As of writing this, it’s my 34th’s birthday and I’m hanging out with friends to unwind about this rough month of family emergencies. The second month of the year is done, so it’s time to share all the new and old artwork I’ve been scratching up!
Continue readingDespite the ups and downs over this year, I’ll recount the art I’ve done over 2025 and my pitch my plans for 2026!
Back in 2024, I purchased a new iPad Mini after months of not having one. Like with the previous ipad I lost back in November 2022, I wanted a portable means to draw digital and get in more practice. Funny enough, instead of using the iPad as my Procreate machine, I ended up using Pixquare more often for commissions and game dev art.
Like most internet artists, I don’t like drawing backgrounds; but for Blackmask’s development, there’s no choice but to figure it all out. So I’m doing what I can to figure out how to make my environments interesting to draw for myself.
Doing all this helped me drum up cool world-building ideas, that might save development time. A fun idea for the dog folk to have peephole windows in their doors to stick their heads out to greet people.
With my writing for Blackmask, I’m refining the art direction and themes of the various kingdoms in the world. I spend my time on an architecture grind, looking at buildings and histories to match themes I’m going for. I shoot to go beyond, “fantasy version of real life country.” Doing these is part of my daily “frog swallowing” to get myself to draw an environment sketch under a theme, starting with the Dog Kingdom.
Right now, I’m working with the theme of “Freedom Vs. Security” with a Dogs Vs Wolves thing that Cole, my raccoon protagonist, stumbles upon. With this “Walled Garden” sketch, I wanted to use the grated fence to subtly look like jail bars. It’s on the nose when I explain this but, it’s something to lean into.
Sirititus, the Dog society is this authoritarian kingdom under a leader with a simple world conquest motive. While my Rudwulf, wolf clan, tilts toward sword and sorcery barbarian warrior nomad stuff.
The wolves overall have been a struggle to give more to because, they started as typical nomadic raider hordes that my Cole has to fight or sneak around, and I wanted to give more motives to them.
The function of the dogs was first going to be wolves. With some wolves having a more “civilized” society that would be trying own control the territories of other wolves, similar to Romans conquering their surrounding societies.
The big thing between the dogs and wolves I’m pushing is how similar they are with separate “breeds” being a culture divide than specific breeding thing. In the big Blackmask lore, they’re the same to other animals, but dog societies arbitrarily separate wolf societies away for their own ulterior motives.
Through more brainstorming, I continued the theme of the dogs having a higher order they’re obedient to, so I started making sketches beginning to gesture toward a religion they’d have. After all “Dog” spelled backwards is “God” so dog paladins and clerics are a natural fit.
Much of this is in flux and I can’t worry about pondering every tiny societal detail to what’s basically enemy characters who patrol dungeons and fortresses Cole must infiltrate for his own goals. This shit’s ballooning enough, and I’m fighting to not dumpster it all.
This personal visual development grind also got me doing cat themed buildings along with the dogs. The ear shaped rooftops might be on the nose, but it’s a start.
Obviously, the cats have a rivalry with the dog kingdoms, with their own means of espionage and warfare. No matter high an army can build their walls, Cat Warriors will find a way to scale them.
The Lion Knights of Felira are the world-class fighting force of the mighty cat kingdom. Donning armor and maned helmets, they venture into far lands to enact the will of King Lionide IV in the inevitable journey to conquer the world for catkind.
The Lion Knights are a blended force, with the majority female lions, donning maned helmets to look cohesive.
The Lion Knights are a huge thing I want to explore, but there’s still much that’s still needs to be elaborated on. Big Cats and Small Cats can’t fit in a similar category like the canines, so I need to figure out what their motives can be.
Lions making a society makes logical sense as group hunters, but cats in general are more individualistic, so it’s a puzzle to dive deep into what they can do that hasn’t been done a million times. But I’ve done something unique with Foxes, so I can’t give up.
Another batch of Olivia drawings this time in a old school cheerleader outfit. I don’t want to distract myself, but she end up in many of my sketchbooks. Many times, Olivia pops up to cover my unwillingness to draw buildings.
Sketch to see if I still remember how to draw humans. I could stand to go back to do some figure drawings as I’m sure I’m falling into bad habits as a general artist.
My human designs aren’t as creative as my animal designs, yet I wonder if I could still try. I still ache to be a comic artist, but that dream is in the toilet. I can’t think of any ideas that do will for more human designs but it does well up in my head from time to time.
In the past four weeks, I created this large fighting game sprite commission! Despite it’s length, the turnaround was faster than my previous commissions taking me more than a month on an off with streams on my Twitch Channel. I’ll go through the process creating it all from the start.
The gambling doesn’t stop, so I’m working on more Balatro commissions. Join me as I chat about my time at Midwest Gaming Classic, feeling nervous about the art industry, being existential about my place in such an industry, and struggling to pixel art aviator sunglasses.
I’m into a good stride with these weekly art streams on Twitch! If you miss me when I go live, I upload edited VODs on my Stream Archive Channel on YouTube!
For this stream, I’m working on Balatro custom face card pixel art commissions, then playing actual Balatro video game runs.
I’m into a good stride with these weekly art streams on Twitch! If you miss me when I go live, I upload edited VODs on my Stream Archive Channel on YouTube!
It was my Birthday Week, and completed all my commissions. So I’m celebrating with some actual video games!
I’m into a good stride with these weekly art streams on Twitch! If you miss me when I go live, I upload edited VODs on my Stream Archive Channel on YouTube!
It’s February of 2025 and it’s high time I talk about my accomplishments and disappointments of 2024! Because I certainly didn’t dally writing this post over last December and January to cut out the negativity weighing down this post. No siree!
As usual, I drew plenty of art, tackled new projects and went to lots of art shows. Yet, I know I can do more of this coming year!
Continue readingIt’s the start of a new summer and my schedule is open enough to take on new character commissions! I have five slots open to who want them, so first come, First served!
You can read more about my options and specific rules on my Commissions Page!
When you’re done, you can fill out my Google Forms Sheet to send in your ideas!
Tiny Icons drawn by me to rep yourself online!
A Single Character Drawing in a cool pose in a simple background.
A Single Character Drawing in a cool pose in a blank background. I can also offer a 2 View Turnaround for a bulk price of $140!
A Colorless Character Drawing in a cool pose with no background. I can also offer a 2 View Turnaround for a bulk price of $100! If you get this commission from me and come back to me to color it for you, you’ll get a mighty discount!
This weekend, I’ll be at Anime Central once more! And as a treat, I’m offering Early Bird Traditional Art Commissions before the 19th of May!
With this exclusive ACEN only offer, You’ll get 20% off a 9×12 traditional art commission of your choice! Once you get to Artist Alley at my Table G38, You get your commission from me personally!
The cold days are wrapping up, and I have five open slots for safe-for-work character commissions for you all to spring into! First Come, First Serve!
You can read more about my options and specific rules on my Commissions Page!
When you’re done, you can fill out my Google Forms Sheet to send in your ideas!
Tiny Icons drawn by me to rep yourself online!
A Single Character Drawing in a cool pose in a simple background.
A Single Character Drawing in a cool pose in a blank background. I can also offer a 2 View Turnaround for a bulk price of $140!
A Colorless Character Drawing in a cool pose with no background. I can also offer a 2 View Turnaround for a bulk price of $100! If you get this commission from me and come back to me to color it for you, you’ll get a mighty discount!
A Retro-style character animation loop in the style of colorful arcade games. If you have a suggested console or palette, message me with details!
A large Retro style character sprite in the style of colorful arcade games. If you have a suggested console or palette, message me with details!