The mom got it all
This month it's a mix of revisited old art, some colored older sketches and brand new stuff as well.
Any suggestions for a sketch this month? I already did Sly Cooper and I could take one more
I've updated the latest bundle with the two suggested sketches, don't forget to check them out.
This month was terrible, I was late with everything... It's the last day so I have to post the bundle, but I'm still working on it. I will update it with at least two more sketches that were suggested in recent post and probably color some Dash
EDIT: Of course I had to mess up the month in the thumbnail... :|
Any suggestions for a sketch I could do?
She's the last one from the original pool. It took her over a year to get here :v
In spite of recent events related to Patreon I guess it's obvious it's no longer a safe place for NSFW artists. My account has already been suspended once and I never know when it may happen again – every day I wake up not sure if I will be able to pay my bills next month. I'm tired of being an NSFW artist, not welcome anywhere, having to jump from one service to another praying that this time I won't lose 5 years of work because of some bullshit policy changes.
Anyway, SubscribeStar is the current answer to Patreon's crap, it's targeted directly for adult content, therefore it's much safer to use. The problem is, due to the direct adult content nature they are obviously banned from PayPal and it seems the only payment they accept are credit cards billed in USD, which is for sure going to be an issue for people outside the US. Sure, there are a lot of services like Revolut allowing to easily exchange currencies and create virtual cards to do payments without fees, but I don't expect anyone to start using some new service just to pay 5$ for some porn art. Please let me know your situation by answering in the poll.
I'm setting up a SubscribeStar account over there and trying to figure out the payment processing – if it will work I will probably start using SubscribeStar soon. I'm not going to close my Patreon though, I intend to run a mirror copy of it on SubscribeStar for some time, I need to take small steps.
I need some safe ground, because if Patreon will suddenly cut me out I won't be paying my bills the very next month. I'm not a popular artist with a big fanbase that will follow me everywhere. People like me are the biggest victims of this crap. If I would be a big artist the worst that could happen to me would be that my income would drop from 1500$ to 1000$, fuck, make it even 800$, I wouldn't care, it's manageable and a price I would be willing to pay for safety, but I don't have this luxury. If Patreon suspends my account I'm done, just like that, every single dollar of my income is critical and I'm not successful enough to feel safe, because I know that I can't just move and expect everyone to follow. I need to start making a smooth transition and hope it will work out eventually.
So, summing up the poll question:
How is your current situation regarding online payments? If you are from outside US, do you solely depend on PayPal when it comes to online payments? Can you handle USD card payments in any way?
It's not a good month so far, it took me half a month just to finish something that should be done in 3 days.
I wanted to add Michiru to the poll, but I only watched one episode so far, so I'm not sure yet if I won't want to draw her right away or something :v But I guess she is a strong candidate for next month.
A lot of solid stuff this month! Pretty much everything is worth coloring I guess.
I don't have actual WIPs for this pic, I totally forgot about exporting them and I only realized that when I was exporting it and all the early sketches were long gone, so I've only exported some fake steps, sorry about that.
I've included avatars with this one. They come in three versions: 512px PNG, 256px PNG for general use and 100px shit quality, outdated 10 years old GIF aka the Furaffinity version. Should I include avatars from now on? It's something everyone can do with some online tool I assume, but if you like I can bundle them for you convenience if there is a demand.
I didn't have any idea for this pic, so I've ended with a generic bedroom thing. I like how this turned out though.
The poll didn't give a clear answer, so I decided I'm gonna do both, but ended up coloring only one sketch :x This month I focused mostly on a new bunny character. She is turning out great and I really like her.
I was afraid of this one, because I had no idea how I'm going to turn a sonic character into anything sexy but I'm really happy with the result! (except the background, the background sucks :x)
I've updated that one pic in the art bundle, don't forget to check it out! It's really good
I'm posting the thing already because I'm running out of time, but I'm going to continue working on some of these. I will update that colored pic with some shading later tonight, so make sure to check it out in few hours. I will post a heads up here too I guess.
This one is going to be a challenge to draw for sure but such ones are always kinda interesting problems to solve.
This one was a blast. I like that every time I have to draw a character I'm not a fan of and would never draw otherwise, it always somehow ends up as an amazing pic. I'm really proud of this one!
I guess I will color all these at some point. Especially Dash and gamer Gumi
Another almost empty one... Eh, I'm less and less productive every next month. I have to force myself to do anything, otherwise I just wouldn't draw a thing. I struggle to find any inspiration lately. Every next month more patrons are leaving, I don't blame them, I barely finish anything – it took me like half a month to finish the poll winner alone and another half to do the rewards. Work that should be done in a week took me a whole month. Not sure what to do.
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And Cream Heart is back in the top – I have no idea what happened last month :x
I've actually never drew a full pic with Spike, so let's add him to the poll. Naturally it won't be a solo pic. I'm thinking Twilight or Dash I guess, we'll see.
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One 50$ slot just became available! Letting you know first just in case someone here wants to upgrade.
How many months in a row Jewel was the leader and ended up being 2nd after all? :x The one thing I don't understand is what happened with Cream Heart? She was 1st last month, getting all the 9s and 8s, but this month suddenly she ended up at the end with a ton of 1s and sub 5 scores.
I didn't include the source file for this one, because I had to merge all the stuff during making it, since I've started running out of memory. The SAI file is 1gb at this point and I don't even have enough RAM to scale it down without merging everything, which would make the source useless. Sorry about that :x
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This took way too long to make, but I really like the final result. Still have no idea how to draw liquids.
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She was never in the poll before, so let's see how she will do :o
I had this image of her being a gamer for a while already. I guess this could be a nice set of images :s
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Xiyue managed to outrun Jewel in the last second. Amaterasu is climbing up very quickly, though it seems Cream Heart is the current favorite.
It's been an another year here. I don't remember when I've started my Patreon page, but it was years ago for sure (pic #001 is dated October 2015). I don't like to look at the numbers, because they show me how little I've achieved since the beginning.
I'm not doing good, far from it, every day feels kinda worse then the previous one, but I still want to try I guess, because I still have a little bit of time and faith. I just wanted to say thank you to all people who were supporting me all this time. I just want to tell you that this little amount of monetary support I'm getting from you on Patreon is literally the only reason I am still going. Without it I simply wouldn't be able to survive and stop doing art long time ago. I just want you to know, that this little bit of money you've decided to give away every month keeps a person going out there.
This year I've introduced new tier with pic rewards and I am really happy there are people who considered it worth their money – this boost of money really helped with things, thank you!
2019 was awful, I don't expect anything from 2020, but I hope I will still be here next year, being able to make more content. I hope you had a happy new year!
I'm sorry I'm this late with the bundle. This month was awful, holidays, new year – I felt terrible and worked the bare minimum. I've just finished this Dashie pic to at least add something to the bundle, but it still sucks though... Happy New Year everyone, I hope it's better for you.
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It took a long while but Gatomon finally wins :p
At least thanks to Patreon I drew few different things this month, otherwise it would all be Dashie spam :s
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Ops I forgot to post the poll results :x I'm only one day late though :v It seems the cat mum needs some love again :3
Just a heads up for new patrons that we have a discord server! Link for patrons never expires and has unlimited slots. Feel free to join if you want to talk art, waifus and any random shit.
What do you think about this level of finish? The wallpapers doesn't look so great anymore... I'm trying to develop some simpler technique that would allow me to finish things faster. Working on one pic for a week is really annoying and then it gets 50 likes while a colored sketch has 250 and it all just feels like a wasted time. I really love this sharp highly detailed style, but unfortunately it's just not worth it to spend so much time on every single pic – especially when you are trying to make a living out of it.
Second thing. As you can see there are two color versions included. Which one do you prefer? Do you prefer if the character respects the light of the scene a bit more or with the hue a bit shifted to make it more vibrant and separated from the scene?
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I've finished so much stuff this month the bundle feels empty again :x I've included this Dash thing I did few months ago but for some reason never posted I guess? I've animated it as well but the animation needs more work.
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Yet another thing where I'm not sure if I should put this here or in the monthly bundle, since I don't have any WIPs and stuff. I've tried to export some wallpapers, but this is much less detailed, so they aren't so great but it's something at least :v
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I guess this shows an another flaw of this kind of voting system. Amaterasu was the most desired character this month, but she ended at the end, because it's not possible for a character to get this much votes to win so quickly. Getting to #1 will take her few months. Jewel who stays on the bottom when it comes to monthly votes will get a pic first, but I guess that was sort of the point of this? :f Idk, I wanted to give opportunities to smaller names, but a highly desired character having to fight for months to get to the top doesn't feel so good :s
Anyway, as usual feel free to suggest characters for future polls in the comments!
No WIPs, since it wasn't supposed to even have a background but there are some steps in the source file tho.
