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Some fandom art on my fandom blog B) If you're interested in me drawing fandom stuff you can follow my sideblog, it's basically for everything that isn't my regular art!
Ayoo first art post on this blog, it's for a Shapeshifter!AU regarding Mission: Impossible 8D A lot of the plot is already somewhat established, but I'm still tinkering with the designs. Lane is a great tailed grackle and Benjis a sparrow! They both have human & bird forms :> And, well... seeing as shapeshifters are extremely rare, Lane is kinda obsessed with meeting another one of his kind, maybe a bit too obsessive. It's dabbling into Lanedunn territory but it's going to be a wild ride - I'll have more sketches for this AU in the works, so stay tuned!
life becomes so beautiful when you start cooking rice in liquids other than water
One thing i will say all us europeans love hiding where we’re really from on this website EXCEPT germans. They’ll regularly be like oh ja that’s my blörbö karsten from ubernatürlich btw how do you eat your würst oh mein gott are you seriös???
Another artfight thingie :D A chibi dragon! I rarely draw chibis... but I love them. Especially dragons, they're so nice to draw.
Reference Sheet for my gal, Lydia! She belongs to a storyproject/headworld of mine, which you can find more about on my Toyhouse: https://toyhou.se/liquidsnake/characters/folder:4683462
Two gays, chilling on the docks... 0 feet apar cuz' they're gay
bastard moray and opossum ayo let's go
I love the fennec lines I did, so here we have Yumi on them! A small redesign and some tweaks :D
#Chibi Commission for LycheeJuice on Telegram! Had a lot of fun drawing these two, as an old Harry Potter fan it was exciting to finally do a HP-themed commission! My Chibi Commissions are still open at 30€ per Chibi, hmu if you're interested!
Another new sona.. .or a different form of Yumi, I'm not sure! But meet Kashini. She'a s pretty light and bright fennec gal, and pretty good for some cute artwork!
Here's the speedpaint for the image! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zrcpIOv1DY
"here comes a thought"
A song dear to my heart, even though I stopped watching Steven Universe a long time ago, I still get emotional over this scene. It means so much to me as someone that struggled and still struggles with intrusive thoughts, having a reaffirming song that I can keep in mind whenever it gets difficult to think just makes my day a bit better. So here we have an image I originally drew in 2017 when the song came out. The visuals of the white butterflies drew me in and I just had to paint something! With my rather limited understanding of art in my early days in 2017 it looks rather crude, but I was still proud of it. In 2019 I attempted a re-draw but never got around to finish it, leaving me with the choice of actually sitting down and crafting an entirely new redraw before the end of 2022, over 5 years later from the original. I'm incredibly proud of this image. It will come with a speedpaint I have yet to upload, but I'll do so later, as it is 4AM over here and I need to head to bed.
"here comes a thought"
A song dear to my heart, even though I stopped watching Steven Universe a long time ago, I still get emotional over this scene. It means so much to me as someone that struggled and still struggles with intrusive thoughts, having a reaffirming song that I can keep in mind whenever it gets difficult to think just makes my day a bit better. So here we have an image I originally drew in 2017 when the song came out. The visuals of the white butterflies drew me in and I just had to paint something! With my rather limited understanding of art in my early days in 2017 it looks rather crude, but I was still proud of it. In 2019 I attempted a re-draw but never got around to finish it, leaving me with the choice of actually sitting down and crafting an entirely new redraw before the end of 2022, over 5 years later from the original. I'm incredibly proud of this image. It will come with a speedpaint I have yet to upload, but I'll do so later, as it is 4AM over here and I need to head to bed.
Finished commission for a client on Discord! I had much fun with this one, because the background was such a relaxing task to work on. Painting hills and gras is just therapeutic, I don't really know why. Also I found a new brush to shade fur with and it went sooo smooth... this commission was like the fastest one I ever completed in that size/level of detail x)
[cw: artistic nudity] "Scharfschützenauge"
A reference sheet done for my angel character Zodiac. She's playing a role in a roleplaying game I'm currently active in and has quite the heavy backstory. Maybe some day I'll come around to post more of her, but for now... there's many more references to be completed!
