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.
and finds new forms of artistic expression! Actually, she’s not shocked or excited about the nude khajiit on the body pillow so much as that she’s reading the price tag on the back.
Kaz drew it mostly, but I may have taken slight artistic liberties when I did some linework over it. Really, not much though! I didn’t even draw The Porn Line or boobybumps! And I’m confident he didn’t have the anime store background in mind.
First, apologies for reblogging that Dmitri story from the same friggin’ account that I posted it from the first time. So… you got it twice. I really suck at this, I’m afraid.
Last night was a really fun (for me anyway!) Kaz stream though. I got a couple of commissions, based (very loosely!) on that Dmitri story. The first one I asked for “Katia being hypnotized by a Freud-looking guy”. If you’ve ever commissioned Kaz for anything, you know he’s going to subvert anything you ask for. You accept it or you just save your monies. In most cases though, honestly, they turn out better than your original idea anyway. So here’s what he drew for me:
I LOVE IT! Not much to do with my fanfiction of course, but it’s awesome on it’s own. Of particular note, the 5 letter limit on character names gives us DMTRI. 🙂 The animation of course. And then there’s those scan lines like I’m looking at a bad 1995 CRT monitor. But damn I’d pay for that game!
I’m a cheapass though and really didn’t pay him enough for this, so I commissioned another I thought would be fairly easy. “Quill-Weave angry at a loose kitchen countertop.” I was honestly surprised he took this – how could he subvert it? But he did, right away. And for a change it actually works perfectly as the last image in the story:
His subversion obviously in the extent of the “loose” part. But… that’s probably about right. Dmitri might have been somewhat underestimating the damage.
So I did modify the original post to add these two images and reblogged it properly from my bdnsfw blog as I’d intended originally, but I’m not going to subject you guys to yet ANOTHER copy of it.
And finally, I heard that Tumblr disabled the raw image hack. This was a deal where you could modify the URL to show (and thus download) full size images of what was uploaded. That really, really sucks for me. I did a ton of Skyrim-screenshot, image heavy stories, and took the time to link every image in them to the raw image URLs so you could click on them and see the full size image.
And now that’s all broken. All of them. I could link to the 1280 images, but it still sucks, and would take more effort at this point than I’m willing to commit. Unlike an awful lot of people, I still like Tumblr – but one if the main reasons I use it is the ease of uploading images (AND the ability to link to the original resolution images). That is now lost. I archive pretty much everything but it would take such time and effort that I guess that’s just something that will just have to stay broken.
Pisses me off, but then again, I don’t pay anything for Tumblr so I guess I’m at the mercy of their ever-changing policies. Or get my own hosted server. (which I already have and wish I’d have started using from the start).
Oh Sentient Socks, where have you gone? Oh, he wasn’t the finest artist doing Prequel fanart, but in my opinion, he may have been the funniest. But he’s disappeared and, I fear, forever. Here’s one of his best that I decided to color.
First, yeah, Quill’s hands are too small. Okay. Let’s move on. That’s not the point. And BTW, I get about as NSFW on this as I could, so if that’s too lewd, don’t look farther! I’ve got lots of “in progress” pics, but I’ll just jump to the finale so you don’t have to go through them all if you don’t want.
Okay, that’s where we’re heading. Might be overworked but wth. I don’t get paid for this shit. 🙂 First, we have the base colors:
And yeah,the clothes aren’t colored yet. Why? Why, TRANSPARENCY my boy! No, there’s no reason whatsoever that their clothes would be in the slightest bit transparent. Well, no reason besides my own interests… Next up, background base colors.
Working on background colors now. That scratchy red star thing was a beast! The rest are just base colors, and I wanted to make sure the wall was a different shade from the floor. Let’s get some clothes on though.
Okay. There. Clothes. Transparent Clothes. And yeah, naughty bits – even for Katia if you look close at the top left frame! These are actual transparent layers too. I can remove the transparency if I want. But I’m a perv. Time to turn on the light.
