Jasper_Shiba Art

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Taken

I've been playing LOTS of Destiny these last several months. It's pretty much all I play at this point. Bloody fine game, great art direction; of all, I've come to love the Taken in particular. Such a simple color scheme, only retextures of other hostiles, yet still unique and compelling in its own right.  I've also been spending a lot of time in the Dreaming City - and with a Tincture of Queensfoil active on Reverie Dawn armor. I do love the taken glow effect on the armor.  So, had a cheeky thought - I AM taken, in that I'm in a relationship. So what if I put that in my Twitter bio, and set this to my icon each Strong Curse Week? Seemed too fun an idea to pass up. So here's my sona, as a Taken, with a Malfeasance - also Taken. Seemed the most fitting weapon, considering Drifter's intent in arming so many Guardians with it. It was a fun and relaxin' little piece, and I enjoyed doing things way differently to acheive that unique 'Taken' look. I'm quite happy with it! Posted using PostyBirb

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A Night In (Comm)

Commission for Discord users CountBagel and Cora, for their anniversary! This piece features their sonas Zane the Sergal and Cora the Kirin, cuddled up on the couch enjoying some quality time together...also Netflix in the background, but that matters a bit less. It was an absolute pleasure to do this fine illustration for such a lovely couple - especially when it comes to a wholesome subject matter as this.  Posted using PostyBirb

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E.W.A.N. Ref

This boy was actually a lil' project I took on for my Illustration class, designing a character. In the context of the class, this isn't a Protogen - I just borrowed the visor and ear bits because they look dope...then it did slowly become more Protogen-y over time. In the context of furry, I'll just say it's a Protogen, it's close enough. The context for class is that it was created by the fur-curious Elon Musk, another of his asinine creations - this one to explore extreme environments on Earth, not suited for humans. It's biomechanical, blending the best of the husky genes it carries with the machinery of the Boring Company. It wears the visor to protect the vast sensor array within, while a small projector provides a facsimile of a face as to make the creature more approachable to humans. Being part doggo, it's loyal, and being part machine it's precise and untiring. It's Elon's Musky Husky. I'm sorry. Posted using PostyBirb

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Jasper Ref 2019

I went a good 6 months without updating my ref? Not bad, I think that's a record.  Anyway, just minor edits. Added better information boxes, tightened anatomy, changed up my boof self's arm, added a new color wheel, a ghostly lil' curl on my back ref...all in all a big step up! Posted using PostyBirb

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Prairie Pirate

Frankly, my recent piece 'Dinner Date' was a side project I did as a break from the main attraction - this painting for my Illustration class! This was one HELL of a piece. For the assignment, I was to mimic my favorite illustrator - that happens to be Tess Garmen. Wonderful anthro/wildlife artist. However, her traditional painting skill, built up over a decade of industry work, it ain't something easy to mimic, least of all digitally...I'm pretty happy with my result, however. The sky turned out beautifully, and the lil' prairie dog himself looks good and floofy. Just look at that shin. So fluffy. The reason I went with the prairie dog? My instructor said he wanted to see a prairie dog, said it would be neat. Why a pirate? Not sure. Just a fun idea, taking an animal so closely associated with dry open land as to have 'prairie' in its name, and throw it into the middle of the high seas. Anyway god bless the mesh transform tool, and while I love the new gauche tool, I'm ready to not use it for a while. Posted using PostyBirb

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Dinner Date

From one of our conversations about sharing a dinner out, Ferin and I came to talking about chopsticks - specifically, how he's prefers them to silverware, and I can't use them for the life of me. That spawned a doodle of us on a date, myself struggling with the horrid little wooden pincers, while Ferin tries to comfort me and offer condolences for what's left of my dinner. I then took this doodle, and rendered it out into a full illustration. It's exactly what the doodle was, but more 'complete' - rendering, linework, fine details, a full background.  This was an absolute blast, start to finish - I've not done much of any personal work in the last two months or so, and it felt good to really hammer out a piece like this. I learned more about my software in the process, including how to take a flat texture and transform it to fit in perspective, and use a mesh transform to treat raster layers like vectors. The food also turned out way better than I could have hoped, especially the bubble tea - a suggested addition by my Marbles! I'm lucky to have someone who's got a great critical eye as my significant other. (Really though, Ferin, we have forks in the West for a reason <3) Any background characters are generics I doodled up, and in no way represent anyone's sona. Posted using PostyBirb

