'd done years back - I was inspired by Tibetan and Indonesian art. Micron pen, Prismacolor & Design pencils, colorless blender, on parchment paper, with some touch-ups in Photoshop 7 to fix the bad scan.

Tom "Indy" VonWallenrod! Per his description, he's a "rather buff wolf anthro", his Indiana-Jones-type attire somewhat the worse for wear, his fedora in his hand, and holding aloft some artifact... pencil sketch & I colored it in Pshop6 at lunch (notice a pattern here?)

Una Furdancer! HollyAnn is a huge MLP fan (I like them too, but SHE beats all!), so I drew a third pic in her sketchbook of her anthro-unicorn-taur like that (sort of), for fun. I referred to various My Little Pony coloring books for help, but I couldn't find any MLP 'taurs, so I winged it. Sugary-sweet! *teeth fall out* ... but fun. :)

Vision: 1993 Pencil sketch. This is more of an allegory than an actual pic of a character, though her mane/hair, tail, and face do look quite similar to Synnabar; it's not supposed to be sexy or anything. The floating sphere is something I have used numerous times in my art - here it helps represent someone wanting to share their visions with the world, while still wanting to protect them from rejection. An online friend said he got it as a tattoo.

Winter: 1999, Photoshop v. 4.0. For my Honey; fun with filters & unreal horse-anatomy. "All the white horses have gone ahead/I tell you that I'll always want you near..." (with apologies to Tori Amos)

Xian Jaguar! Drawn for her birthday in 2002; I absolutely love her work, and she is a wonderfully kind and generous person, too! I went for a more "humanoid" anthro look - i.e. more human proportions, larger eyes, human-like hair, etc. than my usual more-animal-than-human personal stuff. I changed the eye color to green (I had them blue before). Pencil on cardstock, Photoshop coloring.

Lovecat: 1992, gouache on black illustration board. One of those things you do at 2 AM. Oh, uh... yes it IS who you think it is, ha ha!

For the wonderful Bagheera, this is a good example of my "somewhat-realistic-yet-styized-iconic" imagery. I wasn't trying to be photorealistic here, or I would have used a photo reference. Obviously, real leopards don't have exactly that facial structure! Still, when I use photos it's not fun for me, so I like to play around a lot (please note I do love both realistic AND stylized art! ART IS GOOD!)

Pencil, Strathmore Bristol board, Photoshop CS. 2005.

Just a little fennec with gold earrings. It's "fantasy" because I didn't follow references, or go crazy with fur-detailing or anything; it's not supposed to be photorealistic.... it was just me having fun. (Many thanks to BloodhoundOmega and Oliver Fox).

Pencil, watercolor, gold paint on Strathmore Watercolor paper. Teeny-tiny at 6-1/2" high.

Sevian Rei has an interesting creature he calls "Irago", and I thought he would be fun to try for a combination thank-you/practice pic, though I strayed from his drawings and thus this is really more of an "Irago-dragoncat-inspired" thing than Irago himself. I started out scribbling freehand in RSVP pen on watercolor paper, then taped it down and started painting. I had planned to do most of the detail in colored pencil, but I ended up doing the majority of it in paint, saving the colored pencil mostly for fur and little details.

RSVP pen, watercolor, gouache, Prismacolor and Design colored pencils on watercolor paper. 2004.

Originally this was a pen scribble. It was meant to be an underpainting, but ended up being a finished piece. This was a fun experiment, and another good example of the odd things I draw for myself. Obviously this hyena thing couldn't really exist, what without a face and all - I just love skulls.

RSVP pen, watercolor, gouache on bristol. 2004.

Boxers are beautiful! Please note, I prefer unclipped ears and undocked tails myself, but for a "boxing" boxer it made sense; and I figure, as a sentient being, he can do whatever he wants with his body anyway! You can find him as part of The Kennel Club Card Set here at: http://kennelclub.coyote-tangent.com/ --- the unedited version without a background, though the prints I sell of him are of this, edited version.

Pencil and Photoshop. 2006.

Another artist I admire greatly was apparently going to do this, then (I guess?) had other obligations; when I was asked to take this up, I didn't want them to think I was copying, so I made mine as different from theirs as I could: Mine is American vs. British foxhound; is sitting and is more canine than anthro; has different props; and so on. I had never drawn a Foxhound of ANY kind, so this was a fun leaarning experience! You can find him as part of The Kennel Club Card Set here at: http://kennelclub.coyote-tangent.com/ --- he's unedited there, though the prints I sell of him are of this, edited version.

Pencil, Photoshop. 2006.

Here's my Samoyed guy. I love the "Sammy Smile", and I tried very hard to capture it. You can find him as part of The Kennel Club Card Set here at: http://kennelclub.coyote-tangent.com/

Pencil, Photoshop. 2006.

Here is a piece for Morier, who was so helpful in getting my art to BloodhoundOmega in time for Eurofurence 2006! (Many thanks to him and Bloodi!) I tried new things with the fur, with some results I like and some I don't. Yay for horned and/or saber-fanged big cats!

Pencil, tint added in Photoshop (with a mouse, as always). 2006.

Note: I'm busy with badges and other art still from AC and some other projects; more soon! I haven't forgptten anyone, no fear. :)

For Tyreenya's Symphonies in Fur Minor portfolio, I chose "My Lover's Box" by Garbage. I was going to pick a dark and angry piece, but for a change, I decided to go for something very different - not only in song, but in style and technique as well.

The feline is based on Lorelei, an old (back from the early 80's) character of mine, whose colors I played with to suit the image. It's done completely in Adobe Illustrator 10; it was a lot of fun to try something different. Once again, you cartoonists and designers get a LOT of credit for doing so much with so few, well-placed lines!.

More info here: http://community.livejournal.com/musicportfolio/

This folio is CD-only, hence the large watermark. Adobe Illustrator 10 & CS. 2006.

For Obsydian. I usually work from my head when doing art, but as I'm bad at drawing birds, I wanted to practice and learn, so I used a photoreference when drawing this one (yes! I did!). However, I have a hard time following reference (even if it's good for me), and of course when I went to paint it I got bored and put the reference away... which is both good (I would be more creative that way) and bad (I know I got some things wrong).

I learned a lot about feathers doing this; next time I know to paint feathers more like the ones on the wing, and NOT like the ones on the neck!

Mechanical pencil, watercolor, gouache, and a bit of colored pencil on watercolor paper. The knotwork was drawn in Illustrator and added in Photoshop. 2004.

Rajah Red: Every year I see these cute little lively pieces in art shows, and I always think, "what fun! I should try it!" so I painted him up in gouache and watercolor on parchmenty-cardstock, and added some Micron and gold pen. I know it's not high art, but art should be fun SOMEtimes, right?

Gouache, watercolor, Micron pen on cardstock. 2006.