I figured a single light, orange-ish shaded. A single candle or lantern most likely so the light’s going to be pretty sharp. I loved how QW turned out in the light. Actually I’m literally painting light here rather than adding shade as usual, because the whole piece was a bit dark. How to add light? Well, I chose to go with Color Dodge layer anyway.
Here I’ve added some shading. Also notie the shadows in the top left and top right frames. Those are new. Followed a tutorial to figure out how to do them properly. Now add some shiny and that’s about it.
The above image is ALMOST like the final version, but in the above image the clothes are opaque. You may get the form of a lizard nipple, but you don’t get to peek at anything underneath! 🙂 Told you they were adjustable transparency!
Anyway, that’s what I’ve been working on the last couple days. Like I say, it may be overworked, but I did learn some new techniques and hopefully getting better at older ones.
I don’t remember where I got this sketch from, but I’m sure I’ll find out after I post it. I’ve had it for a long time, but I thought it’d color it tonight. Nice and quick, no complexity – to befit it’s sketchy attitude. Some people don’t like the Quill-Weave – she’s certainly stylized! But I like her. I think she’s cute this way. And Katia, of course.
Anyway, I’m putting the mods to the test on the Prequel Booru again. But without some controversy, what’s the point, right? And if it turns out to be too much – well, okay. So be it.
And if someone knows who drew it, drop me a line please. I did a look through the booru and e621 but didn’t see it.
ORIGINAL:
My colors added:
I suppose it is NSFW but I think it’d be okay to reblog to my bdprequel blog anyway.
I thought I’d try coloring it today. Not the sort of thing I normally color, but Quill-Weave has a vivid imagination. I figure this is her Barbarian character when she plays D&D.
Well, sometimes I create stuff and other times I commission stuff. Sorta. Usually I’m too cheap to commission stuff honestly, but I found myself with about $40 in my Paypal account when Kazerad ended a drought of streaming with two back-to-back this weekend.
He was surprisingly amenable to lewds too, so i took advantage!
The first night he started drawing Quill-Weave in front of a monitor. While still in sketchy-stages he asked the Stream in general if she should be naked. As I recall, my own response was – “Uh… yeah!”.
Kaz – “Because if she’s naked this is going to go in a completely different direction.”
Me – “Naked. Yes. Naked.”
A full hour later and we have Quill sitting nekked in front of a monitor.
I’d offered to send him $10 for it, so was ready to shell out da big bucks when I realized he wasn’t done yet. He was animating it! Oh… well…. okay!!! Little did I know this would become….
(insert drumroll)
SELF-ABUSE TAIL TENTACLE PORN!!!
He never asked for it, but I sent $15 instead. Animation is painstakingly boring work. Naturally while working on this in the stream there was a discussion not only of “lizard tits” but “lizard nipples”. So Kaz is finishing up and asks me if I’d pay to have nipples added.
I’m like…. $5 for nips!
30 seconds later I get this…
Kaz tries to figure out how much $ he could make just drawing nipples for $5 in 30 seconds or so. 🙂 Okay, more like 5 minutes, but still. Was I played for that $5? Hell no. I’m just super hetero and Kaz spotted my weakness and exploited it! I’d pay $5 again happily! Why? Because I like those little 6-pixel lizard bumps inordinately much! That’s my problem, not Kaz’.
But this tale of lizard tiddies isn’t over yet.AMKitsune did one last edit to make the monitor flicker:
Yeah, it is better, even if it lost the nipples. I’m not totally worthless at photoshop and the like… I could revise to add em back in I suspect. But I’m good…
Of course the question of what she’s watching came up. The answer is obvious for Quill-Weave. It’s human porn. Skin is so deviant and unnatural that she can only engage in this perverted fetish when no one is around late, late at night.
BUT WAIT! THERE’S MORE! Not of this, but Kaz streamed again yesterday. Literally, like, starting in the daytime. Johnny Cheesedog may like Lizards even more than me. He had to leave from the stream yesterday so as a joke, when he left the stream Kaz immediately started drawing two lizards kissing.
