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Hella Easter (coloured)

Coloured version of the previous post, which got almost no traction despite me personally liking how it turned out.

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Helly Easter

A bit late, but still in season right?

So yea, as I mentioned previously had a quite big slump so sorry for not posting anything. Just have not been able to draw. But i got this concept into my mind for easter and wanted to try and do it in season.

In my opinion turned out quite good. Also used my pink pencil to do sketch first and then normal one over it to try and make a "clean up" faster. Having that easy out of "the pink lines don't have to be perfect" seemed to be a nice out to kill drawing hesitation.

Have not worked in anything other yet. But I'll try to do some more Stola comic. In the meantime I've been playing Ragnarok Online. Played this thing as a kid, the graphics still hold out ok and gameplay is nostalgia.

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Cat-Hell Memes

That one cat meme you know the one... the uhh.. contempt upon the uncaring. Via's pose like this was one of the drafts in the first part of the comic. When I was doing drafts my mind immediately went to this meme. So here I finished the concept.

Pop Stola I tried to make this as my avatar for FA and I learned 2 things: 1) Trying to animate in Krita is hell. Never again. 2) Animated avatars on FA for some reason do not look right to me

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Head Studies and Updates

► Sketches: So here's a dump of my last month of daily sketching. There are a lot more but 30s and 1min gesture drawing is not a lot too look at (but there was a lot of improvement there- form barely getting form of the head in 30s to starting to draw basic expressions on them). When drawing daily there seemed to not be a lot of going on but looking back at the start there is a bit of improvement.

► Updates: Last 2 weeks were rough. Especially this week. I was going to bed tired and keep waking up tired. Didn't have much energy or motivation to do anything. I got about 3 months of being productive- maybe there is not much to show for it, but to me it felt like a lot. But now seems like mental is acting up again. I wanted to thank anyone who like what I uploaded. And to say sorry. With how it usually was I expect uploads to slow down considerably for an unknown length of time. Hopefully this doesn't turn into a full on blown episode and in some time I'll be able to do something meaningful again, but it's hard to know.

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Mornings After part 3/3

Ch 1: P1 P2 Ch2: P1 P2 P3 (you are here)

If I can't be there for my daughter, then what use am I at all?

After meeting her daughter, Stola here is having a bit of dysphoria. Before meeting Blitz again everything Stolas did was for his daughter- trying to make a family for her. Now that she and Stella have better relations, it seems the one with Via took a dive into the pits of hell (pun intended- always intend your puns!). Getting her most important relationship destroyed like that is sure to have an effect on Stola.

So there it is, Via's chapter complete. In the og show this was THE most important relationship for me, so i thought it fitting to also take it seriously here. And it is a bitter one.

I plan to do at least 2 more chapters: with Blitz and Andrealphus, and these two will be much more lighthearted. Dunno though if I will get to drawing it instantly. I think I'll take a small break from Stola and make something different.

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Practice week 7 and 8

►Sketches: These 2 weeks were dedicated to gesture drawing. I was using line of action class mode for 30 min https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ . So the format was 10 poses for 30s, 5 for 1 min, 2 for 5 mins and 1 for 10 min. I like the progress that i made during this time- i feel like i caputred poses better and also faster. A lot of the shortest sketches were omited from the upload- that would take too much space.

► Updates: Only 1 part of the Vias chapter from Stola comic to go. Hopefully I'll upload it in next 1-3 days.

►Thoughts: I am now doing daily faces practice. Watching a lot of Proko tutorials (you can find him on yt) about face drawing. Though practice goes worse than with the poses. But what can you do. Will have to draw them for more than 2 weeks it seems. Outsied of that life hit a bit harder last 2 weeks- a few double shifts at work and a lot of work during the day in general. Energy levels and motivation is running on a low side. Non-tf stola comic getting a lot less traction than the initial one, also almost no comments. TBH I would be happy to get some opinions about what I draw, I do not have a way to get it in real life so I hoped to get some form internet ppl. So if anyone have any critique or advice on drawing feel free to chime in, it would be most welcome

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Mornings After page 2

Ch 1: P1 P2 Ch2: P1 P2 (you are here)

"Octavia It's me. Open the door, I just want to talk. Via please talk to me... Starfire... I beg You... it's me"

Welp doing paintings for this took longer than expected, after that everything just went smoothly. On technical level i tried to play with a composition a bit more here, rule of thirds and the like. Only one more part of Via arc to go.

