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"New Kid"

Petra in her youth. Life isn't always so kind to the new kids, the foreigners, the freaks, the geeks...

Watercolor, Copic marker, and pen on 9x12″ hotpress board

"Keeper of the Mountain"

This was a rare joy, just for the amount of painting I got to do in the background. The colors came to me quickly in rough sketching and then I just needed to get the feel of the cave refined. And yea...

"Bye"

No, don't worry I'm not leaving. Well, just a week's vacation then I'll be back. And to change things up, I'm posting this here a bit early. Enjoy!

"Lost Woods Juno"

The idea of giving Juno sunset moth wings and big, fluffy legwarmers seemed cute enough, but when I actually drew it out last year I was smitten. When I want to inject a ton of color into my art, fair...

"Sunkissed Dyani"

Here's a watercolor/marker piece I drew for Skyler Ragnarok on FA. He's been very generous drawing my characters and including them in some of his work, so I created this just ahead of trip to go visi...

"Good Girl"

So, I decided to go for a "sandwich" method for posting: newer artwork as it's finished, and older stuff to get caught up. That way, there isn't a multi-month delay in getting full-res versions of the...

"Late Night Brandy"

I love porcupines -- I really do -- but they're always a challenge. Depending on the medium, the level of detail, and the angle, I have to consider every time how to draw those magnificent quills. And...

"Cabin Vixen"

I honestly tried to settle on a better title. But it works. This piece was a gift for Baron03 who's been nice enough to include som...

"The Worth of Water"

I kept running into references to indoor farming this year and finally decided to explore it in a picture. This ended up being a neat and intimate mixture of the highly organic and highly syn...

"Heart of the Woods"

When I set up an art trade with LuthienNightwolf a flood of ideas came to me, all of them set deep in a very natural, timeless forest environment. How to render that environment on paper was something...

To my patrons

In the three weeks since I launched my Patreon I've been just amazed. I couldn't have known what interest there would be in a project like this (if any) but every time I get a new pledge notification ...

"January"

First digital piece of 2018. And yeah, what smoldered through the final months of the previous year finally broke, and I did what I could to capture it in this scene of Petra and Juno. I somehow keep ...

"The Drumhead"

Getting caught up on 2018 work! Here's the first picture I finished this year, and as environments go this one was more demanding than most. Full-resolution cleaned scan of "The Drumhead" at 300dpi. T...

"Low-Temperature Civets"

Full-resolution cleaned scan of "Low-Temperature Civets" at 300dpi. This piece was drawn with Copic marker, watercolor, pen, and gel pen on 9x12" hotpress board. Yeah, I do have a bit of a civet probl...

Art Batch (2017)

In 2017 I put a lot more focus on getting comfortable with digital media, and as a result most of the pics here are digital. But this also includes the start of a slowly progressing series of marker/w...

Art Batch (2016)

Some digital art actually happened in 2016! I put a lot more time into getting the feel of a tablet and learning my way around SAI, and you can see some of the results here. I've included a .sai file ...

Art Batch (2015)

2015 saw a lot more full background marker pics with more elaborate shading. This was also the year the red fox Juno first appeared, and she's certainly gone on to get a lot of attention! Like 2014, m...

Art Batch (2014)

On to 2014! I have some marker and inkwash pictures to share, but a few of my scans from this year were lost on their harddrive (you may remember a Glaceon, a couple of sharks, even a jackal). I still...

Art Batch (2013)

In 2013, I spent a large portion of the year living and working away from home. With limited art supplies, I took the opportunity to better learn watercolor techniques and even incorporate them in my ...

Art Batch (2012)

Lots to share for 2012! I did several pieces in this year with print-making specifically in mind. A mixture of commissions, gifts, and personal work, scanned at 300dpi. Mazia (the civet) gets some goo...

Art Batch (2011)

In the 2011 batch, I have a mix of pen & ink and full-color marker work. Like the year prior, my muse wasn't striking reliably; but when it did, I sank my canines in and held on for all it was wor...

Art Batch (2010)

Continuing on with 2010. I remember this as a much less productive time, but a few drawings came out of this period that I'm still fond of.

Art Batch (2009)

Hey and welcome! I had to start these posts somewhere and 2009 seems about right. There was a dramatic shift in my style just prior to this, when it started to resemble the art I do today. So here are...