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Sorry! It's been too long without an update. Been working on a new illustration this past month. The lighting has been difficult to figure out.
The scene is a moment where Red Riding Hood Standard makes a climatic leap just as a voracious 2 headed dragon lunge after her. And end up crashing their heads together. I'm still figuring out the lighting effects. Lotta shading to do still before its done, but its starting to take on a proper life of its own now. I've been needing to post more regularly but my various maladies have been keeping me from having the strength to do so. The website had an issue too where it lost its SSL for some weeks and I only just figured out how to get it set back up correctly. I want to rebuild my website from scratch so bad, but Webflow is too complicated for my meager coding skills, and at the same time insufficient to pull off the full scope I have for my website. I really just need to learn to code on my own, but don't even know which language to start learning. I really need some help figuring out where would be best to start given what I'm trying to accomplish. Heck it might be better if I just build my own codeless web builder. designed to organize my sites data and aesthetic the way I need. More and more I think what I really need to do is make a website that is an interactive video game. Imagine something where you could explore various dungeons and find pages that open access to new 3D galleries. With unlockable ways to access key characters input on a given work in their own voice. I need to be able to utilize multi layered web building. I know its possible but most site builders don't easily account for its possibility. Seen some really cool doom mods that had me thinking "surely I could pull off something like this" Make a sort of pseudo walking simulator where you physically go to different areas of the site to view whats been created. And or ancient tomes where you flip through and see the various sketches done as tho it were some arcane wizards manual. So much I want to do so little time, and even less funds and energy to go round. Remember you can always find me in the discord. I need to post more about my Fallout 76 camp and shelters too that have kept me pretty distracted of late. Thanks again so much for your continued support in these trying times. I really want to find something I can create to give back to you all. Just always a struggle to figure out where best to get something printed. My works tend to not print as well as I'd like.
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Got back a while ago from my first major surgery.
Had all of my lower teeth removed. TTo TT the local anesthetic is lingering for now, just a lot of pressure from the swelling so far. They didn't even give me any of the good pain meds. Just tylonal and ibuprofen. Ug hopefully the dosage is enough to deal with the pain later. Will be some weeks before I can get them to finish the upper side. and weeks more before they can begin dentures. Not going to be eating for a while. Will just let Ketosis kick in till I'm healed enough to hazard a soft meal. Wont be streaming for a couple days till the pain reduces. Sigh, ah me. Mnrrg man sorry for the lack of updates so many things conspiring against me of late.
Couple weeks back went to brothers house to help him recover from his surgery and watck the wee one till he had some time to recover, the very next day he and his family all came down with the flu. So extended my stay for about a week to ensure they had someone to run out and get medicine, groceries or whatever else. Then finally I caught it and headed home to recoup myself. Some time before that I was able to get me a new (well used) vehicle from Carvana. Probably ended up paying more for it than I should have but its a nice vehicle and I like its look and color. Important aspects to an artist. :p It's a nice snappy vehicle thats finally restored a portion of my independence and I really like it overall. Though still always feels like I'm shaving a year off my lifespan every time I have to get behind the wheel. Got me able to travel back and forth to family's place without needing to take a train anymore. And was all set up just in time for the first of my VA dental appointments. First one since I was rated 100% disabled by the VA. Had that earlier this week and it was... mnrrg a real horror show. looks of disdain from the doctor who did my X-rays, I've got a lot of bone loss and several infections. basically everything needs to come out. Unfortunately they're trying to play things off as tho dental implants are just a herculean task that's out of the question. that they just don't do full dental implants. I'm sure they can they just don't want to. Whether or not my body would be able to accept them is another issue I'll have to play by ear for the now. Unfortunately despite seeing the dire nature of my situation they just scheduled me for the middle of October for the first appointment for the extractions! The first of 5 or more major appointments. With the followups would be similar time frames between each. Oh and they don't do temp dentures. Never mind that most civilian dental clinics can and do. They literally expect me to go some 3-6 months with no teeth at all. They don't do cancellation lists for patients anymore so I'll need to call back daily and hourly to fish for cancellations. -_ - Wasn't feeling super stoked about the situation and the doctors there didn't do anything to attempt to make me feel more at ease or to walk me through what the procedure would be or tips for recovery and or eating without teeth, nothing. I got the sense that they would rather I suffer as much as possible for having allowed myself to have gotten to this point