Big epic fantasy commission for Cordite. This one took a while and I stopped being able to tell if it was any good by the time it was done.I worked on this in fits and starts over about three months.
There’s a lot going on here. Enough that Illustrator crashes when I try to find out how many paths are in this file.
Very early rough, with crude colors to help the client make some sense of my messy lines, and to begin to think about the overall color scheme.
At the beginning of the month, this popped into my head. I did a quick doodle and posted it, asking if I should finish it; the responses were unanimously “yes”.
Illustrator, 4.5h, about one of which was making those buttons by tracing sigils from Denning & Phillips’ Planetary Magick, which I’ve been working with lately. Making a serious go at its rites has definitely caused some interesting sensations.
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I looked at this and said “this needs clouds behind her” and then it started to feel like the character select screen of a video game so I spent a while turning it into that.
The multicolored type would probably be color cycling if this was an actual video game, and of course it would be scrolling up into the sky and giving you the usual attract mode stuff – enemy point values, copyright info, maybe even a couple more sentences of story, stuff like that. There is a token straight cis character but the text probably still reads “trans witch powers”, you just get to borrow them after saving a trans witch or something. It’s an indy game, we don’t have the budget for changing that! We most assuredly do have the budget to make sure all the text gets everyone’s pronouns right (because of course there’s a transmasc warlock or two, and maybe an enby).
brb, gonna go learn 3d and godot or unreal or something
She’s pretty nice as long as you don’t make fun of her really, really strong text-to-speech accent.
13min doodle in Illustrator, after having fun playing Grid Ranger for a while.
Astute’s plugins are doing a lot of work here. Every single effect you can see is that appearance stack is one o theirs. The filled-in eyes have an extra fill on top with Illustrator’s native Scribble effect applied, so there’s some native effects going on here.
This is a 100% black and white image. Any changes in brightness and color are due entirely to glitches in your visual processing system.
Illustrator, about ten minutes.
Illustrator, 1h.
I decided to fool around again with the “big swooshy line with a parallel line brush” technique I played with yesterday.
I’d drawn this big swoosh in the same file before I closed it yesterday. I duplicated it and started fooling around – I rotated it, stuffed it in a distortion mesh, rotated the mesh back, and made two new mesh lines close together in the middle, then pulled it apart. And made a bunch more mesh lines to let me wave it around.
It looked vaguely like a figure so I added a few more mesh lines to make a rectangle around the head area, and another mesh line down the middle of that area to create some points to pull around.
The parts coming up and around kinda felt like a hand holding something, so I drew a stylized post-horn and some hands.
I really wanted this to just be B&W but I was lazy and used a second color to knock that hand back. Then it started to look like an old super-designey Penguin Books cover so I looked online for the grid they structured everything around for a few decades, dropped it in, and moved things around until it looked good.
And then I rendered it out and posted it and now you are looking at it.
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Illustrator, 1h.
I answered a “how would you achieve this effect” question on the Illustrator subreddit and decided to fool around with the results for a while.
I was looking for something else and I found the figure that became this in a Horny Peggy Doodles file from 2016. I decided to throw some of my 2024 coloring methods on it; an hour later it had just sort of turned into genie/potgirl/modular weirdness.
I have a whole lot of files full of horny doodles of my fursona in these sorts of situations. Sometimes they get finished. A lot of them just stay doodles.
Yesterday I drew a horny picture of my fursona being yanked on a chain. Today I decided to draw one of my spouse’s characters on the other end of the chain.
That is all.
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“Visit your perfect, wise, future self,” the guided mediation said. And I got this.
The next morning I decided to doodle the image in Illustrator. And then a little voice in my head suggested doodling it again in Moho, the animation program I’ve been playing with lately. I did. And then I set it up for animation, put a little breathing cycle on it, and started playing with various rendering effects. I spent about three hours here but once I get the hang of this thing it’ll probably be more like a half hour to do a little “living photo” cycle like this again, and that’s pretty cool.