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Assassin Vines (sketch)

I had been looking through the sketchbook to see what I could do larger pictures of when I came across an older image of the D&D group I had run fighting an Assassin-vine and its 'smaller plant' allies.  

It was a fairly memorable battle because it wasn't just a steamroll.  I find the ones that are a struggle and that are failures are more interesting.  I don't draw much in th...

Just Wading By - 300dpi

Moar pixels, Moar power.

Just Wading By - (Final, nsfw, mild nudity)

Doing direct light/sunlight images tends to be harder for me.  I like low light/winter/autumn images since the contrasts aren't quite as sharp as you get in bright summer light.

That said, this one is finally done.  I'd hoped to have it done before the month ended, but life sometimes throws a hundred things at you at once.  it was probably a full 20 hours, give or take an hour or ...

Just Wading By - (colour roughs, nsfw)

I always like posting the 'inkwash' version of images.  While they can look a bit rough, I tend to like the 'illustrative' look before I go in and start painting, so I figured I'd post this version as well.

I'll be painting over the weekend, and am figuring out the next image that I'll be painting next month.  I'm a kind of leaning back and forth between one of the existing images and ...

Just Wading By (300dpi)

The bigger more pixels version.

Just Wading By - (linework, nsfw)

I realized that I'd neglected to share the cleaned up linework of the 'Wading by' picture.  Its much further along than it is here, with the flat colours done and the lighting being figured out, but I figured folks might like the cleaner lines with the second round of tweaks added in.

I'm just happy that there have been a couple days of much, much more tolerable weather and I've been gettin...

The Old Way - Sketchwork

I was listening to 'History Amplified' style music over the weekend and sketching.  Normally its too spastic and scribbly to share but this one stood out a bit since it deals with fleshing out the old, old early days of The Lorrnathi people.

Plus it has Cinders.. walking a pumpkin, and wearing a new hat.

I've been reading deeper into proto-Germanic tribes, Gaulish and Celtibrian langu...

Blackpine Library - Colours

Managed to just do a quick-wash colour on this one before the afternoon turned to broiling temps again.  It was nice working on something with snow and cold.

Though I guess I wouldn't want the house to look like this place, even if there is no AC here.

The town of Blackpine is deep within the 'Sorrow'.  An area of the world that is just now able to be traversed safely after a mas...

Writing under a boiling sun

It's been roasting here for the last week or so, getting up to the 28 to 30C (82 to 86F) range every day, which means my down time has been leaning more towards the writing side of creativity lately.

Not that I'm too bothered by getting to write again.  While I primarily do art to burn through the creative juices sloshing around in my skull, if its too roasting to work in the studio, the ne...

Ruined Places

A week ago I got around to doing more 'zen' work on maps.  I think this was supposed to be a ruined library or reliquary or something with a courtyard and inn/pub attached to it for a game long gone and buried.

I do know its in the snowy parts around or in Blackpine though.  More 'dead places' mapping I think.  Of the few maps I was poking away at, this one is the closes to done t...

Short Note

Just a heads up that I'll actually be sending out the next notification for the Patron sketch on Monday.  Had some stuff come up that's going to pretty much occupy most of my entire weekend it looks like, so other work needs to be completed before then.

-T.J.

The Whistling Keg (300dpi)

This one has more dots.  So many more dots it'll make you dizzy.

-T.J.

The Whistling Keg (linework)

Managed to clear more of the art ideas in my head out, this time a follow up to the last image, following the three farmer types into the Whistling Keg and settling in to wait out the storm and probably have a few pints in the meantime.

I'm not very experienced with having lots of people in a single picture I admit, but this seemed to come out fairly okay.

As an aside, I'll be sending out ...

Weather's Coming - Rough sketch

This turned out oddly.. Hildebrandtian.  Its one of a bunch of sketches I'm frantically getting down in digital format before they disappear out of my head again.  I apologize in advance for the flood of these that will show up, but the up-side is that I've got a huge variety of things to paint this month.

2018-06-02 00:46:21 +0000 UTC View Post

Blackpine - map sketch.