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First Part Here (you must read it for this to make sense!) and Followup here

Via wakes up already expecting another morning argument with her morning coffee, what awaits her is even more surprising. Wonder what she saw.

Look at that proud bird mom presenting new bird mom. Someone is not amused though.

Via: What is this shit? Stola: What do you mean? Stella: Isn't this what you wanted dear? A happy family?

V:Like hell it is! I wanted MY family, not whatever this clone shit is! I want MY DAD and MOM! Ste: Octavia You will not speak to Your Mother like this! Sto: Well this is what you have and you better be happy!

And here we see the Stola not really being used to her new temper and explosiveness.

Stola: No, wait… Via this is… Stella: Ahh let the girl be, she will cry herself out and then come back like always.

Seems like someone has some regrets. Stella on the other hand seen plenty outbursts like this. What She did not see though, that every time it happened Stolas was the one to go to Vias room to sit with and comfort her.

► Comic thoughts: So this is the 2nd part of the Stola TF comic I did. It will have 3 parts, which will be posted when finished. This part though I think is the most complicated one and all 3 are already drawn. Next one will be uploaded when finished, but it should take much shorter than this one. Hopefully both will be finished next week, but one will be for sure. Also if anyone reads this- do you prefer getting uploads of comics like this gradually or all at once? After Octavias comic gets uploaded fully finished, next thing I'll draw will not be related to this story. After next comic I'll probably get back to this and do followups with Andrealphus and Blitzo.

► Updates: In other news there will be no weekly sketches this week. This and next week were me doing poses gesture drawings, and I will upload both week together next weekend- there are mostly sketches and lines so you all get a comic instead of that. Now I am doing head studies to improve my general drawing skills, as of now its not going as good as the gesture drawing did. What can you do though.

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Week 6

► Drawings: 4.1-4.4- Doll, Bloodborne- The first one is a drawing form reference and it did not go well. I Tried drawing straight from reference without much thought about forms and why things look like things. Face was also very bad. So next days I went to try and draw just face- 4.2 is better but turned out like a man cosplaying doll, 4.3 was decent. 4.4 is maybe simpler in therms of detail than 4.1 but that was drawing with thinking- why the shapes and clothes look the way they are and how they fold. Turned out decent. 6.4 & 5- Akuma & Chun-li, Street fighter- Wanted to try doing a more complex pose and some back. While it turned out okay my pose skill require more training. Also thunder thighs. 6.6 & 7- Octavia & Andrealphus, Helluva Boss- Octavia is fine, not much to talk about here. Andres eyes look a bit bad, but other than that this is fine.

► Updates: Finished drawing next part of Stola comic, now I need to do digital touch ups and colour it. Wanted to get the first part this weekend uploaded, but due to a couple of emergency double shifts this week it got delayed. This part will have 3 major story beats and it will be uploaded when I finish each story beat.

► Thoughts: After doing the 6.4 & 6.5 poses i went and did 2 weeks of gesture drawings excercises. I think that payed off, but truly it is to be seen in future. Other than that not much happened, work is tiring. But we keep on keeping on, stay well friends.

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Week 5: Souls sucking vampires and Dio's also there

► Drawings: 6.3 Dio- JoJos Bizzare adventures- wanted to try some more extreme poses. I am happy with the general look of the body, head is cancer. 5.4-6.2 So the one image I actually wanted to draw was 5.6, but to do that i needed to make me some references. So meet my two new OC- Tronald Dump (5.4) and Melon Usk (5.5). So after making my ref and drawing the 5.6- sloppy make out with some backdoor stimulation, I thought to myself well might as well milk the concept. So we have 5.7 where them guys do what they like the most- pleasing themself with money and shoving their stuff down others throats. After that i thought that maybe I need to make them a little bit more original- hence the make overs. 6.1 Is Melons Usk true form- 3 melons stacked on top of each other with his company logo - SpaceY. Tronadl became a sentient slime with a scrapped face of some homunculus and clothes both on and inside the slime. Though after reflection he should have been a mutated cheeto chip.

