Human (and wolfgirl) Tala! (Patreon)

Thank you for the stream Sunday! For the in-stream support from Skimike, Blobage, FriendlyDeathclaw and Mitchell!

It was kind of difficult.. one of those off days I guess. In the end I just spent hours sketching and not liking the result, starting over, etc. Until I just picked one and went with it, really, without thinking about what it was gonna be until I was already halfway in there.

So I took the request submitted by Magitechnician, who submitted via the 'Artists Choice' option.. and made Human Tala! I also threw in a ...Okami-mimi, I guess, variation!

I had thought about a human Tala for a while now...I love drawing them but often don't get much chance to explore it. I had done a doodle of her once before on my comic page notes, so some slight reference to go off of...

I tried to work a lot of native Alaskan features into Tala like eye shape, cheeks, and lip shape. Koyukon Athabascan women have facial markings that represent accomplishments/milestones in life, or significant others/family, names, etc. and so since Tala is an adult, I kind of 'translated' her simple-comic-markings into more symbolic ones here: Denali has two summits, so the mark on her head is a symbol of that, her cheeks are pebbles in river, hence her tribal birth name 'Young River', the lower chin lines are her parents and middle one, grandmother, who raised her. On her arm is the weather and moon phase at time of her birth, and the lower line is for weaving, a skill she's had mastered, though not used in the comic thus far.

Anyway..enjoy a bit of worldbuilding/education/character background!

HD files in the October link for them on last post for $5+, and end of month ZIP.