Ingrid Skogstad

she/it/they, art blog, zoologist, silken windhound furry&therian | Commissions open, info in pinned

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Hello!

My name is Ingrid (she/her, they/them and it/its are okay, xe/xem too), and I'm a digital artist with passion for nature, animals and fantasy. I post about alterhuman experience on my sideblog @sunpoweredog

I mostly draw feral animals, but hopefully i'll also share some content from my own story with human characters.

My commissions are open, you can find info here!

My carrd if you want to follow me elsewhere!

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A kitty for PurpleHope for an art event that I launched, and now I don't even have time to moderate it x_x

(Everything's fine!! there's another moderator there, I'm just laughing at myself!!)

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A comm for palehorntea! featuring an axolotl dragon :D

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A piece for amazing nervousnessie.bsky.social

It's such a joy for me to get commissioned with different characters! A chance to draw a bovine is a rare one, and I had a lot of fun ^^

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I just found out that with all the monitor troubles I totally forgot to post this finished ych for Barski!

a fox is looking over his territories 🦊 🌿

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Horsie! for Skullsbesan ^^

(And I forgot to add my own signature again, oh well…)

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He's watching you 🌼👁

Also a commission

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A friendly wolf wants to show you something they've found!

commission :>

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Another emergency commission done :>

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A commission for Cerberus Jr featuring a binturong character! they are incredibly rare among OCs, and i am so so happy i got a chance to draw them!

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And again, a collaboration with Elkir (https://elkir.carrd.co/) ! As usual, I provided the initial sketch and line art, and everything else is the work of my wonderful co-author

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Viator the wolf! another of the emergency slots, drawn on a laptop.

The new monitor is already in place, so I can continue working in the usual format :D

It's funny to admit, but at first I bought a monitor that was larger in size (27 inches) than my previous one. And I felt so BAD with it - my head was spinning, my eyes were watering, and I couldn't see anything at the new resolution... I had to return it and exchange it for the 23.8 inches I'm used to xdd)

I'm very conservative when it comes to technology..

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An icewing for Silver_Dargon ! First of the emergency slots when i accidentally broke my pc monitor while trying to wash my window panes :")

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And what do we have here? This is the annual update of the banner and profile picture everywhere

Probably, the most important thing for me this year was understanding simplicity. That it's not always necessary to do an ultra-super-duper full-scale render of every groove on the bark of every tree, and sometimes you can just... hint that there are details there. Show the approximate shape. And the brain (and this is awesome) itself 'picks up' and 'adds in' the details where needed.

So, this year's banner symbolizes this new understanding that there's no need to overdo it everywhere all the time.

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a commission for @snaggle.bsky.social featuring Krysali the wolf! I made two versions, one silver/blue and one golden, but i think i like the golden version more ^^

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Your backgrounds are so amazing! How do you practice backgrounds? Do you have any tutorials you recommended?

thank you so much! There are tons of tutorials for artists and photographers, I can't even recommend any exact book or tutorial because there are just so many and so many of the are good...

But i do have some advice! first of all, I abuse all those cool composition rules, like the "golden spiral" to make the whole piece pop. It really helps a lot when you're making a scenery. a great exercise is to find a picture you like, and try to dissect it using composition rules, see which ones are used in it!

Similar to that idea is an exercise when you try and make a composition with only two or three values, and then try to finish the piece while keeping those values

I also collect tons and tons of photos for references! When i'm bored, i browse through my collection and make studies that may or may not eventually become something of their own, and then i use those for yches or personal art. You can learn a lot from photos, especially when you look at the actual colors (like the grass is rarely pure green, the shadows are almost never black, etc). Most of my pieces have color schemes inspired by a particular photo.

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working hard on Labor Day 💪

A portrait for GlacierHybrid with a cunning and satisfied kitsune! She probably outsmarted someone and is giggling about it.