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the name’s Clay

this is my neopets blog, i’ll mainly be posting about my neopets ocs & art here and sometimes about what i’m doing on site

i am an adult and sometimes post/reblog adult things

non neopets art blog is @fowl-leaf,

if you’re ever interested in any brushes/assets/etc i use, feel free to ask! i don’t mind. just try to be specific so i can give you a useful answer.

most of my art is made in clip studio paint, but some might be made in procreate, krita, or assorted others.

Handy Tags:

#long

finally listed out my pets with very brief summaries in my intro post

only took me 6 years to get around to it lol

(it is very long, heads up)

i do still need to add links and such to currently drawn refsheets and such, butt hats for future me to worry about

#mine #not art #i know it seems like a lot of characters and i guess it is since theres more than 20 of them #but its a modest amount imo #since i have at minimum 250 non-neopets ocs (not counting story/comic characters #or illustration only ones)#...and also not counting arpg chars or arpg npcs since that would push me well into 300 lol

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oh, you know

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yeahhhhhh

#wip #gif #strongly regretting choosing to do this potentially tweenable animation in krita rn #pasting on current frame on current layer and mirroring requires exponentially more clicks than in flash #but hey it feels nicer to animate in than csp which is why i use it after all #and doesnt have the slippery brushes or weird-for-2d ui of blender

oh, you know

#wip #gif #cutely adding a 6th animation onto my dartboard of active progress wips #might remove the 2nd smear from each transition #since theyre not contributing much

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workin on another comic

if i am lucky, it'll get into the next nt (not betting on it tho since theres only one for the next ... 4 weeks ... so there will be many submissions. my habit of sitting on an idea for a long time always bites me in the butt lol.)

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finished the comic a few days ago, but I think it's ass so I'll save it for next year when I feel whatever about it instead lol

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artfight attack for @arttani!

#Rb

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I wasn't going to make any new neopets OCs for a while but then I drew this chill Wizard and now I am like, hmmm....

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I'm glad everyone likes my skeith wizard guy! <3

His name is Brandt. :3

#Rb

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Another one of the cards I illustrated for the Battledome TCG's Curse of Maraqua expansion was revealed, this one featuring a new petpet species- the Floosh!

#rb

adobe-outdesign

You have been isekai’d into Neopia. Spin this wheel of all Neopian lands to determine where your new Neohome is going to be.

How do you feel about your land?

Wouldn’t have it any other way

Not my favorite, but a nice area

Could be worse, I guess?

Eh...

I'm moving immediately

I am going to die

[See results button]

Voting ended onJul 2

#got altador #not my personal pick but seems fine #rb

workin on another comic

if i am lucky, it'll get into the next nt (not betting on it tho since theres only one for the next ... 4 weeks ... so there will be many submissions. my habit of sitting on an idea for a long time always bites me in the butt lol.)

#not art

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Managed to finish an actual ref for Viarnne in time for art fight!! also have some additional bonus info that's been sitting around 95% complete for months

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Using Blender as an illustration tool.

I've been on and off working on another neopets comic, and in it, there is a panel where characters are standing in the Faerieland Library/Bookstore.

I took a look at the reference material (And those butterfly wing railings), and decided this shot would be a good candidate for a 3D modeled, rendered, and re-painted background.

You see, while a lot of people use 3D models to trace over, I'm trying to go a little further and use rendered images as a base to then paint over. This is a common practice in concept art, and I think it could be very useful in comics and illustration as well.

Here is the 3D model

And here are the rendered pieces

These are- SELECTION FLATS - For selecting chunks of various editing for easier editing and paint over. These work similarly to professional comic flats, and can be easily achieved with Blenders "Workbench" render engine. UNSHADED COLORS - Colors with out the lighting so I can remove shadow and light from various areas. I do think I messed these up (They rendered too dark), but they still worked for what I needed. (I adjusted the values in post) SHADED COLORS - The shadows and light rendered with out lines. This is what get's painted over, and works well as a base for your painting. LINE ART - Rendered separately so I can easily edit the lines, since Blender Grease-pencil lines are hard to get perfect, and because we don't want the lines in the way of the painting. COMBINED - Mostly used for reference. Fun to A-B with your final image.

Here is those layers shown cleanly (Sorry the pink highlights on my custom Krita theme are like that. >_> )

Here is the layers after I did a ton of paint over work. (Behold my crappy labeling system and totally intentional typos.)

And here! Is the final outcome!

This isn't the first time I have tried this, but this is definitely, in my opinion, my most successful attempt, and I absolutely want to use blender more in my illustration and comic workflow.

The model took about a day to do. It took about the same amount of time it would have taken if I had drawn it all by hand, and now I have a cool model I can reuse! The actual painting took maybe an hour or two.

Over all fun little project! Can't wait to do it again. ;3

#Rb #Very cool!!

when gala has her apple

this was supposed to be a doodle but i got sidetracked lol

#neopets #neotag #furry art #anthro #gelert #my art #oc: gala

after much noodling around, i completed this drawing of Storm with a normal ass mouse on terror mountain that I've had lying around since 2020

it's also a redraw of a really old piece too! i think the old one is from 2008 based on which sketchbook its paper is from, but i'm unsure since i've always been bad about remembering to write dates on things

rambling and progress shots below the cut

#neopets #neotag #furry art #bori #oc: storm #terror mountain #redraw

fun meta oc lore time

allen wrench started off as an au version of RH, lore wise

but things diverged so much and i got attached so i made him into his own character instead

his blueness and stripes are a homage to RH's design at the time of au conception! (and a reincorperation of an unrelated scrapped species oc design, who i had yoinked allen's lore at that point in time for before i scrapped them lol) oh and the matching missing tusk is in relation to RH's missing tusk in current iteration too.

and to go full circle, allen wrench has an au version of himself that's not too terribly diverged, but different enough to be noteworthy (doodles from before design finalization, when i was trying to make him cuter lol. the non neopet version is akin to some kind of rubbery slapstick cartoon creature. i am quite fond of drawing that version since he's just so malleable and amusing.)

old ass art below the cut, for those curious about RH's old design

#not art #welllllll #old ass art #technically lol #oc: allen wrench #oc: rh #oc: art

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