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I need to decide for some full name for Gumi and Gumika is the only one we have that sound nice enough – it sounds polish and can be shorted to Gumi. Not a huge fan of it but I want to finally agree on something and I don't think I will ever come up with something nicer for her.
What do you think?
VOTE HERE
What do you think about that Spyro and Dash thing? I personally love it, they look so good together! :3 Also I think I'm going to color that Dash in a hoodie <3
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No surprises here I guess. I felt like there was much more hype for Xiyue though. At first she had a solid start with a lot of 9s but end up last anyway.
As usual, feel free to suggest characters for the next polls in the comments!
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Again something that wasn't supposed to be here. I wanted to practice more linework and simple coloring but failed and added more detail, so not much in there but let it be here I guess ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I've figured I should keep the inks with this one, because of the complexity but I kinda regret that now. It could be much better with full detail :|
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Another month with rather poor amount of content. I'm trying but I'm constantly failing. So many times I sat with plenty of energy to work on something and then it all just disappeared in a second and I just went to bed, because I was feeling too bad to do anything and I hated myself, because I've failed again, fuck my life for fucks sake...
Anyway, I guess I am going to refine some of this stuff. I was thinking of making Xiyue a full pic and improve these Dashies.
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Here are the results with the new system! This is how the current situation would look like with the old one: OLD
As expected, Nicole is still a very popular choice but she wasn't doing too good, because there was always some better pick, however with this system we can see the whole spectrum of things and look at Ember – she sure is a very popular one – though people really wanted the Spa Ponies, so it made it look like there is not too much interest in her.
On the other side of things we can see that Jewel is doing a bit better, but since she was always at the end there was a ton of better picks, so she never was able to get much points, therefore she was always at the end with the rest.
Callie got hit pretty hard and this is the only thing I'm not sure about. She was slowly gaining points every month, climbing the chart with baby steps. With few more months, she would actually get a chance to win. The current system smashed her hard to the ground and by looking at this chart, I guess we can tell, that it's very unlikely she will ever win, there is too much better options to give her any chance and same goes for Sly.
But the fact that she was going up in the old system basically shows that there is someone who wants to see a pic with her and they were working to make it happen and in the old system, they actually got a chance to do it at some point, while the new one will never allow her to win I guess. I mean, yeah, the system works, it showed up that people aren't interested in these particular characters, but it makes me feel bad for these who were trying to make them win.
I know that it is completely fine, but I always think about the little ones. The old system gave them chance, however, is it the right thing to do? Making only one guy happy while no one else is interested in a particular character? Someone is paying to get the ability to vote... but so is everyone else, so the one guy getting a pic is basically everyone else not getting theirs, though, the one guy had to work many months to push his character, while everyone else can make anyone win in a single month and they already got many pics, so it feels like a nice balance after all. As I have no doubts that socialism is bullshit that will never work when it comes to politics, I feel like it's not always that bad in micro scale – I feel like asking people to maybe sacrifice it once every few months, so the little ones could get their favorite pics too doesn't feel that bad.
Idk, I still feel that the new system is much better, there is much more pros to it and pretty much just that one single con.
She is tiny, so I've figured it's a nice opportunity to practice some fluids. What do you think? I kinda like it, maybe I should do this sometimes with other characters, even if it wouldn't make sense there ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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I'm surprised I've managed to make her head look fairly good. I have no idea how to shade it though ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Alright, let's introduce the new-old voting system! This should give a much better representation of who gets the most attention. I hope I've set up everything correctly :x
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VOTE HERE
I've added new 30$ tier that will give you a sketch every month! We'll see how it goes. For now it's just a sketch, but I'm considering possible upgrades – for example, instead of requesting a new sketch next month, you could choose to upgrade the previous one to a simple color ink.
I'm going to wait a week before announcing it on other sites in case some of you want to upgrade
The spa ponies were close but the little one wins this time!
I don't have much this month, because I've finished almost everything :x Though the stuff inside is also fairly detailed, I hope you don't mind :s
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This was supposed to end up in the random art bundle at first so I didn't save any WIPs for this one
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That's a very sexy one.
As usual I've fucked up the files and as usual I've realized it while hovering my mouse over "publish now" button after 2h of exporting shit. I haven't exported a single pic correctly so far. I even fucked up the post numbers for fucks sake.
UPDATE:
I've fixed pics with the fur clipping through the stockings
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Again this was supposed to be a doodle but ended being a more finished thing. I didn't save any WIPs but I've tried exporting some wallpapers at least, they don't work very well but it's better than nothing anyways :|
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The sport bunny takes the lead! I guess I'm going to watch Space Jam before drawing her.
I'm not sure what to do with characters that doesn't get much votes. There are characters that are getting like 1 or 2 votes every time. It will take them long months before getting a chance to win like this. On the other side there is someone voting for them constantly and taking a character down, after someone was voting for them for half a year, hoping that they will eventually win feels kinda bad – after all the whole purpose of accumulating scores is to give the less popular characters a chance.
I guess there is a chance it will fix itself after some time, especially if there won't be any obvious picks in the poll. There is a possibility that the seemingly unpopular names are in fact someone's 2nd favorite, but it just happens there is always a bigger fish – Nicole, for example, seems to be kinda dead, but last time she won the poll rather easily, so idk, we'll see, but I guess some rule to decide who will be removed from the poll will be needed in the future.
And as always, feel free to suggest characters for future polls in the comments!
Here's a more proper finish of her! I'm not entirely satisfied with the lighting but I love the background, it feels really nice and clean. I guess I'm going to experiment more with this style as it takes no time to finish and yields a nice result.
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I've decided to do a second one, because the previous one felt not good enough compared to other ones. I'm going to keep it in the same style as previous one but with a high quality finish this time.
This one is so clean! I love beach themed pics, especially because of the colors, it is so vibrant and nice. I probably should think of making some beach themed art pack or something.
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I don't know what to do with this. Lately I'm kinda lost with trying to figure out the way I want to do things. Like, what is this? It doesn't deserve a post with title card, I don't have any steps, it's not a wallpaper material. On the other side, it's finished enough to be considered more of a finished pic, but that would mean I have to do low res export... so I'm supposed to make a separate directory just for it? And two posts?
I guess, since I've decided to post monthly bundles of things I can use that for now. The full res versions of pics like this will be included there, so I won't have to make two posts every time.
Also I don't know what to do about the poll now. Obviously it's far from the quality level of other pics, so I wouldn't say this counts. I guess I'm either going to draw one more pic of her like this, or just consider this unrelated and draw a proper high quality one.
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I've picked few random scraps. From now on, I will be posting a bundle at the end of the month with random stuff like that. This should probably go under the $5 tier, but this one is rather poor, so let's make it $1. Also that gabby may probably be a WIP, I'll see if I still like it in the morning :v Do you have any outfit ideas for her it though?
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Again I have to go to bed really bad, so I will update the directory with wallpapers in the morning :x I will see what can be exported, because this pic is messy, so extreme zoomed crops may not look too good.
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Omg this is a mess and it was a pain to finish. The original number of this pic was 77, so this thing was catching dust for some time before I've finished it and I was so lost in the project file. I'm constantly learning new things and changing the workflow, so even working on a slightly older project is a mess, because it's already outdated. I initially wanted to make more versions, including one without Big Mac but I don't want to bother with it anymore :|
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I wanted to do a quick thing from the episode I've watched, but when I went back to it to start coloring, I've started sketching more instead and extended the thing and I'm really pleased with the results to the point I'm thinking of making a few page long comic out of this. I could also use some of the sketches I've posted before.
Though at this point I'm reconsidering the episode aspect and thinking that maybe it shouldn't be related to it at all. I rather want this to feel nice and innocent but if it's supposed to be related to the episode it would feel rather weird. Well, I could still make it cute but now we are talking some more serious story telling which I don't want to do for sure, so I'm probably going to detach it and continue utilizing my vision I guess.
Since it is a comic, I'm going to put everything related to it behind spoilers, in case some of you prefer to consume such content all at once in the finished form.
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I hope you aren't annoyed by the tons of RD content lately :| After all the art showed up I've decided to watch the episode and wanted to draw something too. Though I wonder if making yet another exact pic is a good idea. I was thinking that maybe I could replace these books with some gym scenery or something, just to make something different.
All of my ending scenes from Winter Warm-Up! pack. Re-posting here because it turns out considerable amount of people don't follow me anywhere else, so here you go!
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I wonder if I should be posting everything I make here? Sometimes I'm posting things on other platforms and I don't re-post them here if this is something simple like a random sketch posted on Twitter.
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UPDATE:
Wallpapers are in! I've exported them as JPGs this time, this drastically saves the space while the compression is not noticeable with such big dimensions anyways, instead I can export more variations, so pick your favorite one!
