Huntclaw's Notebook

Hi, I'm Huntclaw, and this is my space for spontaneous art and thoughts. You can also find me at huntclaw.deviantart.com and twitter.com/huntclaw

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Whoa, you're all still here? Crazy.

Our next project after years and years of silence will be released on July 10th, 2023.

It will be titled DRAGONFRUIT: a mother's love.

It is a strategy RPG with the soul of a visual novel. A love letter to tactics and plenty of scribbles in the margins.

We are very lucky to have worked with many very talented people who came together to make D:aML something special. There's about eight and a half hours of voice acting work from over 30 different voice artists.

Art by the incredible BeakLimit. Our intrepid protagonists, Doria and Kestrel.

Consider this the "sneak preview" pre-announcement before we get that nice and pretty Trailer and store page dressed up for the big time. If you wanna see updates as we get closer, you can follow us on itch.io, or -here- for that matter! I don't post on social media as much anymore, but I'll try to keep these updated.

Thank you for being my inspiration.

𐑔𐑨𐑙𐑒 𐑿 𐑓 𐑚𐑰𐑦𐑙 𐑩 𐑐𐑸𐑑 𐑝 𐑥𐑲 𐑤𐑲𐑓. 𐑲 𐑤𐑳𐑝 𐑿 𐑷𐑤, 𐑚𐑳𐑑 𐑲 𐑯𐑧𐑝𐑼 𐑤𐑻𐑯𐑛 𐑣𐑬 𐑑 𐑕𐑱 𐑦𐑑.

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A couple of silly dragons visiting each other at the shore! I drew the water dragon all by themself at first, but then started thinking about why they were laughing, and that’s where the other dragon came from.

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1st Picture: Eevee/Buizel hybrid and Vaporeon/Floatzel hybrid.

2nd Picture: Eevee/Blitzle hybrid and Jolteon/Zebstrika hybrid.

3rd Picture: Eevee/Darumaka hybrid and Flareon/Darmanitan hybrid.

4th Picture: Eevee/Munna hybrid and Espeon/Musharna hybrid.

5th Picture: Eevee/Poochyena hybrid and Umbreon/Mightyena hybrid.

6th Picture: Eevee/Skiddo hybrid and Leafeon/Gogoat hybrid.

7th Picture: Eevee/Cubchoo hybrid and Glaceon/Beartic hybrid.

8th Picture: Eevee/Snubbull hybrid and Sylveon/Granbull hybrid.

What if Pokemon hybrids existed from cross species breeding?

I’ve always wanted to create some Pokemon hybrids using compatible egg groups. I ended up starting with Eevee hybrids. For these hybrids I only used Pokemon from Eevee’s egg group as the father, which is “Field”. I restricted my candidates further by only using Pokemon that had the same amount of evolution stages as Eevee (two stages), so Pokemon like Torchic (three stages) and Dunsparce (one stage) were out. I did this to neatly match up the different species’ stages. 

My head canon is that due to Eevee’s unstable, easily influenced genetic makeup, if the father is of a type that Eevee normally evolves into, then the hybrid child can only evolve into an eeveelution hybrid of that type (e.g. Buizel/Floatzel father is a Water-type, so the Eevee hybrid child can only evolve into a Vaporeon hybrid). Or at least is highly likely to do so. I wanted to demonstrate that with my art, so I restricted myself further by choosing Pokemon with one type, so no Houndour/Houndoom (Dark/Fire). I’m definitely considering exploring dual-type fathers later though. In general, I head canon that Pokemon hybrids who have fathers that more closely match their mother’s typing will have better health and an easier time evolving. Maybe some hybrids won’t be able to evolve at all. That’d be interesting.  My favorite out of these is the Eevee/Skiddo and Leafeon/Gogoat.

Least favorite is Eevee/Cubchoo because I don’t like Cubchoo very much. Snot-nosed bear. Ew.

May or may not write up interesting flavor text for each hybrid later, but that’s it for now!

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Created art based on a randomly generated prompt.

The prompt for this was “baby’s mobile”. So we have a mobile of automobiles and mobile phones. 

Automobiles aren’t really my strong suit, but I think these turned out just fine. I think the fact that they were toy/plush cars made it less intimidating. Background is a little lackluster, but I’m happy I even have one. I have a habit of avoiding backgrounds. Went out of my comfort zone a little for this one.

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“Ahhh! So cool! Can you teach me?!”

I think I prefer Charmeleon’s design over Charizard’s. Just something about its gangly arms is appealing to me.

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Trying something out. I randomly generated a palette of five colors and a Pokemon, and smashed them together in a drawing. Thought it’d be interesting.

My first try was to use a mostly green palette to draw Yanma.

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Flowers~

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Weird dog.

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Blah. Blah. Blah.

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Got a new drawing tablet! It’s an XP-PEN Artist 12 Pro. This is only my second tablet and my first display drawing tablet, so I can draw on the screen now instead of looking at a screen I’m not drawing on, wild. I like it so far. Krita wasn’t getting along with it at first, just some default Krita shortcuts not matching the default express keys (Krita, why is your default shortcut for Zoom In “Ctrl” + “+” and not “Ctrl” + “=/+”?? Yes, it makes a difference), but after adjusting some settings it worked just fine. 

Here’s a test drawing. During this, I discovered my Krita was outdated, so I fixed that. Found a lovely new tool called “Colorize Mask Editing Tool”, thank you Krita. Good tool. Now I don’t have to use up so much of my time coloring.

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I think my Wacom Bamboo Fun tablet is finally dying. It’s doing this: 

This one area on the tablet is skipping? Whenever I run my pen across that column the cursor/brush jumps from one side of it to the other, causing unintended, straight lines. The other areas of the tablet function as usual. Reinstalling the drivers did nothing. I didn’t think it would, but I had to try anyway, lol. I’ll try toying with it some more, but I don’t have high hopes. Well, I’ve had this thing for about seven years, and it’s even older than that cuz it’s a hand-me-down from someone else, so I guess it’s about time it started to malfunction.  Thank you for your service Bamboo Fun, it’s been, well, fun. You were my first tablet and your swan song was the Extend Neck Bird, so you shall not be forgotten. 

Now... Does anyone have any drawing tablet recommendations? Lol

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Trying out animation software! Made this bird in Pencil2d.

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722 notes?!? H-hi? Are most of you real people? Where did you come from?! I’m glad you like this silly animation!! I’m flattered!

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NECK

Trying out animation software! Made this bird in Pencil2d.

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Uh oh! It’s a troublemaker!! 

Haven’t figured out if this is an OC or some kinda doodle creature that haunts my mind. Send help.

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Ponies.

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Cultivate happy thoughts.

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“I see the moon, the moon sees me, the moon sees somebody I’d like to see...”