Welkynd Kitten, Rainbow Dash and Adine

Well now there’s a mix of characters if ever I saw one! A three-way crossover! Enheldor commissioned Cider to do this one too, and I finished coloring it just now. Though Welkynd Kitten IS from Prequel, it’s a pretty non-prequelish thing. So I won’t post this directly to the Booru but I’ll put it in a comment instead.

Here’s the original from Cider:

So, first thing was to add the flat colors…

One of the things I’ve picked up is to do the shade layer as a solid color. I used to paint in grey, but the suggestion is to ERASE to make shadows, not paint them. I dunno if it makes much difference really, but I do it anyway. Also I learned to use a soft brush where shadows are cast from far away and a harder edge when closer. Also, I’m using a softer brush for shade on Rainbow Dash than on Adine, thinking the fur on one and harder scales on the other are more obvious that way.

I thought I’d go for a bit “lower” lighting angle this time. More like a morning scene. However, that term “put it where the sun doesn’t shine” wouldn’t apply to Rainbow Dash on this occasion. I’ll let you figure that one out…

As for highlighting…

At the default tumblr setting for graphics, I know you can’t see much difference there. But at higher res it’s more obvious. I’m almost always adding a shiny “line” when doing scaly things now, so Adine gets em here. Because of the lighting Rainbow Dash’s eyes dont really get much of a sparkle, but Adine gets a bit.

I have a feeling I did the shadow wrong around Adine’s tail, but I’ll leave it be. There’s also some darker shadows in here to give it a bit more depth.

Finally, I had to add some background. It also had to be light in color so as not to cause a bunch of haloing at the edges. I came up with this, which is utter crap but it gives them SOME place to be (even if it looks like a weird desert).

That’s it. Another filed away and colored. Now I have at least 2, maybe three with nekked characters. They’re all conveniently censored but they’re still risque. Coming soon!

Do NOT mess with Goggles!

Got a couple new commissions from Kaz recently (and I still honestly haven’t send my $ to him for these, so I am PROMISING myself to go get that in the mail as soon as I finish this!

I do like coloring scans. It’s just fun for me if I like what I’m coloring. But it’s been a while. So I was happy to see a bar-stream recently (as homestreams aren’t physical commissions). The first one was just a doodle-thing Kaz did that I asked if I could have. The intent was no deeper than Kaz asking if people could see the stream. But perhaps it has some deeper existential meaning. I didn’t spend much time on it – it’s just a doodle after all…

Playing with hard shading mostly. I also commissioned a couple at a homestream – might as well put those up here, though they’re 100% Kaz – I had no hand in them but for the commission. I was on a Weedum-Ja kick that night so I got Weedum-Ja topless bikini. (it’s really okay. Argonians are canon nip-less as here):

And I commissioned one of Katia working on the update. The topless part I didn’t even ask for!

Then somewhere along the line during the barstream I got onto an Adine kick – (aka Goggles from Angels with Scaly Wings). He drew me one physically which I’ll finish this post out with. The other I THOUGHT I wanted physically too but he talked me out of it to await him going home and doing it there. The commission was “Katia washing Adine in the shower”. (There’s a shower scene in Angels with Scaly Wings.) Little did I know Kaz had a plan for that involving a .gif animation:

Yeah, he was right. That needed to be a .gif. However, I found out quickly that there are some quite-serious fans of Goggles (Spencerish just one!). Well, I hope to quell any hard feelings with this next one. However, since it doesn’t contain any Prequel characters, I can’t put it up on the Booru there. Here’s the commission before I got my claws on it:

And I just finished coloring it, revising the text to be more readable etc:

Even my wife got that joke and she has no clue who Goggles is. (Though she did ask why she’s talking into her tail like a phone. Part of Angels with Scaly Wings reference there.)

And then, I just had to include this one to finish up, even though it’s not mine:

Katia Riding Bryce

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!