I wanted to make an update for her blog but ended up with two pics that can be posted on their own. I don't have any steps or sources for these but I will update it with some wallpapers tomorrow
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Some stuff for her Twitter but I figured I could give it more detail since they feel nice, especially the first one! It has the potential for a nice wallpaper thing I guess
I did some sketches. I have no idea what to do with them, I was thinking that I could give it some quick colors and do that Quibble sequel thing?
The source file is currently a 600MB of mess, so I didn't include it. I will try to clean it later and update
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This pic is heavy as fuck, I'm so tired but I'm really happy with the final result though! I guess it's my best work so far! I have no idea what is going on in this pic but I really like this sci-fi theme! I guess I'm going to do more of such pics in the future
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Let's bring the cat mom back!
As usual, feel free to suggest characters for future polls in the comments!
Woo, I really like this so far! I was inspired by Skygrace's work lately and wanted to draw some sci-fi themes with nice perspective going on. I didn't really captured it well as I wanted but I still like the results so far. Does she look Krystal enough though? Idk, the original look of her is so ugly :x
This was supposed to be a quick thing for a Patreon thank you page but ended up as usual :v
From the previous poll it seems a lot of people like explicit wallpapers (now I wonder if maybe exporting close-up ones doesn't make sense haha), however, there is one more aspect I want to ask about to get more precise image. What type of explicit wallpapers do you use? I'm especially wondering about close-ups of butts and genitals, something like I did with my latest fox pic, but more explicit – do you like this kind of wallpapers? A butt closeup instead of picturing the whole character? Or maybe a mixture of these two, also as I did with the fox pic, with small character in front and a butt in the background?
These wallpapers are appealing to me, but they feel so "in your face" type thing and I feel weird about it, though mixing these two together, with full character in front and a zoom in of sexy bits in the background kinda works for me.
Do you use "for the fearless" kind of wallpapers? These files are pretty huge and sometimes there are many of them, so I wonder if it makes sense to export explicit versions of wallpapers?
Oh boy, this took so many hours, it's a pain when there are two characters interacting with each other ><
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Luna was really close, but this month is for Krystal!
Not much for this one, since I wasn't planning to finish it at all but it yielded some nice wallpapers though!
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Didn't export much, since I wasn't planning to make this thing a fully featured pic but I ended up detailing it quite a lot. It's some random character, but I'm thinking that maybe I could work on her a bit and make her some mascot for banners and stuff.
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I had this one laying around, I've figured it may go along nicely with the other one so I've cleaned it and added some collar
I hate English double letters :| I'll fix it later, I want to give it some quick color
Ops, I've forgot to post a new poll :x Gabby takes the spot this month!
As usual, feel free to suggest characters for future polls in the comments!
Eh, this took forever to finish. I did a lot of experimenting with this one and I like the final result but it was so time consuming though :s
Really crude and messy sketch, needs much more work but I'm sharing already! I hope it does look Renamon enough :p
Luna got a lot of votes, for a second I thought that she will win the vote in one take but Renamon had a solid base of point collected after all
The idea of artists having their own servers on Discord always seemed weird to me. I've tried this before but it failed. I want to give it an another shot but with a slightly different purpose this time.
This is not an official Patreon reward, it's not supposed to be for any special content or anything. There won't be any patron only groups or anything like that. It's just a place where I hope to gather some like-minded people to chat about random things, share memes, share art, maybe play games etc. Since you are here supporting my work, it means there is at least one thing we have in common, so I'm sharing it here in the first place. Let's hope it's going to work out better this time!
One more WIP! Still one more to go for this month vote. I guess I should start finishing all of these pics before they will get stale too much :p
Welcome Luna as the new pony this month!
As usual, feel free to suggest characters for future polls in the comments!
I wasn't expecting this to make much troubles :x These sheets are really annoying to draw but I guess it looks quite good!
I wanted to do a quick random pic as a warmup and ended up with this. What do you think? I guess it could be worth finishing, I haven't drawn AJ in a while after all
I wanted to do a pic like that for some time already. It doesn't capture the image I had in my mind much but I guess it may be good enough for a pic for now :з
Due to complete lack of interest Zabivaka has to go, so we have two new competitors this month – Lola and Jewel (because #tweetfur is boring)!
Little something. I just wanted to draw a portrait but ended up with something a little bigger. Finally I drew him not looking like suffering from severe brain damage :x
A pic of Dashu in her nurse outfit for her Twitter. It was supposed to be just a quick sketch but turned out so nice I'm going to turn it into a full pic later ^^
Has anyone have an idea what I could put on the poster over there tho? :s
A little surprise! It's a gift for my friend, I've managed to finish it on time yay! Also it's the first time I drew Fluttershy :o
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A pic for @ponyfuzzball
Do you want me to post such things here? I mean, regular sized versions that are available everywhere else. I was just wondering that maybe some of you follow me only on Patreon, so it would be handy for you?
Besides, I hope you all had happy Christmas! I'm so angry I wasn't able to do a proper Christmas pic for you ><
I know it feels like I'm dead lately, I'm really sorry for that. I should give some explanation for you.
I was busy with the Halloween pack last month. I wanted to make it up on this month but I've been asked to join an another project, much bigger one this time and ended up having a much more work to do. I was working all this time, it's just that I can't post anything for obvious reasons.
I was really excited with it but I kinda start to regret that decision lately. I probably won't have enough time to even draw Christmas gifts for friends and my Patreon is dead again and I've lost even more patrons... I feel that it was not worth it at all but it's too late to gave up since I've done a lot of work already. I'm going to finish the character poll pic right now at least, maybe I'll finish one more ember, but I guess I should pause the Patreon for now, eh...
I should be done with everything by January and I'm going back to drawing stuff for my patrons and followers, I'm tired of these projects. I realized that I want to draw for and socialize with people in the first place, instead of doing work behind a curtain like this – it just doesn't give me any happiness, I'm even angry that I can't provide enough for people who supported me.
It's the cat mom this month! It seems like Zabivaka has to leave the spot too though.
I again forgot to put the source file there (does anyone even needs them tho? :s) >< I will update it as well as the Amaterasu pic tomorrow
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This one feels like one of these pics I could work on for a month and never be satisfied with after all. But it's still so sweet :3
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Omg I've exported almost 1gb of stuff from that project, I hate myself :x I hope you will find something for yourself though! I really like how this one turned out, she is a cutie :3
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I like her body but the face feels weird, but it won't get better than that I guess :v
And we have a winner for this month! I hope I didn't mess the numbers – it's so late, why I never do these things in the morning when I'm not half asleep already ><
I'm not sure if I should go with anthro or feral but I guess anthro should be fine?
Yep, that fuzzy butt is now living in my Slav universe, because why not! :3 My friend drew a pic with a post-soviet housing block in the background. It felt so weird, like, you don't expect to see a pony character in such surrounding. I said haha, I have to draw something like this. It was supposed to be more like a joke but ended up being a wholesome material for a future pic. She feels so much close like this aaaa ><.
There's a dragon in the pumpkins! Well it's kinda late for Halloween stuff but better late than never I guess. I'm posting this already but I'll update it tomorrow with the second edit.
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EDIT:
I've added more versions and goodies to the mega folders
Meanwhile, let's vote!
As usual you can suggest characters for next polls in the comments!
This is almost done, I just have to get the colors right. I have no idea how to do the second version though but I'll try :x
I'm sorry I didn't manage to finish the Ember pic on time... I planned to do it today but I don't know what happened but I suddenly started to feel so down and couldn't draw a line. I started to feel like everything I do is worthless and no matter how hard I try, I don't really belong anywhere. I was scrolling through groups on Discord and Telegram I'm a part of, thinking that I don't really understand these people in the end and will never fit anywhere. I looked at the huge list of people in my contacts I could talk to any time, but in the end not a single person who could share much with me. Anyone who could get excited about the same stuff and say "I understand". I kinda feel like an autistic kid, looking at the world and not understanding other people.
I eventually just went to bed when I made sure that I won't do anything productive today so I may as well sleep through it. I was thinking about stuff, mostly daydreaming, imagining things and I had this idea of a comic that could bring some kind of hope for anyone who feels the same. I got back to my PC, turned out everything but SAI and started drawing while listening to my favorite music from animations and games. I felt like a real artist doing actual art for the first time. Like I'm writing something down, instead of doing a random picture without any meaning. Something that happens because of a reason.
I had this idea of a young fox who is trying to find a part of the universe to belong. A character that many others could see themselves in. I'm considering giving away my name to him and making a new blog. It feels like it could be something nice and meaningful. I'm just afraid I won't be able to pull of good enough art for this.
Alright, I'm finally done with the Halloween pack. There were some issues and I had to do some more extra work today. I originally wanted to start working on the Halloween pic today but I didn't managed to do anything more than this crude sketch because of that. I really like it but it's 6am and I'm falling asleep. I hope it will stay the same when I wake up :x
I'm kinda surprised people like Ember this much :o
I'm not sure what to do now. There is an upcoming Halloween art pack and there will be two of my pics there and one of them is Ember. I also still have a lot of these sketches to finish and they will end up being a little book very likely – that's a lot of Ember :x Besides the art pack I also want to do a Halloween pic I could post here and initially I wanted to pick a character from the poll but it's Ember again. Well, sure there will be a lot of her soon :x
Little something. Kinda preparing for some comic maybe.
