#chocodiles

[dreamsinstopmotion]

Connor was at his best as a character (not a person) in his first few episodes (teenaged not baby). How he is unfamiliar with the modern world. Saving Sunny, chocodiles, tools for eating. His unhinged grin when he tries to kill Cordelia, the confusion and pain on his face as her demony powers pass through him, ridding him of some of the stain that Quartoth left on him. How he breaks down and cries in her arms, just like a child. Because he is just a child and that is the first moment in his life that he gets to be one, to take comfort in a mother, to be vulnerable and feel safe.

I think one of the problems with how Connor was handled is that he very rarely got to be a character who's depths we explored, who's immense trauma was delved into. There could have been much more to him than the writers gave us.

I generally don't like Connor as a character. I don't enjoy him and he brings a lot of grief to the show, we all know the troubles of season 4. It's sad, because I think he had a lot of potential if his character and storyline hadn't been so fumbled.

[rogers-attic]

hes just like me frfr

[kwillow]

A Cure for Barbarity

The grand old manor of Northcrest provided more luxurious accommodations than most in the rag-tag group of soldiers in the company of the Rising Dawn were accustomed to - if they ignored the peeling wallpaper, smell of mold and the manor's creeping, foul-tempered owner. Unfortunately, Alex couldn't do the latter. She needed to wrangle their prisoner-turned-annoyance wizard Hyden into doing any work at all, and that meant negotiating with his self-appointed apprentice and biggest fan, their host with the least, Baron Theopolis North. Now she had two egotistical, unstable mages to deal with, which was two more than she ever wanted.

She was common, he was the worst kind of arrogant old-blood nobility, she no-nonsense, he excessively prone to nonsense, she hated Hyden, he adored the man beyond all reason. It was inevitable that tensions between the rat and bat would boil over into conflict. True, Alex was a disciplined soldier who knew how to keep a cool head in times of stress, but the mad mage of Northcrest knew how to get under her skin... in more ways than one.

[chocodile]

Quick little fursona doodle! She's going on a t-shirt, but really, she could go anywhere if she wanted.

[marcasmacmanus]

Three Nobleman (Pt. I)

Duke Arcturus Aleksander Hyden the IV.

The first of three portraits I did for @kwillow and @chocodile. This is the second painting I ever did in oil on canvas , yet completely different from my first one of Lord Ambroys - oil-on-canvas-painting-of-lord-ambroys -. The project started at the beginning of January and Hyden ( by @chocodile ) happened to be the first one I wanted to work on. It turned out, that it was quite difficult to me, to find out what color his coat is supposed to be. I still think it turned out a little bit darker than it should be and maybe a little bit too much on the "green side". But I also learned a lot about shading and gradients as well as I was reminded of how hard it can be to paint "toon characters" without outlines in this specific style. One can notice it hadn't worked out for the mouth and the eyes.. it just looked wrong so I decided to go with just black lines, what makes them look more toonish again. Speaking of the style, it's hard to overlook that it's completely based on @kwillow 's artwork. This one specifically on the following piece - theo-was-tremblingly-eager-to-help-hyden -. This also means that I don't want to take credit for the artwork itself even in the slightest. In the end I just changed the medium, nothing more. The painting process itself took me about 50-55 hours (yeah, I am that slow) but it brought me a lot of joy and it was a very interesting learning process of how oil colors work.

[kaijupuppy]

Artfight attack on @chocodile of their Hyden.

🐇

[themisterbenjy]

I love Gummigoo, guys.

[mineral-vulture]

Attack for @chocodile featuring Morgan counting her money.

[turquoisefleur]

My submission for this week dreamsnap's Villanous Lair.

[she-cannot-do-the-smurf]

After getting over Rufus’ last wish and Lyatt laughing at him, it shook me they didn’t know what they were.

[evulbad]

commission for @chocodile <3

[bowelfly]

HYDRAPHONE 2025 BRANCH 1

Team 1 artists:

1: @psshaw 2: @lsdoiphin 3: @polturn 4: @avpol 5: @librivore42 6: @cydork 7: @iguanodont 8: @chocodile 9: @yyyipes 10: @leona-florianova 11: @flame-shadow 12: @chalkrub

Back to the beginning

BRANCH 1 | BRANCH 2 | BRANCH 3 | BRANCH 4 | BRANCH 5 | BRANCH 6 | BRANCH 7

[kwillow]

Pleased to meet you, hope you guess my name.

[chocodile]

More ref sheets for Art Fight! Couldn't go another year without Alex getting one.

(My username there is Skitty, by the way!)

[marcasmacmanus]

Three Nobleman (Pt. III)

Lord Ambroys Belrose Desoleil

The last one I worked on. May one can tell this character is something really special to me.. and maybe that's one of the reasons this last portrait was a hell of a roller-coaster to me. Almost leading me to quit and abandoning the whole project. The reason why this particular painting has a different background than the other two is that I had to start over completely. The first mistake I made was the scale. At first I wanted to show way more of the character itself, what meant on the other hand, that all the details got way smaller and I just wasn't able to adequately handle that. The second problem was that I somehow messed up his face/expression and wasn't able to figure out what went wrong or what it was exactly, that make it seem so odd to me.. And last but not least, my absolute lack of understanding color.. yep, I like painting stuff but I don't really understand how colors work.. His mane/hair became my arch nemesis. Not that it is hard enough, to work with bright colors that are pretty close to each other, without outlines, no, I had absolutely no idea how many different colors are needed to mix blonde.. just to make that slight difference to his coat. The decision to use the "older" version of him wasn't helping either. His younger self doesn't have the straight mane/hair, which makes it way easier to let it look like "hair". Well, at least to me. But in the end I think I somehow managed it to a degree that it is acceptable (for my fourth time with oils). To end the part of my struggle with this one, there was one thing left I wish I had noticed earlier, and that's the position of his left arm. I just took the sketch from my first try and scaled it up, not noticing that the arm may look a little bit odd now.

But that's aside, I also had a lot of fun with the painting. I totally got lost in the rose on his revers (because I love roses the most) and there are some more details which made me really happy how they turned out. But I have to confess that I cheated a little on this painting as well. It's the only of the three portraits that isn't exclusively painted in oils. His horn is actually painted over with nail-polish to get that opalescent shimmer.

Ambroys' portrait took me about 90 hours (first try included). It's based on this drawing by @kwillow - how-much-conditioner-do-you-think-olderamby-goes -, which again means that I don't want to take any credit for the artwork itself.

Yes, Ambroys means a lot to me and that may be the reason I look more critical on this one. But the most important thing for me is, that the new owners, @chocodile and @kwillow, like them and can gain some joy out of my work. You guys gave me so much through your characters and their stories, and helped me through a very hard, and so far the darkest chapter of my life. And therefore, thank you!

[lsdoiphin]

CHRISTMAS.

@broncoburro

@kwillow

@chocodile

@teethterror

@lozchic3

@featheredbeardog

@vaultcinda