I got permission to color FurNut’s take on the Cider pic I commissioned Kazerad. Yeah, this one get’s complex. I commissioned Kazerad to draw a picture with Cider’s OC Trash Panda and Katia. Kaz draws them in the classic spaghetti pose from Lady and the Tramp with a twist. But then FurNut ran with it and created this – Pasta Al Gato:
Now understand, I’m also a big fan of FurNut too. I’m not going to pretend he doesn’t go a bit over on occasion, but I ALWAYS like the cuteness in everything he does, even if it’s raunchy cuteness. When I saw this, I had to ask him if I might be able to color it. Well, he said sure, so guess what I’ve been doing today?
I knew I really wanted to do it in FurNut’s coloring style, so I used a Very Specific image to base my coloring off of. It crosses MY line of what is NSFW though – just because of the bondage bit, so here it is with that cut out.
So here’s my base, flat color of Pasta al Gato:
Now time for the fun bit – shading and highlighting! Accentuate the Positive!
But something was bothering me – the pasta is black. It should be white – (thus the plate coloring so it would have something to be white against. So yeah, I took the time to invert the colors on the lines – but hopefully only the pasta lines. I’m not too sure if I consider it successful though.
It may be more “correct”, but I think I have to admit that it wasn’t worth it. The “black” noodles look better. I did keep Trash Panda’s hair flat intentionally. She’s rarely (if ever) drawn with shading so I kinda like keeping her that style.
As for the striped “tablecloth – yeah, kinda sucky. I guess it’s kinda obvious where I spent most of my time, huh?
That’s it. I do love coloring things, and I sincerely hope I’m improving at that! I’ve got 2 Kaz-commissions incoming to to do more coloring on too!
He does seem to go through phases where he thinks all he does turns to shit, and he’s in one of those now I guess. Somehow I doubt that, but that’s not my call to make. Still, I think of all the work he’s done for Prequel pro bono (can we say that on a SFW blog?) and I thought I should thank him somehow. He’d been doing commissions a while back but I missed those.
So when Kaz did a barstream I had this great idea – I’d commission Katia + one of Cider’s OCs! Have Kaz draw Cider’s character instead of the other way around! Yeah! That’d be kinda cool!
But which OC? It was really pretty much down to 2 obviously – Flick or Trash Panda.
Flick seems to be his ‘personal’ avatar. But my idea was Katia + (OC) shipping just because she should show some respect for a guy who draws her so often. (some of my fav. panels on Prequel were obviously done by Cider). Both are certainly cute enough. Which to choose, which to choose? These decisions can make or break the intent you know!
Flick… alcoholic skinny no-butt or…
Trash Panda – Full butt, full chest full everything?
It really came down to two things. First, Flick is often miserable. Kaz specializes in making things miserable. Did I REALLY want to have him draw Flick getting more miserable? And also the contrast between skinny noodle-armed Katia and round TP seemed better. And so…
(Katia, let it go. You will lose this fight.)
So thanks Cider, for all you do for Prequel! As for your current lack of new stuff, somehow it just doesn’t seem like a very SIGNIFICANT hiatus compared to OTHERS…
A while back in the Angels With Scaly Wings days I commissioned Kaz to draw Katia riding Bryce. This is the resulting drawing.
Naturally I had to color it. It’s what I do, right? Here’s the sketch a bit cleaned up with flat colors…
And then with shading, highlights and a Skyrim background screenshot motion-blurred.
I probably should have left well enough alone… but… if you’ve never played Angels with Scaly Wings (and I highly suggest you don’t honestly – I didn’t. I just watched Kaz play it on some streams.) there’s at least one, maybe a couple of scenes where a conveniently placed bottle prevents viewing of any potentially offensive parts of Bryce. And thus the similarly-conveniently placed bottle here. (In fact, it probably is worse WITH the bottle since it is… large.)
But no, I had to go and wreak havok by making some of the bottles a bit more transparent than intended. Don’t worry, it’s a silhouette at best. But still, no mere bottle is going to suppress the manly manliness of Bryce!
Yeah, you’ve really got to WANT to see the difference to see the difference. Good luck with that. I’m out!
Man I’m a wimp when it comes to Prequel. Even when I heard there would be a distraction while the ‘real’ update gets delayed again, I was all, like, ‘NO! It’s not enough. Dammit, not AGAIN! I don’t care what the distraction post is, I want my Canon Update and I’m going to stay rage-quit till it comes!”
Yeah. That lasted about as long as it took for me to bring up my PC and check it out. I thought this was a really nice smooth .gif btw!
I mean, sure it’s a short loop, but that’s broadcast-quality looping anyway! Float On Aggy! Float On!
But that’s not what really won me over. Naaa… that was:
Can there be anything cuter than two Argonians playing with Argonian playing cards (even if one is a slave)? “Pick a card, any card…”
And Cider did all this? Damn, I thought I could recognize his style better than that, but this looks damn Kaz-like to me. That guy should get a medal or something.