► Updates: My Stola comic got an overwhelmingly good reception over at FA. If any1 is wondering I am about a half way thorough drawing a follow-up comic with Via. It's longer and more complicated than the first one. It's slower than I would have liked but it's getting done. If helluva boss is not your thing, but TF are I have wrote down an idea of Dagoth Ur TF comic. My Mane 6 pony drawing on the other hand got more traction here on Tumblr and I am very grateful to everyone who reblogged it!

► Thoughts: I am still doing quite good on my daily drawings. This week I was doing some gesture drawing (reminder: the things I post are about 2 weeks behind what I actually draw). And i think I got a lot from that, especially approach to drawing poses. I used https://line-of-action.com/practice-tools/figure-drawing/ class mode for 30mins a day if any1 wants to try themselves. If any1 have a good tools like that on basics like values, lines or any other art fundamentals I'd be thankful if you send some links my way. As I self taught I feel like I am missing a lot concerning basics of art, but reading books does not do it for me. I need something to interact with.

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Mane 6 picnic + Weekly sketches version

The next 2 or 3 weekly bunches will not be uploaded in exact order of being drawn. Reason is they will be a bit more thematically bunched- such as this piece. This is basically week4day6 to week5day3 drawings. But it makes sense to just bunch it together right? Especially that i wanted to also edit and colour it a bit after scanning.

► Drawing: So here we have a mane6+spike going on a picnic. There is edited version with a bit of composition change and resizing + original scanned pencil version. I used my previous drawings as a base for these versions of RD, Shy, AJ and Pinkie. Rarity and Twi got a bit of redesign. With this I wanted to give each pony a bit of her own personality. Pegasi have feathered chests and feathers showing near legs. Flutters is the tallest and leanest of the bunch. Dash is compact and aerodynamic, but still well built. Applejack is 2nd talles, but biggest and build like a truck- what you would expect form hard physical work pony. Pinkie is average but has yummy tummy. Unicorns have been given traditional fantasy tails and cloven hooves. Rarity ofc have them painted as a proper lady would and she shaves her unicorn goatee. Also a dump truck at the back. Twilight is drawn a bit differently due to her becoming alicorn- she is bigger, her horn is straight. Also as a base unicorn and not pegasi she does not posses feathers, but unicorn traits- cloven hooves and tail.

► Ramblings: This is the first bigger piece that came out of the weekly sketches. It was drawn before the Stola comic that I posted earlier- it looking decent gave me the push to try and do it actually. There are some colour artifacts on the uploaded coloured version- that is unfortunately due to nightshade. I tried different settings and this was best looking I got and not much I can do about that. Next 2 weeklies will be just pencil sketch, maybe a bit of colour but not much more. And now that I have this finished I'll probably start drawing next follow up to Stola comic. Probably with Octavia or Andrealphus. But that will take some time. As for other things- drawing keeps being fun. The comic reception over at FA was astoundingly good. I knew it would get some traction due to it being a popular fetish drawing, but getting over 1k views was not expected. The followup drawing got over 100 views, which was given as it was not a kinky one. But still I do want to draw comics- I thought a bit about why I wanted to draw and I came to conclusion that I wanted to show ppl my story ideas and feels. I probably will try my hand at more TF, TG or hypnos, but I still think getting something additional with them is the point. Not to just get views- if I wanted that I'd just draw popular tf and big boobs only. I want to draw for me, if others get the enjoyment of what I make that it would be a nice bonus.

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A Little Bit of Self-love

As post-coital clarity dawns on Stola, many thoughts fill her head. Things seem very different then this morning and strange urges clash with her previous believes. But one look down on her wife cuddling as she chirps happily (a sound she never heard before in their life together), brings one to surface the most. Maybe they can make this marriage work, after all seeing things from her perspective should be much easier now.

A follow-up to this:

with Stola and Stella laying in implied bed after their first sex in this new situation. Both seem to enjoy the outcome. Unfortunately this is the last art of this tf I had already prepared and it may be 2 or 3 weeks before I finish another follow up. Also since I as of yet have no plans to include additional TFs in the followups I am sure they will get less traction than the initial comic (since fetishes get the views). But I still plan to get a bit further on this journey, and if any of You want to join me Welcome. Next coloured art will probably be a mane6 drawing i did as part of my daily drawing challenge.

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Helluva Maritial Troubles [TF,TG]

It has never been easier to love yourself (especially if you are a narcissist).