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White Fang Book Cover

This past week in my Illustration class I had to illustrate the cover to a classic novel; I went with White Fang, a book that totally did not influence me in any way shape or form. Posted using PostyBirb

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Birthday Boy

Birthday gift for my specia lil' guy, Ferin! He asked for a lil' graphite doodle of his sona in a birthday cone hat, and well I couldn't just leave it at that! Posted using PostyBirb

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Shibe (Uni Homework)

Ah, Illustration. A lovely class, at least for the time being. For this assigment we were to draw an animal, any animal, using whatever medium and stylization we chose. I went with a good boy, because I'm paying a small fortune to take art classes in which I DON'T get out of my shiba-shaped comfort zone apparently Jokes aside this boy was a treat to draw. Such a good happy boy. Posted using PostyBirb

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Jasper Icon '19

The icon I uploaded yesterday for Ferin was part of a set; however, my half just wasn't working out, so I shelved it and finished his. The smile looked forced at the time, and the lines and shading were all off. I scrapped all of that, redid most of the muzzle and mouth, and added fresh colors and cel shading, and here we are! While somewhat similar to my summer '18 icon, it's more competently made, as one may expect these months later. I'm happy with this piece! Posted using PostyBirb

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Ferin Icon '19

Icon done for my darling Ferin, as the one I did in summer of '18 no longer holds up to my current standards. Really happy with how this ditty turned out, not only being more competently made than the last but also accurate to his recent revisions. It was a fun piece! Posted using PostyBirb

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Neon

'Wing-it' piece I did last night. Had a loose idea for a composition, and have had a hankerin' to draw a deer - after about three hours of workin', making it up as I went, this was the result, Honestly it turned out a lot better than I hoped! This deer is currently unnamed, and the design ain't the final version if I do expand on him as a character, but what is there works perfectly well for the piece. This is also my first lineless piece in over a year and a half - felt good to get back to somethin' I always found relaxing. Posted using PostyBirb

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Titanic Dog

(My half of the previously posted Destiny piece) This was a long time in the makin'! Back at the start of November when Destiny 2 was free for a short time, Ferin and I nabbed a copy of it; I played it during the beta and had been trying to find games to fill the void that left ever since. It was the perfect opportunity to get into Destiny - and it's a game we can play together, an experience we both cherish. While I have MUCH more time logged into the game than him (having even purchased the DLCs too), but when we do play together we both have an absolute blast. I main Titan when in a fireteam, and his Warlock game is on-point. For this piece, we went through my collection and selected armor and shaders we found aesthetically pleasing, even if we didn't own all of it already. The poses themselves were older stress-relief pieces done during the school year, which I decided to mash together to make this. I then covered our nude bodies in the selected outfits, added a background more detailed than any previous work of mine - hell, I must've spent a good two weeks on that thing alone! Absolutely worth it, and I learned a lot from the experience to boot. I wanted this whole thing done by New Years, but Ferin wanted to hammer out the long-pending details of his Sona's update, updates reflected here! All in all easily my best piece to date; while I still like the Christmas piece done last year more in anatomy and composition, the colors, armor, background, and lighting of this one I'm all extremely proud of.  Also because I'm a completionist here's my exact (visible) loadout and their shaders: Jasper Ashen Wake Gauntlets, Frumious Blue Exodus Down Chest, Frumious Blue Starcrossed Footsteps, Frumious Blue Dragonfly Regalia Mark, Frumious Blue Posted using PostyBirb

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Foxy Warlock

(This is Ferin's half of my previously posted Destiny piece) This was a long time in the makin'! Back at the start of November when Destiny 2 was free for a short time, Ferin and I nabbed a copy of it; I played it during the beta and had been trying to find games to fill the void that left ever since. It was the perfect opportunity to get into Destiny - and it's a game we can play together, an experience we both cherish. While I have MUCH more time logged into the game than him (having even purchased the DLCs too), but when we do play together we both have an absolute blast. I main Titan when in a fireteam, and his Warlock game is on-point. For this piece, we went through my collection and selected armor and shaders we found aesthetically pleasing, even if we didn't own all of it already. The poses themselves were older stress-relief pieces done during the school year, which I decided to mash together to make this. I then covered our nude bodies in the selected outfits, added a background more detailed than any previous work of mine - hell, I must've spent a good two weeks on that thing alone! Absolutely worth it, and I learned a lot from the experience to boot. I wanted this whole thing done by New Years, but Ferin wanted to hammer out the long-pending details of his Sona's update, updates reflected here! All in all easily my best piece to date; while I still like the Christmas piece done last year more in anatomy and composition, the colors, armor, background, and lighting of this one I'm all extremely proud of.  Also because I'm a completionist here's his exact (visible) loadout and shaders: Ferin Claws of Ahamkara, N/A High-Minded Complex Cloak, Midnight Talons High-Minded Complex Boots, Midnight Talons Posted using PostyBirb

