#gazeopard art

[gazeopard]

🔥 🐾 Kairo looks pissed about something… 👀 Finally finished some early 2026 art after not drawing or coloring anything for months. Hopefully once I get my GED sometime this month, I’ll feel more free. Hello, 2026. 👋

[gazeopard]

Started this as a sketch back in October last year, then finally finished it a week ago. I had to leave for a week vacation in Dover Plains,, but now am back and can upload this pic of Melon I finished right before I left. <3 If its too dark,I apologize. I don’t know why, but Photoshop makes things look brighter than they actually are. XD I still can’t wait to see this sick freak come to life in the anime adaptation of the Love-Failure arc, though I still hope they’ll take some creative liberties with some of the (dropped) plot-points or expand on them and fix the issues this arc ended up suffering from. It sucks that Melon is one of my favorite characters, and his arc was the weakest in the series. Image drawn by me. Melon belongs to Paru Itagaki.

[gazeopard]

I don't think I ever uploaded this here... An experimental art piece I did of newborn Kairo, my part-hellhound main character of "FIREBORN", a hope-to-be heptology of fantasy-adventure-horror anthropomorphic animal xenofiction I've been working on and off since 2014. Kinda inspired by Dark Souls, but in the lore I've been working on, the colors of someone's eyes usually represent the owners' soul (a bit of a literal take of the saying "eyes are a window to the soul"), and for supernatural beasts (hellhounds in particular), their souls can manifest as flames outside the body. So, this is Kairo's flame manifesting from the heart, which is believed to be a cage for the soul. Also, a bit of backstory: Though Kairo was found as a newborn and brought up by a German Shepherd, he is actually the illegitimate son and secret/unknown heir of the Red King, a hellhound who lived aeons ago that was leader of the various hellhound packs in Ignia (basically the underworld/underrealm beneath our world Gaia). While he was alive, the Red King (whom I still need to name) was renowned by many hounds as the bearer of the legendary Bloodfire (also called the Bloodflame), the crimson-red primordial hellfire that allegedly gave life into the realms from the beginning of time after melting the Great Icesheet that the globe of Gaia had been encased within, forming the oceans and eventually creating all of life in both Gaia and Ignia. Heavily inspired by Norse Mythology's cosmogony.

And being his son, Kairo is the only hybrid that has been able to carry this unique firepower deep within him without self-destruction. This status unfortunately makes him a valuable target later in life by many factions who either want to kill him or use him and his hellfire for their own benefits, including the main antagonist and fellow hybrid, Sindra (formerly named Skeldrae), once he discovers what he really is. Basically, Kairo is the eponymous "Fireborn" of the story, prophesied to potentially bring about the end of the world and the return of the hellhounds.