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Tier Paintings

The Rising Doe and The Crowned Buck tiers can see high-resolution versions of these pieces here

When I started thinking of launching a patreon several months ago, one of the things I got hung up on was tiers. And there's the behind the scenes, sure, of how I wasn't sure what I could offer, what I *should* offe...

Tier Paintings (High-Res)

When I started thinking of launching a patreon several months ago, one of the things I got hung up on was tiers. And there's the behind the scenes, sure, of how I wasn't sure what I could offer, what I *should* offer, and what was comparable pricing as I looked to other artists, but there's just the greater issue of theming. Muppets? Furbies? What's unique and appealing that will still be fun for me to depict?

Then I remembered Toilet Deer. And at the same time, I was reading The Only G...

Brush Masterpost

This is where my brushes live! At the Crowned Buck tier you get access to all of the brushes I make. 

If you'd like to share these with friends and peers, I only ask that if you find yourself doing so frequently, maybe point them toward my itch.io page along the way! Have fun, and please show me what you make with these. 

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To Be Taught Softness (Estinien x Aymeric)

CW scarring and trypophobia

There's 100% something there

variants include a t4t version and a draconic-corruption estinien version

Estinien Pin-up

CW Scarring, scarring from top surgery, and trypophobia for both scales and the scarring

How many variations is too many? I don't care! 

I adore the idea of Nidhogg's aether physically changing Estinien, his anatomy and even biology. So hi, if you're not into monster dicks or monster bits in general, probably don't go peeping through these. 

This piece is also the first time I've really figured out how I want to draw the scarring from the eyes of nidhogg and found ...

G'raha x Estinien

I like to draw things I don't even really ship. I'm here for the aesthetics. I'm here for the *tropes*. The hero worship? That first little meeting in ishgard? That's kindling.  And if I remember right, this came out of a joking conversation with a friend about Estinien seems like the type to have a musk kink. 

I've got nothing against a buff g'raha, but I also enjoy drawing him softer, cushioned by fat over the muscle. I'm still really proud of the squish to his cheek, the ti...

Kolya Pinup Spread

This is an updated version of a piece that went up onto social media - I removed his tail and adjusted the proportions. In the original, I realized I'd made his torso too long and his head too small. I think they're still a little funky, but you've got to let a piece rest and move on from it. That back and forth I go through when drawing his scars fell onto the side of 'aesthetic, comfortable', and I don't know how to feel about that, what to do about it. The more I draw him, I'm sure, the mo...

Kolya Pinup

My friends and I all decided to draw pinups of our warriors of light.

I think my favorite part of drawing Kolya is remembering I get to keep him compact, that his limbs are short because he's short. Also I love his beefy thighs. 

I know there's no nudity *technically* in this piece, but I think if the average person peeped this at work, their boss might give them a side eye, so it's gonna live in NSFW. 

Cut & Snip

CW: Self Harm, No-Op Trans Body

I don't think it's a fantasy held only by trans people to wish or imagine that your body was made of clay; that you could clip it, carve it, reshape it as you wished. Sometimes I just want to pop off parts of my body and exist without them, but be able to pop them back on later. 

There's an older version of the blue piece, a first pass. But it's bad. And I don't want to acknowledge its existence. If you're interested, I do thin...

Furious Little Thing

I'm not sure what the best way to provide content warnings for patreon is, but I'll do my best!

CW: Scarring, self-harm mention

When you're trans and you're creating art, and you're *seeing* art, sometimes visual tropes begin to chafe. 

I say all I feel with the understanding that what is empowering for some people is decidedly not empowering, and sometimes even harmful, to others. As more and more artists have begun to explore the inclusion of top-surg...

The Lovers

I have a shameful number of thumbnails for Dragon Age inspired Tarot cards, but this is one of the few that made it to a finished piece. Everything but the face gave me hell on this piece, and I feel like you can see and feel where I lost steam. It's always hard for me to balance my love of abstract shapes and scratchy lines with my love of a rendered face, the softness of round skin. 

This scene in The Old Guard, in its modern context, is one tumblr still fixates on. It's bleeding...

Warrior of Light

I made a catboy as a half joke when I started playing FFXIV, and now I'm deeply attached to him. He's evolved significantly past this point in the story, at the end of A Realm Reborn, when I was still mainly Dragoon and Shadowbringers hadn't even released yet. 

This was the last piece I painted in 2020, and I know it's the baby ironworks gear, I know, but it's still so beautiful with the crystal's light and that soft blue glow. These days, I run WHM and try to show as much of Kolya...

The Ten of Swords

Reposting all of these is teaching me that I got done far more in 2020 than I initially thought I had. And that I painted very little in 2021. 

Dragon Age Inquisition is what really blew up the independent artist tarot scene, and you can still see its influence as we approach a decade post-release. This was one of the first painting pieces where I feel like I learned to pull from such an obscene amount of varying references to figure out colors, tone, shape. I was incredibly proud ...

Toilet Deer - The Original

This piece is a study, believe it or not. Dark Souls Toilets is funny. I really don't have anything enlightening to say about this piece. I think deer emerging from toilets is funny. If I had a fursona, it would be a disembodied deer head that likes to hang out in toilets to scare people. 

Corallians II

According to twitter, I finished this piece in the very beginning of November 2020. This piece, like Yellow, is a study; This time of Klimt's Water Serpents. 

Eureka 7 has long been one of my favorite anime and manga. I'm partial to anything that studio BONES puts out, and the twisted inspirations of the 60's and 70's in Eureka 7 give it such a unique aesthetic I don't think any anime has ever replicated. I also, foolishly, thought this piece would be a quick one. When I want a "qu...

Unizine - Work Horses

I made this piece for a unicorn zine hosted by Dorian C (ngc_5139 on patreon), who's the creator behind Hellwick, a webcomic about cannibal, cultist unicorns. 

This piece would have been late 2020, I believe, and it was during a period where I was very, very much doubting my skill with any sort of linework. When I was still in school, one of my easiest methods of creating when my confidence was dismal was one-line drawings. You start, and you don't pick your pen up until you stop. ...

Yellow

This piece, too, is an older one now. It's a study of Joe Bowler's Man and Woman Asleep, which is an incredible exercise in the use of negative space. I love to do studies to get a different sense of proportion and form. I was in a period of using pretty bleak color options, and yellow was both my roommate at the time's favorite color, and a color I'd always shied from working from. I took this chance to work with what felt like wild, surreal colors, and to experiment with brushes that were s...

Legend of Zelda - Three Mothers

When Breath of the Wild initially released, there was a corner of twitter exploring Linksonas. All these different artists were figuring out their own unique characterizations of Link. Many of them delved into different ideas, too, of what the world of hyrule would be like.

I've always been partial to more grim fantasy for Hyrule - The first Zelda game I really connected with was Twilight Princess. This piece is old now, from the end of 2019, but I still want to fiddle around with a got...