I'm a bit dead but it's because I'm working on pics for an upcoming Halloween art pack I'm a part of.
Well, yeah, since we have only few people voting it may be problematic to pick a winner if the votes will spread evenly but we'll see.
I've started putting these together. I'm still not sure where I'm going with it. I guess I'm going to render all of these. Not all at once but it would eventually end up a nice pack.
From now on, I'll keep a character poll and accumulate all votes. I've seen other artists using this kind of system and I guess it's fair enough (unless higher tiers give you more voting power :x). Every patron will have one vote per month. Every month I'll pick the leading character and draw it, then it will be replaced with a new one or its score will be reduced back to 0 in case there are no other characters in the queue. As usual you can suggest characters in the comments, if I'll like them I'll include them in the future polls!
This month will be without a pic to let them gain some score first.
Ember with a kobold touch I guess? I really like these. I don't know why but it seems every time I draw her it's always some medical theme going on. Should I do something more with it? I was thinking of some image series of these, or at least add few more and put some basic colors on it.
Something quick and messy. It was supposed to be a quick sketch but ended up being a bit more.
Also #69 damn it, I've wasted an opportunity... :|
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So, I'm finally done with commissions, so now it's time to draw something here. Any suggestions? I'm enjoying Gumball right now – definitely going to draw Nicole, I love her, also I'm thinking to do some R63 Sly Cooper.
Woah, finally finished. It took me over 45 of raw work hours but I'm pleased with the final result.
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Last commission I have to do. I'm pretty pleased with it. I should do more duo love pics.
I'm not satisfied with it. Maybe it will look better with colors :f
Have some happy blissful horse girl. I want to do more with this later, but I have to work on commissions right now :f
It's a mess. It belongs to the thrash can but I'm going to finish it anyway
I'm so slow lately... Maybe it's because the heat wave, my room is located on the back wall of the building, facing south-west, being exposed to 55C heat for most of the day, also my PC and amplifier are generating a lot of heat – I'm sitting in a fucking oven ugh.
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Last night I wanted to work on Button pic but earlier I was watching random episodes looking for some voice samples for animations and I've accidentally watched the episode with Rainbow's parents. It made me happy yet depressed and I went to bed instead.
I wanted to draw something with them so bad today and this thing took me ridiculous amount of time. I want to draw some pic of her parents someday. Such a lovely guys.
So I've went to pony creator, hit random and this happened:
Huh, they improved the random generator, nice – I said and pressed the random button one more time – Oh... thankfully, there was an undo option, so I've quickly went back and saved it. I've generated hundreds characters later and there wasn't a single one that at least would have a pleasant, matching color scheme. She's special, what was the probability to get something like this on 1st hit after all? I'm keeping her.
I forgot there are some cool LPS characters to draw. Actually there's almost no art of them. There are some doodles and sketches but I haven't seen a single solid rendered pic. Maybe I should make it into a proper pic, at least it's something I won't turn into Dash again, she needs to take a break :x
I took me so long to finish this and I could still work on it for another 10 hours very likely but I want to post it already. I present you my definition of my ultimate dream girl – this is absolutely my best pic of her so far <3
After a warm day the sun is slowly starting to hide behind the horizon, casting a bright warm light into the room. After a nice dinner, you've finished cleaning the house, while she prepared the bed with fresh sheets, big soft pillows and plushies. You've entered the room after a nice, refreshing shower. She was already lying on the bed in her favorite soft nightwear, browsing netflix on a tablet, looking for something nice to watch. She is looking at you and smiling widely, while the bright orange light is saturating her freshly washed, fluffy hairs, making them appear even more colorful. You can't resist and smile back. The time is slowing down, the world around ceased to exist until tomorrow morning.
Alright, back to reality now :(
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I couldn't resist making it an another pic of her. This is so perfect, best pic of her I drew so far. So pure and lovely. I hope you aren't sick of her yet :x
I guess I have to draw a non pony pic next, so I won't end up with another Dash again... But for now, I'm going to appreciate these perfect legs and lovely soft butt for a while.
SOURCE FILE (I'll update later, this project is a huge mess right now)
I just can't draw anything simple... I mean, this was supposed to be a doodle sketch type thing, but I can't resist to keep adding details every fucking time... Oh hey, let's add more tones to the sketch, hmm maybe I'll color it... no it looks ugly now, I'll give it a little shade... but now it needs some background... At this point I could just ink it and make a full pic eh
I was opening old files tonight and I saw this one – holy shit what an abomination. I remember I had mixed feeling with it, it was like: "It's ok, I like it, I guess but I have a feeling there's something wrong with it...".
It's like having that piece of code you can't deny doesn't work but at the same time you have no idea why, because everything makes perfect sense for you and you have no idea what could you possibly change to fix it. It's not like there's a problem you don't know how to fix – you just don't see any problems. Tonight, I've opened the file and when I saw it, I couldn't believe I actually posted it to the public...
I've decided to refresh it without looking back at the original and here's the result. I still would do some tweaking to it but I'm quite happy with it and I don't have that feeling I've mentioned before. I'll look at this few months later – I wonder if this will happen again, maybe I'll draw 3rd generation :x
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I'm sketching a lot at nights lately. This one is nice, it may be a nice base for a pic in the future.
When there's no good stuff in the internet I usually do my own. I usually sketch comic pages. I don't even save it usually but I've extracted some things this time.
You probably remember posts about my father and how my life looks like. You probably also know that my father is dead. I've said that this is finally a hope and a path to a normal life after 20 years of living in hell... Well guess what, fuck me and my life.
I also have a brother who's the complete garbage drug addict piece of shit and he just decided to continue his father's legacy. My house right now is a pile of garbage, literally a landfill (that's his passion, collecting trash, these are his actual words, he literally called it a passion). I wanted to politely talk to him half an hour ago and explain him that house is not a landfill and he's a toxic parasite destroying mine and my mother's life and it's not going to be like that anymore. I wanted to present some rules to him and give him a chance to fix it... but he decided to barricade himself in his room and that was all about polite discussion. I had to enter the room by force and if there wouldn't be a landfill of trash between us in the room I'd literally start beating him.
I've heard that I'm retarded, because I'm angry if someone piss on the floor and don't even bother, I've heard that I'm retarded, because I'm translating everything into money (because I've said that he didn't give any money for bills and I was starving, because I had to spend all my money to pay the bills), I've heard that I'm retarded, because I don't understand the real life and all I see is that landfill in my own fucking house... He suggested me to look outside that room instead of screaming, because I can't make myself a dinner, because of a pile of garbage laying around. I've also heard that all this is my fault and I made all that mess – yes, that's what this piece of fucking dog shit literally said. He said if I have a problem I can clean it and he was repeating how retarded I am.
And as an only owner of this house I can do... nothing. My only shot is a long ass case in the court... EU and human rights my ass... Too bad nobody cares about my rights. But I'm going to try it. I either get rid of this piece of shit from my house or I'll end on the street myself. I can't handle this anymore, I won't be living in this fucking hell for another 20 years waiting for another piece of shit to die – even if this means going in debt and losing all I've created so far, even if this means I won't be able to draw or do anything I like anymore, I don't give a fuck – it all doesn't matter a shit if I'm supposed to live with this piece of garbage in my house.
The worst part is that I'm completely alone. I have no one to support me, no one to always be physically around to help with at least some talk. It's 1AM and I want to scream, just talk to some people and here's no one.
I need to see a psychologist, I need help and most important an written opinion that this piece of shit is the only reason with my mental illness, because I feel like this will be a crucial proof in court to get remove this human garbage from my house by force. I know that his first words will be that I'm crazy and insane – yes, yes I am insane, that's true, one simple fact is missing, this insanity comes purely because of his presence in my life. I'm living on a fucking landfill right now, listening that I'm retarded because I pay bills, I'm retarded because I see problems in anything – says a 40 year old guy, drug addict, trash collector who never done anything responsible in his life, never paid a bill, barely knows how to boil water and make tea, who was always working a shit job and wasting all he earns for drugs. I'm fucking done.
I need to see a psychologist, I'm seeing a lawyer this Monday, I have to get money to pay the case and sue him and that's all I can do... Why I can't just grab a fucking shotgun and politely suggest such piece of crap to get the fuck out of my house... Why the only thing I have as an fucking owner in this fucking country are responsibilities, like paying rent and tax but no fucking rights... I can't even decide who is allowed to enter my own property – he may literally invite 10 pieces of shit like him and I can't even tell them to leave my property, because I'm "just" a fucking OWNER, who has no fucking rights to say anything, because they are his guests... I want to scream and break bones...