So, yeah I’m still a LITTLE pissed. But I thought about it while walking my dog this weekend. WHY am pissed anyway? And it came to me… I’m pissed because deep in the back of my head, I think Kaz is fucking with me. (well, not me exactly… us readers.)
So why do I think that? Two reasons… First, he seemed to imply that it was almost ready for April 1st. So a month should be plenty of time to finish it. But that could just be me reading more into a few words than was ever really there. But the REAL reason is… Kaz KNOWS how to fuck with people, if he wants to.
It’s the whole Social Scientist thing. He could WELL be seeing just how long he can push people before they break. It’s not that I think he’s doing that, it’s that I think he’s CAPABLE of doing that. Once you know someone can manipulate you to some extent, you become wary of that. Abnormally wary.
And that is, I think, a big part of the problem. Kaz is unusually skilled at social interaction online. And he’s pointed out time and again his interest in social engineering. So it becomes fear and suspicion of the unknown. I don’t know how to do that… so someone that does is suspect ALL THE TIME of doing so.
I’ve decided that I don’t know if he is or isn’t. And there’s no way I can know. So fuck it – in lieu of evidence to the contrary, I’ll just take him at his word. Why not? If I’m being Manipulated, I can but swing from the long, abnormally red arm of Kazerad and enjoy the breeze.
This is going to be a long rant – but a very non-angry rant. Can someone rage-quit without being angry? Let’s find out! I’ll throw in some images to break it up a bit.
Today I was so proud. I was mentioned on 4chan! Yay! Granted it was on /trash/ and tucked in between all the Katia-porn, but still…
“I’m guessing bdprequel is one of those furries? I see him on tumblr posting and coloring Kaz’s 30s sketches fairly regularly. I can’t imagine paying more than 10$ for crap like that, and I like Kaz’s stuff as well”
This was in response to a prior post about Kaz’ barstreams:
“I remember catching them every single time when he first started, they were fucking grand. They [sic] all the autistic furries came in and made the chat a wreck. So Kaz appointed a shit ton of them moderators indiscriminately. Now he doesn’t even advertise his streams anymore. It’s literally a fucking secret autist club where Kaz can do quick thirty second sketches for easy to please manchildren for twenty bucks a pop. The worst fucking part is, for me at least, is that I legit enjoy Kaz’s art but all these sketches he does are just lost to the fucking ether, never to be seen by anyone else’s eyes but the commissioner.”
Well, in response to that first one, I can’t imagine paying more than $10 either. I don’t. I think every one (except one) commission I’ve got from Kaz is exactly a $10 commission (or less – I do have one $5 crayon commission!). I did commission one for $20 once, and it was appreciably better than the others. But I’d rather have 2 slightly worse ones it turns out.
And yeah, though I like to think I’m not a “Furry”, I’d be lying if I said I’m not a “furry”. I don’t live the lifestyle, I don’t go to conventions, I don’t even particularly love animals except for my dog. But yeah, I’m inordinately fond of anthropomorphic stuff, and yeah, I’ve got a FA account. I blame The Lion King. And Felicia. And Krystal. And Robin Hood for that matter. Still, seems an odd place to post a random furry-bashing thing considering this is one of the tamest images on that thread:
I do regret that Kaz’ commissions disappear though. That’s one reason I scan and color mine – to get them ‘out there’ because, at least IMHO, they’re good and should be seen my more than just me.
One thing that has honestly been bothering me though is Kaz’ continuing disappointment in the stream chats. His latest from that thread:
“Kaz here. Are the stream moderators even doing anything? To my knowledge they don’t really ban or kick anyone. I’d love to shape up the in-stream chat into being less horrible, but I don’t even know where to begin.”
My problem with that is – I love the chats! Sure they get a little bit lewd at times, but – especially considering the forum that was posted in – no where near what’s posted there! There’s stuff in that very thread that makes me cringe, and I’m not easily ‘cringed’. And Kaz’ says the STREAMS are horrible?! So I’m confused on exactly what he means.
Now granted, I yabber a lot in chats. Probably too much. Back in the day, I ran the largest BBS in Palm Beach County, FL. I’m used to yabbering a lot. I grew up on it. I have tried to lighten up though. Let other voices in, you know. But regardless of that, what does he EXPECT essentially anonymous chats on a stream to be like? Deep discussions of Oblivion lore? Opinions on the Hist? More endless speculation on how Katia is going to fail against Sigrid? We exhausted that LITERALLY YEARS AGO!
