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Boy, it’s been a while, huh? I may not post much online but I still enjoy Art Fight! Let’s have fun playing together <3

https://artfight.net/~motley

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some more Cirrus doodles

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sketchy ref of my boy, Cirrus. He’s supposed to change colors based off his emotions, but I still haven’t decided which colors to which emotions.

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The unicorn lived in a lilac wood and she lived all alone. She was very old, though she did not know it, and she was no longer the careless color of sea foam, but rather the color of snow falling on a moonlit night. But her eyes were still clear and unwearied, and she still moved like a shadow on the sea.

Another piece for class. This time the unicorn from The Last Unicorn by    Peter S. Beagle. I chose it for the movie, but tried going by the book.  I also took huge inspiration from Mary Blair’s amazing concept art for disney.  Maybe later I’ll complete the Harpy as a companion piece.

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digital painting of pigs feet for class.  First time using Corel painter!  it’s an interesting program, not sure I dig it but still cool to try.

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Trying to get over my hesitation to post work, so here is my final from my graphic design class.  It was my first time using Photoshop to actually edit and collage photos and I learned so much.  I wanted to juxtapose toys with malice and create a surreal nightmare sort of world.  I was immensely inspired by pengosolvent s music and probably listened to the youtube mix of Fantastic Phantasm AT LEAST 10 times.  I hope my piece conveys my intent even a little, and give that good music a listen!

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Another semester done and over with, now for summer session to begin.  This semester I took a basic graphic design class working with Illustrator and Photoshop and I had a blast.  The process of working with vectors, for me, was more like building piece by piece than flowing organic drawing.  Aligning vectors into perfectly crisp and clean forms was immensely satisfying.  For that reason alone my planes-of-the-head above was probably my favorite piece.  I’m really happy with the color palette and the cleanliness of the geometric shapes.  I hope others enjoy it as well!

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It took a while but I finally made a character for bolto s Dystopia Jam!

So these two are Tuya [Too-yuh] and TseTseg [ Seh-segg]; Mercenary-4-hire and her loyal companion. 

Tuya:

She’s of mongolian/mixed descent 5′2 ft tall, stocky, and all muscle.  Tuya only cares about two things in this world: 1) TseTseg, 2) Money.  Tuya is very headstrong and frank, but as long as you respect her and TseTseg she is pretty laid back.  She excels at wielding knives and other short blades and is a fast and close range attacker focusing on stealth.  As a mercenary Tuya will do just about any job for money or meat.  Her skills lie in quick assassination, tracking, and acting as a guide/lookout.  Outside of a job Tuya hunts and scavenges for valuables to sell and meat for TseTseg.  Tuya puts TseTseg’s well being above all else and if she catches someone so much as ruffling one of her feathers you can bet they’ll be a deadman...or at least wishing they were.

TseTseg:

Tuya’s partner, a supersized-mutant golden eagle.  She is so large in fact that she can grab onto Tuya and carry her as far as coasting allows. TseTseg was raised alongside and by Tuya and the two are inseparable.  TseTseg is incredibly loyal and smart, only listening to Tuya’s commands.  She is also incredibly protective of Tuya and does not warm up to strangers easily; this plus her size tend to intimidate others greatly.  In a 180 degree fashion, TseTseg is incredibly affectionate with Tuya and loves nothing more than being by her side(and cuddling with her). 

Because of Tuya’s occupation and TseTseg’s size the two live relatively isolated on the edge of town outside the walls.  Most of the money Tuya earns is to feed and take care of the unnaturally large TseTseg, but she wouldn’t have it any other way.  At home Tuya and TseTseg hunt together for goods and TseTseg’s meal in classic falconry style.  On mercenary jobs the techniques depend on the work.  When a target needs to be taken out TseTseg carries Tuya swiftly to the target to be dropped and silently takes them out.  This is only really effective against single targets however and Tuya refuses to have Tsetseg any closer to danger than that.  On tracking and lookout jobs their teamwork really shines.  TseTseg flies way up and the two exchange complex signals to each other to relay information on landmarks, threats, ambushes, etc via gestures and light reflections.  As a lookout and guide the two are top class, it is nearly impossible to escape their eyes.

I drew this a while ago but only finished it now so I may change them up design-wise a bit, especially to add gear to explain signalling and whatnot, but otherwise this is pretty final.  Please feel free to draw, interact, add criticism, ask questions or anything!  Thanks for reading!

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more dragon arts!  Top one is a commission I did for cliones of her beautiful Horizon, which I had a blast doing!  After the semester ends I would definitely be up for more if people are interested at all.  I feel like doing these can help me learn a lot.

The bottom is a more portrait-ish drawing of Valerian, one of the duo of female ridgebacks who are sort of the unofficial queens of my lair.  I'm not much into lore stuffs and weaving a narrative, but it's fun to think about and draw my dragons individually.  Flight Rising is turning out to be a pretty nice art motivator.

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Here's my (very off model) pearlcatcher boy, Onion from my favorite dragon game Flight Rising.  I love my Onion very much and he makes me laugh because I only recently read the lore and he is practically opposite of canon, oh well.  I want to do more pieces like this for my dragons for fun and as incentive to draw more.  I want to be able to keep my attention span and paint digitally.

If people are interested I could probably do these and little portrait commisions for treasure/gems (because I'm broke).

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OC Art Meme!!!

Send a number and I’ll draw my OC:

In what they normally wear

In what I’m currently wearing

In a school uniform

In swimwear

In underwear

With no clothes on

In winter clothes

In fancy clothes

Making 3 different expressions

Standing on their hands

With their favorite animal

Hanging out with a friend

Sitting on the couch

Doing something they don’t normally do

Eating

Playing a sport

Beaten up

As a kid/adult

Wearing a funny hat

Sleeping

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I SWEAR I’LL MAKE THESE. 

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Here's the bat inspired dragons I promised!  I struggled quite a bit with these and as such I have variable horn types and poses drawn out.

pastel-prodigy and I collaborated over skype to come up with how these guys should look.  I'm much to lazy to paint them all now but I hope they give a clear idea of how we wanted to present them.  Boys have a little beard and a fuller mane while girls get four horns :>.  I also made the secondary color affect the fur as well as wings, and maybe even on the horns as well?  Overall I like these and think they'd make cool FR dragons.

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continuation of the ones before: baby edition.

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Hey, it's been awhile!

So while I was neglecting this blog I've been playing a real fun website called Flight Rising  where you raise, clothe, and breed dragons.  While playing I began thinking of other dragons I'd like to have that weren't any of the current breeds so -TADAH- I made my own!  I wanted a water based dragon since there is a lack of them in FR.  These are sorta a mix of porpoise and jellyfish in my mind; I wanted that round cute marine mammal look to them.  I won't deny that while drawing these I may or may not have thought about serendipity and my father's dragon...

I like how these guys turned out quite a bit and would be tickled pink if FR ever got something like them.  I will probably post a few more of these dragon sketches of different ideas I've come up with later.       (next one I'm hoping to do is based off of bats)

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Togetic was surprisingly fun to draw.  Maybe I'll try and draw more pokemon

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here's some more ponies no one asked for. 

Violet Vine on left and Star Pop on right (yes I named them).

I imagine these two would have low vs high energy and balance each other out.

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Sorry it took awhile!  here's your dia de los meurtos pony, Yessy!

hope you like it!