Personal Werk (Patreon)

Something I realized that's been holding me back a lot: is that I don't do enough personal work. Stuff that's not for clients, but just for myself or friends. I'm super lucky have a lot of amazing commissioners, but I think the imbalance between art that I make for me, and art that I'm paid to make for others, has been more pronounced recently. And its definitely been affecting my output and outlook on art.

So I made a small effort to focus on pressure-free art this month during any down time I had.

I even did some traditional pencil and ink artwork, which I am VERY out of practice with. But it's how I started drawing, and the nostalgia factor is great at making drawing feel brand new again.
It brings back memories of running home after school with a fresh stack of paper I stole from my mom's classroom printer, a godawful 'how to draw manga' book from the book-fair, and a G-2 pilot pen, so I could sit at my desk and draw up characters and stories for endless hours.
...I was either doing that, or looking at early 2000s furry porn sites with my unrestricted dial up internet connection on my dad's old windows 98 pc... >>

I also got around to doing some painting I've been putting off!
The Kyrstal 3Dprint is by Chunkerbuns over on twitter:
https://twitter.com/ChunkerBuns
You can buy the model on their gumroad I think~
I printed it on my Anycubic Photon S printer, which is a bit out of date now. One of these days I'm going to learn 3D software better, so I can justify upgrading it to one of the fancy new 8K printers I've been drooling over @v@'
I'm not 100% satisfied with all the details with this paint job, but I'm proud of myself for finally finishing it! (she's been sitting on my desk primed for what seems like 4 years now...)

And the lil space marine is my first attempt at painting a Warhammer mini. Lots of stuff was learned about paint, thinning, coverage, priming, airbrushing, highlighting, undercoating, and so much more during these processes!
I'm not very good at this yet, but something about painting models gets me excited to learn even more!

I've got an unpainted NSFW succubus-demon-schoolgirl garage-kit figure that I'm gunna try painting next. If that turns out well, maybe I'll post the step by step process here too!