ILLUSTRATION BY NIGHT

Meg Syverud | Storyboard Artist | Daughter of the Lilies .com | I like to draw and tell stories. I'm a married chick with a BFA in Graphic Design. DON'T REPOST MY ART. Read my Spider-Man fancomic at astudyinscarletandblue.tumblr.com | https://linktr.ee/MegSyv

[bludragongal]

LAST TIME ON DAUGHTER OF THE LILIES:

Shall we see what happens next...?

The first eight pages (wip) are available below the jump.

CONTENT WARNING for Death, Disturbing Imagrey, and Gore. Mature readers only. Enjoy...!

Support me on Patreon to join my Discord server to read ahead, see more pages in progress, and hi-res copies of every page!

Happy Halloween!

[benjaminwarnitz]

Animation test for my feature film "- Rouge - ". Script is written since 2020 ;)

Original score created by the talented @josey2019 , go check her amazing music and animation work !

[becherdireinen]

nobody talks about how exhausting it is to live in that space between "things will get better" and "i can't handle this anymore." it's like your emotions are constantly swinging. leaving you both hopeful and defeated in the same day.

[abby-howard]

A couple scenes from a little gay vampire story I was kicking around a couple years ago! I sometimes do little pencils-only scenes for things and never post them. But I was looking back at these and was like why not? They're cute!

I have a whole story for these two, but just for funsies, something to do every now and then when I need to let loose.

[abby-howard]

(she will eat them though)

[bludragongal]

Are you on Webtoon??

Yes, but I'm camping on my SN, and I don't post there because it's a predatory business model!

At some point I'll set up some mirrors to redirect back to my websites, which are below:

Daughter of the Lilies (fantasy adventure, found family, romance)

Kaylee Has A Slasher Boyfriend (comedy, horror, romance)

A Study In Scarlet & Blue (marvel, fanfiction, au)

Right now I'm publishing what I make just on the Patreon Discord Server for a lot of boring and complicated reasons I can't go into. Pledging to any tier will give you access to it, but various channels are available only to certain supporters.

Patrons get to see stuff like: - the rough draft of Part 3 of the Nightmare Comic - excerpts from a book I'm working on - DotL pages (we're 20 pages into Chapter 13) - NSFW (18+ only) - and more!

Thank you!

[nattousan]

ok so, I approached my local library with a proposal to donate a mural as a way to A: build portfolio/gain practical experience and B: give back to a beloved public institution. The director was very enthusiastic about it and i've been working on it since the beginning of March. Come with me as I endeavor to paint what is in all honesty an excessive amount of birds

I wanted the birds to look like they were actually in the space so first thing after doing the draft was to do a lighting study

after that I covered the walls in letters in lieu of a projector/vr headset bc i have neither of those :) Then i take a picture of the section of wall and superimpose the lineart over top of it so I can pencil in the lines

et voila

and that was a whole week on it's own so next comes the paintin' >:)

[nattousan]

and now, the birds

Birds 1 and 2/14: Red Winged Blackbird, Male and female, Agelaius phoeniceus

[nattousan]

Bird 3/14, American Robin, Turdus migratorius

[nattousan]

hoo boy, ok *out of breath*

GIVE IT UP FOR BIRD NUMBUH 5, THE CANADIAN GOOSE, Branta canadensis!!!!

this guy took me about 4 days to completely finish, all of those freakingk coverts were a bear to render

[nattousan]

speaking of obnoxious coverts:

bird 5/14, Bluejay, Cyanocitta cristata

the friggin stripes almost got me chat, i may not make it

[nattousan]

Madam....

[nattousan]

birds 6 and 7: American Goldfinch, Spinus tristis, male and female

pleasantly simple to paint! next is the flickerrrrr

[nattousan]

*melts into goo*

BIRD NUMBER 8, (yellow shafted) NORTHERN FLICKERRRRR, Colaptes auratus

genuinely made me start questioning my sanity around day 3, it's half the size the of the goose, WHY did it take me 4 days to finish??

nothing but pain and suffering, i'm sure hope the next bird will be much easier and with FAR less barring :)

[nattousan]

in other news, I am losing my mind hairline

[nattousan]

SHE'S DONE!!

Bird number 9: Red-tailed hawk, Buteo jamaicensis

my chains are broken i am FREE. although i did have a great deal of fun with this, the barring on the wings itself took me like four days and i am READY to move on

this was a week and a half of continuous work so please excuse me for getting a little emotional in the bg 🙏

[nattousan]

*does a little jig*

BIRD NUMBER 10!!! The Male Mallard Duck, Anas platyrhynchos

the male and female ones are gonna be posted separately bc they're taking a lot longer lol but yea! super happy i was able to capture the iridescent green of the head, i found metallic green and blue paint at a craft store that really made his head POP. it looks better in person i promise

ALSO!! As this is the 10th one, BIG announcement. The end is in sight!!!!! I plan to finish within the next 3 weeks and there will be a small dedication ceremony/ unveiling happening at the library to commemorate its completion on the 16th of May. If you live in the Western New York region and want to check it out for yourself shoot me a dm!