Bit stressed out this week.  I had this (and a few other) map sitting around from a game that fell through and started finishing the sketch of it.  

Blackpine was an abandoned town surrounding the Auld Andormira academy and library.  A place of legend, with vaults of books.  

I still find maps weirdly relaxing to do.

2018-05-30 21:51:16 +0000 UTC View Post

Moment of Peace (Patron Sketch!)

I was given very kind permission from Rudy Fox to post a sketch I did for him for this month's patron sketch.  

I was asked to draw his namesake, a cross-fox relaxing near a waterfall as the warmer weather was starting to hit, which meant I was gonna go wildly overboard on the surroundings.  I guess I just like drawing nature a lot :)

I had to look up a bit more info on how to ac...

Just Wading By (nudity)

It is absolutely roasting here this week, wandering up to about 30C, so I started sketching outside the studio today on the smaller tablet (If only I could sit in a wading pool with it).

I had the image of Javarran (wolf folk) wading in one of the nearby streams or water areas near where there pack was wandering around in my head out of nowhere.  And the angle was a bit of a nightmare to fi...

Auld Andormira wax knight vessel

A warm-up sketch/ink thing of a 'vessel' that holds a shard of an Auld Andormirian wax knight from a couple hundred years back.  The armor on most has rusted away completely, though I'd imagine this one was sheltered in one of the ruins of Blackpine until the day the ash started to pull towards the Andormira towers again.

2018-05-14 22:09:37 +0000 UTC View Post

Walk (300dpi)

More pixel, same swish.

Walk (mild nudity)

A throw-together sketch of Cinders on a wander down to some unknown beach.  Spotties and swishes.

Tanarrah (Painted, 300dpi)

More wobbly pixels.

Tanarrah (Painted)

I'm not sure why, but I felt like I wanted to give this character a painted treatment so I can use it as a sort of 'example' of the Tuktuarri people for the write-up of the world.

I tried some different techniques that I'm sort of neutral about.  They aren't bad, but they take a lot more time and don't seem to make much of a difference outside adding in a bit of 'warmth' to things.

Th...

Tanarah 300dpi

High res image of 'bou.

Tanarah (Tundra) concept

Image of a Tuktuarri character, Tanarah.  I'm not sure its the final concept of her (she's missing some tribal dyes) but its a general idea of her.

She's a witch who follows the voice of Great Mother Tundra.

Instead of.. (sketch, nudity)

I'm not entirely sure if I'm going to be finishing this picture for a few reasons, though I found myself liking the sentiment behind the image enough to want to at least share its rough edges.

I found myself hearing the conversation between the two, with Cinders adding "Sure, you could go out an' work on the boats instead of stayin' in with a cute.  Little.  Neigh.  I'm s...

Sketchening for April

Its been one of those months.. tax month, which can only make things more ridiculously busy than they normally are.  But I finally got the patron sketch done, this time around for Grynn, a Flind, hanging out in Sigil.

I had to re-learn how to draw Hyena's in general, And there were two iterations before this, but this one finally looks more 'rangery' than the others I did.  Posted with...

Song and a Swish - 300dpi

Like the former, but with more squares pushed onto the page.

-T.J.

Song and a Swish - Final (mild nudity)

"O, Aye said the sailor

An' Aye said the vicar

An' Aye said the neigh girl

Who was swishin' her long tail

Swish-swish!"

There might be too much caffeine in her drink.

-T.J.

First colour pass on Swish-ness

First 'ink wash' (a term I've used since I saw it in a Dragonlance art book) of colour done for this month's painting.

Its mostly me trying to figure out lighting in most scenes, and getting enough shadow down to know where the form will lie.  After this is the long, long process of cleaning things up a bit, filling in some random colours to give more interest, and then overpainting.

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April Already!?

I'm not sure why I'm surprised.  April naturally comes after March.  Though perhaps because March was just as snow-filled and overcast as February I just didn't notice it as a month.

That said, I'm a bit late on finishing the painting that I'd planned for last month.  Easter and some fairly heavy family/work obligations meant that the last week of the month was more of a scramble....