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 The third sketch for Thomas of his character mid transformation!
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 The second work for Thomas of his barbarian shewolf character.
^_ ^  This was the first of 3 sketches earned by Thomas.
I decided that trying to refine the sketch line art directly was too time consuming so I basically resorted to just essentially inking the work, but at a faster than usual pace in an attempt to save on time. Ultimately though I wound up with my usual OCD inking creeping back in and I don't think I ultimately was able to save any additional time at all. Usually wouldn't put forth this level of effort but with the support peeps helped us achieve I felt it was worth the additional effort to help compensate for the crappy currency exchange rates.  Phewa Christmas was a bit rough this year what with my brother and his wife both being knocked out on Christmas day with the flu, my niece the day after and myself the day after, leaving everyone ill for about a week.
 Phewa I'm so sorry its taken me so long to finish this one! To T
I started this pic back in September in anticipation of it being my Halloween project. I'm a big fan of Go Nagai's Devilman especially of his Devilman Lady. So It's a character I really love and very much wanted to do her justice. Then I wound up having to fight with the VA over my dental care. A fight I ultimately lost that left me bitterly defeated and very low on reserve mental energy and as a result physical energy. It led to me just seemingly having forgotten how to draw, and I had to redo numerous major parts of this work to get things looking to were I could accept them. I'm sure those peeps who frequent my streams are sick of seeing me work on this piece. There are still parts I'm not super happy with but overall it gets the job done. I'm really sorry if it felt like I've completely dropped off the map while working on this piece. It just felt like it wasn't worth sharing the WIP steps for this one as it would have been long stretches of looking nearly identical to outsiders. Given that were so close to Christmas already I plan to just work on doing some sketch work in the meanwhile. It feels like I've really lost track of exactly where I'm at with my Patrons and I need to get that tightened up. Please be sure to reach out to me to ensure you all have access to my patron rewards, and if your part of my server please be sure to remind me to give the proper role. Patreon used to be able handle giving those outs but I've been essentially permanently suspended by them. Which reminds me that I really need to update that page some and clean it up a bit. If any of my patrons are reading this I'd love if you could love over the Subscribe Page and see if you notice any glaring issues you think I should address. I'd especially like to encourage my Gold Tier Patrons to reach out to me on discord as I'd like to try and get you all a sketch at some point soon if at all possible. Thanks again for all of your support and sticking with me in these dark times. I'm really hoping to rally myself in the upcoming year and get one of these major projects finished and made available for people. I still need to get the Gold Tier contend updated for this new work, but its set up for the Copper Tier. (Does anyone ever access the gold tier Rewards??) I realized I didn't have a High Res page set up for the Fan Art yet and spent today working on that. :p Man I still wanna do a full website rebuild on Webflow but it's been a major chore trying to wrap my head around that site.  Man the lighting for this one wound up being really tricky for some reason. I'm sure I've messed up with the shading and lighting but overall I like where it ended up.
Little Sister excitedly grabs the collar waiting for Big Sister to finish changing. She has a few bullies down in the village she'd like to introduce to her Big Sister. The High Res files are up for Copper Tier Patrons and above as well as the original .PSD for Gold Tier Members!  Progress with this has been slower than I'd like... like usual. X0
Been experimenting with a new AI art generator I recently discovered called Promptchan. Its a paid for service where the niche they chose to focus on is that its... 1- A much more simplified Stable Diffusion tool set that's easy to pick up and start using. 2- Is mostly uncensored. Save for content that's illegal in most places around the world. It's using an in house compiled model that is much better than the typical service like these I've seen pop up with much more reasonable prices. Now mind you its by a very small team of 3 devs, So updates are a bit on the slow side, but they've been very open about utilizing the feedback from customers in their discord server. It has plenty of growing pains yes, but thanks to the way they've set things up its far easier to get a decent image generated even if it ends up not being very close to the mark of what you wanted. I experimented with Automatic 1111 for a good while and wasn't ever able to ever get it to produce anything even half as good as Midjourney's worst. Here I'm able to get right decent results though I find its model while great at doing pinups, struggles a bit more with more out there concepts... such as those I've been trying to get it to do... mainly female werewolves. XD They've been making steady progress though for how small their team is, and with SD having recently released some very powerful next gen tools available to the public for free I have high hopes that they will be able to continue to advance their service and make something that can eventually rival even MJ. Even while using the equivalent of older tech AI wise they've already put together something that easily fills in the gaps that MJ has purposely ignored the needs of from their customer base. I used it in this drawing tho not quite in the way you would think. Nothing in this image so far is directly made by an AI, but I did feed in progress I made along the way to see how well it could recognize the subject material and how it could be enhanced. That lead me to being able to identify several major anatomical mistakes that I was able to work back in to the ongoing work and making it far more appealing than it would have otherwise. I'm sure it will be able to help guide my process with the shading too. I'll post an example in a bit of ways it can be used by aspiring artists outside of letting the AI do all the work.  Inks are coming along nicely. I might change up the girl in the background again, Still not quite feeling her yet. The chest on the big shewolf is still an item of concern at the moment.
Still gotta decide if this is her sister or mom.  Not quite sure about the girls pose just yet.
Face feels off still and not sure if she shouldn't be more in that exterior hall. Will have that space be were the main light source is coming from casting long shadows. Wanted the shewolf to take up more of the space but then I'd have to crop large parts of her body off and there would be nowhere to put the girl were she would look right. Mebbe I'll zoom it all in a bit closer before inking tho not sure yet. I could scrap the scared girl aspect and have her just be all creepy about it. Oh yeah mebe shes holding a spiked collar and a chain leash. Like she's bout to take her sister out to get back at some people. That would read more interesting I think story telling wise. What do you think though? |
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