Also thank you everyone for your kind words and support throughout this whole process, it's been a genuine treat thinking there are potentially thousands of you out there cheering me on while I paint this 🥹

[nattousan]

aaaand another one bites the duck,

we're movin right along with bird numero 11!! The lady Mallard!! Anas platyrhyncos

the 16th is looming in the distance so i'm trying to get thru these as quickly as i can so i can have as much time for the GBH as possible. i still need to do the names next to all of them so i've got about a week and a half to finish everything which is GREAT because i have adhd and nothing gets my ass in gear like a fuckin deadline, let me tell you

[nattousan]

power couple that they are, here's bird number 12 and 13,

the Northern Cardinals, Cardinalis cardinalis

and NOW that they are complete, ITS GO TIME, in the next five days (library's closed for mother's day 😭😭) i need to have the GBH fully rendered, the names of the birds vectored, weeded, masked, applied to the wall, and then painted, plus additional cattails throughout. I may be able to get away with just getting the GBH done in time for the unveiling and then just have the names and cattails added later, but i'm gonna really try to get it all done in time. BUT, i have a plan. Part of why i take so long on these is because i really am just figuring it out as I do it lmao. there have been many a time where i am sitting on top of the ladder googling "how to paint birds" but I think if i take the time tomorro to do all that figuring out how to approach it beforehand, this will go a lot faster. I may also recruit some of my artist friends to help with the placing of the names... hrmm we'll see.

Anyways, shout out to the librarian who tracked down exactly the thing i needed so i could figure out where to place the highlights in my birds eyes, ur the real mvp

[nattousan]

thanks for the reminder, kid

[nattousan]

at long last, we've reached the end...

Bird number 14 out of 14,

The Great blue heron, Ardea herodius

thank you to everyone who reached out or got excited about this project, it genuinely gave me the fuel i needed to keep going. In total, the 480+ total hrs it took me to cover this wall pales in comparison to how long its expected to spend on there, hopefully imparting a sense of beauty and love for the natural world to the next generation and here's hoping i'm only getting started with these.

i'll see y'all soon :')

[casgirl]

The thing is. I would eat the grapes. I would eat the pomegranate seeds. I would eat the Turkish delights. It doesn’t matter what the stakes are if you put a little plate of snacks out in front of me I’ll eat them.

[casgirl]

If you sent me to an evil fantasy realm and told me that if I ate anything I would die a painful terrible death then set a charcuterie board down in front of me that would be it for me. Like it wouldn’t even be like a torturous internal struggle to not eat the cheese. I wouldn’t even need to be that hungry.

[bludragongal]

Working on a new story idea about Alien Elves colonizing their solar system and their Dragon Mounts getting loose on a planet and breeding with the local fauna to create new horrific genetic offshoots, which isn't helped by the local indigenous (human) interference.

This guy is an Elven Criminal (marked by a cut ear) who has been exiled to this world to serve out his sentence, and the feral little girl he finds who all the Dragons love for some reason. He doesn't like kids but she keeps following him around.

[bludragongal]

Lilo and Stitch but Fantasy is exactly the vibe! But imagine there were a million of the little guys running around:

[bludragongal]

Working on a new story idea about Alien Elves colonizing their solar system and their Dragon Mounts getting loose on a planet and breeding with the local fauna to create new horrific genetic offshoots, which isn't helped by the local indigenous (human) interference.

This guy is an Elven Criminal (marked by a cut ear) who has been exiled to this world to serve out his sentence, and the feral little girl he finds who all the Dragons love for some reason. He doesn't like kids but she keeps following him around.

[bludragongal]

Lilo and Stitch but Fantasy is exactly the vibe! But imagine there were a million of the little guys running around:

[bludragongal]

Working on a new story idea about Alien Elves colonizing their solar system and their Dragon Mounts getting loose on a planet and breeding with the local fauna to create new horrific genetic offshoots, which isn't helped by the local indigenous (human) interference.

This guy is an Elven Criminal (marked by a cut ear) who has been exiled to this world to serve out his sentence, and the feral little girl he finds who all the Dragons love for some reason. He doesn't like kids but she keeps following him around.

[wiki-but-made-them-up]

[astercrash]

[dresdencodak]

Dark Science #183 - Dust

That Kim Ross sure gets put in a lot of Situations...

Patreon | Gumroad | Store | Ko-Fi | Paypal

#dresden codak#dark science#comics#sen#my art#illustration#kimiko ross#cyberpunk#lgbtq comics

[jordanjamesva]

Just a very brief preview for something I'm cooking up, don't tell anyone.

Comic Source: @bludragongal

[bludragongal]

Is your discord the only way to see new updates for DoTL?

For now!

I will occasionally post WIP pages to socials, but we know how easily those get pushed down and lost in the feed. The Discord has all of them neatly organized and easy to find in the specific channel for them, and @yokoboo keeps everyone in the loop when she streams the coloring process for each new page. We're about 20 pages into Chapter 13, I think.

When this current job ends, or I get the all clear, I can start publishing them on the site and Patreon again. :)

[bludragongal]

Nightmare Comic Part 3 WIP You can read the whole comic (in WIP format) on the Patreon Discord.

[bot]

omg chinese baddies ty for being so creative I love this type of fashion so much!!

[bot]