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You may recognize this otter lad from a previous post I've made here from when the character owner commissioned me for a bust piece. He's quite a beanpole but no less handsome for it, I hope you'll agree~

This is actually the second colored sketch halfbody I've made this year, it was supposed to be done for the end of February so is slightly late. I'm trying to do a colored sketch for each month of the year just to get plenty of practice in, but this is open for anyone and I have 4/12 slots filled. So that's up until the end of April, meaning you can enter for free and get yours done for May or later, assuming I'm able to keep the pace up.

I'm so proud of this! It's taken months of work on and off, but I'm very satisfied!

There are a few things still that I wanted to add to this that there wasn't enough space for, There's probably too much and enough to cause information overload as is! So I prioritized what an artist might find most helpful to see, or what could reduce mistakes by omission.

There will indeed be a second part to this, including additional outfits, variations of them and more plus hopefully the stuff I wanted to put on this sheet but couldn't fit. That's a while off though, I've got a queue of colored sketches to complete and which needs to take priority.

I present to you, my fursona Cyan Thornclaw! I've been working on this since about November IIRC. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time as I did make a refsheet way back years ago, but it's not really anything like what I imagine for the character anymore.

The refsheet as a whole is far from finished and still WIP, but I think it's worth showing off the front and back after many iterations, and with them being close to done and of course they will be the central elements of the refsheet.

I did it unclothed and added the clothes after, but would rather upload the clothed version as that's how they're more likely to be seen! Cyan's also pretty vanilla as far as markings go, so there's not that much to see underneath, aside from some curves 😳

I put an absurd amount of time into trying to match the proportions on the front and back and keep everything aligned, this also breaks the record for the largest image dimensions I've worked with, each side is on a 3959x6714 canvas, all made with the usual Paint.NET and trusty mouse.

This also shows off the overall aesthetic I'm going for, I tried to replicate the old metalheart 3D render aesthetic in a Garry's Mod map screenshot (since I can't do 3D modelling lol), and combine it with bold colors that inspired by Designers' Republic stuff. Seems to work so far, but time will tell if it looks too busy or loud when I include everything else in the ref - right now I'm not even sure what that will be.

In late 2023, I visited a person who is very special to me in another country. I created this in 2024 after it became clear we would never be together for the long term.

In the past I'd never have even dared to try making this idea a reality, but with the way I felt at the time, I didn't care. It became cathartic to work on for a while, and I could've added more detail, but it got to a point where I just wanted to be done with it.

Colored sketch gift for a Zoroark friend! His left hand took forever for me to get looking something like correct aughhh! But practice is practice.

I'm considering offering the same kind of half-body sketch for free soon, as long as what's asked for isn't too outrageously complex. Let me know if you'd be interested. Just don't expect it to be done too fast, considering the time of year, and I'd be working on it parallel to my day job and a new refsheet for my fursona.

Another bust commission I did earlier this year! Got lots of unfinished stuff cooking but among that, trying to get down a colored sketch style that I can put stuff out quicker with, then I hope to offer requests to you fine folks once I have that nailed. Y'all are the most supportive community I've found anywhere and 100% deserve it 😭❤

Here's something a very dear, long-time friend of mine commissioned! It's my first time drawing a sergal and she wanted the anatomically correct long sergal neck, that was quite a challenge in addition to all the floof! Still it's good to get practice.

Downloading more ram(wolf)! This is a very late commission result and yeah, I definitely feel bad about that in particular. But I don't feel bad about how next level this is for how detailed it is and how far I pushed my digital art skills! It's one of my first and few detailed background attempts. Hope you all like it! (Please don't actually try to download more RAM)

And it took around an hour, the fastest I've gone from blank canvas to completed piece in probably ever. Needless to say it's very messy when you look beyond the surface level, but I think it works even though going against typical advice.

This is a commission I took from a friend of a friend! I can see mistakes in it these days, but it's still one of the better and more refined, completed pieces I've made!

So I've read the CoC Content Warning policy in the announcements community and wanted to make sure of something to avoid making a mistake in my first post. In 5.1.1, there is:

Any NSFW content, including real or artistic (digital or otherwise), must be behind a content warning message. NSFW content includes, but is not limited to: nudity, sex, kink, and the discussion of such.

To be absolutely clear, should furry nudity absent of any, ahem, "parts" on display be tagged NSFW?