Tribal Star Dragon by a river.

An experament with photoshop.

Stargazing

The final colored picture in my "Ran-Qui the Amaran Jedi" portfolio. ZOMG! I'm really digging that background. Particularly the clouds/stars reflecting off the water. Most of those things were purely experamental but I'm relatively happy with it.\r\n\r\nAlso, I've really grown attatched to this character. To the point where I consider her to be sort of an "alternate fursona". So yes, there will be more arts of her in the future.

Shot of Aredon Bredrit, one of my main characters.\r\n\r\nNo, he dosen't actually have a steel dragon. It's the name of his starfighter.

"A Storm is Approaching"\r\n\r\nTrying to finish a few more piccies before Anthrocon.\r\nPhotoshop over a pencil sketch.

The Storm Lord

This picture originally started as a quick sketch that I was doing while watching Nostolgia Critic reviews. Those that really know me knows that I can't just sit and watch TV/Movies/Videos/Whatever without drawing because I need to keep my mind busy. \r\n\r\nIt's more or less my take on a traditional chinese dragon done in a similar style to several dragon pictures I did around the 2006-07 time period.\r\n\r\nI decided to color him to give me something to do while waiting for a few clients to get back on me about their commissions. Once again, I tried a more limited color palatte with this picture. I am mostly happy with the results.\r\n\r\n

I love my art history class. It's dark and held in a large lecture room so I can draw without getting in trouble. \r\n\r\nI've been trying to get away from pin-ups, I've just been getting burned out by them so I'm trying to vary up the poses of my characters. Action shots are more fun then a character sitting around doing nothing anyways.\r\n\r\nAnyhoo, Soji the eastern dragon yawns and stretches. I've always pictured dragons (particularly Oriental ones) to be very catlike. I tried a parchment background rather then the standard naturalistic ones I usually do. This was done for two reasons. 1. I wanted to see what it looked like and 2. I wasn't coming up with any backgrounds I liked and didn't feel like screwing around with it anymore.

Whew, I've never drawn so many characters in one drawing before.\r\n\r\nSuddah, the main villain in my comic book surrounded by his six wives. Martinet, his favorite, is the one over his shoulder. Usually, lycans don't formally choose mates. The chieftan is the exception, and almost always takes several spouses.

Suddah Angry.

Suddah Enthroned.\r\n

Perroquet Series - Sun Conure

This is a bird trade that I did with Mazz, who told me she wanted a sun conure. I decided to incoperate it into my perroquet series, because it really fit the theme and I was hard up for ideas for the series. :p\r\n\r\nShe has a Mesoamerican flair, though she isn't based off of any specific cultures because suns seem to have a broad range in Central and South America, so I couldn't just pinpoint them to one speific culture. Anyone who knows me knows that I've studied Mesoamerican culture for several years in college and I'm in love with it!\r\n\r\nI love suns, but boy are they hard to color. I can never get overly saturated colors to look good.

Gryphon of the Sun

Those of you at What the Fur may have saw me working on this guy. I drew him between commissions on Sunday. :)\r\n\r\nHe will eventually have a "moon gryphon" counterpart, which I'll sell as a duo along with this print.

A quick doodle of a sun gryphon.\r\n\r\nExperamenting with colors, fur, and background. For a doodle, I like how it turned out.

Drawing for one of my RL friends after he requested that I draw a fox. I chose to draw my jayfox character, Tai'Ann for this because people seem to like her (plus my friend's fursona is blue too).

Shaman Series - Pic 4 of 4\r\n\r\nTai'Ann Kinrest the Jayfox. Because of some of the responses I've recieved about this series, I may do a "Theran Deities" series sometime in the future. It'll be similar to this series... but will feature the nine gods and goddesses of my story.\r\n

Faith Healer

More work to be sold at What the Fur in June.\r\n\r\nTai'ann, my jayfox character conjures up holy energy in her hand.

After seeing a dead blue jay in my front yard, I was tempted to try out his patterns/colorization on an anthro. She was originally supposed to have black around her face as well, but I decided to remove it.\r\n\r\nTest of colors, nothing more. I'm not sure whether or not I'm going to use this character again.\r\n\r\nTai'ann the winged blue fox © 2005 Traci Vermeesch

Deer-Tuar family.

Female archaeopteryx scout... since I had a strange urge to draw something prehistoric. :p\r\nUsually I draw my aves with wing-arms but I felt that the wings coming off the back just looked better in this pic.\r\n

Tetra, Ulario's mate holding a phoenix.

The summoning of my fursona, Ulario Zemothe.\r\n\r\nYeah, this is probably an OOC pict, because she's really bad with magick.\r\n

A young gryphon looks up to the stars. It's been a while since I've drawn a quadrapedal gryphon.

Theran Spirit Dragon Elder

Anyways, since I've been doing concept art for my alien species, I thought that it would be a good idea to draw some pictures of my Theran species as well. This critter in particular is a Drakken'Re (AKA Theran Spirit Dragon). The fully developed plates on the neck and arms mark this one as an older dragon, which is where the title comes from. Full description of this species can be found under more info.

The Theran Mafia

A little teaser from a short comic I've been wanting to do. It stars Andromeda and the crime lord Nareheda. So yeah... those of you who wanted to see Andromeda will get your chance. I'm not going to make any promises on when you'll see anything from it since I'm busy with other projects and it's still at the writing stage.\r\n\r\nNareheda is a marble fox, not a border collie. She's pretty much the queen of the underworld on Ulrimare... think of her as a female version of the Godfather.\r\n\r\nThis picture also gives a sneak peek look at a new character. A yakuza inspired dragon that serves as Nareheda's personal bodyguard. He's still unnamed, and this is a first pass drawing of him so the character design will probably change.

Denizen of the Swarm

Concept art for my J'morenth species.\r\n\r\nI've been wanting to get some of my more obscure alien species down onto paper. In particular, the native species of Urtin-Dyn as that planet has some of the more unique looking species in my universe.\r\n\r\nFunky head crest inspired by the Xenomorph queen of the alien movies.

I did this while I was bored during a new Biology lecture.

I knew Zora would beat that one stupid blonde chick. I wish that I could get a million dollars just for lying to a bunch of people... **looks around devillishly** ...hmmmmm....

Thunder Dragon perched on a mountaintop.

"It's tickle-time, baby! HAHAHAHA!!!!" Tetra gives Ulario a big surprise!

Character sketch of my new mantis character, Tier Nvonny.\r\n\r\nNote to self: Multiple armed things are cool!