SpottyJaguar

I'm Diallo! I am a black and queer artist doing furry and fantasy content. I live in Indiana with my spouse, and art is my full-time job. I'm posting art and character/story blurbs, mostly. I love asks ♥ They or He

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FIND MY ART ELSEWHERE

Since Tumblr did uh… that thing that Tumblr did, I’ve had a couple people message me asking where else to find my work. I figured I’d go ahead and make a post like this, since I saw a couple other artists make one too. 

Here are the sites you can follow me and my work on! 

🐾 SpottyJaguar on Furaffinity - Mostly my finished art in one relatively easy to browse gallery. I’m starting to post journals again, too, to connect with people who follow me there. You’ll need an account to watch me.

🥚 SpottyJaguar on Twitter - Finished art, but also sketches, character tidbits, and whathaveyou. I like twitter a lot, so I’ll probably be the most active there.

📺 SpottyJaguar on Picarto - I stream twice a week, usually with my partners and friends. If you want to chill with me a bit more directly, there’s the place! 

💰 SpottyJaguar on Patreon - Plug my art directly into your inbox! I post a lot of behind the scenes stuff; work in progress, characters I’m building, life updates, etc., and always before I post it anywhere else. I also like to ask my patrons what I should draw, and let them have a say in how my work develops. I think it’s pretty neat!

If it turns out there’s some way I can keep this place and share the clean art I do, then I’ll try to do that for you guys! Tumblr’s format was starting to grow on me, so I was hoping I could start building this place up and sharing more stuff here. But if this change goes through, I guess that won’t be the case. 

I am extremely fortunate that I wasn’t already established here, so I think i’ll be alright in the long run, unlike a lot of artists I’m seeing who may be crushed by this change. If an artist you like looks like they’ll be hit particularly hard, see if you can boost their work somehow! Maybe they have a post like this you can reblog. We gotta help each other.

Thank you for everyone who’s followed me here! I really appreciate it, even if I wasn’t active super consistently. 

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It looks like it may be possible to un-junk my blog so I can post clean stuff here, but since that might take a bit, and since not a ton of my work is clean in the first place, Tumblr will be pretty sparse for me. 

If you want to keep up with my art, follow me elsewhere! 

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FIND MY ART ELSEWHERE

Since Tumblr did uh... that thing that Tumblr did, I’ve had a couple people message me asking where else to find my work. I figured I’d go ahead and make a post like this, since I saw a couple other artists make one too. 

Here are the sites you can follow me and my work on! 

🐾 SpottyJaguar on Furaffinity - Mostly my finished art in one relatively easy to browse gallery. I’m starting to post journals again, too, to connect with people who follow me there. You’ll need an account to watch me.

🥚 SpottyJaguar on Twitter - Finished art, but also sketches, character tidbits, and whathaveyou. I like twitter a lot, so I’ll probably be the most active there.

📺 SpottyJaguar on Picarto - I stream twice a week, usually with my partners and friends. If you want to chill with me a bit more directly, there’s the place! 

💰 SpottyJaguar on Patreon - Plug my art directly into your inbox! I post a lot of behind the scenes stuff; work in progress, characters I’m building, life updates, etc., and always before I post it anywhere else. I also like to ask my patrons what I should draw, and let them have a say in how my work develops. I think it’s pretty neat!

If it turns out there’s some way I can keep this place and share the clean art I do, then I’ll try to do that for you guys! Tumblr’s format was starting to grow on me, so I was hoping I could start building this place up and sharing more stuff here. But if this change goes through, I guess that won’t be the case. 

I am extremely fortunate that I wasn’t already established here, so I think i’ll be alright in the long run, unlike a lot of artists I’m seeing who may be crushed by this change. If an artist you like looks like they’ll be hit particularly hard, see if you can boost their work somehow! Maybe they have a post like this you can reblog. We gotta help each other.

Thank you for everyone who’s followed me here! I really appreciate it, even if I wasn’t active super consistently. 

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An awesome patron suggestion - a Flame Atronach from the Elder Scrolls series!

I've never drawn something hollow before, so having to keep track of everything in 3D was tough! Working with heavy linework instead of my usual sketch brushes was a great way to offset the challenge, though. I love how this came out.

Artist @licheart was a big inspiration. If you haven't seen her work before, you definitely should - her monster girls and linework are so stunning!

♥ Patreon - Twitter - FA

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Kira Kodera, the stunningly well-armed pirate. Looks like you're on the wrong ship, pal.

Commission for Drache04 on FA. Such fun colors!

♥ Patreon - Twitter - FA

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In September I did gesture drawings every day for a week, and I can't overstate how much it helped me! It really brought me closer to my art and made me so much more confident. This is cool for me to look back on, so I wanted to share ♥

♥ Patreon - Twitter - FA

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A fun icon for Nyghtwulf. The snake is actually hir tail! I love how the colors came out on this one. I was so intimidated by them, but I learned a lot. Sloooowly working myself out of my comfort zone!

♥ Patreon - Twitter - FA

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Just a fun picture of Paige! I realized I hadn't done anything of him in a little bit. Paige has two loves, tabletop games and toys. Here he is reading about both! I don't think he was expecting you, but I guess he's too polite not to wave hello. I really wanted to push myself to play with textures, and to add more clutter and bits and bobs, all for storytelling. I draw lots of characters in a void, with no how or where or why to anything. Those things are always what takes a picture from "good" to "great," for me, so I want to start doing it myself! This feels like a huge success.

