I really love this stage of the work, when its full identity begins to reveal itself.
Wound up adding a lot more thorny vines to the background. Plays into the concept of the Path of Pins / Path of Needles. Which has some rather intriguing metaphors in the original lore. Still got some more sketches to put out for peeps but have been rather slowed down due to my dental situation. That the VA is making ever the more a harrowing endeavor. I currently have no more teeth, and my gums are a mangled mess. They are so backed up appointment wise that I wont have a proper pair of dentures until deep into next year. And I've got to go in for yet another surgery for them to reshape my jaw bones. An Aveoloplasty or some such. I Shouldn't have looked it up on youtube. Basically will slice open my gums yet again and go in with what are wire cutters to chop off any remaining bone material that's sticking out too much. A proper clinic would have done all of this in one sitting but the VA sees fit to keep bringing me in repeatedly to ensure I wont be fully healed for a long time. My mouth feels incredibly unnatural and I wonder now if I'll ever get to feel normal with my mouth ever again. I desperately want implants. They make the amount of material needed to hold dentures in places far less and ensures you don't have to constantly be dealing with denture cement. My experience with the VA medical system has overwhelmingly been a negative one and isn't doing me any favors concerning my mental well being. Which is why I wound up in this situation to begin with. Man I can't believe its already almost October. It feels like I've accomplished so little this year. I'm really thinking that I'll have to suspend doing sketch requests next year so that I can build a proper focus on my Crimson Dames and do better with promoting myself over social media. I really REALLY want to visit a haunted house this year but with my mouth in the state that its in I don't even want to be seen in any capacity.
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Finished this last week but got kidnapped for the holiday and wasn't able to get it fully uploaded to the website until just now. :p
-The clothed variant is available in the main gallery. -The high res variant is available to Copper Tier Patrons and above. -The nude variant is available to Silver Tier Patrons and above as well as its corresponding high res file. -The original .PSD is available to Gold Tier Patrons (For Learning purposes only please.) :p Click the Subscribe? link if you would like to become a patron today! To access your patron rewards click the Log In link! If you have any trouble logging in or need an assist with becoming a patron then hit me up on discord or however you please and I'll help get things sorted out as soon as I can. I'll be adding a short story in the near future to this work but I need a little more time to start that process. :p Thanks you all again for your support! You've all played a major role in the creation of these works of art. I hope to get prints made of this and some of my other major pics for the Gold Tier Patrons. Feel free to reshare this link when sharing the art over social media. Sharing of my works is a major help with getting discovered by a wider audience. ^_ ^ First pass as the lighting effect on the hair and feathers are almost complete!
Still working on the big sisters legs. After that I'll start up on the highlights for their skin. Trees still need don't have any highlights yet either. Am pretty happy with how its coming out so far. I'm still debating if i should do a censored variant to help provide more value to the Silver and Gold tier patrons. That and it would allow me then to put the design on some merch and such. It would closer to loin cloth and bits of torn fabric so as not to make 1 version wildly better than the other. I really need to find me a new quality print shop to get some full size posters made, preferably I'd love to get some wall scrolls created. Any of you have any leads on places that could do walls scrolls affordably? Preferably without having to go through China? Could be cool too to do double sides posters with 1 side being the uncensored variant. Would love yo hear your input on them. I do really want to get some products out to my long time patrons who've been so instrumental in keeping me going. Your all the best, even those of you who can't afford to support fiscally. :p Started up the highlights today!
Mainly on the Middle Sister so far. Hows it feel so far tho? This is just an initial pass so lots more work ahead. Their skin will feel brighter overall too by the end. Wanting to make sure I capture that sheen tho that will be crucial in telling them apart later. Still debating if I should do a censored variant for print purposes. #CrimsonDames #Harpy #Gothic #Horror #Art Made several changes to the line art today. Probably imperceptible to all but me unless your directly comparing previous versions of the work thus far.
I beefed up the chin for the Big Sister some, and gave her 2 feather decorations in her hair. Likely having originated from a bitter rival harpy she gutted some time ago. I recall seeing pet birds place paper cut outs they made themselves into what was the equivalent of their hair to stand out more. I adjusted the anatomy of the Lil Sister, moved her collar bone a tad, pulled back on some of her scars, added her second leg in, and gave her a necklace. The shadows are nearing completion, tho a lot of the detail in the wings still looks like a black blob. Which will hopefully read a lot better once I get the highlight layers going. I really love the vampiric witchy look they have going for them at the moment. Will probably need to add a secondary light source to the front so that the under sides of their wings read better, just not sure what color to go with just yet. Would love to hear what you all think so far! Inks and Flats are complete and now beginning work on the shadow layer!
I really love this phase as its when the concept really starts to come to life. I went with more of a raven/crow color scheme to give it a more gothic feel. tho they surprisingly feel very vampire like now. ;D Yell me what you think so far or if there are any details you think are missing that would make it even better. Rilly excited to finish this one. Oof man 6 months to complete these 3 commissions.
Kills me that it all took so long. Now that their finally complete I'll first be focusing on inking my Harpy pic, I want to revisit my Red Riding Hood: Prisoner looking back at it lately I'm not as fond of the pose as I originally was. Then I'll get to work on the vampire versus pic. Along the way I'll put work into the sketch queue though I probably wont be holding a contest anytime soon till I make some good progress on my own creations. Really hoping I'll be able to speed up my production and be more active with updates in the upcoming days. In other news had a major positive change happen for me, the VA accepted upgrading my disability claim and now consider me 100% disabled which is going to open a lot of new doors for me! Am seriously excited as it will help me to look into things like eventually hiring on other artists to help me speed things up. Gonna be able to upgrade my aging art equipment, mebe get a vehicle or moved into a new space. Especially want to look into getting some posters made of some of my creations to send to patrons and maybe even look into hiring an artist to help me create a sculpture of one of my Shewolves. Things are starting to really look up and I can't wait to see how it will positively affect my creations. ^o ^ My progress on my new website build is stalled a bit for the time being till I get some more art assets created and figure out the complex CMS system. If any of you happen to be wizards at that stuff would love to bounce some ideas off of you to see if what I'm wanting to do is even feasible. Complete at last! Man this took so long to complete, I really hope it was worth the effort. If you really like the final results please be sure to share it around and show it some love. :p Copper Tier Patrons and above can access the Ultra High Res Variants of the file! Silver Tier Patrons and above have access to the NSFW (True Version)! Gold Tier Patrons have access to the original .PSDs (For learning purposes only) If you love what you see please consider becoming a Subscribe?Patron! I live via the donations my beloved Patrons make to me, every little bit helps significantly! I barely scrape by on under 1400 a month so every cent counts. ^o ^ Starting today I'll be getting back to my sketch queue and knocking out as many as I can per day. If you have a reservation in the queue and haven't filled it out yet nows the time. I really want to get it emptied out before moving on to my next piece and holding some contest for peeps. And Don't forget!
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Is getting very close to completion now! Though I'm still wrestling with the idea of doing a censored variant where they have torn shreds of clothing covering them up. I've no clue how much time that will ultimately add and or if it will take something away from the finished piece or worse, add something that might just not work without with the main piece. Will just have to wait and see. :p Once its complete I'll be getting active with the sketches and contests again as I jump right into the next work. And don't forget! If your a patron and not part of the Crimson Dames Discord or the Livestreams or never even logged into the site once, then your really not getting the full value of your contributions. :p And I'd love to be able to get more involved with you all to ensure I'm delivering the experience your hoping for. |
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