…and it makes you scrunch up your face in weird and amusing ways.
So I wanted to do a SFW Prequel-related thing because I like to post to Prequel fanart booru sometimes, and all I’ve been doing lately are NSFW stuff and audio files, so I looked and found this “classic” Katia by Plague of Gripes:
Now I don’t know when he originally drew it, but I’m sure it was years ago – pre-hiatus, and I don’t THINK it had ever been colored, so I took steps to rectify that. First, I found this canon image that I pulled the base colors off of. They’re all dark and muted because it’s at night of course, but there’s a light off to her right too.
So here’s my base coloring (and background)…
Next, I added a layer I named “glowybits”. This isn’t how I do shading typically, but it made sense to mimic Kaz’ pallet – so the parts of Katia that are lit by the nearby streetlamp are her “original” colors. So here it is with the Glowybits layer:
I did obviously move the lighting a bit more forward so we could see more of her face. The fact that it also allows for lighting of her boobs was PURELY coincidental. 🙂
Next up, highlighting and gloss layer:
Almost there! Now, all that’s needed is to add a low-opacity reflection layer, and Let It Snow, Let It Snow, Let It Snow!:
As in the original, the snow is tending to build up on horizontal surfaces like the top of her head, her pauldrons, and… her boobies. But don’t distract her by mentioning it – she’s CONCENTRATING! You can brush that snow off her later.
I actually inked this as well as coloring it this time. It was such a cyoot poor Katia, I had to do it. He named it Magical Mishap, but when talking about it to somebody, we started thinking of all the ways we could help put out those little fires on her before they do any real damage. Somehow we decided that if you use your tongue to help soothe the ouchies, she would taste like burnt marshmallows.
And because I always dream up some backstory, I imagine she had just added flame resistant charm to her clothes and was testing it out when FWOOMP! They resisted the flame all right! They retreated from her bodily to escape them in fact.
While I’d appreciate if it updated more than once every six weeks or so, the Kvatch arc in Prequel is becoming one of my all-time favorite webcomic storylines (second only to the Madness arc in Narbonic), and you should check it out either now or in 2028 when it finishes.
Chapter 1 of 18 of my 2nd Spyjirra fiction named You Only Live 18 Times. It’s set in an alternate future of the Elder Scrolls universe – a bit of a steampunk-ish setting. Cut me a bit of slack though, I’m far from a professional reader and certainly not a voice actor. But I did add some effects that make it a bit more interesting I think.The character of Ra’Jirra is based on Kazerad’s side character, though even I have to admit, the connection is tenuous at best.
Boogeestro drew it a few days ago and I’ve been working on it every free second. I rather like it, if you can’t tell. That’s the CatV3 she’s riding – a sort of steampunk-ish JetSki.
And yeah, I gave her a nip bump. Hey, give her a break. She’s wet and excited. These things happen!
UPDATE: FurNut tweaked it to be even better! So this is now a 3-artist combination.
Yeah, it’s important to recognize your deviancy before you can address them. Though I seem to just do a lot of recognizing and very little addressing.
So I wanted to color something again and ran across this Katia by luraiokun as a gift to Rick2Tails.
It caught my eye immediately. The white outline first, but notice the soles of the feet, the breast and the eye that aren’t colored in that light bluish grey really pop out. That’s the whole monochromatic thing again. But I just wanted a pretty cat butt to color, so afraid I didn’t go that route. Got rid of the square around it.
Another less obvious thing I did was remove all the saturation. There’s no color there, even if it appears to have blue in it. It doesn’t. It’s pure grey. That was done for a reason. Because when I apply my base colors on a Multiply layer, they will be darkened. But by first increasing the lightness, the resulting color will be just what it should be. I COULD have tried to remove the grey and make her white, but I’ve found that to be problematic. Better to leave it and brighten the base layer so the final color is what it should be.
You might notice I put the pale belly (nearly white) color on the underside of her tail also and very subtly in her… um… well… butt. No, it’s not canon, but I felt like it for some reason. Probably primarily to add a bit more interest. Also originally I had colored her entire soles of her feet in pink, but revised that when someone said they looked like rat feet. He was right. Pads are better. Next up, shading.
I started with this soft shading, but when I got to this point, I realized that – though I think it looks okay, it doesn’t fit with the style of the drawing and all those hard edges. So I started over and went with hard shading instead.
Yeah. I think that’s better. Not as “3D’ as soft, but it fits with the style better. There’s 2 levels of shading here. The obvious, but right where she’s sitting on her heels, under her armpit and on her neck just below her head there’s a dark shadow. Next, I got creative. I wanted to represent fur as right now she’s too smooth.
So what I did was used a small eraser with a short fade and “bit into” the shadow to give the impression of fur without having to actually draw any. Just tried to keep those “bites” flowing roughly in the direction the fur would at each point. This took, a while, but I think it looks better as a reminder that Katia is SUPPOSED to have fur, not just yellow skin. And doing it in the shadow seems to work pretty well.
And that’s it. A bit of gloss and highlighting, a butt-shadow and a (frankly very quick) background that’s suggestive of an outdoor scene if only by the colors. And now I can take a step back, look at her…
And feel bad because she’s disappointed that I again colored her nude. Sorry sadcat! You just look so GOOD that way. Hey, at least there’s no visible plumbing!
Another coloring thing. LOTS of in-progress images on this one. I’d done that bowling-ball crushing Katia and, though it was undoubtedly another lewd thing, I really did (still do) like it a lot. But it was time to do something a little less lewd and I’d noticed this one when I was looking through Zokva (Zokvic on FA)’s various galleries so thought I’d give it a shot.
As is my standard, I started by putting down the base colors. Because I’m a pervert, I did her under-clothing separately so I could make her dress transparent later if I felt like it. Sorry fellow-pervs, I didn’t end up using it. Awwww.
Next up I started looking for references for fringe, ‘20s style dresses. I came across this one.
What really caught my eye though was how the fringe falls away from the breasts, which calls attention to them without being too obvious, and how the underlying dress get’s REALLY reflective there. I went with a blue-grey color though because I think it contrasts with Katia’s color better.
Next was the fringe. I tried a lot of experiments but settled on 6 different layers of fringe, starting at the dividing line on her dress and following her contours, keeping in mind gravity will pull things to the sides.
I wanted more sparkle though, so I copied the fringe layer, added noise to it, and changed it to a Hard Light type layer. I liked the end result. Looks sorta like glitter.
Next I started doing shading, but was really unhappy with my results in the belly area. I even went back to the underlying body and drew some body guidelines to help me get a feel for the shading, but it didn’t help much:
So I did some Google searching for Female Belly Shading. Found a tutorial but I cheated. I just copied the image, reversed it to match my light sorce, overlaid it as a transparent layer, morphed it to fit my Katia and used is as a shading guideline for that part of her. Check this out:
That got me the results I was hoping for anyway. I could work with that. Here’s the final shading:
Might be a bit much for a “covered” belly, but I liked it anyway. So highlighting and I’m almost done:
Okay, She’s done, but what background? For some reason I decided a nice curtain backdrop would be easy and seemed appropriate.
Okay.. And finally, the floor and the cigarette smoke. Made the floor reflective of the curtains and her feet. And this is the final for FlapperKat.
One more version of this, revised to be (hopefully) acceptable on the Prequel fanart booru. Again, original drawing by Zokva, but I revised it for this scene.
Removed “details” on painted areas, completely revised background to make it in the cage, rounded out her right boob to de-emphasize the nipple shape there. Did a bit of cleanup too.
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