Hey I said in last post that I had a comic cooking up, finally finished editing it. This is my first finish comic, and also technically first transformation sequence I made (I did back in a day a 3 img sequence of my ttrgp shapeshifter changing, but I do not think that counts).

While making my daily sketches the idea of this transformation came into my mind (choking on feathers to be precise). At first it was supposed to be a simple cloning tf- where Stolas just becomes an exact copy of Stella, but after thinking about it I'd rather just make her a separate character, combining both. Also not 100% sold on Stola's colours, but darker looked better to me than just keeping them as same as Stolas. If there will be interest I might upload just sketch version, or alt Stolas colours (if I do they will land on my FA, I'll update the post to include links to them). I already have 1 follow up pic drawn, have an idea for like 3 comics more (with Andrealphus, Blitz and Octavia respectively).

Drawing the lines on paper took me like 1,5 days of fun, but colouring oh boy that was a bad experience for me. First tried to use Corel Painter but it was awful for that (also my first real try with Painter) and wasted 4h to do literally what I did after that in 30 sec in Photoshop. But I want to get off Adobe products and so I tried Krita. That was a better tool for me, but still learning new stuff and colouring being much less fun for me took in total about 3 days of colouring. I either need to get 1) more efficient at digital colouring, 2) somehow scan my sketches to make them look good without colouring or 3) just throw a towel and upload subpar scanned drawings with no editing. Dunno with what I am gonna go, but I yet have the motivation not to make it the third option.

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Week "3" part 2 horror part 1 here: https://www.tumblr.com/czokodanni/774927104698646528/so-week-3-is-here-this-one-will-be-separated-in-2?source=share

So this is the first gore horror drawings, not really all are weeks 3, but needed to get more for this week so here we be.

► Art: 1.3 Mood- This was actually the first drawing made with intent on getting something done daily. Like in the first post days were very dark and mood was rock bottom. This was to get out how I felt inside. 3.4,3.6 - I got he idea for pose and tried to draw it. Mood getting impaled and as seen in 3.4 it did not pan out great. So after a day I saw what did not work and redrew it. 3.6 is much better both in therms of proportions and pose. It also conveys misery and pain much better than the first 3.4 3.5 Skin on head- a filler drawing. Tried to make it look like an oversized skin suit on a partially broken skull. Could not get to look it like that so I settled for it being a very loose skin on the head

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Week 3 part 1

So week 3 is here. This one will be separated in 2 posts, because horror/gore warning on the second one. Part 2: horror/gore warning! https://www.tumblr.com/czokodanni/774927640861835264/week-3-part-2-horror-part-1-here?source=share

► Art: 3.1 Pinkie Pie, MLP- Second try and while it is better face is still ehh… strange. 3.2 Judy Hopps, Zootopia- While the drawing as a who is recognisable (mainly because there are not that many fictional police bunnies) again the face is something that is far off the reference 3.3 Midna, Legend of Zelda- This one is quite ok, the shortstack body is something i want to work on getting better. But as a first try, not bad IMO. Also b4 drawing this I did not realise how complex patterns on the helmet were 3.7 Stolas, Helluva Boss- The guy can't catch a brake, this is him at his lowest in the events of Mastermind. Barring the hands I like pretty much all of it, he resembles the original, pose and expression are clear

► Thoughts: While only 3 weeks are uploaded, I am actually finishing drawing week 5 and I must say I am starting to enjoy drawing again. I am more confident with my lines and are actually happy with the results. While objectively probably still not that great, getting this confidence in my drawing allowed me to draw a full separate comic that I will upload one I finish retouching it in digital. I used Photoshop until now, but I got corel pacakage from humble bundle and will try to switch- if you have any good tutorial on that send them my way. This week was edited in corel painter and i must say doing even a bare minimum like this was pain. Brushes and eraser behave totally differently, I did not manage to get my tablets pen pressure working (at least i think i didn't or it works in a way i do not understand) and tools placement and options are completely foreign. But I do want to get off photoshop, so I'll keep on it.

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Well week 2 of drawing is behind Us. Split the picture in 2 parts that both have different methods of blending the scanned sketches with background- input on which looks better would be super appreciated.

