Ohman he looks awesome.

Thanks! :D I had a lot of fun with the details on him.

I can tell! I hope someday I can round up the cash to commission you.

Haha, thanks! I do single-character sketches for $20, shipping included. I also do little $5 portraits that are flat-coloured and digital!

Okay, neat!

OH. WOW.

He looks wonderful! I love the long, angular lines, and... And.... OwO

I LOVE how he came across in your style!

THAT. SKULL.

THAT. EVERYTHING.

Reminds me of one of my favourite movies, and that's just BRILLIANT~!!!

Thank you very, very much for this, Excess! I love it so much!

Ahh I'm glad you like how it turned out! You're very welcome! :D It looks way better in person, too. It'll be awesome to have it shipped out. ^^

Fantsatic Work Excess..!

Thank you! <3

totaly awesome page !

Thanks! I need to do more like this. ^^

fucking LOVE the stylization on the face here! the sharp bend on the top of the muzzle is awesome.

Thanks, man! Broken/bent muzzles are so much fun to draw. <3

I like him! :O

He was fun to draw, man. The big crazy tail, and the horns, and the sharpness of his face~ <3

He makes me want to draw him O.o I'd love to ink this O.o

Well if it's alright with  cerberusderozier who owns the character, and you give credit to me for the art that you are working from, I don't see any problem with you inking this. ^^ I'd like to see it when it's done though!

I kind of want to hug him.

He looks like the kind of guy who could use a hug, eh?

Actually he kind of gives off the 'cool guy' sort of character who gets all the chicks. Like he doesnt work too hard at it. That skull thing though, is that something he summons sort of?

Also speaking of the skull, let me be the first to say I think it's AWESOME. I've been playing around with skulls myself lately, and you hit a few things on the head with it that arent easy. Well you do teeth really well so that obviously carries over, but the eye sockets can be hard to make look right, and you brought it into your style so fluidly. There's tons of details elsewhere all over this page, but I have to say that I really like how you did the skull.

The skull thing was kind of like a very stylistic gothic interpretation of a soul. He's supposed to be a reaper, and since this was a commission where I was given a lot of space to toy with character concept, I felt like doing at least one sketch of him extracting a soul from something. I'm not sure if it totally comes across, but I wanted the skull to look a bit scared and reluctant, like anything might be if it found itself being separated from its body. So in a way, I guess he IS summoning it, but only in the sense that he's summoning it from a corpse. It's kind of an old-school interpretation of reaper-duties. :P

Skull anatomy is tough, because it's hard to just look at something and draw what it might look like as a skeleton. There's so much muscle and skin and tissue inbetween that has to be understood and mentally stripped away... For that particular skull, I didn't want it to look exactly like any animal seen in real life, so I used photos of different cat and monkey skulls as references, then simplified and stylized certain aspects to make it fit the image a bit better. It's supposed to be the skull of a fictional anthro character, so it can't look too realistic or no one will believe it. I'm glad you like the result! :D I collect skulls, so I also have a few around that I can use as props if I need to. Truth be told, I'd like to practice more with this kind of thing. ^^

It's hard to put emotion into a skull. I've played around a bit because I got a skull character, but Im still learning how to make it not look like crap first. You do have a great imagination though it sounds like just from how you tried to imagine, or create this.

I know I want to try and work some more with designing my skull guy a bit more as well.

Maaaan, I've wanted a skull-headed character for ages, and I've never actually designed one for myself. I've seen some really cool designs by other people though, and they make me all jealous~

Also, imagination is pretty much my only weapon in the fight against LIFE. Though some would argue that a creative mind is the only defense that anyone really has.

You are basically awesome.

Ahaha thanks! XD

You do absolutely beautiful pencil work.

Thank you! I admit, I enjoy working with pencil more than working digitally. :)

Most welcome! You've got an extraordinary imagination, too!

wow.. thats awesome pencil work!

Hoo yash!
Watching through these older posts of yours makes me think I need to keep an eye for yer next batch of commissions! Such awesome expressions and the jacket is luv :3

Ooh this one is relly very well done

Thank you! It's probably one of my favourites. c: