Tier Drawings: Behind the Scenes (Patreon)

For me, making drawings is a multi-step process. See, I'm not good at drawing by hand, nor am I good at drawing without heavy references. As such, I don't begin with a canvas, but with 3D models.

And luckily for us, I have a (mostly) finished base model to work with now! Just try to ignore the dead, soul-draining stare they all have.

Tier 1: Friendly

This tier features a normal-sized patron character who, as the title suggests, is on friendly terms with the girls. I'm trying to intertwine the description of each tier with their drawings, and by golly this one has cookies and hugs!

This was a pose I had cemented into my mind for a good while now, so it was fairly easy to set up.

Progress week 1: Questions are starting to be answered, such as "What is the character on the left doing with her hands?" and "Why does Miles like Taco Bell so much?" Not much adjusting was needed for the poses here.

Progress week 2: I added a third character in the background because-... well, let's just say that I wanted there to be eight girls in particular. Additionally, I added a raised foot to the hugging girl, which I feel adds a little bit of extra weight and cuteness to the hug!

Oh, and hair. Lots of hair in this one. And the occasional animal ears. Did I mention that I really like monster girls? I also like cookies, and as promised, there they are in all... er... most of their glory! They're still missing chocolate chips at the moment.

Lastly, I added clothes to the hugging cat girl! Frills are kinda hard to draw... and she's covered with them.

Progress week 3: And now we have color! If you break out a magnifying glass, you can even see a bit of shading, too! I didn't want to overdo it on these drawings since they're effectively thumbnails, so too much shading could potentially make it harder to see what's going on (not to even mention the time it would take).

Tier 2: Short

This tier features a short patron character. I very much wanted a scenario in which the woman rests her breasts on the patron's head while tenderly wrapping her arms around his neck/chest area. Sadly, as I found out in Blender, that's not physically possible. So, I settled on her hands resting on the patron's shoulders, and it only looks mildly menacing.

Progress week 1: The 3D reference did not help with the boob squish over the head. I made it work with the help of lots of references online. For some reason it's usually another female character with boobs on her head...

Anyways, there's a lot of dead space on the left and right of the image; this would have worked far better as a portrait drawing, but I'm working with what Patreon is giving me. I do have a solution to fill the dead space, however...

Progress week 2: ...And that solution is wings! Now there's far less empty space, and according to composition stuff that I still struggle to understand, the lines of the wings sorta guide the eye to the two in the middle. I also gave the woman here long, flowing hair and elegant clothing to go with the not-as-elegant pose.

Progress week 3: Remember how in Tier 1, I made it a point not to do too much shading? Heh, yeah. Good times. That said, the wings here are prominent enough to warrant the extra time shading. Plus it really makes them pop! I went with a cool blue shading to compliment the white and gold colors.

Tier 3: Small

This tier features... well, you get it by now. I wanted something a little more seductive with this one, so I went with the petite patron character being pinned against the wall by a femme fatale of sorts. This one was difficult to pose because there were so many ideas I wanted to try, namely the woman bending down, her head looming over the patron's head. Once again, this proved to be physically difficult to achieve, so I went with a nice back arch upwards instead. Gotta show off that belly button!

Progress week 1: Pay no attention to the line behind the patron. That's going to be a wall; its exact location simply hasn't been determined yet. Also pay no mind to the floating tail tip on the right. Still working that one out.

While this one has been difficult to pose, it's my favorite week 1 drawing! I think the hand on the hip really sells the dominating attitude of the woman.

Progress week 2: Throw in a shirt, some hair, and a fully-attached tail and we've got ourselves a finished lady! The patron is finished, too, actually. He's meant to be a blank slate to represent any and every patron. That's right, this is you in the drawing. Trust me, it's best that you just do as she says.

Progress week 3: With a little bit of added color and a careful balance of fearousal on our patron friend, we can declare this one finished! You may be wondering why the woman has purple skin, and that has a simple answer.

...So anyways, on to Tier 4!

Tier 4: Tiny

This one... I knew I wanted a handheld shot, but I wanted the eye(s) to take up the entire background. It wasn't until I had the pose mostly set up that I realized that it would look really weird having a planet-sized head and a normal-sized hand. So, I went with this composition, instead. It pulls off the mood I was going for.

Progress week 1: It looks a bit weird at this stage, but I think that's in part due to the lack of details (namely hair). It probably doesn't help that the perspective I used was rather wonky.

Progress week 2: Fortunately, a bit of unkempt hair gives this drawing some much-needed personality. That, and giving the patron some effects that signify the terror that any of us would 100% feel in this situation, no matter how exciting it would be.

Progress week 3: Given the bigger scale, I gave extra attention to the girl's shading and made sure the hair had a good level of depth. Now, you may be wondering why she has grey skin-

Tier 5: Diminutive

Ah, this one was fun to set up! I played around with a few different poses for the feet and landed on this one: one foot planted on the ground, the other raised up in a curious manner. It's hard to tell what the giantess is thinking, no?

Progress week 1: Drawing the feet was also fun! Drawing the tiny... less so. I originally made all of these drawings at a scale of 460 x 200 px, as recommended by patreon. However, this made drawing small details (like the tiny, here) extremely difficult. I've since scaled things up by a factor of two, which will make fixing the tiny's messy pose here possible.

Progress week 2: And fix it I did! It's just... really hard to tell from here. I also gave the woman some skinny jeans that were extremely difficult for me to nail down. The folds, the stitching, the sag... it's quite difficult to draw jeans.

I also gave some more insight into her mind in the form of an illustration. Thing's aren't looking good for our little friend, here...

Progress week 3: But they look far better in color! Not much shading was needed here, save for some simple floor shadows. I'm not 100% satisfied with how they came out, but it's such a small detail that even I have to admit that it really doesn't matter, as long as they get the point across that they're standing on solid ground (and not just floating in an endless, white void).

Tier 6: Mant

Last but not least, we have the tier that doesn't exist yet: the Mant tier. There were lots of ideas for where to put the tiny in this one, but... look, I just really like feet, okay? Plus, putting the tiny between some toes is a nice way to show off just how small they are.

That said... getting this pose to work was a nightmare. No, like... seriously. The Blender scene looks like something out of Silent Hill.

It was difficult getting the right perspective, so I used three different models for the giantess: one for the foot, one for the legs, and one for the upper body.

I'm not proud of this abomination, but hey! It made for a cool shot!

Progress week 1: See? Totally worth it! This drawing does suffer from the too-small-to-adjust details that the last one had, but otherwise I think it's not half bad. I do acknowledge that it's very busy in the middle, making it a hard to differentiate between the tiny and the giantess. I have a plan for that.

Progress week 2: I HAVE A PLAN. I added eyes, hair, and a hat to our giantess here, and the scene is getting very dense in that sliver of vision we have. Just trust me on this -- I'm a professional at winging drawings. I do it with every single one!

Progress week 3: See? A little bit of blur and the tiny is suddenly the focus! Well, more or less. I'm still a novice with composition. Considering what we started with, though, this one turned out fantastic!

Just remember: this isn't a giant witch looking smugly at the tiny between her toes. This is a giant witch looking smugly down someone else's legs at the tiny standing between another, bigger person's toes!

And with that visual firmly set in all of our minds, it's time to call this project complete! Thank you so much for reading, and I look forward to our future abomina-... er... creative pursuits!