of deterioration. If I never came back in again it would be no skin off their nose and they'd promptly forget I even existed. The whole VA's system and personnel is a grotesque joke of the highest order and needs major overhauls. It's going to be an intense uphill battle to navigate their system and force the care I need from them. Thankfully on my first try I managed to snag a cancellation for tomorrow. So tomorrow I'll likely have half or more of my teeth pulled out. well whats left of them. I'm just going to go back to the keto fasts while I'm recouping. So tomorrow (Friday) I likely wont be streaming, and might not the rest of the weekend depending on how messed up I feel. I need to figure out some way to force them to give me some degree of implants. I'd joked in the past that if I got full dentures I'd get me some monster teeth made at some point. That idea is one of the few positive aspects of all this I'm still holding out any hope for. tho haven't started researching that yet. Will be fun to wake up on any given day and be able to say "Imma wear my scurry teeth today!" and then do so. :p Art wise I'm knocking out my sketch queue I owe to supporters and fans who are members of my Discord. After each day's sketch I'm putting in some work in redoing the pose for RRH Prisoner's VS. illustration, since I've grown dissatisfied with the original pose I had given her. More and more medical appointments will be piling on and eating up my work time, but hopefully its the first stages of taking back control of my life. Wish me luck tomorrow or better yet a prayer. :P Man was really hoping to have completed more art this year than I've been, don't get why things are moving so slow for me lately. Oh yeah! So as if all of that wasn't bad enough Patreon decided to suspend my account. So didn't receive anyone's pledges this month. I guess it's just as well because my output has been very very slow due to the issues listed in the link. X0 They had listed like 5 posts they demanded I make for patrons only, but despite having done that already they didn't undo my suspension and I suspect the list would only grow exponentially if they dug deeper into my feed. So to me my work with with website is essentially concluded. If you love what I do and want to lend me your financial support please do so through my website. I got it all set up where you pay the same prices for the same reward perks. I can't deal with this sites corrupt practices anymore though.  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.
Hoboy this was a long time in the making!
I set out to do a major overhaul to the website to help simplify navigation and make it easier to move between key topics. I've moved the creations tab from the top to a new header located in the footer. Where its major topics have been broken down into their own tabs. The Crimson Dames Gallery and lore items have been combined into tabbed galleries that will allow for far less clicks to access the information contained within. I separated out the Projects tab for easier viewing and updated it to also house some of the pencils that I've not yet had the time to get around to inking. I've also combined all of the Fandom pages into tabs within their own gallery located in the footer. I still need to get some pics people have sent me in there tho. I also still need to better simplify the Subscription page. Perhaps cut back on my sad story a tad and just let people get tot the point. XD I really need your help with figuring out what else is still broken or needs refining. I havn't even had a chance to make it over to the Patron pages just yet. I still need to find a better video player option too so that the Double Shewolf and the Pierced Lycanthrope can be viewed properly. If you have any suggestions complaints or questions by all means throw them my way so I can help to improve things. ^_ ^ I'll likely award sketches too if people manage to find issues I hadn't yet discovered myself. :p So keep a sharp look out. ^o ^  As thanks for peeps hanging with me while I finished these recent creations I'm opening up a new round of Roll For Loot contests!
Usual rules will apply. Roll For Loot Sketch Reward In addition to that we have a few special offers!
Don't forget! Boosting rules are in effect for the contest! Each boost will raise the maximum reward pools by +1! So don't forget to share! ^_ ~
As thanks for peeps hanging with me while I finished these recent creations I'm opening up a new round of Roll For Loot contests!
Usual rules will apply. Roll For Loot Sketch Reward In addition to that we have a few special offers!
Don't forget! Boosting rules are in effect for the contest! Each boost will raise the maximum reward pools by 1! So don't forget to share! ^_ ~ Finished this a finished and posted to the website a few days back but got kidnapped for Christmas before I had a chance to finish posting it to my feed. XD Now to get started on the animation process! Took longer to complete than I had hoped but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out. Some of the more subtle details people might miss are stuff like veins and freckles across her body. I feel like I'm always growing stronger as an artist but somehow I'm growing slower as I think through ways to implement the vision stuck in my head. Got to find a way to speed things up in the upcoming year. The full sized image is posted to the main Crimson Dames gallery the High Res image is in the Copper Tier, with the Original .PSD in the Gold Tier gallery. (For learning purposes only) Would love to hear what you all think of it, love it hate it? Is okay I wont feel too bad, but crave your feedback nontheless. :p In the meanwhile join me in the livestream as I prepare to animate her. ^o ^  |
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