► Sketches: 2.1- NPC from my dnd rpg campaign- a head of a nun with hands held in prayer. Surprisingly I feel like hands are the best part of this one. Head shape was bad here. 2.2- A back wall of cathedral during a ritual- said nun NPC standing in front of partially broken stained glass performing a ritual. The bloodlink looks good enough. There is no 2.3- I returned late from work and did not have energy to draw. I did 2 sketches day 4 to compensate. 2.4a- Sans, Undertale- looks decent enough, head/eye shape could use more work when I revisit this. 2.4- Pinkie Pie, My Little Pony- Head is… uncanny, I hate. There is a revisit in week 3 that looks better. Tried giving her a different body type. She is a glutton working in bakery basically, I feel it's inevitable that she puts on some weight. 2.5- Twilight Sparkle, MLP- It's basic and non offensive. For both her and Rarity I got too on model. Next time i will try to remember to include fantasy unicorn goatees and tails in an effort to not make whole mane6 look copy-pasted but to give them some personality and my own twist. 2.6- Fluttershy, MLP- Again non offensive, but body is to barrel-y? Long legs and neck, because if I remember correctly at some point she herself said she is built like supermodel. Also I always pictured Flutter as thin and tall. 2.7- Rarity, MLP. Rar doing Jacko-O pose. Some face finally looking good, but to on model. See comment about Twilight.

► Musings Mood still sitting on a swing on daily basis, but maybe a bit better. Work has been less demanding this week, so that is probably making me feel better. Still constantly tired though. Binged Dragon HRT @ https://www.tumblr.com/ayviedoesthings last weekend- it's good, gave me feels and I cried in bed until 3am thinking about it. But I would lie if I said I fully got the ending. So many questions. If thematics is something You're interested in I recommend giving it a read.

Links: • Preamble: https://www.tumblr.com/czokodanni/773497834955784193/new-year-new-blog?source=share • Week 1: https://www.tumblr.com/czokodanni/773739815727480832/from-now-on-i-think-ill-divide-these-posts-in-2?source=share also is there a way to get tumblr to spit out shorter links than this?

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Well week 2 of drawing is behind Us. Split the picture in 2 parts that both have different methods of blending the scanned sketches with background- input on which looks better would be super appreciated.

► Sketches: 2.1- NPC from my dnd rpg campaign- a head of a nun with hands held in prayer. Surprisingly I feel like hands are the best part of this one. Head shape was bad here. 2.2- A back wall of cathedral during a ritual- said nun NPC standing in front of partially broken stained glass performing a ritual. The bloodlink looks good enough. There is no 2.3- I returned late from work and did not have energy to draw. I did 2 sketches day 4 to compensate. 2.4a- Sans, Undertale- looks decent enough, head/eye shape could use more work when I revisit this. 2.4- Pinkie Pie, My Little Pony- Head is… uncanny, I hate. There is a revisit in week 3 that looks better. Tried giving her a different body type. She is a glutton working in bakery basically, I feel it's inevitable that she puts on some weight. 2.5- Twilight Sparkle, MLP- It's basic and non offensive. For both her and Rarity I got too on model. Next time i will try to remember to include fantasy unicorn goatees and tails in an effort to not make whole mane6 look copy-pasted but to give them some personality and my own twist. 2.6- Fluttershy, MLP- Again non offensive, but body is to barrel-y? Long legs and neck, because if I remember correctly at some point she herself said she is built like supermodel. Also I always pictured Flutter as thin and tall. 2.7- Rarity, MLP. Rar doing Jacko-O pose. Some face finally looking good, but to on model. See comment about Twilight.

► Musings Mood still sitting on a swing on daily basis, but maybe a bit better. Work has been less demanding this week, so that is probably making me feel better. Still constantly tired though. Binged Dragon HRT @ https://www.tumblr.com/ayviedoesthings last weekend- it's good, gave me feels and I cried in bed until 3am thinking about it. But I would lie if I said I fully got the ending. So many questions. If thematics is something You're interested in I recommend giving it a read.

Links: • Preamble: https://www.tumblr.com/czokodanni/773497834955784193/new-year-new-blog?source=share • Week 1: https://www.tumblr.com/czokodanni/773739815727480832/from-now-on-i-think-ill-divide-these-posts-in-2?source=share also is there a way to get tumblr to spit out shorter links than this?