Testing out 3d Coat (which I ended up buying after all of one day). I’m going to have to improve my texturing skills now that I have a kickass texture painter. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

After a nice evening out with friends I fnished 2015 and started 2016 working on art. Everything is being progressed and this makes me happy. Finished a dynatopo sculpt of pixietrix’s Bulbasaur. Probably would have taken somewhere between 2 and 4 hours to do if I hadn’t stuffed up the back legs, reverted and ended up a lot further back than expected (because apparently I hadn’t saved where I thought I had).

Super-quickie sketch of Taliesin (genderless shadowshifter/mouse hybrid child of Helios and Sunkiss) for Midnight to give her an idea of xir default colour scheme. The colouring was also super quick and turned out all right so I guess I have to colour all my sketches from hereon :) This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

Not quite down to the wire but close enough and done enough as far as I’m concerned. One vaguely realistic mega-pidgeot and rider/passenger for The Great Pokemon Sky Race collab. Learned a bit about feathers and feathering (one of the things being I need to learn more) and decided against adding fwoosh as I could not work out how to make speed lines look convincing with this style and I didn’t have time to do the motion blue I was thinking of doing. Probably did agility and tail wind in rapid succession to run away from XantheUnwinArt’s terrifying shiny mega-charizard but I suppose running away from anything on a similar angle will suffice as far as the end result goes.

Me giving Flashwing a pep talk before the race, or something. The bird and I are actual size. I am actually going to get this done before/by the deadline though it will be missing a few things I wanted to include. I’m going to be reasonably happy with the effort considering I had to make a few things up on the fly (and learned a bit in the process) and had lost a large chunk of time to work on it due to needing to pull some overtime on a paid gig.

In response to a comment Artaith left on the Rescue sketch on deviantART XD Sprat made the point that it’s entirely possible to “bridal carry” someone the same height as you but this was more fun and playful. And I have no idea what the relationship between Stoker and enGage is, she may well cut out his heart for this in the next panel, I decided it was amusing for all concerned. I also don’t know if enGage actually wears fishnet stockings or tall boots, the reference I used was a half body.

Starting work on my entry for The Great Pokemon Sky Race Collaboration. I need to do another version of 3d-fyn (because the last one blew up while I was fiddling with something, probably the rig, and then I reworked Base’s rig anyway) as well. 3d-fyn will be riding Flashwing (pidgeot from my Pokemon Yellow game) in mega-evolution (I think mega evolutions are kinda dumb really, however mega-pidgeot form is theoretically big enough to carry 3d-fyn otherwise we’d need an enormous pidgeot).

Quick sketch of a scene from the first chapter of the fanfic collab with Midnight. Stoker is copyrighted to whatever megacorp has the Biker Mice from Mars licenses. Windsong (the one being carried) is mine. This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

I needed a break from feathering, Midnight had just rolled out a concept of a new character, he was such a prettyboy and I’d wanted to see how my colouring looked on her drawing style. The timing was perfect. Brandt Maverick belongs to Midnight, this pic was coloured with permission. Character is still under heavy development and may not look the same once she’s done with him :) This work by ryivhnn is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License

No drabble this time round, sorry, brain is occupied with other things :) So there we were, chatting on Skype, when Midnight21 linked me to a picture on dA which I will not go look for as it was not safe for prudes (there were two guys, one was sitting up reading, the other crled against him, but you couldn’t see his head so he could have been doing anything) and said she could imagine Helios and Sunkiss doing that, as Helios would probably enjoy reading his books to Sunkiss (the guy’s a decent writer as well as a brilliant artist). Speaking from experience I then said I could see them snuggled up together with Helios’ cat Nutella wedged in the gap where their bodies would meet. She thought that was cute, and eventually posted a picture of young Helios when he first got Nutella. I then mentioned that Helios and Sunkiss meet a year after Nutella dies, and she says Helios would probably get more cats, and on the spot invented Cadbury and Twix. She didn’t have any ideas as to how he acquisitioned them to for purposes of my fic he rescues them out of a gutter as soggy, sad kittens while on his way home from art school. Twix (the one sleeping on Helios’ foot) develops a paintbrush fetish and constantly steals paintbrushes. If Helios can’t find one he’s looking for, all he has to do is look for Twix’s stash in the corner of his wardrobe. Cadbury (the one draped over Sunkiss’ arm) is a lot more chill but gets offended if not involved in snuggles or if you stop patting it.