"The wolf within"
An older reference sheet of mine of my viking character, Hati. She's a so called úlfheðinn (wolf-skinned or wolf-coat). I took some artistic freedom when it came to her clothes, since I wanted to fulfill a certain vision. Also the world she's coming from is not exactly Scandinavian, but more a fictional version in it's own kingdom. Maybe one day I'll create more lore for her world! I'm just... slow. There's so many OCs to attend to q_q
"Calling death"
This one is a tad older, from 2 years ago & a commission I did for my girlfriend. It's her character, which I enjoyed drawing a lot! The pose and general composition was fun to do and I powered through this entire thing in a few hours due to my huge motivation. Maybe someday, I'll do something similar again!
They read your smiles as nothing but teeth
Schmetterlingskunde My girlfriends fursona and her uncle, one of my OCs, exploring butterflies in the desert. Funnily enough, the butterfly in his hands is colored like my fursona :P This is an older piece, maybe from a few months ago if I remember correctly. I still like the shading and vibe it gives off, although there are some mistakes I'd like to tackle the next time I do something similar.
Finally was able to finish a reference sheet (actually, it was finished quite some time ago and I never exported the PNG file... whoops) for my character Johnny! He was around for quite some time before finally recieving an updated reference sheet... he was quite overdue for that one. So, Johnny has quite the troubled backstory, but finally got his redemption arc in a roleplay he stars in... hehe. He grew up in Scotland during the 50s and 60s, before fleeing to Germany when he was aroud 14 years old. Due to the nature of his parents, he's a hybrid between a vampire (mothers side) and demon (fathers side). His parents have designs as well, but to be quite honest... they're old & I haven't come around to give them proper references yet. Whoops. If you're interested in reading more about him, he has a Toyhouse page! https://toyhou.se/2727673.johnny
"Der Heiligenschein des Ergebenen" An older piece I dug up and decided to upload here as well. It's a more story-heavy piece as it depicts a scene from a story I've been working on and off for several years now. War and it's people fascinated and frightened me since I was little. My family came from all sorts of places, including Germany and Poland, making the era of WW2 so much more personal for myself and them. This scene depicts Jonas, my WW2 pilot character, who decided to flee from Germany at the later period of the ongoing war. He crashlanded in England and was captured, turning himself in essentially, to free himself from the grasp that tortured the country for so long. Working with such heavy topics is another way to work through your families and countries history, exploring what happened and understanding the people from times long ago to a certain extend.
frustra canem
I can't draw cats to save my life but finally finished it, I am happy it remotely looks like a cat at all omg
Peter Proksch (Austrian, 1935 - 2012), Das Einhorn (The Unicorn), 1987-88, resin oil, egg tempera on canvas on hardboard, 80 × 80 cm.
Album cover art for my friend and multi genre musician, Maru.
Album is titled "The Last" and is a progressive black metal project based on The Last Unicorn. It will be available on December 16th 2022 on Spotify, and other major music platforms. You can listen to the single "Butterfly" right now. I was given the pleasure to hear it and it's really something, I'm excited to hear the final draft.
Different than my usual style, I wanted something more atmospheric to compliment her work.
Two style tests I conducted with my fursona, Jucy.
I really tried to get into the whole "toony" style, which faszinated me, even though I'm more drawn to my semi realistic way of working. It was a breath of fresh air to not overdo myself on the shading and just.. have fun with some popping colors!
I finally finished Sai’s reference sheet!
glowing eyes hide sadness way better
A character I originally intended to be for the Top Gun universe after re-watching Top Gun:Maverick like 4 times in the theaters with my girlfriend. Though he outgrew only being considered a character living in an rather enclosed universe, so I mixed in some... well, creative aspects as well. It's more symbolic than anything, but still fits his character and backstory a lot. There's some heavy topics regarding his life, especially his childhood and relationship with his parents, but if I find the time to, I'll eventually tackle "fake screenshot" artworks with scenes from his early life :-)