Gerby Birby

A friend was kind enough to extend my DevArt Core subscription in exchange for this lovely Gerby! She is a robot crested lark and she was so, so fun to work on.

Bonus lineart:

Failed Anniversary Gift

This was supposed to be more cute-morbid than straight up brutal like this, and it's not even done, because omfg xD;  I was having a really bad episode the week I was attempting to get ahead on this, so I guess it just showed through on that.  Either way, I figured I should post it anyway, for reasons?  I still rather like it, even though it's definitely not what I'd intended.  And I guess it's good to get this stuff vented in a kind of productive way...

Trade - Heichukar

My super duper late as fuck end of an art trade with a friend, Heichukar! At first, it was a bit challenging~  It's a new type of birb I'm not used to drawing :P  I had to struggle with it a few times, but I have done it. Aw jis

This is one of my first times in a looooong time of putting fancy motion blurs on something.  In the past it hasn't been as successful, but I think it's decent in this maybe x'D

WiP - Lisi Birb Lord, Lord of Birbs

I held a mini stream an hour or so ago, because I wasn't feeling good enough to sleep.  It's much needed quality time with my cintiq, of course.  I haven't really gotten used to it before this and I'm glad we're starting to come around to each other.

Anyway, here's the thing that wasn't supposed to be me, but turned into me, lol.  It was something easy to practice with because it's not something I'm still in a creative process with.  I know what this is going to look like.

I'm surprisingly pleased with it so far, but we'll see how I feel about it later when I come back to it...oop.

Harakkakuppi

A magpie cup, filled to the rim with insight, nothing more...

Courtship - and Other Naali & Harakka Pieces

Forgot to post this here woops.  Look at flirty, handsome Harakka showing off his beautiful feathers/wings to the horned fox lady. x3  This took a fuckton of time to do, mostly because I was trying to fight my urge to rush everything in one go.  I came out great, but damn...mostly the trees were slow to come out. xD  One day I'll learn to put leaves on them! lol

Really trying to work on my settings...too many empty backgrounds.  If I ever hope to do some quality illustrations of these two, I gotta fix that...and find some more creativity for the stories.  Got a few brewing up soon, though...I might end up writing small things for them first to really get an image in my mind's eye.

The second one, "Sienestäjät" is newest, but I haven't felt like digging the scanner out of the pit right now, so I just snapped a shitty photo with my tablet. :P  Probably see it in another post down the line of the proper scan, woop.







And then a random affection sketch of Naali and Harakka.  Most of a random, spontaneous little thing to practice them more.  Harakka can be pretty challenging sometimes, because of how dark everything is...so it just tends to blend all the finer details I want.  Gonna have to work on that.

WiP - Courtship

This took forever to form itself, but once it did I was pleased with it.  I've been very slow on working on this, pacing myself over a few days, because I'm attempting not to rush myself so much.  I'm really excited to finish it though.  It's turning out really beautiful.

Originally, the idea was Naali in her wedding dress with a fully-magpie Harakka, but a comment from my own bae revealed its true nature; a courtship moment, rather than betrothal. :P  Changing the clothes really brought it together for me.  Technically, they are already finished, but the background is growing super extensively.  There's sooooo many trees now. XD

PS. sorry for the shitty tablet quality photos, I didn't think to get proper process pictures.  I only just now realized I could make an entry on it.  Woops.

When Sketches Break Meta

What ya drawin the first two sketches simultaneously and the one turns into this...

woops :P

The Latest Valentine's Day Gift Ever

Harakka (or "magpie" in Finnish) is Naali's husband.  I've been working on this piece for longer than it should have taken me, but I was using a hugely different brush and style, so I was pretty uncertain about it.  Taking a lot of inspirations from the Darkest Dungeon style, thought a lot grittier and dirtier (intended).

It's actually the latest Valentine's day gift on the face of the earth too. :D  I was visiting my beb in Finland during the actual day of Valentine's, so I wasn't connected with any of my tools for digital stuff.  I had to plan it for my return and with how far departed from my normal style it is, it took me longer than I would've liked. ;3;  But it is done and he said he loved it, so tentative success! <3

You can see him proposing in another illustration I've done here ;P

In Maggie's Loving Memory

My birthday gift and contest entry for Heichukar~  We were to pick one of her OCs and do a piece of them. <3  I'd been meaning to do a Corien one for quite some time now, and this became a good opportunity for it. :P  So, super happy birthday to you!  I hope you like it and it lives up to Corien standards ;P

Slowly but surely I've been piecing this together of the past three-ish weeks -- and then as fast as possible over the last one lol.  The beginning stages were rough, I couldn't quite get my eye on something I liked - then this came out of nowhere. :3    Armed with many Bloodborne references and a personal lore-keeper, I got in many little things to add a good finish.  Wooo~

My hand almost fell off when I did each individual leaf behind the grave ;____;  I knew it would be hellish lol  BUT I DID IT, AW JE

It's quite possibly The Best and Most Complete Thing I've Done For Years™ lol

WiP - In Maggie's Loving Memory (progress 2)

I made some huge progress today, woooo~  I'm really terrible at backgrounds, but I've managed to impress myself. :D  For now, at least.  I'm sure I'll change my mind at some point.

My hand's killing me and how the frick did it become 5pm???  I really lost the time while working on this...

WiP - In Maggie's Loving Memory (progress)

I got like six days to finish this LET'S GOOOOOOOOOOOO

WiP - In Maggie's Loving Memory

A preview of a contest entry I'm workin' on O: That background is going to KILL ME, lol rip.  But all in all, I'm really proud of my progress so far <3

Delayed Sketchbook Pieces

Excuse the long disappearance, I made another journey to Finland to see my lovely magpie~  I missed my drawing tablet and my scanner so much. xD  Had many moments of getting the itch to sketch and only had my sketchbook.  Some ideas just aren't for traditional medium though...I'm sure we'll see some of those belated ideas in the rest of the month or so.

However, I do have a few finished pieces from my sketchbook that I'm relatively proud of. :>

Belated Yulemas Gift

I have no idea why I sometimes think I can paint...because I really cannot, lol.

In any case, this is for the mother of my magpie ♥  She says she is fond of willow tits and though they've lost their fluffiness in translation from pencil to paint, I think you can still see what I was going for. xD; I really like birch trees, also...just saying. and the colour blue lol

I can't wait to give this to her when I arrive to stay :3

The Birthday Magpie

Happy birthday to my lovely magpie <3
It's been a very long while since I've taken out the coloured pencils, so I'm sorry it's not terribly good :I  Part of me almost thinks it should've stayed black and white, buuuuut I wanted it to be special so!  Here it is!

I'm at least super pleased with the magpie :P  Naturally, I'd fuck up the fox though lol

Kindle is OFFENDED

Practice, practice~ Still trying to work through this funk I'm in :I  And I really like Kindle's design and colours, so he was a perfect victim! I hope Erpa doesn't mind o3o

This honestly wasn't even supposed to be as paint-y as it is XD It was supposed to just be a silly coloured sketch buuuuut I got pretty into it.

Mister Max

This is the best birb reaction to an argument I’ve ever seen. Mr. Max is not my birb, but this art piece is © me.