#ealann

[elektroyu]

Omg you don't believe how much I've noodled around on this in the past days, it was so frustrating XD Which is why I'm so happy that I finally found a direction for his coat that I'm happy with!

Also I couldn't remember if I'd written down which of the fluffy qualats has which coat genes, but I've decided now that Ealann has the Longhair genes lh, while Chamon has the mane genes li (and I had to make a little messy chart for comparison because they can look a bit similar overall) and Marin of course has both of them. I really need to include that in their refs for easier... future reference 🥴

[elektroyu]

This is the current status of Ealann. He also now has the beginnings of feetses! Although I'm not so sure I'm happy with how they look. Will likely tweak a lot still :)

[elektroyu]

Continued this today...

Instead of just focusing on one qualat at a time I thought a better approach would be to do the rough underpainting of each first, and add all the little details later on top. Which is why many things in here are just placeholders currently XD and I'm a bit concerned that Dara will stick out amongst the others, so I mayyyyy have to redo at least parts of her.

... maybe just look at their fantastic tails for now? Those look pretty good already 🤣👌

Speaking of placeholders, Chamon is still missing all of his colors and markings. Will add them once I'm happy with his base :D

Also Ealann's coat is pretty much inspired by Sammy. And I love his kinda grumpy expression lol. I'll have to figure out if he has back markings or not... it's not visible in his ref and I never even once drew him again after that ahahaha.

As of right now, I am very excited about the progress on this after all this time ✨

[elektroyu]

Aaaand more progress. Yea I did spend a couple of hours today, cough cough. A normal amount (yeah sure). I probably should do something else this evening ^^;

Also for your viewing pleasure I included yesterday's closeup of Ealann at near original size, even if it has the still rough shadow layer on. It's a screenshot, so if it fits your phone dimensions feel free to use it as a background image or something (or nag at me if you'd prefer to look at the finished thing). Personally, these little things are what makes life so worth it for me :D

[elektroyu]

We can't forget about the qualats, so have an update on Ealann! 😄

[elektroyu]

Today was the last day of the christmas holidays, so I did something personal for a change. Tomorrow I’m back to working on commissions!

After Marin from a while ago I now re-designed Ealann to fit the “new” general qualat design better. There was someone fuzzy among Ea’s ancestors who also passed on the light coloration, so he looks rather extreme in comparison to what I’ve drawn until now. I kind of want to work out coat genes for the qualats now.