So there I was, trying to figure out an answer to a ‘how do I reproduce this text effect in Illustrator’ question, and I liked what I had and wanted to see how it looked when used on more organic shapes. I was listening to some Kraftwerk at the time so this just kinda happened. I turned it into a fake gig poster for a night of comedy Kraftwerk covers because it made me laugh a lot. I might have…
delightful <3
Birthday art for Phorm. Very NSFW. Click that ‘more’ link and you will be seeing some huge cartoon funparts. Illustrator, 3.5h. Continue reading Nice Wish, Now It’s My Turn
I dunno, this just captures the mood I’m in today. I’ve been sick and the stove’s been broken and I’ve been exhausted and haven’t been eating very well at all and I just wanna go out and scream incoherently at the world. I have some thoughts rattling around my head about shit I’m grumpy about and they won’t cohere into anything. I’m just fuckin’ tired. At least it’s Carnival time so I have some…
Yesterday there was a post on one of the sci-fi subreddits from someone going “every time I try to write Space Wizards they just turn into Jedi, how can I make them not just Jedi, halp”. And there were a lot of responses when I got there but I sat there over dinner tapping out a long list of things Jedi don’t do along with suggestions on how that could be interesting. And these two bits I wrote…
this is not a yes-or-no question: tools matter, the right tool in skilled hands can do amazing, unique things that can’t be done by another tool tools don’t matter, if you don’t have the faintest clue what you’re doing then you’re not going to get great results tools matter, if a beginner’s using really shitty tools it’ll make the whole experience even more frustrating tools don’t matter, if an…
Sometimes you look in the mirror and the wrong fursona looks back out. A bit more about this, plus a closeup, is over on my blog. Shirts and stickers and notebooks and prints and whatnot are on Redbubble, and the Illustrator source is over on Patreon if you're a supporter.
So on the Illustrator subreddit, a challenge was issued: what can you do with just one circle? Well, I can do this. Custom brushes were allowed for this particular challenge as long as they were a single color, and I abused that – there’s some tricksy things going on with 0% opaque shapes in the “tunnel line” brush to help it overlap less messily. It’s a reimplementation of this piece I did…
Lately I’ve been flirting with animation programs again. It started when I picked up a copy of Moho 12 for $30 somewhere in June. Since then I have upgraded to Moho 14 for $200 around Black Friday. I haven’t gotten too deep into it, I’ve experimented with rigging characters but haven’t really done anything with it. Yesterday after a couple of my industry friends told me how much they love it, I…
So tonight I decided to fool around with some appearance stacks I developed while drawing insane furry porn on something a little more… shareable outside the horny furry zones, y’know? This took me ten minutes to draw. No pre-planning. Just derping out some shapes on autopilot. A tiny bit of added highlighting, but mostly this is Illustrator doing all kinds of stuff automatically. That’s all I…
Sometimes you just get up and it is incredibly obvious that the right way to spend the day is to draw a luxuriously gravid snake lady lounging in front of a sunset. Or maybe it’s just me? Today was one of those days. Illustrator, 4h. Source file on Patreon.
Illustrator has this annoying behavior where it only generates a spline for a blend if one or more of the paths being blended are closed. My working method is such that I almost never generate closed paths, so this is super annoying. There is a simple workaround, but it is annoying to do: swear, undo the blend, close the first path, make the blend, open the first path. You would think the…
Sometimes you just have to spend an hour and a half drawing one of your characters peering through a chopped-up photograph of an arch. More notes, and AI source, on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/posts/observe-93288879
Commission for Nyeogmi. Hypnosis is always a good excuse to break out the op-art tricks!
ugh what is wrong with you karen, they're just sharing a perfectly normal drink and a kiss at the same time, geeze Commission for :faKTurtle:!
Yesterday, my SO showed me this sketch from something like fifteen to twenty years ago. It’s a mind-controlling insect from an obscure corner of Marvel’s comics massaging the brain of an anonymous raccoon. It has survived three purges of their “accounting” directory at this point and they’re still horny for it. Maybe, they asked, I could finish it? I took it into Illustrator and spent two hours…
