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Sepia-toned charcoal style study of three longhorn cattle in a field with sinrise behind them

“Longhorn” for #yeehawgust day 4. The clouds are my favorite part though. Falling behind on getting the studies for this week, but hoping to catch up this weekend 🤞

Digital charcoal-style sepia tone study of a dark horse wearing braids, mosquero, a charro style leverage bit with dragon design on the arm and roller for the tongue, yawning messily at the man holding his reins in bright midday light. The sharp-featured man informally dressed in only shirt, trousers, and suspenders does not look amused.

“Horsin’ Around” #yeehawgust day 3
The ref I used for this prompt has been sitting in my inspiration folder for a couple years because the moment I found it I knew I had to use it for Teca and Asifad.

Sepia-toned digital charcoal-style study of three horses and riders moving left to right at speed in a loose southwestern landscape. The forward rider on the dark horse in charro inspired gear is pivoting hard, his rifle in his right hand. The rear rider with a spotted horse and hybrid tack is sitting back as his horse vaults an obstacle, his rifle in his left hand. The third horse is spooking in a cow-hop, carrying an early western trail saddle, bosal and mecate tethered to the rider falling to the ground at the left side of the frame with implied dirt and blood on impact. In the far distance in the horizon, pale outlines of wolves run left to right over the mountains.

“Running With the Wolves” #yeehawgust day 2
I chose a scene of Teca and Vishan running from bounty hunters in the second arc (still a work in progress manuscript) for this prompt.

Digital charcoal-style sepia-tone study looking up at two riders at a slow trot under a starry sky.

“Stars of the Midnight Range” #yeehawgust day 1.
This year I’ve decided to use the prompts to add some sepia tone studies to the La Mala Suerte project, so for this prompt I chose the scene with Teca and his employer Rafael Tapia riding to Dan Seward’s for the fandango.

Loose digital painting of elves in 18th century inspired fashion dancing in a garden at night, with stars and lanterns lighting the brick dance floor. The central couple os a black elven woman in a light blue dress with purple accents, and her partner is a red-haired white man wearing a dark blue suit with gold lining

La luz de las estrellas.

It’s been a busy summer but I managed to dust off an old sketch for a little procreate painting for La Mala Suerte to get myself in the headspace for yeehawgust.

Eternally grateful for the work you do. Rock on. 🖤

Majority orange graphic that reads: AdorkaStock Bluesky 20k Giveaway. 5 lucky winners to receive their choice of regular pose pack* or 6 month patreon subscription! How to enter: • Follow AdorkaStock • Repost THIS post • Leave a comment on THIS post • Tag friends! (optional). Winners will be pulled when we hit 20k followers! *Premium Packs Excluded"

I just looked and I'm almost at 20k??? Anyway, I thought, why not run a giveaway! ✨ It's super easy. All you have to do is share/repost this post, comment on it, and be following me! Tag friends so they can enter too ❤️

Once I hit 20k I will draw 5 random people! Good luck!!

#PoseRef #Art #Giveaway

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TrueRef's free pose library and timed gesture tools are live! 🤍

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Today’s new Shade of My Enemy #lozfancomic page features features our bulblin side characters whom I adore very much www.patreon.com/posts/125864...

Ornate gold frame with red faceted heart gems on either side, against a blue textured ground. The image in the frame is a standing pale elf with long gold hair pulled back in a high three-strand plait, their back to the viewer, gold-hilted tuck in their right fist and bright magic in the cup of their left hand. They wear blue-gray garments: loose pants gathered at the ankle and fitted half-sleeve side-vented tunic, with soft curl-toed shoes. They stand in a courtyard or large room, with an arched colonnade in the background and a polychrome 8 pointed star on the floor under their feet.

Noodled on another #lozfanfiction cover. Finishing wips is good for morale.

This one goes to a 77k pre-Twilight era story which I contributed to some years ago and for assorted reasons never finished the illo for promoting it. So I did. archiveofourown.org/works/149063...

Also, the first volume of the comic now has a prose version in the first ten chapters of the Ao3 listing if that’s your preference. Hoping to get through a chunk of volume 2 conversion in the coming month. archiveofourown.org/works/213123...

(Bonus points for everyone who recognizes the Conan references in today’s page. Frazetta was one of my early art heros & remains a huge inspiration. I saw an opportunity in the plot to do a little homage here and ran with it in my style. 😅)

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Today’s new page of the #zelgan graphic novel is up over at www.patreon.com/posts/123899... as always, free to read, the member lock is solely to keep bots out #lozfancomic #lozfanart

Monochrome comic page with six landscape panels stacked to the left side over a calligraphic rendering. All depict Ganondorf and Zelda unwinding each other from their coats, flirting in a sardonic fashion belied by the tenderness of their hands. The speech bubbles show her teasing him for his reticence and alluding to shared pleasure as demonstration of alliance and fearing he’s lost interest after one tryst, and him teasing her in return that even if he conquered her every night he would desire to again the next day. When she calls out an aside in Geld’o, he deflects with a teasing threat of a boring lecture (that is, a poetic offer of oral sex).

Struggling to work on future pages for the #zelgan #lozfancomic today so here’s an older one from the scene where he finally admits at least one(1) feeling. Enjoy.