I'm sorry, I just can't. I don't even know what I'm writing right now, I'm just writing shit, because I can't do anything else. I know you are here for art but I just can't... I'll finish that Daring Do pic, maybe made a Dash version, and I have two sketches of Dash to clean and post and idk that may be all for now. I just don't know what to do...
Please don't hesitate to hold your pledges. Maybe I should set my Patreon to "per paid post" for now, so nobody will be charged until I'll come back with some content idk, I'm sorry.
-Omi
It's almost ready for coloring. I like it so far, kinda refreshing.
Let's make a quick poll
I like the final result. I guess orange color scheme is my favorite, everything looks so smooth and warm.
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I gave up. I've inked everything but couldn't handle the simplicity. Every time, I can't get rid of a feeling that I'm wasting an opportunity for a much better pic. I guess I should remove the lines from the character too.
Idk who could be the guy. Soarin is probably the only pair for her that works for me.
I also did a version that's illegal here I suppose.
Wow, so original. Applejack in a barn, in a pose like this. This is also a WIP I guess, it's generic but I like it.
And her again :x
I guess that's a WIP (unless it will transform into an abomination during the night...)
I always have a problem whenever I draw something random and it will turn out nice but I have no idea what to do with it. A guy? Toy? Tentacle? What kind of outfit, what background... I'd like to draw every single idea at once but I have to pick only one or two unfortunately :f
Sorry for lots of commissions lately. After the death of my father we are in tough financial situation, so I'm doing whatever I can to help the budget right now.
A commission I just finished. I'm not sure if I should post it here but maybe here's someone who cares about other type of art stuff.
This poll was broken because people weren't forced to assign only one number to every character... I can't get anything right since they changed the poll UI... Anyway, the results should still represent people's will fairly well.
Everything feels off with the shades but I'm still working on it
I guess outfits and edits are the worst part for me. I always spend a lot of time for it and the pic feels like it didn't advance anywhere at all.
This is an issue with everything I draw. I can't see issues with things before it's too late. I wasn't aware how bad the position of the wings look like before I added the shirt :x
That's more like a finished thing but let's consider it a WIP, because I want to add one thing before exporting and will probably tweak something.
Eh the background is a bit crappy but I want to move on already. Anyway she's so pure!
Quick decision. What pic should I finish first? There's that Judy pic I did some time ago, inked and somehow completely forgot about but I guess it's good after all, because it will look much better than it would that time and I really liked that pic. Quick over-night poll since I don't want to start anything new until I finish everything.
Idk if I should call it a WIP or what. I kinda feel like the color made it a lot worse but I'm half asleep right now. I almost managed to finish it today but I need some sleep now. I'll export it in the morning.
Wrapping the gifts! Almost done, just needs few more outfits.
I'm doing a lot of useless work, I don't even want to know how much hours I wasted for useless details nobody will even notice after all :x
It's almost February and I'm decorating an xmas tree. I waste too much time for backgrounds drawing pointless details :x
I'm back at work! It's hard to get back on track after such breaks but everything is slowing back down here and I can start focusing back on work finally.
The funeral was today. It was my first time when such thing was on me and I had to do all the paperwork. I've been on many funerals already but it was the first time I've buried a member of the closest family myself. I feel really good and relieved. Still some papers to handle but the big stuff is over. I'll be back drawing in few days and I'm really excited. I hope this year will be my first year of regular life after almost 23 years of shit happening.
They took him to the hospital today. I thought that we will clean the house a bit and I'll be able to get back to drawing but my mother got a phone call. My father passed away few hours ago.
I just realized how pathetic piece of shit my family is... I should feel relief but I'm in even more stress right now when I think that I have to take care of the funeral and all the paperwork and my fucking family will do everything to make it as bad as possible...
I already feel how I and my mother will become the worst element of the family... I already hear them throwing shit at us because we didn't met their fake and pathetic standards. I didn't expect it at all to be honest.
A man died and everyone is already calling us to tell us how much money we have to spend on what and how every detail of the funeral should look like – that's the most fucking important thing – the fucking amount of money you are going to spend on the coffin – excuse me, but could I decide myself of what the funeral of my own father will look like and how much money I have to spend for fucks sake? I'm probably going to break every single contact with any of my family member tomorrow and invite only my father's friends for the funeral, because I won't be able to stand these pathetic clowns pretending they care.
I won't be able to draw anything for few next days obviously. I'll try to take care of everything ASAP.
And I didn't mange to get anything finished on time again... Me and my mother are just going through ultimate hell right now but if we will make it, the upcoming year may be a whole new life.
Cancer is killing my father. He's dying in pain – I like to think that all the pain he caused will be coming back to him in a condensed form until it kills him but even with his last breaths he's going to make our lives a hell. Just imagine that you have to take care of a fucking Hitler or let him lay in feces in your house because he's half paralyzed – that kind of choice.
Every single doctor said it's over and there's no chance for him – it may be matter of days or even hours – I may start a whole new live soon, it's so close...
I didn't draw much in the last few days. My hands are shaking from stress. I don't want to use synthetic stress drugs because they are destructive but I'm drinking herbal medicines and it's helping I guess – at least to the point that makes drawing possible.
Well, I've survived an another year. It was much worse in almost every aspect than previous one but I'm still here at least. Thank you especially for my patrons – I wouldn't be able to survive without that support I got. I hope the next year is going to be amazing... well... amazing as my life gets but if I won't have to listen to daily fights and screams I won't complain.
Eh, there are a lot of issues with this pic, I don't really like it and I'm getting tired of it. I guess I should take a break from it and do some Christmas stuff first.
This is taking so much time... This stuff is amazing but takes so much time to get done. I hoped to have the paint finished today and do the colors tomorrow but it's nowhere close to be finished and I want to do some Christmas stuff.
I don't know when I should post WIPs now. It seems like there's no good spot to export a WIP because there's no separation to flats, shades, lines anymore.
Ok, finally finished! I could actually spend much more improving it but I was getting tired of it already.
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Woo, I took a completely different approach this time and the result is quite amazing. Almost finished painting, I have no idea how to color this but hopefully it will work. I'm really enjoying this technique and the final results are much more refined and classy I guess.
I've tried some painting today but gave up. It's too hard for me, I have no idea what to do and it looks terrible though it feels like it's much more convenient way to draw and the final result feels more natural.
Does anyone here remember that thing?
I was planning to color and animate it but that head is terrible. I have no idea how to make a good looking pony head ugh
She went to the doctor too.
I don't know what to do, maybe I'll color both of them after all.
We got only 10 votes but I guess there won't be any more. I should post this on tumblr as well I guess.
Anyway, the results are interesting, look at the difference between Lyra and Ember in the standard example. You could tell that people will like Ember way more than Lyra though the extended poll shows that they are rather equal and Lyra is even better. Ember seems to be a character people either like or dislike since she got mostly 1 or 5, which means we would have 3 disappointed people with her. Lyra got only one 5 but a lot of 4 and 3 which means she would be perfect just for one guy but at least the rest wouldn't be disappointed with her either. So, I guess the top 3 in this case would be: Rainbow Dash, Lyra, Furry (less votes below 4).
So the extended system provides more accurate insight. You can see better which characters are more popular and easier determine TOP3 that will please most of the people instead just perfectly please few people and disappoint others.
Which one should I use? I guess I'll make an another test for a slightly bigger scale on my tumblr.
I guess I'll sketch both Lyra and Ember and then an another poll will decide which one will be colored. I could make a two character pic but this duo doesn't make much sense, so I'll stick with the first option.
Remember, you may suggest characters in the comments.
Breakfast is the most important meal they say, also who cums first does the dishes!
That's a WIP I guess?
Poor horse but luckily the girl is patient.
Here, instead of ending up with hundreds of pics like this, I've wasted my "back into dash" energy for editing an animation I can't even post. But I'm still going!
I was messing with this animation and in the current state it looks like this. It's not finished but almost, I guess. I also edited the animation and audio but I broke a lot of things. Idk, I may try to get permissions and post the original animation but with new look and few versions.
Besides I'd like to make my own animation, something extremely simple for the beginning but it would be nice to make some things move.
Omg look how pure it is! I need more of this definitely.
I'm again into rainbow wife lately. I'm even thinking of trying some animation but the chance I'll come up with anything worth showing is roughly 03.82%.
Now imagine this kind of stuff turned into YCH... I'm not ready to be a millionaire :x
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It could be better. I'm not fully satisfied with this one but it's still a strong one I guess
I've screwed this one up. I'm angry at myself because I knew the initial angle was boring and I will want to rotate it. I was even aware that I'll have to cut a lot of pixels but still didn't expanded the background when I could. In the end I was able to rotate it only a little bit and I already had to cut out some details on the top.
I should be back for the rest of the month. Here's a little something that happened when I was doing random warm up sketches and I really liked it. That will become a full pic later I guess.
