It’s the start of summer, so I’m running around with more free time than I’ve had showing art I made this month.

I drew this Cole sketch on the cover of my Moleskine sketchbooks. I don’t like that I wasted a good sketch on a cardboard cover, but I’ll post it anyway and deal with it.

I’ve been concepting the owl enemy I’m working on for Blackmask. I’m vibing with the ninja stuff so I’m tilting the design toward this.

I’m also getting comfortable leaving the ink illustrations with flat color compositions and minimal gradients. Coloring digital is my personal bugbear, and figuring out how to curtail the frustration is my current project.

Along with this, I’m figuring out more layout stuff for the game’s cutscenes. The current options are ideas for a window types for text and how much effort to put into sprites.

I also would like to thank Aseprite for the Font Menu update! You have truly blessed us with a better UI to manage the fonts and see what I’m using before placing them down.

I’ll also talk about Captain Rhodes’s Field Sprite. I was making it during one of my older art streams and it was a tough time making a convincing cane walk animation in 4 frames, since I know little about disabilities. But with more research, I made it work.

I drew this from memory from a dumb prompt on Bluesky to draw my first furry porn. I doubt this is the exact character or fursona, but the prompt was to go off memory so I winged it as my morning drawing.

Long ago, I played a Flash game on Newgrounds called “High Tail Hall” and one of the characters you could have a fling with was this fox maid. And I learned that this fox was not a girl fox.

I resurfaced this next sketch I drew a while ago, of my dragon OC Olivia in that one meme black dress, but I shelved it because I gave up painting it and the joke made no sense after I drew it.

Here’s some sketches of a dragon villainess. It’s tiny bits of world building sketches to figure out what dragons would be like as characters. I also draw more than one take to figure out what kind of sketch I want to make.

Illustrations of Cole exploring the ruins of the fallen Dragon Queendom. The summarized backstory is that long ago, there was this Dragon Queen who was an alpha bitch and got into apocalyptic wars that may or may not have caused an ice age. Now those ruins and treasure are buried with her.

Most of these are ideas of the dungeons Cole will explore. themed about a former dragon society and the queen who drove it to death.

I ponder the Dragon Queen as a mystery character only depicted as six winged dragon statue concepts I made a while ago.

Bear Mage ink illustration I colored in my pile of files. This is an alternate class variant of the bear clubber for new enemy ideas. The way i tackle many character designs is I like to iterate from the first concepts as much as I can. I see if I can alter the body, gender, class, weapons, and skills to find something fresh.

The Sketch vs the Pixel illustration I made in Pixel Studio on Android. I don’t draw many hyena characters so these sketches were exploration sketches.

A silly sketch based on this Superman comic sequence with Gigantia. Whatever Cole thinks he’s got, this is not it.

I have a draft of a slasher comic of this character that I revisit on and off at times. The draft is vague sequences of Cole pondering the mystery of the murders, and rough ideas of the identity and motive of the villain, but it’s still such a mess of a narrative that I struggle to finish it.

The Tail Taker is a basket-case who stalks lonely travelers in the woods to sever their tails with his serrated blade and add them to his gruesome collection. But to what purpose are these horrid deeds?

A worldbuilding demonstration of Cole being stopped by the bodyguards of an important noble lady fox.

For #makeaterriblecomicday2025 on Bluesky, I spend 5000000 hours in MSPaint to make this! I don’t think anyone got it because they didn’t spend time reading terrible sprite comics back in the early days of the internet.

Some scrunko I had in my sketchbooks that I decided to color. I like this funny little aligator jester and I want to do something more with them.

As Doctor Delgado is a maned wolf, she is legally obligated to convince everyone she meets to come to Brazil. Cole has no clue what a “Brazil” is and at this point, he’s too afraid to ask.

Experimented with a Copic Brush I found for Clip Studio. I made a bigger effort to learn the settings and modify the brush to work with my traditional marker techniques. I also pushed myself to layer in the colors in a single digital layer as if I was traditional to let colors mix.

And a time lapse of coloring my scanned traditional ink and coloring digital on my Cintiq.

Made an attempt at watercolor painting again for the first time in months. I rushed to get down colors and they got runny. I should have started with a better sketch.

The reason I’m back into painting was as a slight jab at how much Nintendo was charging for a Switch 2. For a quarter of the price, I got a fresh Watercolor setup and large 12×16 Arches paper for the future cover for a Blackmask comic I’m procrastinating on.

I’m getting better at improving in digital art, but not at a point that I’ll abandon my Sketch Wallet soon. I need to get out of this experiment phase and push myself to complete bigger illustrations. I’m trying to relax about my output and not getting frustrated with unfinished artwork with uninteresting colors and compositions.

Many of these are daily sketches I post on my socials to keep my skills sharp, so follow me everywhere so you can catch more of my work.