Oh I’m so glad you’re enjoying it! I will never abandon my boys, life just got Challenging™️ & I hit a rough spot at the beginning of Act 4, so I’ve been noodling on scenes out of order & going back to weave connective tissue. Once I have enough consecutive backlog I’ll resume Friday night updates ☺️

Screenshot of clipstudio paint workflow with a color cover for Shade of My Enemy Volume 3 in progress. The text is calligraphic in light gold and the top half of the page has an ornate gold frame with red jeweled hearts around the central image. In that frame twilight princess link is holding the hylian shield on his right arm in guard and making a sweeping bloody cut with the master sword in his left. The graphic design portions are polished while the inset image is rough & painterly

POV you have a dense half-bengal car wallowing on your lap, her head upside down to beg more pettings. In the background are cat food bowls, loz related figures, and the epic Last Judgment of Zelda scroll mounted in a billy bookcase glass door

POV the bengal has been supplanted by a young black cat looking up at your hand with an expression that says he has never ever done a crime in his life

Was going to work on #lozfanfic this morning. Cats insisted my lap was Unavailable for computers, so I did some thinking about the #fancomic instead #lifewithcats

YouTube video by R Hands Off National Day of Protest - Edmonds, WA

This is a video of PBS travel guy Rick Steves at the Edmonds WA Hands Off event, giving a speech which I think is one of the BEST explanations I've seen for the average person of what is going on now and it is 🔥🔥🔥. You are going to want to watch this. youtu.be/86hnPrWozUo?...

if i hear one (1) more person say "as an illustrator/artists/designer it's your responsibility to ask for more money" i might spontaneously combust

piggybacking off this: the most powerful sales technique in the world, for pretty much all of human history, has been word of mouth. If you like something someone made, TELL YOUR FRIENDS. Tell everyone. Leave reviews. Repost. Talk about it. Link to it and link to the artist.
We depend on YOU.

a pixel art artwork mountains in the foreground with a tiny character wielding a sword, he has a funky little hat too in the background, a giant egg sits on top of a very tall mountain and in the sky, the stars take the shape of a winged whale

made this little Link's Awakening pixel art tribute couple years back, never posted it here

4 colors, 160x144px

"am I even a real writer/artist?" are you writing? are you drawing? yeah? nice job then fucko, here's your membership card. just do your best. we're all doing our own thing, so just do yours. and shit right now is really stressful. you don't need to be on 100% of the time. but you're doing great.

A screenshot of a clip studio paint workspace with half of a page visible. In the top panel stretching across the page a fully rendered grayscale campaign tent and armored man in black ink stands at a map table near a support pole with a photoblue mass blocked in under him… and random swooshes of blue ink indicating future developments. The second panel is a loose pencil sketch of a goblin with a fancy curled updo and a text note reading “treason”. The third panel at bottom right shows a developed ink and hatching close portrait of the man with some of the sketchy lines still visible under, with the text note “told you not to do anything foolish”

Behold how elegant my workflow 😂just. Three swooshes, yes, future me will totally know what that is meant to be. #wip #fancomic #zelgan

Sepia tone study of a greek courtyard garden with trees

Half-rendered painterly study of an outpost pre-BotW, with wireframe lumps for trees and buildings

Very loose Color study of a dock with tallships and a wooden boardwalk leading to a terraced island with windmills

Loose color study of a birch grove within castle walls. A tall dark figure in armor and cloak half-kneels to put their face near the blobby princess in lavender, standing on a haybale under a tree

Some stuff in the want-to-paint pile I talked about on tumblr this month while forgetting to login to bluesky & trying not to think about the horrors www.tumblr.com/studiorat/77...

(The prose takes a shockingly long time to write… apparently i do a *lot* of montage pages, so 36 pages of comic turned into 25k words…)

If you’d prefer a prose adaptation instead, I have 6 full chapters live at #ao3

“A long-forgotten war returns to plauge fair Hyrule, reviving ancient enmities & dangerous powers.
A cursed princess & a fallen king must find common ground before the cruelty of the usurper can destroy both worlds…”

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I keep forgetting to crosspost, but Thursday #zelgan #lozfancomic page is up and we even managed to get the art updated to the version with the speech bubbles turned on before it went live. www.patreon.com/posts/123898...

Today it's my birthday ! ✨️🥳

So let me just share my favorite illustrations because i don't have new work to share.

may I ask you to repost this, it would mean a lot 😊

An image with the text "Art Share" over it/ An image is a painting of a peaceful winter scene in a small village. In the sky a deer that looks like night divides the illustration in two parts - one is sunset, and the other behind the deer is night. A thin crescent moon is located between deer's antlers.

Thank you all so much for 11k! 💙

Let's do an ⭐ART SHARE⭐

🌠Post your art (SFW please, no A\i, no Nf\_t)
🌠Repost this for visibility (optional)
🌠Be supportive to others!

#artshare

too much darkness today please enjoy 54 seconds of my horse son enjoying one of his favorite hobbies, Zipper

Even if you're not an NSFW artist, a porn ban affects you

If you've ever drawn a boob or a butt or a dong or looked at them online, just because the human body is the human body, a porn ban affects you

If you draw creatures, if you draw horror themes, if you draw dark art or robots or furries or