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A moment of quiet comtemplation.
A few years ago, I bought a pair of K-Swiss high-tops like the ones pictured here. I originally thought they'd be ideal for the oncoming fall/winter, but never got around to wearing them. Fast-forward to the present, and I ran across them looking for something else. As I looked them over and tried them on again, it occurred to me how silly the idea of using these as winter sneakers was, being that the style isn't currently available and couldn't be replaced if I messed them up in the snow and slush (and besides I have footwear much better suited for that). I think I like them better as a once-in-awhile when-looks-count footwear. Besides, with a bunch of other kicks in the closet, I'm not losing any utility keeping these on the side.
Roland here is not a "fursona", but I did illustrate him with a few items I do have in real-life besides the shoes. The Plantronics gaming headphones I got with my newest laptop, and the SanDisk MP3 is my daily player. The baseball cap I have in that color, but with a different logo. The one I put in the pic is just a reference to some other property.
Technical:
Both the character and the backdrop are vector objects, created in Inkscape over a scan of the original pencils. Since there are two different styles of "inking" involved, I exported the backdrop and character separately at the line-art stage, then re-composited them together once converted to bitmaps for coloring. I was going to do cel-shading, but once again mixed in a fair amount of soft-edge shading. Since I still don't really know what I'm doing with all these lighting effects, the coloring of this pic involved a lot of stop, sit or lie back and think about what I wanted to do, and how to do it. I think this is the main reason I haven't attempted to do a stream--unless I substantially lower my standards, I really can't finish a digital color job in a reasonable timeframe for an audience. Yet.
Pencil on bristol vectorized with Inkscape. Exported to Micrografx Picture Publisher for compositing and color. Five major layers, four minor objects, 126MB at original format.
A few years ago, I bought a pair of K-Swiss high-tops like the ones pictured here. I originally thought they'd be ideal for the oncoming fall/winter, but never got around to wearing them. Fast-forward to the present, and I ran across them looking for something else. As I looked them over and tried them on again, it occurred to me how silly the idea of using these as winter sneakers was, being that the style isn't currently available and couldn't be replaced if I messed them up in the snow and slush (and besides I have footwear much better suited for that). I think I like them better as a once-in-awhile when-looks-count footwear. Besides, with a bunch of other kicks in the closet, I'm not losing any utility keeping these on the side.
Roland here is not a "fursona", but I did illustrate him with a few items I do have in real-life besides the shoes. The Plantronics gaming headphones I got with my newest laptop, and the SanDisk MP3 is my daily player. The baseball cap I have in that color, but with a different logo. The one I put in the pic is just a reference to some other property.
Technical:
Both the character and the backdrop are vector objects, created in Inkscape over a scan of the original pencils. Since there are two different styles of "inking" involved, I exported the backdrop and character separately at the line-art stage, then re-composited them together once converted to bitmaps for coloring. I was going to do cel-shading, but once again mixed in a fair amount of soft-edge shading. Since I still don't really know what I'm doing with all these lighting effects, the coloring of this pic involved a lot of stop, sit or lie back and think about what I wanted to do, and how to do it. I think this is the main reason I haven't attempted to do a stream--unless I substantially lower my standards, I really can't finish a digital color job in a reasonable timeframe for an audience. Yet.
Pencil on bristol vectorized with Inkscape. Exported to Micrografx Picture Publisher for compositing and color. Five major layers, four minor objects, 126MB at original format.
Category Artwork (Digital) / General Furry Art
Species Housecat
Size 971 x 750px
File Size 134.1 kB
As promised :)
Two years ago I created a tom-girl (trap) character, for whom a few months ago I decided he needed a partner. I developed a red-panda character (tentatively named "Damian") that's going to be his roommate and BF, but his distinguishing characteristic is that he has a fetish for muddying up high-top sneakers, much like this YouTuber
I haven't posted any pics of this 'new guy' on FA yet (just a couple of early versions somewhere on Discord), but in his intro, as he's moving in with his BF, he spots the still mud-caked cleats shown in 'Spring Thaw Mudwalk' sitting in Roland's room and soon invites him on an expedition to some nearby "soft spots". Even though this comic is a long ways off (I still have to introduce his BF and one other character by way of the 'What me Furry?' comic that's way back in my gallery), I'm contemplating two possibilities:
(1) 'Damian' tries to talk Roland into wearing the K-Swiss shown above. Roland declines, stating that he likes these and can't get another pair if he ruins them. An appeal to the notion that the risk of permanent damage (not guaranteed) makes it more exciting doesn't work. But Damien notices the shoe size matches his own and offers to let him wear one of his hi-tops if he comes along (with the expected results--two pairs of completely mucked up skate shoes)
(2) 'Damian' talks Roland into coming along (without implying that both of them would be 'mudding' their shoes) to be a cameraman while Damian mudwalks. As Damien does his thing, getting the requested shots gets Roland's hitops a little dirty at first. When Damian invites Roland to follow his tracks, he initially resists going any further for the reason cited in (1), but this time talking about the thrill of taking the risk after watching Damian do it, causes him to give in to temptation and go in, a little at first, but eventually letting Damian lead him into not only getting them completely covered, but mud over the tops, flooding the inside, and halfway to his knees.
Two years ago I created a tom-girl (trap) character, for whom a few months ago I decided he needed a partner. I developed a red-panda character (tentatively named "Damian") that's going to be his roommate and BF, but his distinguishing characteristic is that he has a fetish for muddying up high-top sneakers, much like this YouTuber
I haven't posted any pics of this 'new guy' on FA yet (just a couple of early versions somewhere on Discord), but in his intro, as he's moving in with his BF, he spots the still mud-caked cleats shown in 'Spring Thaw Mudwalk' sitting in Roland's room and soon invites him on an expedition to some nearby "soft spots". Even though this comic is a long ways off (I still have to introduce his BF and one other character by way of the 'What me Furry?' comic that's way back in my gallery), I'm contemplating two possibilities:
(1) 'Damian' tries to talk Roland into wearing the K-Swiss shown above. Roland declines, stating that he likes these and can't get another pair if he ruins them. An appeal to the notion that the risk of permanent damage (not guaranteed) makes it more exciting doesn't work. But Damien notices the shoe size matches his own and offers to let him wear one of his hi-tops if he comes along (with the expected results--two pairs of completely mucked up skate shoes)
(2) 'Damian' talks Roland into coming along (without implying that both of them would be 'mudding' their shoes) to be a cameraman while Damian mudwalks. As Damien does his thing, getting the requested shots gets Roland's hitops a little dirty at first. When Damian invites Roland to follow his tracks, he initially resists going any further for the reason cited in (1), but this time talking about the thrill of taking the risk after watching Damian do it, causes him to give in to temptation and go in, a little at first, but eventually letting Damian lead him into not only getting them completely covered, but mud over the tops, flooding the inside, and halfway to his knees.
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