I’ve made quite a few friends (okay, maybe the term isn’t appropriate, but ‘acquaintances’ sounds way too remote) on his streams too. There was also talk of the moderators. I (think! I’ll have to check to see if this is still true this particular hour!) am a ‘moderator’ there. I don’t think I’ve ever used the power. But I’ve been a moderator before – of a forum though, not really a chat room. I can tell you it’s a thankless job that’s not easy to do. In a chat room, it’s even tougher. Do you ban someone for using ‘f*ck’? For talking about Katia in a sexual manner? I mean really, it’s a tough job with no direction or ground rules. My default is for tolerance of a lot – so I’m all but nonexistent as to moderation. Maybe I’m just accustomed to the horribleness.
All that being said, I’m hereby officially rage-quitting Prequel till the update comes out. I’m pissed at Kaz because the first cracks in the estimated date have appeared. Yes, I expected it. But I’m no less upset about it. But I also recognize when it’s a rage-quit scenario. I’ve been here before. I get over it, and I undoubtedly will here too. I’m too wishy-washy when it comes to this sort of thing. If he opens a bar stream tonight, will I really not join? Well… I probably will. But I don’t WANT to. 😦 I’ve been waiting quite long enough for this.
When I bought the merchandise, it really wasn’t about getting the ‘stuff’. Most of it is still in the box (except the T-shirt. Mines getting faded. I need a new one!) Really it was about repaying him in some way for the entertainment I’d already gotten from Prequel. It’s obviously my favorite webcomic (any comic really) ever. But… Katia is dead to me without some new stuff. The time has come to get this update out the door and carry on with her story. I want her resurrected. If my meager protest – knowing it won’t last – will in any way help that to happen, then dammit I’m quitting!
(Of note, I’ve said that before about other things and been a hypocrite. I’m probably being one now.)
I don’t hate Kaz. Not by a long shot. I love his humor, and that’s why I commission these images too – I LOVE to see what he’ll come up with. So I usually try to keep them very ambiguous and let him come up with something unexpected. Pretty much always has too – which is well worth $10 to me! But I want to see canon-Katia again for a change. Badly. Enough to rage-quit, even though I know in my heart that’s just stupid.
That was the commission. So, true to form, Kazerad drew Katia failing at both. Admittedly this is not my best coloring work. Considering the subject matter, that’s a bit surprising. But for some reason this one just didn’t inspire me much, (though it’s ALWAYS fun to shade Katia boobs. I do find myself spending inordinate amounts of time getting those shaded well! I wonder why?)
Obviously I spent like .5 minutes on the background. I just didn’t feel like spending much time on it I’m afraid. I think perhaps it’s her lack of neck that throws it off most for me. But hey, it’s something right? That’ll be the last of these for a while. I do still have Katia riding Bryce from Angels with Scaly Wings I want to do at some point though.
Oh! I thought I posted this already. Guess not! Well, for Valentines day I’d commissioned Kaz to draw that QW+QW thing. I wanted a follow up, so I thought it might be nice to show QW+QW walking a dog. This is what I got. I got QW+QW Potential Puppy Murderers.
Now, I’m probably reading WAAAY to much into this, but I see a deeper meaning in this. If you associate only with like-minded people, bad ideas can seem like good ones due to the resonant echo chamber effect. In pre-Internet days, everyone watched the same 3 TV channels. That doesn’t mean everyone agreed with the same things – but they saw the other point of view often.
Now you can be so selective in your choices that you don’t even know the other opinion exists. And they don’t know you exist. They become THEM and you become US.
Don’t date yourself. Open up to those with differing points of view a little. And… don’t drown your puppy. It cannot breathe underwater. Not even a little.
Kaz’ original sketch below. Yeah, I found the little happy background on the Internet somewhere. It seemed appropriate somehow. Like something out of MLP.
I’ve had the handle “Blue Dragon” or some variation of it for literally decades. Since people called them “handles”! But in all that time I’ve never, ever had a real avatar/OC. A few weeks back during a stream I commissioned Kazerad to draw “My Weird OC”, describing him as a bit like Dino from the Flintstones.
He’s about the farthest thing from a fearsome dragon as is possible to get. Kaz came up with this, which I colored and shaded today. It’s a simple thing, but having my own Weird OC is just… weird! I like him a lot! Though I identify somewhat as a Furry I guess, I’ve never really had a desire for a personal OC like this, but now that I’ve got one, I’m probably going to have to change my various avatar pics.
Okay, enough blab. Here’s the image:
Blue Dragon getting underfoot of a cat, instead of the other way ‘round.
Mostly I’m just doing these for shading practice which is kinda fun. But poor Kazerad. He keeps trying to de-emphasize Katia’s boobs, and then I come along with my shading and give her DDs. I’m a bad dragon. But happy!
I still do things sometimes. Commission from Kaz that I colored, though I think I just asked Evil Quill Weave’s Birthday Party. Leave it to Kaz to turn it into a pathetic scene of sadness and pathos!
Though it could be interpreted as tears of joy at Faceless Mook throwing her a birthday party at all. (Though knowing Kaz, that’s unlikely. More likely she realizes how pathetic that she had to order her minion to throw her a party.)
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