Then Johnny came back and Kaz stopped. Now that’s just harsh. Funny, but harsh.
Well, Johnny is the guy who sent my that Brolaren Quill-Weave in an apron that I had such fun coloring, so when I finally joined back into the stream, I commissioned Kaz to finish it, which he did in fine style:
I’ll never eat fruit pies the same way again.
Originally it was going to be Weedum-Ja and Quill-Weave. I protested a bit when it switched to QW+QW but really, in the end I can see the advantage.
I didn’t really contribute to the content, except maybe having a little fruit-filling spilt onto their chests, but the end result is classic Kaz, (if maybe a bit more explicit than normal!).
So I’ll call that a gift to Johnny Cheesedog, but really… it’s just funny sexy lizards for anyone to enjoy. My headcanon is that their tongue-dexterity is such that they can french kiss INSIDE the hollow space of a fruit-pie without breaking it. That’s pretty hot.
I deleted my prior post because I made it when butthurt and that’s always a bad idea. Instead I’ll repost properly. Months ago Kazerad was doing a stream and he was sort of randomly doodling something. He said it looked like somebody holding a bat.
I suggested – well, Mae from Night in the Woods might be appropriate! And I think as he was drawing it, as a joke I mentioned that Gregg might be a good catcher. So he drew this:
(If you’ve not played NitW – shame on you. But Gregg has a scene where he puts cups on his ears. Kaz came up with the gloves on his ears. Nice!)
So I was looking for something to color and decided to do this one. One thing I decided right off though was that I wanted to “ink” it. That is, redraw all the major lines and work off of that rather than the sketch. Watched a video or two and then did this:
The point being that by doing so I don’t have to try to clean up the reference and ‘scratchy’ stuff. That took longer than you might expect, but it did give me a good base to start from. Flats of course….
I’m on a discord and I posted it at that point just to see what they thought. Pocky asked if I was going to do her bright yellow mouth. I’m like, “What?” “Yeah, her mouth is bright yellow.” Now this I had to see:
Oh! The LINES are bright yellow. Because she’s so dark. I even lightened her up a bit anyway. But… Hmm… What would that look like? It would look like this!
Hey! That’s not that bad! And provides at least a slighly more ‘canon’ look to her So yeah, we’ll do that? I did one background but realized after I’d done it that the angle was wrong. It made Gregg look like a little tiny guy rather than the perspective thing. So I redid it and came up with this (eventually!)
The yellow blocks are supposed to look like chairs. Yeah, well… So shadows, highlights and some gloss later, I got this finally:
The eyes though… I dunno. I felt like they really needed black pupils, so i added those in my final cut. Also I realized I couldn’t post it on Kaz’ Prequel fanart booru because there’s nothing Prequel about it. So in addition to the black pupils, I also added Katia and QW as spectators. I will be the first to admit it wasn’t hard to do.
So that’s it right? Not so fast. The image was removed from the Booru as not related to Prequel enough. I wasn’t pissed at the moderator, but I was pissed. I complained long and loud to some friends. (and the Tumblr post.) I updated everywhere I had posted to leave out K&QW. If it’s not Prequel enough for the Booru, I reasoned, I’m not going to go giving free ‘advertising’ either. And I railed about how some that were accepted took less effort than mine! And I got this idea bout drawing a terrible Katia on blue-lined note paper in ink, taking a picture of it in bad lighting and posting it to the Booru, making sure I spent less time on it that I had inserting QW and Katia into mine.
But eventually I calmed down. I don’t get butthurt a lot, but I do occasionally. I came up with a better plan. I’m going to write an essay, tited “The Problem of Moderation”. I have some experience in the topic. The point is honestly to get Kaz to at least reconsider the policies there. But it’s his show, I’m just in the audience. But maybe if I present my case reasonably and calmly, he might at least consider it.
So that’s the whole story. And I want to emphasize again that I NEVER was mad at the Mod who deleted it. I was mad at the policy itself. And the essay will explain why. Being a mod is a thankless, no-win job No one should be angry at the moderator for doing that job.
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