♥ Patreon - Twitter - FA

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A buck and some magpies! Sketch for something that will eventually be a full piece. 

I chose a mule deer because they're my buddy’s favorite. Later, I decided on paper birch trees, magpies, and - though it's not visible right now - emerald stones, since they all happen in roughly the same location in North America. I felt the location being present all throughout the drawing was a nice easter egg! 

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A Patron asked for a lean ram boy. I delivered o7  ♥ FA - Twitter - Patreon 

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Health Update (June 2018)

Just a quick sketch of Ereviim, couldn't get it to cooperate enough to finish it! Still figuring out his anatomy, but loving the fusion of human and animal shapes I can give him.

A while ago I talked about my health, mostly some hormonal trouble I was having. I'm happy to say that that is basically resolved, and overall I'm feeling MUCH better than I was, physically and emotionally.

Full post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/19003616

Previous update: https://www.patreon.com/posts/slump-march-17743359

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Sometimes, art doesn't work out! Here's some art from a piece I decided not to continue. I learned a lot, though! Lots of ideas for a redo. It was going to be my first attempt at artwork for prints, but I ran into too many roadblocks along the way, and ultimately realized I had approached it incorrectly, and bitten off way more than I could chew haha. I am very fond of the drawing itself, but would rather start fresh, with a better grasp on what I want out of the piece, than try to force this just because I've already started it. The idea behind this one is that the mare is repairing the terrain around her. Originally I wasn't sure how, but toward the end I decided she'd use healing stones, placing them around the well she's leaning on, and dropping them into the river. Some kind of old horse ritual, who knows. $1+ Patreon post with more info $3+ Patreon post with extras + why I scrapped it Til next time!

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Is it hot in here, or is it just incineroar...? Very fun and beefy suggestion from one of my Patrons :)

♥ Like my art? I’m on FA, Twitter, and Patreon!

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Have you ever drawn idris?

I have, actually! I don’t draw Idris much, but the few times I have were very personal drawings, so I didn’t share them. 

Idris is basically a second sona to me. He compliments Ereviim by capturing things that Ereviim can’t, and allows me to explore different perspectives and stories. He also just has a very nice goat aesthetic, which I enjoy when I’m not focusing on cats! 

Here’s a figure sketch I did of him a while ago, while I was studying back anatomy. His antlers are incorrect, but I wasn’t fussed about it. Maybe they shed and grew back a bit differently. 

@moltengoldart helps a great deal with designing him and fleshing him out. They’ve done the most art of him so far, but I’m gonna catch up at some point haha! I think, for a long time, I was just afraid to draw him. He’s a lot different from my usual subjects, and I guess there’s a lot of vulnerability in sharing something like that. That’s something I want to get over, going forward.

Here are some even older sketches from last year, when I first started to play with his design.

I don’t know when I received this ask, unfortunately, but maybe this anon is still out there somewhere! 

FA - Twitter - Patreon

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I'm taking the plunge, I'm getting into merch! This is honestly kind of terrifying, but I want to try something new! This is a refined sketch of something I'm working on, which will eventually be available in print, posters, on shirts, and possibly more, what do you think? Would you wear something like this? I don't have a personal connection to coyotes, but this design has been stuck in my head for a long time, so I'm glad to finally put it to paper. Doing so really kickstarted my brain when it comes to the things I'd like to make - I have a ton of ideas brewing now, all with the common theme of stones/geodes. It's just very cool to explore all of this, I'm glad I get to share it with you guys!

If you like this, be sure to check out my Patreon! Patrons got to see the rough sketch, and early concepts, for this design, and that’s where all of my merch ideas go first. 

♥ FA - Twitter - Patreon

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Ereviim, my monster sona, having a less than stellar day. I thought it might be cool to start sharing some more throwaway doodles I've done. This is from late last year. Ereviim is meant to be me, both metaphorically and as literally as time and space will allow. When I'm stressed or anxious, it manifests as twisting or tugging sensations all throughout my body, like I'm being pinned in place, or wrenched by the head, but trying to picture or explain that never maps well onto a more humanoid body. I wanted to try drawing Ereviim experiencing those things, instead. I remember being pretty happy with these sketches, especially the small one on the left. It was the first one I did, and captured the sensations the best, but the bottom right has a nice heraldic feeling to it, too. I love some of the geometric shapes the spikes and his scales make, like he's caged on top of everything. Idunno if I'll do more with these or not! So here they are for now.

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I recently hit 15,000 watchers on FA, and I wanted to celebrate it somehow! I was thinking about doing something cute with Paige using a bunch of beads - styled like tennis balls, of course - with the numbers spelling that out. The one on the left just kind of happened while I was talking on the phone, so I kept it in. None of the others stuck with me at the time, but now that I post this, I like the bottom one... Idunno! I would like to celebrate this somehow, just gotta settle on a way. What do you think? In the meantime, I wanna say this: whether you're a new watcher or an old one, thank you all so much for following and supporting me and my art over the years. I seriously cannot thank every last one of you enough. Without you, I don't know where I would be, or what my life would be like, but I don't think I would be NEARLY as happy as you all have made me.

♥ Rock my world by checking out my FA, Twitter, and Patreon!

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This is from an update post I made much earlier in the year. At the time of posting, I’m not dealing with many of these problems, but I wanted to have this up here anyhow. I like the art, and maybe people on Tumblr would like to check in on me now and in the future! 

Patreon post: https://www.patreon.com/posts/march-update-17743359

♥ Like my art? I’m on FA, Twitter, and Patreon!