Catty

 

Markers

Decided to buy some watercolor markers on whim today. Watercolor is a style I've gotten a little enchanted with, but I haven't gotten around to committing to yet. I figure these markers wouldn't really be the same thing, but close enough to try out some analogue coloring. As with ink, its a lot less forgiving than digital! Even more so with markers and actual watercolor paints, you basically can't erase or cover up mistakes at all. There wasn't a "flesh tone" color in the pack, so I had to compromise just not filling out the pale skin, and using pink for shading. Inking was done with a micron pen. 

 

Happy America Day! 2025

Sleepy Sustra and Dogoro the Blanket

 

Sustra and Dogoro again

 

Rabbits and Dresses Again

Love drawing these goofballs!

More Sketches

  

Christmas 2024

 

I don't give much thought to the holidays throughout most of the season. The excitement of youth wore off decades ago, of course, but even my previous ba-humbug-ery towards the hyper-commodification of the holiday has largely worn off. It's just a busy season to my eyes. I don't actually celebrate on the day, either. Most years, I intentionally isolate myself, staying cozy in my home.

However, I'm not anti-holiday. On the day itself, I've come to find a zen-like peace, as the world slows down, and the expectations of the daily grind come to a halt, and I can just fully chill out. I do pretty much the same things I always do any other given day I'm stuck at home, but without the nagging anxieties of life's many burdens. I do the same for Thanksgiving. Between the storms of insane pile-on at work, media blitzing, social frenzy, and the erratic shifts of weather, these two holidays are bookends of calm that I've come to appreciate all the more in my older years. For right now, in this time and place, everything is alright.

Merry Christmas, everyone.

Beeloved

 

Poppy and Margot in the Caves

 

More Demis and Dresses

 

Playing around with alternative outfit designs, but I'm terrible with costuming, so I mainly just keep falling back on the same elements.

 Possible work-in-progress, but we'll see.

Painted Wings

 

Playing with the oil paint brushes in Adobe Fresco. Unlike most art programs, the paints in this one really look like thick streaks of paint, with easily discernible texturing. I did this one in about thirty minutes on a lunch break, and couldn't decide on a background. Might be fun to try a more fully realized painting with this engine, though.

Poppy the... Hedgehog?

 

Happy Halloween? Poppy doing Knuckles the Echidna cosplay. Even the furries are becoming furries!

Damaged Angel

 

Demi-Ladies and Talking Hats

 

Sustra & Dogoro with Nemo & Rae. Although coming from radically different backgrounds, these dimension-hopping, multi-talented adventurers and their textile companions find they may have much in common.

Sketch Dump, Ladies and Others

 

 

  

 

 

Another big ol' dump of sketches, made on various programs.

New Litlins Unlocked!

 

Finally came up with some more simplified character designs for Poppy to interact with. Margot, the Golden Ant, and Phiz, the Skink. Not sure when I'll get back to actually animating, though. I think if I do follow through on this, I will perhaps go with the Litlin idea (small critter-sized characters in a world left behind by the larger species).

Poppy Update

 

Decided Poppy looked a little too much like Mickey Mouse, so I decided to update her model a bit to resemble more of a jerboa. Still not totally sure what her deal is, and I've been trying, and not really succeeding, to design similar doodle-critter-characters to have her interact with. I have a vague idea she could be a "Litlin", one of several species of diminuitive demihumans who live in a world where "giants" (normal people) once ruled the Earth, but had mysteriously vanished years ago, leaving Litlins to navigate a suddenly vast and empty world. Or maybe she's a human-sized knight errant. Or maybe just a farmer caught up in shenanigans. Who knows? Likely, if I don't come up with something specific for her soon, she'll join the massive pile of other characters I came up with for something, then never followed through.

Update: More Poppys