jklind

Sunday Squish

There's never a bad time for some squish!

Some work updates - As I type this, the next week or so is a bit unknown.  My team is finishing up the current phase of our contract, but it's n...

Extra fluffy pillows

Couldn't let these two poses stay as thumbnails!

Mischief

I got just a tad bored, and found one way to have a bit of fun.  Not sure how for I'm going to take it, especially when there's Daisy & Mimi pinups I could be working on...

And yes t...

Cautious optimism

Work is actually giving me time to breathe, at least for the moment.  On the off-chance that I have a 3-day weekend, how ever will I spend it?  

Had to

Out of all the quarantine ideas, I wanted to draw this one the most.

What are my girls up to?

How might my characters be handling the pandemic? I've had ideas for mostly single images, that could be strung together as a comic, with Daisy giving narration. The framing device would be that it...

Could it be?

...have I actually, FINALLY picked up my stylus??

In all seriousness, I hope everyone's doing well, and staying safe.

I finally have some free time this weekend, so I'm trying to get ba...

So... yeah.

The news is even more gloom & doom than usual. Stores are either closed or have reduced hours. Toilet paper is scarce, and bidet sales in the U.S. are actually up.  The stock market is bes...

Something for later

At the moment I'm busy moving some of my stuff up north, the next phase of my contract starts in a few days, and the world gets scarier by the day.

Time for some Daisy boobs!

Will defin...

Roz

A character I've been plotting out for a while, and finally sat down to design - Roz, Daisy's assistant manager.  I may need to come up with another name, seeing as the main inspiration for he...

Been a while

It took me quite a while, but I'm finally getting ideas for Mimi!

A much-needed break

Good news - my contract is finally complete!

Better(?) news - more work from the same client is expected within a couple of weeks, and could keep me busy for a couple of months. Worst-case sc...

Cover me!

Free time may have been scarce lately, but I had something to spend it on - game covers! Now I have just one more to finish - Super Mario All-Stars - and then I can get the whole lot printed!

Paused!

I'm in the final stretch on this contract!  The most difficult bits are out of the way, so meeting my Tuesday/Wednesday deadline shouldn't be difficult. But after that there's still another an...

Opening a fresh can of rage.

Good - for a month of work, this contract will pay more than my Patreon brings in in a year.

Bad - pretty much everything else about the job.

As we get...

Morning bonus

So much for finishing this this weekend - my eyes are burning today, and tomorrow I'll be making up for lost time on my contract. Might even need to work every weekend until the end of the month......

Must it ALWAYS be a nightmare?

The high-res images & source files are delayed at the moment - there's some touch-up I want to do, but I won't have time for that until the weekend. I hope.

Every client has their quirks....

No Pressure...

Tomorrow - or perhaps Wednesday - I'll be starting on a new contract. It'll be a short one - a few weeks - but it's my first animation gig in several months, so I'm just a tad nervous. It may take ...

'Morning!

Update - Finally shaded!

Out of necessity

Sometimes I get really tired of needing to write my own tools out of necessity. Certain things should just be built into the app.

Maya's driven keys - using one object to drive animation on a...

Current Mood

HOW have I never drawn Daisy in full "it's too early for this crap" mode?  After the past couple of days, I needed to draw something as a change of pace, and this was the first thing that popp...

Another milestone!

As of this morning, my face template script is working!  It still needs some tweaks, but it builds all of the important features without errors! Once those are out of the way, the next step ma...

A bit much

With the lip rig figured out, now I can back to the face as who-OH SWEET JESUS TOO MANY CIRCLES!!!

...I MAY need to pick some other shapes to use for the controls, and color-code everything. ...

lips rig!

It's taken a few days, but my lip class for Maya is now working!

What this class does is take two sets of FK controls - one for each lip - and rigs them so they follow the jaw. How much influ...

Break time?

With the Christmas pics finally finished, I'm ready for a real vacation...  the holiday season is always stressful, and winter in general is a motivation-killer, but this year I've also been d...

An eyeful

Finding time to draw can be difficult, between driving everywhere to meet with family and friends, fighting a cold, and Michigan just being grey, damp, and depressing this year (though it did snow ...

Expected & Unexpected problems

Quick update - apart from visiting family, I lost a few days to a nasty cold. That and Michigan's grey, sunless skies have been major motivation-killers...

Yesterday I finally did an initial ...

Not to be left out

Thinking the holidays won't interfere with my slow me down seems to be a trap I fall into year after year...

On the bright side, in the past couple of days I've checked some more items off of...

Posterior appreciation

The second Christmas pic is taking a bit longer than I'd anticipated - it only needs shading, but I'd planned on spending the next week finalizing Daisy's rig. Also the third Christmas pick still n...

Lily knows what she wants for Christmas

Nope, no pressure at all!