I may be kinda dead for the first half of the month. I don't have any commissions, so I have to do other non art related stuff to get some money for food and stuff.
Anyway, here's little something – it could be a nice pic I guess.
The source file seems to be completely broken in Photoshop and SAIv1 unfortunately. SAIv2 is the only way now.
Well, this doesn't make any sense at all. Let's say it's just inspired by the MLP sphinx character. It's not even a sphinx at all – a sphinx is supposed to be a lion with human head (which in MLP universe naturally is a pony head), but here she's just a cat, not even a lion. She's rather a pharaoh I guess? Anyway, the head could be better but I really like it and it made a great wallpaper.
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I've finished the pic but it's too late to export it right now. It makes a sweet wallpaper, so I've prepared some for now. I don't think there's a need for a 4:3 version these days?
This is so good! I see a lot of issues but I like it a lot. I took a different approach to get the colors in this one and it works really well. Also I've moved to SAI2 (64bits fuck yes, finally...) and holy shit, that guy who's developing that software is a genius or something... Anyway with SAI1 he already achieved shit a fucking Adobe didn't and SAI2 is even better. It is a much more complete bundle now and it's just a preview version. Sweet.
She barely looks like that character but it's a good thing I guess.
My financial situation is terrible right now, so I have to do few commissions. I'll do few more sketches this week.
Kinda "meh" I guess. I have to look at it again tomorrow but I may go with it.
Nothing much but I wanted to make a progress GIF
Actually this is not the best example since it went rather well. It took me only 4 hours to do this which is a good score... Probably because there's no hands or feet visible.
Look at the starting shapes, they were a disgusting piece of shit, I had no idea what to do but I had to start somewhere... I didn't erased it as the GIF could suggest but that was the jump in quality between two snapshots. It took few snapshots to define some okay shape and the further the process go, the less improvement is visible between snapshots and more details are being added until it hits a threshold where it stops improving and is rather just changing randomly – that's the threshold and a place where it stops.
It's looks like some kind of a genetic algorithm. The final quality of the picture is determined by how good the algorithm can judge if the current state of things is better or worse than before. When it hits the threshold it stops improving the picture because it simply can't decide which mutation in the current generation is the best one, so it ends up randomly changing lines but it can't improve it any further.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ACjtE5zyihE
This is a video showing 100000 generations of a genetic algorithm trying to draw Mona Lisa. It nails the basic outlines literally in the first second – you can already recognize the painting – then it is slowly refining it until it gets to a point where you can't see any improvement in next generations at all but rather some random changes – that's the point where the code determining how much a single specimen is similar to the actual painting fails – it's not precise enough to go any further.
This is kinda crude in many places (it was never supposed to be a finished pic in the first place), also not much of clothing this time because I don't want to hold it any longer.
I care too much about little things. The picture was basically finished yesterday but I've spent the whole next day tweaking things nobody even going to notice and redrawing the juice many times, but in the end it still looks terrible to me.
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Yet another WIP ugh... I hate that everything I do is kind of brute force. I can sit and draw a fucking leg or hand for an hour doing basically random lines hoping something will finally click.
Actually that would be more like a genetic algorithm I think, since when something seems to be promising I then start mutating that one curve and it gets better and better, until it's nice enough to keep it, but I have no idea what I want to achieve on the beginning – I can only judge if the random line I just did is good or bad and decide if I should mutate the current one or make another completely random one.
I would never be able to draw anything traditionally on a piece of paper. Everything I do starts as a fucking abomination and then I'm slowly improving it by "mutating" things until it gets good enough to stop and it takes fucking days.
I should save the current state of the pic (or just the sketch because it would be most interesting) every few minutes and then make a gif from it. I wonder if that would actually look like a work done by a genetic algorithm.
It looks crude in some places. It was never meant to be shaded but I like it.
Not bad at all. I may give it a shot but I'm afraid it may become a mess when shaded.
How many layers a simple picture like this could take? Apparently I just ran out of the 256 SAI's limit. My workflow is a joke...
Kind of like it, I may go with this one but it doesn't look enough like Lola for some reason. I just noticed I've messed up the hair tone, so maybe that's why.
Do you like these? I'm lately experimenting with the shade WIPs because I really like their smooth look. I'm trying to make them feel more like a finished piece on their own, rather than a WIP. I can totally see them in an art book, like the colored picture on the right page and this version on the left, and so on for every picture.
It took me more than an hour to prepare it and this work accomplishes nothing besides having this pic, since I've basically just broken the project, and now I have to undo all this in order to get back to work. Well, it's not even a WIP at all, because at this point the picture is finished basically.
So we had a tie between Judy and Lola, so here we go, let the bunny fight begin.
SOURCE FILE (I had to merge the background because SAI ran out of memory unfortunately)
Based on this photo which apparently is a cosplay of some DC character done by Giada Robin
So many clothes on this one. It's pain in the ass to get everything nicely separated but it will pay off in many variations of the outfit for sure.
I've stumbled upon this photo on a random 9GAG type of website and had to draw it. Apparently it's a cosplay of some DC character but that's a pretty generic outfit anyway.
I'll update this post with source file link tomorrow because it's a mess and I need to clean it a bit.
Sometimes I feel that these sterile, clean WIPs are much better than a finished pictures
Small update to the sketch. I'm not being so original with the transparent lingerie lately I guess.
I wonder how many of you would still consider pledging to my Patreon worth your money if there won't be any exclusive content available? I'd like to have my Patreon open and keep it as a tip jar, like many other artist do, but I'm afraid most of my income would be gone this way.
I hate paywalls. It's bullshit, I'd like to have all my content available for everyone here. Maybe keep the high res versions and source files for $5+ patrons but forcing people to pay just to see the picture at all is just stupid.
Perks like early-access or higher resolution of pics seem reasonable but not allowing people to even see the picture is plain bullshit – the point of art is to be seen, not locked away after paywalls. If it's going to be like that, soon there won't be any art available in the internet, because everyone will be staying paywalled inside their little Patreons ugh. For many people even pledging that $1 is impossible.
I'm busy working on a new theme for my Tumblr but I need to draw more until end of the month.
There are Dash and Amethyst Star requested under last poll but I'd like to add more options to the poll. Please don't request Colgate – I'm going to draw a pic of her soon.
Feel free to repeat your requests from previous polls if your character didn't win. I guess I'm going to save the poll details from now and if some character will get requested three times in a row without winning, it's going to get a picture next turn automatically. There may be some flaw in this logic but I'm looking for a way to give people with less popular character requests a chance too.
Alright here we go, there are 54 files of this one and it's not all possible combinations. Which one is your favorite? Maybe you would want to see a combination that's not here?
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PICTURES
Well, that was a terrible month... I didn't even finish any pictures but new pieces are coming
I appreciate what has been said. I'm glad there are people who know the drill and hearing that someone who's not into porn comes here and even gives me financial support is a huge win, because this is what I feel about the art porn "industry".
Pornographic content is exclusively considered bad, perverted and disgusting by most people, If you say "I like porn" people will be disgusted, because what they see in their minds right now is you, in front of PornHub, jerking off – that's what porn is but I believe you can make pornographic content that has a value more than that, that you can create porn that won't be welcome on PornHub, because it would be considered boring there.
I basically want to show people a different side of erotic imaginery. I know that erotic art is a huge thing in art and it's considered a beautiful art by many but I'm focusing just on "fandom art" right now. In this community there are really few pieces which have more value than random fap-content. This is a community where people are buying dakis, plushies or dolls just so they can masturbate and fuck them in their bedrooms. There are people printing pictures, because they want to cum on them, dreaming about fucking their favorite characters – this bullshit is what many people hate, this is why you can see so many jokes about furries being weird perverts and it's true – because this is a common thing in such community. People are degrading pornography to the lowest level of most primitive instincts.
I guess what I would like to do is to aim at the people who doesn't like it. I can't satisfy perverts I guess but I want to show other people who explicitly connects porn with perversion and disgusting primitive behaviors that it doesn't have to look like this and you can enjoy pornographic content if it's done the proper way. That you can put value even in a MLP porn piece.
Even if you don't think about it at all, your presence here is a sign that I may be doing the right thing – people who doesn't care about porn came here to watch my stuff and considered it worth their money which is amazing.
Making financial income from such activity is a whole new story though. I believe there are enough people out there that seeks such content but it's a huge minority. There's a one guy appreciating my work and 1000 potential new ones if I would go the "mainstream porn path".
I'm aware that my content changed a lot and I can't see new people coming here, because for every new follower there are 50 lost ones. Question is if I can survive it? People always say "do what you love!" or even "do what you love and money will come itself" – that's nice but we are not in a Disney movie, I can't call the energy company and say: "please don't cut my electricity, I'm doing what I love, so I've lost half of my followers and nobody wants to buy my stuff anymore, so I have to wait for new ones to come and I'll pay my bills then".
