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.

Doorsona Ovimikko

Happy monthiversary to the magpie. :P  He enjoyed the sketch so much I figured I'd do it for this month's gift <3

I'm really sorry about how shitty these doors came out.  I know I can do better, but nothing was working out and I just didn't have the time to figure out how to make them nicer. :/ Fuckin awful and frustrating lol

Also half-assed gradient background engage PFT but it looks awful on the white and with the legs cut off it's awkward to be transparent whatever I guess.

Let's hope our one-year gift turns out a lot better than this hahahahaha

WiP - Muge's Doorsona

In my attempts to rely less on line, I've decided to do up this baby for our 10th. ;P  Shhhh, I haven't told him~