WIP – Koopa

What did I work on for this guy this week?  Teeny-tiny little ankle band spikes.

2009-09-01-victor Well, I say teeny-tiny little ankle band spikes.  This fellah is eight inches tall and 1:12 scale, so we’re looking at what ought to be three-inch spikes.  But in actuality: teeny-tiny little ankle band spikes.

2009-09-01-victor-detail

1st draft [partim] – Mori

Here’s another of those fragments I promised you’d see coming.  Mori’s story is one I still don’t have a title for or much detail in; though I have the broad outline for it, at the moment it’s mostly just something that gets put on paper as I go along.  For example, when I was working on this page it somehow became one of my goals to use the word ‘inhastate’.


Now, ordinarily a golem wouldn’t hurt a fly. They can’t really; it’s not just in their programming, it’s in principle—the magic that animates a golem just doesn’t work if you try to build hostility into it.

Seeing my golem wrestling with the gryphon-man for a weapon was, to put it mildly, more disturbing than the monster in the arena.

When it succeeded at winning the spear from the kelvin, I figured it might be a good time to bail out and jumped off its back. Munk leaped back into the arena, landing with a heavy thud, and started swinging the spear around wildly.

It didn’t look like it had any idea what it was doing.

I looked up at the now-inhastate kelvin, but he was just watching as if nothing had happened, holding its candle in front of it with both talons.

1st draft – Scott the Alchemist 3

I don’t normally find myself with this many finished drafts to post.  There should be a lot more shorter progress posts from here on out as far as stories go; enjoy these longer bits while you can.  (If you’ve missed out on Scott’s story so far, chapter one and chapter two, also NSFW, are available on Yiffstar.)


NSFW (M/M, CTF, weird) behind cut →

WIP – Sugar Loop

This guy’s a character out of Khatoblepas‘ game Death Wore Endless Feathers who’s just adorable.  Or is supposed to be, anyway; I seem to have fallen out of the practice of drawing raccoons, and I’m not too happy with this so far. I’ll probably end up redrawing this.  (Seems to be a trend with other folks’ characters; I had to redraw Jakob at least once too.)

2009-09-01 LoopI suppose while I’m at it I could try more interesting pose too.  :|

WIP – Taaq

And here’s the result of the scheduled work on the icebear I did this week.  Unless someone points out something horrible, this’ll probably be the last pencil version, and I’ll start coloring from here.

Taaq WIP as of 2009-08-25

WIP [partim] – Myces page 4

Worked on the sane panel for a bit.  I’m not happy with it chiefly because I still can’t get the hang of drawing people walking.  There’s actually a bit of background that was too light to make it into the scan—not much, admittedly, but it’s not going to be a featureless white void.

Myces page 4 as of 2009-08-25 How do you draw walking and make it look convincing?

Also: I know the Mycenaean is pretty bad, even (especially) taken as Greek.

WIP [coloring] – Kit and Muke

Here’s another one of the old requests I started at the beginning of the year and still haven’t finished yet… the B&W was posted to Fur Affinity in March, but I’m still working on the accoloration.   (This should give you an idea of how slowly I usually work.)

Kit and Muke as of 2009-08-24This week I was mostly working on cleaning up the colors, an effect which probably doesn’t show much because a) the difference is negligible at thumbnail size and b) y’all haven’t seen what it looked like before any of the work was done.

Nevertheless, you may consider progress as being made!

1st draft – Atligili

Fortuitous that ‘Atligili’ (the creature’s name) happens to be fermi-fermi-fermi-fermi-pico from ‘alligator’.   An alternate title might have been All things devours, but that’s both too directly cheesy and also taken.  Anyway I’ve been wanting to write something like this for a while now, though I don’t think it’s quite developing the way I would normally send it.   Living costumes, of course, are a thing straight out of Swatcher‘s repertoire that you should enjoy, and the trash can I blame on a random remark of Kamatz‘s that probably intrigued me far more than it should have.


I looked at the costume in its box and tried to resist the temptation to put it on again. I had only worn it three times before, but each time….

I didn’t want to think about it, because I knew it would get me horny again.

And if I got horny again, I’d put on the costume again.

And if I put on the costume again, the beast would get hungry.

And I was already running out of stuff.

But I couldn’t stop looking.

It was a gorgeous alligator suit, the kind that inflates around you, making you look like a big shiny pool toy. When worn. Just then, though, it looked all sad, stuffed in its box all rumpled like that. I never did put it away properly… when the thing’s hunger faded and I was in control again, I hadn’t taken any chances and hid it away as quickly as I could.

I figured I ought to at least fold it up properly.

When I picked it up, though, I knew I was trapped again.

It was the smell of it! The pure smell of vinyl, or whatever it was that it—that he was really made of entered my nose, bypassed my brain, and went directly for my crotch.

Before I realized what was happening I had already torn my clothes off—I mean literally ripped them off my body. I didn’t know I was that strong.

The smell was so powerful! He shouldn’t have smelled so clean—I had left him covered in the remains of what he’d eaten—crumbs and spills of food and drink… paint… I couldn’t convince him paint wasn’t for drinking, and he’d gone through five cans and it was so sour in my stomach—and blood, I’d forgotten… how the cat had struggled… but he was clean now, somehow, and…

I was forgetting again now, now that he was controlling me again. I climbed into him through the opening in his chest. I closed up the airtight seal and pulled up the oversized costume zipper that covered it. And I turned on the built-in pump under his tail that would give him his shape.

He never spoke, but I felt his satisfaction: I was his dependable slave, if unwilling. And I felt his hunger, too. As soon as the air had filled him full and fat and round—so beautiful, so majestic, I thought, as I glimpsed him in my bedroom mirror—he stretched out, hopped on his big feet experimentally, and barreled purposefully out the door.

My house, as I’d mentioned, was already mostly empty.  The beast sniffed at the air and, though I didn’t smell anything, he must have gotten a scent from something.  He ran into the kitchen. The cupboards were still empty; I hadn’t dared to refill them and had been eating out.

He grabbed the trash can.

Please, no, I pleaded.

He opened his jaws wide, forcing mine open as well.  He poured in the contents of the trash can, and I tasted styrofoam, greasy fast food wrappers, and a few day-old French fries.

I felt  like I was going to be sick as the monster forced me to chew and swallow.  But he wouldn’t get sick, so neither would I, no matter how much I wished it.

The gator moved a big paw down over his belly.  I knew what it was thinking: Still empty…

He sniffed around again, but I could tell nothing left in my house interested him—today he wanted meat.

WIP – Kohath

For some reason my last picture of Kohath was drawn well over five years ago, and I figured I’d better draw a new one since the old one was kind of awful, too.

I started on this a bit ago and worked on it for a while this weekend at the Aurora furmeet.

Kohath

I have a sort of idea that there should be another person in the shot (I can see him watching Scott go up the stairs) but I’m not sure it’d be worth the effort.  What do y’all think?

WIP – Taaq

I did some unscheduled work on this at the Aurora furmeet on Saturday night, just ’cause it’d been a while.   Worked on the shading a bit, and am trying to get the iceberg to resolve some—I know already that it’s too pointy along the top; that’ll be the next thing in need of work.

Taaq as of 2009-08-24I really like this guy, hehe.  Hopin’ it turns out well.

On a more general note, I’ve decided once a week is a little too infrequently to post here, so instead I’m going to try and post a couple of things every few days.