It's bullshit that you have to love what you do to make money – just look at YouTube for example – hundreds of mass produced channels by companies like "FIVE FACTS YOU DIDN'T KNOW!", "TOP TEN...", "10000000000000000 DEGREE KNIFE EXPERIMENT" etc. and all this to get the hell out of ads and nobody gives a fuck about this content. It's mostly garbage or obvious things everyone who has at least half of their brain already knew. Look what pieces you can find on Derpibooru with thousands of upvotes and amazing art with a score below 100. I could even throw you a list of names of artists that are doing it on purpose. There are a lot of tricks to suck money from people like YCH auctions for example – why doing a commission for $150 if you can draw the same for $1000? You just have to analyze the market and shape your content correctly – that's the easiest way to make money and sometimes it may be the only way. Having a product won't help you if you don't know how to sell it and while selling trending bullshit is easy and obvious, then selling quality stuff is hell of a challenge.
It's like that everywhere, in every industry – a new EDM hit making millions can easily be like 10% skills and 90% of marketing and promotion and you can't bypass it, the only way is to find a good balance of what people expect and what you want to provide, unless you are just after money...
It's hard... you know when you see numbers in your account getting close to 0 or even below it, it's hard to not think "maybe I should consider running that Rainbow Dash porn blog I was thinking about earlier..."
In this place I have to say thank you to all my patrons, because patreon is the only thing that allows me to create stuff right now. That small amount of income covers the most important bills right now. Amazing times we live in, as something like that five years ago seemed like a distant future.
Anyway, I'd better get back to work, this message is long enough. Thank you for your time.
I'm tired of feral MLP, that's for sure, it's boring and not challenging enough, I don't feel like I'm learning anything drawing such things. Ponies are boring to draw as fuck – it's basically a copy-pasted base with changed colors. Anthro stuff is much more challenging and the experience gain is much more valuable. Of course you can draw a more detailed anatomy but porn with anatomically correct and detailed horses is rather disgusting for me, so that's never gonna happen.
I'm doing mostly anthro adult art lately and by adult I mean the overall feel, not the NSFW aspect. I like it but I guess people don't like it at all. Besides, sometimes, I would like to draw some stuff I used to do in the past but I'm struggling, because such mixture is not going to work – it's like a metal band suddenly releasing an EDM song – no matter how good the song is going to be, because the audience doesn't expect it from a metal band.
I don't know where I should go with my art... I can't draw everything, I need to focus on one type of content. I have to produce unified content but in the same time I'd like to draw a lot of different stuff.
What's your favorite? Do you like the recent pieces? Or maybe you expect something simple like the semi-anthro thing I've posted few days ago? Both? Furry? Other characters?
I always had that idea of some sort of Lapfox clone. I feel like it's something I should do since I'm constantly struggling with "what should I draw...".
A set of fictional characters being art avatars, each one creating a different type of content: one being a brony, one being a furry that hates bronies, one being a hybrid that likes both, one drawing more realistic things, other one for cartoon stuff etc. and all of them tied together in some place like some kind of an "art label" where they release their art. People wouldn't even have to know that it's all just the same person with different names. I see a lot of opportunities in such system – it's like an universe that's real, because these characters are real, they run their tumblr's, they talk with each other, they post stuff, they share their posts, they collab, some of them are friends while some hate each other etc.
It seems like a perfect fix of the problem and I feel like it would be an amazing idea but such thing requires a lot of thinking, planning and preparation. Also skill and creative work, since you have to produce content in many different styles under different aliases.
If I'm going to do art in my life, that's how it's going to look like very likely but for now it's too much. I have to focus on learning, making money and producing content for people.
I'm still sketching stuff. I have some Dash and I've started working on Fleetfoot that's supposed to end as a fully finished piece hopefully.
I'm a piece of shit lately. I can't draw anything decent and get things done. Besides, I have issues with my wisdom teeth and can't focus on shit... – why nature has to be so fucked up? Here, have a nice set of teeth so you can easily munch stuff but wait, no, have one more! Completely useless, always growing in some fucked up direction, so you have to waste ridiculous amounts of money to get it removed or die in pain! Brilliant! Now let's just add bunch of hairs in the ass and connect respiratory and digestive systems together, so you can die drinking a spoon of water and finally the human body is complete.
This was supposed to be the full thing but it's not good, so it ended like this. A proper one will happen soon I hope.
This one is garbage but I could do something with that Ember sketch I guess.
One more sketch and I'll start working on Fleetfoot pic.
It's Easter here and as typical holidays go, everything is slow, lazy and everyone is eating all the extra food and meals. I don't want to fight with drawing now, I'm going to sketch a bit more things. If you have any suggestions feel free to share it in the comments.
I may be doing sketches of characters that didn't win the poll. I'm afraid to start working on a fully featured picture just yet. Probably there's one more coming.
I'm not publishing the PSD of this one because it's a huge mess and I just want to forget about this pic. If someone really wants one I can merge layers and try to put something together later.
This picture is a disaster... Two days ago I've spent 6h working on it, making absolutely no progress at all. I was pissed off and wanted to get rid of it but yesterday, I've forced myself to put together whatever I had done and still publish it, so it won't be that big waste of time at least...
I've exported all raw pictures and noticed I fucked up a thing. I got angry because I just exported 20 5000px PNGs... Whatever, screw that, I doubt anyone would notice it, because it was kinda looking like part of the picture, so I decided to process the pictures and upload them.
When I finished uploading and was about to post it here I realized I fucked up the files and uploaded raw ones instead and shift-deleted the right ones...
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I'm not sure what to do, because only one character was suggested this time. I guess I'll add previous ones that didn't win.
Suggest character for the next poll in the comments.
I like where this is going. I had few takes on this pic and I hope this one is still going to look good in the morning.
It's not 100% finished but I won't be working on this one anymore, so I'm posting the sketch here as is.
I wanted to post it on my Tumblr and didn't like it when I looked at it after some time. I've tweaked some stuff.
So I had that idea of a channel for patrons, where I could announce things quickly and post some messy WIPs and stuff before it goes here. What do you think? Would you want one? The only turn off for me is the paywall model, like "pay me money and I'll kindly allow you to talk to me" kind of thing. On the other side, making it public wouldn't allow me to post patreon content there, also it would attract a lot of people very likely, which could be a bit chaotic I guess.
Fixed things, also I made various versions of clothing on this one as well!
Suggest characters for the next poll! As usual please avoid repeating same characters.
I'm excited and scared of this one. I hope I won't fuck up the tank... It for sure gonna take some time, so meanwhile I'm gonna color Lucario I guess
Some parts of this pics are great and some other not so good but it's a good one in the end I guess
I'm in a big hurry right now, I hope I didn't make any huge mistakes anywhere :x
I'm actually wondering if you like them. I mean, sketch is obvious, because it shows you, what I'm working on but what about the others – especially the one with shades?
It takes some tweaks before it will be good enough to be posted. I used to work on shades first and coloring was the last step but I'm not doing it anymore and I'm shading on colors but the shades alone on white color looks kinda cool. Idk I just like that sterile look it has. But do you care about them though? I wonder if spending time for preparing these is worth it.
I've created a poll: https://goo.gl/forms/PElvYJezhYnbf5gc2
Leave the second question empty only if you select "no" in the first one, otherwise please mark which ones you like.
The last picture is finished, I'll post it tomorrow.
I'm also going to release source files for this and the previous pic (and all future pics of course) for $5 patrons (in far future it will be moved to higher pledge very likely but for now it stays here for some time). They are going to be in low res and PSD format which should give ~20mb files. PSD is just for compression though, they aren't compatible with Photoshop, you need SAI to render them properly.
Also who would you want me to draw next? Suggest characters in the comments! Let's say I'm going to wait minimum 24h and if there will be enough propositions, I'll make a poll. Otherwise I'll wait longer or something :x
I may start offering PSD files on my Patreon soon. They are huge so I would offer only low res version of them. They are also a huge mess so I'd include them in $5 pledge as a bonus for now.
So they finally implemented a feature that allows to charge patrons upfront. What should I do?
This change is permanent so once enabled there's no way back to the old system. Seems fine to me – it prevents people from removing pledges by the end of the month and coming back few days later, also these annoying bots.
The only drawback from this is that the upfront charge counts as a payment for the current month. For example if you pledge at the end of January you are going to be charged for January as soon as you pledge and regular monthly payment for February few days later. This is not cool when some people pledge high amounts of money like $100 while not being aware of how it works, so they will end up being charged $100 after few days again.
So:
More info here.
This makes sense to me. It just needs to be clearly stated at the top of the page so people will know that they should pledge on the beginning of the month to avoid being charged twice. Good design of the tiers would also be cool. I mean, lower pledges should give previews of the higher ones, so people can pledge $1 and see if they want to pledge higher or stay at the current level.
