#tangeris

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Flow

2026/04 (full view)

First time using the new watercolours from W&N I bought for a full piece. Also. On proper cotton paper, which indeed does make a difference in what you can do with the colours and flow. Been a bit of a hot minute since I drew myself but I make progress in getting things back in order that fell to the wayside in the last few years, and I do feel more and more like myself lately so... here we are.

I used a flat bladed brush it kinda has an angle, gives good control on flow idk how to describe it, dabbing that one on the paper while doing the halo and the background did allow me to build up pigment nicely. I once.. did a piece with Tangeris in it that looked so lovely when wet and then sadly lost some of that vibrancy when it dried so I had to go in a couple of times (and letting it dry in between) to build that back up but I was unable to get the same level mainly because 1. paper could not take more & 2. that one was done with inks and back then I was still learning how to balance them cuz they are already died liquid and there is a huge difference between drawing inks (which I rarely use) and writing inks (who need to be a kind of way that they do not clog up an ink pen) and I used both in that old piece and that was a mistake at the time XD.

Ah but i learned and its kinda nice that even tho watercolours are a different ballpark in a way than inks that those skills with the inks i got are very much transferable.

Just gonna need to push myself into a bit more loose techniques now. Love the controlled way I do things but I wanna let go a little too. Also need a heatgun, screw waiting for shit to dry my brain cannot handle it. Also fun fact, I do not own warm grey in my palette of watercolours. i had to mix em up for Tangeris fur and if you do not know how to mix up warm grey it's like... take this burnt sienna and ultramarine blue. Or paynes grey and raw umber (which I did) maybe a lil yellow orchre. Too yellow of a tint? Mix in some lavender colour. Greenish tint? Some light pinks got you.

Anyway the shades I mixed up to colour him match my copics for him to a T (i use copics for my references bc its easier and less mixing involved) so I am very happy with the results.

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"From one to Another" [pt.1] - 2022/05 My truesona Tangeris (giant anteater). Mixed media; various colourful inks (almost everything) & copics (tangeris fur & hair) Hope you enjoy it bc I think this image still fucks hard <3 (and one day and hopefully this year I might get to the other part(s?)) Figured I start out with my 'sona so you know what's up and what to expect.

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“Solace” - 2021/12

During the hardest time of my life, I was taken on a wonderful journey full of adventure, love and the family that finds you and you choose in return. While things kept getting grim, these characters brought me solace, brought me peace a small place to take a breath and let go for a while. Still holds true to this day, even if the worst of it is behind me things are not over yet - but I still find peace among distant shores and open seas.

The hands belong to 5 of the by now more characters I created within this story, you will meet them soon enough.

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Naught but...

2024/04

Tag to the moving saga~ Last year I moved into my probably forever home and I had a lot of complicated feelings around that time about many things. It was not just moving into this house, it was moving into the house of my late father, a house with history and ghosts, it was moving out of the city I was born in and lived all my life, it was moving into my own place all by myself because since I moved out the first time at 19 I always had my best friend living with me for those 13 years and so.. yeah, a lot of feelings, it felt like the end of an era and the beginning of a new one, so many changes packed into a singular move unlike all the others I experienced before. But either way I am usually slow to bring my feels to paper, unless it feels like I have to tear my skin off I usually let it flow through me and then commit it to ink and parchment somehow so like yeah I have a lot of things I want to draw to commemorate lasts years most important and significant event for me.

On the left we have Phoenix on the right we have Tangeris. Both are my sonas.

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“Points of View” - 2023/06

'Cause that second wind is coming, love, it's coming for all we own

There is a bit of anger, that went into the brushstrokes of the background, there is a careful deliberation that went into the blooms of the halos, a bit of calculation that went into golden lines. Body, Mind and Soul finding a quiet harmony at the end of a storm bracing against the expectation for the next. it is, in a sense, a small nod-back to the last couple of years and a bigger nod to this year, full of change, not always easy but not even remotely as violent, as harsh as those before it were - trusting the peace is still hard for me. I still wait for the other shoe to drop. But rationally I know things are fine, and will be fine. It is a bit of a dance sometimes, back and forth. But all in all I am doing arlight. But anyway, a lot more emotions went into this one than it might appear from merely looking. Lot of anger went into the colouring with the copic markers but that was merely the absolute annoyance of realizing I have many types of watercolour paper but this one in particular hates copics and that made things a lot harder than they needed to be xd But it worked out so. Enjoy.

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Gravity is for loosers who don't serve cunt with their hair like Tangeris does. A wip of my sona babes cuz I'm really feeling it. Tangeris got some base lines bc he is perfect as usual. Phoenix and Midas will get some changes because after pausing a bit I see some stuff I need to adjust like the angle of Midas' head and Phoenix' head needs to be resized a little 8you know how it goes, rework the body a couple of times until you get the pose just the way you want it and poof head to smoll suddenly) Yah anyway I need to show these babes more often. Tho to be fair Midas is new this is gonna be like the first pic with them in it. He is a deer, uh.. dunno which kind tbh I went very generic with them mainly because he is half spade-toothed whale (yeah here we have the species on point). Funky lil guy can't wait to make a full painting of him he is a glamorous bitch like Phoenix. Phoenix is funnily enough the only completely natural species among my sonas she just happens to be an animal most people have not heard about/seen pics of which is funny to me. And Tangeris is a giant anteater-slash-lowkey-changeling-thingie that actually got legitimized a couple of months ago bc technically Tangeris got adopted by a fae (@/lorieninksong <3) but yeh mostly 99% giant anteater 100% bastard with a resting bitchface and glorious hair.

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I wanted to explain that to someone so I drew up a quick comparison because visual make it more clear. Just a fun lil lineup of all my anteaters and a skull of an animal one so you can vaguely get what is going on beneath the snoots.

Funny thing is, Tangeris, my sona, the first in the lineup has a bit of an odd snoot goin dunno if people cottoned in on that but that ain't how I draw anteater snoots usually. It is absolutely on pupose though. See GA's have a tubular snout going and very narrow heads/jaws.

They also have shit jaw muscles bc they don't chew their food. What they have is two lower jaw halves that do not connect at the chin via bone but via a ligament and when they slurp up food with their tongues the fact that these bones are not fused help with grinding their food.

Anyway so both Kabaila (2nd pic) and Vasha (3rd) are like normal anteaters that slurp up their food and grind it up. They also can't open their mouths much like regular GA's. Now Tangeris, he is a funky lil dude, also very much a Giant Anteater no doubt, normal though? Nah.

The key difference between Tangeris and any other anteater I draw when it comes to the shape of his snoot is that his jaw looks a wee bit different. My mans got teeth in there. Like... look up Gharial skulls and you get the picture on his chompers in there.

Anyway so yah Tangeris got a bit more going on in that long face hence why it's a bit bigger and the fact that it ain't curving down so much is just a preference on him. Oh and he can under specific circumstances open his jaw too. His jaw muscles ain't weak :)

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“Roasted” - 2018/10

This was actually the debut for my alterego / truesona Tangeris. First pic ever. He is a giant anteater which suits me well because they are chill jungle horses but they can and will fuck you up. They are the epitome of fuck around and find out – and in case you are not aware why that is – these animals are between roughly between 1,80m and almost 2,40m in length. They can run over 30 miles per hour (faster than humans) have incredible strong arms and oh, claws. Very long sharp claws on their hands (they walk on their knuckles to keep em sharp) and are known to end jaguars and humans if they feel the need to do so. They look so deceptively harmless but man can they throw down.

So can I, hence the choosing of anteater :)