Maria Ochoa

Zorca shenanigans

With the month wrapping up Im looking for all the stuff I sketched out. These are several for my tides-that-binds-us b...

Demons! At the Disco

Groovy, baby!

This was a belated birthday gift for my friend, Werewolfsister! They have a personal project about priests, demons, and math problems OH MY! It's an awesome concept and the desi...

Pride Spotlight - Cironus

Here is the last spotlight for this month but certainly not the least by any means - Cironus!

While researching orca behaviors when first setting up the zorca, I learned they're polyamorous. ...

Paprika Comic - Lurona and Finn

This comic is extremely self indulgent and it's been fun to work on even if it's been slow going. I've been dabbling here and there in this human AU for my zorca characters, making up ideas for eac...

Pride Spotlight - Ducky

We're in the homestretch of June and Im trying to see how many of these I can make before the month's end. So next up is DUCKY!

All of my characters on CDN were krogan so I wanted to challen...

Request sketches!

I mentioned in a previous post that Id like to do requests here on patreon, but I was still unsure. For now Im starting small with a group of friends! Here are a some of the pieces I did over the l...

Sketches, sketches everywhere!

Im always reminding myself that it's okay to be inconsistent with your art. I dont have to keep to a specific schedule or an art style, or even a topic. Just enjoy things while you're in the zone!<...

Digital - Adrift from Home

Listening to music got me wanting to doodle something for Cironus being wistful and lonely, and to play with water effects. Here's the full colored piece as well as the test sketch that started it!...

Pride spotlight - Zoar

Another krogan OC! Im having fun drawing them all again. Ive been thinking over who else I wanna showcase in these little spotlights. Like, it won't be Mass Effect only but Im kinda in the zone her...

His job is Beach

This was a gift for Bec-Son/Becquerel on tumblr! They've been so nice drawing art of Fat Fin and I wanted to draw them something in return. I found a pose reference and showed them and they came up...

Pride spotlight - Kron

Up next in my little series is Kron! Before I joined CDN I created Kron along with my other krogan; Turak, Vuk, Zoar (and another who didnt show up on the boards named Uvnar) Originally they were g...

Human AU - Fat Fin

Fat Fin has been an unexpected comfort character for me. I like drawing him, making up ideas for him, planning out stories that are not related to the stuff I feel like I should be working...

Paprika - Fat Fin pinups

These were all done with reference from art belonging to another artist named Hoggan who draws large furry men 👌I wanted to expand (hurr) my skills when it comes to body shape and practice thing...

Pride spotlight - Lydia

This little project may or may not be my excuse to draw krogan again (but let's be honest, any time is a good time to draw krogan) so here we have Lydia!

I had her join Cerberus Daily News ab...

Pride spotlight - Branka

I always wanted to do something like this but each year I was too busy or too scared to share or talk about it in any capacity. Ive seen folks do art of their OC's identities and it looked like fun...

Final prompt - SRKW

"If we lose the Southern Residents, it will be the first extinction where every individual's name was known." - Alexandra Morton

Here we are at the final pro...

Tokitae & Kiska

Okay, we're in the homestretch.

I've been going slowly over this prompt because it was the hardest to talk about. Reading about the history of these two orcas was a lot to take in, and they'...

Art trade - Caldermuir

my finished piece for Stellarcherry on tumblr, with and without the mask, and an edited sketch since the last one because as I was working on that I realized the arm fins were facing the wrong way,...

J35 Tahlequah

Tahlequah is a special killer whale to many people. I remember hearing about her story in the news and online. It's another sad tale so here we go:

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J2 Granny

Granny was the matriarch of J pod (part of the southern resident orcas) and was said to have lived into the hundreds. Further research discovered that may not be likely, maybe putting her at 50 or ...

Moby Doll - The Killer Whale who changed the World

This week was the one I was looking forward to the most though I want to give some warning first; some of these stories are extremely sad as well. I had to take a few breaks in my research because ...

Sleep, Spa Day, and Dorsal

Just about caught up with my Orcanomics! Let's get into some orca facts because they're pretty cool! :>

Sleep - Did you know that orca don't sleep? Not fully, at least! Th...

Title Cards

So these were mainly for practice but one day I was strongly hit with particular visuals and I wanted to try out some fonts (text design is not a strong point of mine) these were fun little edits 2025-05-26 06:14:52 +0000 UTC View Post

WIP - Caldermuir

Stellercherry from tumblr asked for permission to draw Cironus hanging out with one of their OCs, so in return I asked i...

Art Trade - Kurt and Briar

I uploaded this on tumblr but posting here because I want it here! This was an art trade for axicentshappen on tumblr. Who...

Catching up - Baby Talk, Delphinidae, and Super Pod

It's been another busy week but thankfully no storms that knocked out our power! My partner and I have been looking forward to this weekend so mostly been taking a break from drawing (i also injur...

Despite everything, we stay silly

So last week was not so great, and I don't want to use this to vent about it (Im honestly ready to move on) but the week was fantastically topped off with a tornado warning that caused a ...

Gift art and sketches

This week has me all nervous and stressed and Im trying not to think about it. I like to draw to keep myself busy but you don't want to do too much or else you face burn out and wrist inju...

Happy Mother's Day!

It's a little hard to celebrate mother's day but drawing is a nice distraction and I wanted to do something nice for the occasion! Here is my zorca family; Lurona with her kids, Sardon, Cironus, Ka...

Clan & Community

A clan is composed of pods that share calls and also share maternal ancestry. While whales from different clans do interact and interbreed with one another, they do not share any ca...

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