For example:
This is just an example, I'm not going to change my prices of course.
I feel like I have to start learning how to draw from scratch... Consistency is the key obviously
Everything is getting worse and worse right now, I'm not safe here nor my mother, I have no idea what to do, I'm scared and full of fucking anger. I don't have money to move away from this hell, nothing makes sense, I'm not able to work and life here, I'll never earn enough money like that... I'm fucking stuck having nowhere to go, observing my own breakdown, being doomed because of other people life choices and existence, fucked up by my own family. I didn't make myself, I didn't ask to be born, I didn't have a smallest chance to choose where I want to live. The fuck I've done to deserve this? Where the fuck is the so called "god"? Why I can't just have a normal life like everyone else? Is this the fucking fate that's going to be like that despite what I do? It's going to be always like that no matter how much I fight...? No, it's possible – I know it, it seems to be so close, I've already managed to make some money to pay bills and survive, I see my future in this, I know I'm able to make something out of it, it's so close... yet so far away I can't see it, not in this fucking place, not with these people next to me, not in this fucking hell... I want to scream, I want to grab a hatchet and get rid of these pieces of shit – the one piece of dogshit who ruined my life, the one moron who didn't deserve to life for a single fucking second, too much people cried because of this fucking worthless piece of human crap. Why every day I hear about good people dying in hospitals being eaten by cancer, people dying and their countries being destroyed because of bullshit wars created by pigs playing god without permission, while fucking morons torturing their families are still walking on the ground just fine like the one that's just next to me right now... Who the fuck decided this...
I don't know what to do, I haven't progressed since months, I'm sick of people coming and leaving because I'm not able to deliver enough content. There right now should be an another picture that's supposed to give you fun, you should be looking at something nice, being glad you've invested your money in me while enjoying the results but instead, you are reading this bullshit right now since it's all I have... fuck me...
Fucking hell, I hate this fucking world
Stuff is calming down, I'm in my house right now, I can't predict what's going to happen in next few hours but so far it's good enough to try some drawing.
I'm not safe at my own house right now. I have nowhere to go, I'm spending most of the time weaving around the city. I can't draw and it's going to be like that for at least two weeks, which means here won't be any updates this month, I very likely won't even be able to finish the Dash pic or sketch anything. Maybe I'll try to do some traditional sketches but drawing porn on the street doesn't sound like a good idea, besides I'm mentally destroyed and drawing is the last thing I want to do right now... I don't know what's going to happen in the future but consider cancelling your pledges for this month, I'm sorry...
I'm not sure about this one. Should I finish it? I will very likely.
The sketch isn't even finished itself but I wanted to post here something before going to bed
Tried some squeedgemonster kind of stuff. I really like it, I definitely need to practice it more!
An ugly sketch. I'm tired, so I may be not aware how bad it is, may turn out to be a full pic, we'll see tomorrow.
Patreon is now processing the monthly pledges. Since the pack is fresh I'll send copies of the pack to all new patrons who just processed their first pledge too. The links should be sent in few hours.
I've sent all the emails to patrons already. Check out your inboxes (they come from SendOwl not Patreon or my personal e-mail). Let me know if you didn't receive one!
It's finished! You can support it HEREif you want.
All my patrons with at least one processed pledge should start receiving emails with free download links soon!
I finished the pics, now it's time to put everything together, make a cover and all the necessary bullshit and it will be ready to release.
Well this pack isn't something I've expected it to be but it's not a surprise, it's literally my first shot at pony anthros, could be worse I guess...
Anyway most of it is finished, I'm drawing clothes and backgrounds. I hope I'll release the whole thing soon. I'm not sure how much versions I'm going to offer. There won't be low-res version this time, just the base one and the one with additional nude versions. I'm not sure about PSDs though. I could include low-res ones because they are too huge to upload but does anybody need them anyway?
Also the whole thing is going to be free for all my active (at least one processed pledge) patrons, 1$ ones too.
I was doing the shades with the color on in this one. It looks different for sure. Shading on white looks clean and good but when I turn the colors later the shades kind of disappear and everything looks so bad - it's the same kind of feeling when you remove the sketch layer after you finish inking and it looks so empty, because you get used to that little mess behind them. I guess it's much safer to shade with the colors on.
I had to take a break to do commissions and after the time when I came back to the pack, I already see a lot of flaws and things that could be done better eh.
A pic I did a while ago for The Clop Book art book. You can still get the digitalhere!
I don't like the kind of heads I draw, they look terrible, especially when you try to imagine them as an actual 3D object, they would look odd, mainly because they have no nose. Here's something experimental that looks much better I guess. What do you think?
Finished commissions, so I can get back to work on this. I've dropped the idea of sketching outfits, it would be a waste of time, I'll do it on finished pictures.
This one is going to be simple. Also my first pony anthro! Who should be the last character?
This picture is a disaster. It's not really finished because I gave up and exported it as is. I even messed the layers so I can't export a version without juices :x
It takes me so much time... it's one of these pics...
So far:
- Everything seems weird, off and annoying besides I like the pic at all
- I completely fucked up the perspective and had to redraw the background from scratch
- I minimized SAI without saving, forgot about it and shut down my PC losing the progress
Patrons will get the priority. If you are a 5$ patron, you can send me message here even if all slots are taken already!
This one is good! I tried to do more intense blur but kept the character clean sharp. What do you think?
A rough sketch based on a figurine I found on some auction some time ago. Should I finish it?
I have mixed feelings about this but I inked it and I guess I'll finish it anyway
I'm not going to open commissions this month for sure, so please send a mail to omi.commissions@gmail.com in case if any of your want a commission this month!
This one is taking a bit more time than it should, so I decided to share an another WIP.
I can't wait for blu-ray. Cams are too painful to watch :x
If so please let me know by sending an e-mail to omi.commissions@gmail.com since I still don't trust Patreon's buggy messages
It seems that something is wrong with Patreon and I'm not getting your messages unless it's a reply to an already existing conversation! If any of you sent me a commission request I very likely didn't get it! Please send me an email to omi.commissions@gmail.com instead.
I may not be able to officially do commissions this month so if any of $5+ patrons wants a commission please send me a message here on Patreon and I'll open the form for you. Three slots will be available.
I don't know who it is. I'll post a poll soon. Feel free to suggest characters in the comments, it could be an unicorn or earth but definitely no wings.
My new best furry stuff so far!
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Nobody wanted this pic so it may end up as an another random furry because I really like it.
Random sketch. I'm slowly drawing some junk lately but more full pics are incoming, also commissions because the pack didn't sell well enough.
The standard version of the pack didn’t contain the additional AJ pics but it should. I’ve already managed to update the file. Please re-download it - your links should be still valid. If it doesn’t work please let me know! Sorry about that.
It's finally here! Thank you all for making it possible! You can get it HERE
FREE
STANDARD (PWYW $10 minimum)
PREMIUM (PWYW $18 minimum)
Woo finally it’s done. The pack itself is completed and ready for distribution. Now I just need to take care of e-junkie and stuff. Anyway it’s going to be available in three versions:
BASIC VERSION - FREE
STANDARD VERSION - $10 min.
PREMIUM VERSION - $18 min.
Patron rewards:
Rewards applies to all patrons this time. Next time only active patrons will get these. I'll consider a patron active if they paid their pledge at least once.
Thank you so much for your patience and support, I hope this pack is going to be a success!
Here's an extremely generic and boring pic of Chloe. Some people asked about her and I was thinking of including her in the pack so here she is.
I feel terrible lately, it took me the whole day to just sketch this picture and I still had to fix it on the next day because it was seriously terrible. It just felt like all my experience and skill had gone just like that... Anyway I'm trying to force myself to finish this stupid pack because it's almost finished, only this one left.
So little time and I haven't even sketched the last pic yet..
I finally started working on my xmas pack. I have to keep these pictures relatively simple if I want to release it this year.
https://mega.nz/#!Cp0DGRTD!lMxl5HKcADh4mLel_v-lor9egfrTnTUAsd2_evdrNz4
Daring Do sketch, this one will be finished as well!
I've added a $5+ reward for high res pics. $1 patrons will still get all the sketches, WIPs and FA sized versions of the pics. Soon I may add an option to get .PSD files as well!
I'm also thinking of making some patron slots for my commissions. These would give you some discount, priority and higher chance to get a slot.
After I finish all my pending commissions I want to draw one more pic and start working on some Christmas themed PWYW pack with canon characters. There will be an option for patrons to get a discount or even get the pack for free.
https://mega.nz/#F!3wUgjYIK!gAbGtXpsaoBvwiYRkeftcg
https://mega.nz/#F!notEDZYJ!WqtVqdLP-p_-4U8dLQg8Lw
I'm not sure how I should deal with declined payments. I guess I'll be sending messages here on Patreon to patrons with declined payments on the beginning on every month. I'll wait a week for replies, otherwise I'll remove these pledges.