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By The Traveler

This was a long time in the makin'! Back at the start of November when Destiny 2 was free for a short time, Ferin and I nabbed a copy of it; I played it during the beta and had been trying to find games to fill the void that left ever since. It was the perfect opportunity to get into Destiny - and it's a game we can play together, an experience we both cherish. While I have MUCH more time logged into the game than him (having even purchased the DLCs too), but when we do play together we both have an absolute blast. I main Titan when in a fireteam, and his Warlock game is on-point. For this piece, we went through my collection and selected armor and shaders we found aesthetically pleasing, even if we didn't own all of it already. The poses themselves were older stress-relief pieces done during the school year, which I decided to mash together to make this. I then covered our nude bodies in the selected outfits, added a background more detailed than any previous work of mine - hell, I must've spent a good two weeks on that thing alone! Absolutely worth it, and I learned a lot from the experience to boot. I wanted this whole thing done by New Years, but Ferin wanted to hammer out the long-pending details of his Sona's update, updates reflected here! All in all easily my best piece to date; while I still like the Christmas piece done last year more in anatomy and composition, the colors, armor, background, and lighting of this one I'm all extremely proud of.  Also because I'm a completionist here's our exact (visible) loadouts and their shaders: Jasper Ashen Wake Gauntlets, Frumious Blue Exodus Down Chest, Frumious Blue Starcrossed Footsteps, Frumious Blue Dragonfly Regalia Mark, Frumious Blue Ferin Claws of Ahamkara, N/A High-Minded Complex Cloak, Midnight Talons High-Minded Complex Boots, Midnight Talons Posted using PostyBirb

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Ferin Model Sheet 2019

After much work, many iterations, and lotsa experimentation, we finally nailed down a new take on Ferin's adorable fox! Let's go through the changelog! Ferin Version 1.2, January 2019 *Redrew eyes, reducing uncanny valley effect by 95% *Removed nipples, increasing SFW by 20% *Removed black fur wrapping around bottom of peets, increasing cuteness by 10% *Updated ear design, increased anatomical accuracy by 30% *Shortened neck, removed hidden nope.avi trait *Shortened arms, removed hidden Lanky Kong trait *Removed arrow on back and stripe on tail, decreasing complexity of back shots by 80% *Redid beans, increasing cuteness by 20% *Redrew major parts of head structure, increasing cuteness by 20% *Tightened up fur patterns on face and redid main tuft, increasing design quality by 50% *Extended blue fur on biceps and thighs, increasing total blue percentage by 15% *Redid tail slightly, decreasing floof by 10% *Removed crotch blue fur, improving quality of [redacted] *Removed tail, headshot, and earring refs, as they were deemed redundant *Added clothed ref as response to owner feedback *Added extra earrings to right ear, increasing style by 10% *Redrew pecs to look less flat, increasing anatomical accuracy by 15% *Changed background color and text box, increasing visual cohesion *Changed font and data, removed unneccesary words *Changed palette to diamond I don't know why I did a largely pointless changelog Just for fun I guess lol Anyway, glad to have it done - gonna need it this April in my special plans for our anniversary~ Posted using PostyBirb

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COMMISSIONS OPEN!!

Now open for commissions, 15 slots total spread across the various types of commissions offered! This accounts for both SFW and NSFW queues, which are kept seperate for reasons of keeping sensitive work out of the reach of minors. Full Terms of Service  SFW Queue NSFW Queue Slot List If you enjoy my work, then I hope to do business with ya at some point! Feel free to DM me with questions or commission requests, or email me at [email protected]. I pay the most attention to FurAffinity and Amino, and will likely respond to inquires on other platforms within several days. Posted using PostyBirb