Pole-Dancing Katia and the Mysteries of Tumblr Image Names.

Something about that title just suggests a rather specialized Barbie doll. “Kids! Get you’re Pole-Dancing Katia now at Toys-R-Us!” No, this one won’t be on sale there I’m afraid.

However, if Quill-Weave mutilating a pumpkin with a knife while clothes-less was okay, then this just MIGHT be too. Or it might not. But this is gonna be a long post anyway, so if you just wanna get to the good stuff, you can just scroll down to the bottom.

But let me sidetrack a sec. I really like some things about Tumblr, mostly the ease of posting and the way it auto-splits images into 3 different resolutions (or more). And ESPECIALLY that those images are publicly accessible directly. That may not be the case forever, but it is for now anyway. Sure they rename them weird, and they’re constantly changing HOW they store them, but still it works and is easy to upload. What’s the point?

Take this sketch by Ciderward as an example…

Yeah, it’s lewd. I hope you like it because you’re gonna see LOTS more of it on this post. But as to Tumblr, that image up there is found at URL 78.media.tumblr.com/978a937056298758e4cb31ec3dcb31a1/tumblr_inline_ozo4mvza7G1sn6wro_540.png (right now. It can actually change!) Notice the 540.png at the end. Well, you can change that manually to 1280.png and get a higher resolution (if the original is bigger than 540px wide). Which is cool. But you can also find the original (raw) version by doing this;

data.tumblr.com/978a937056298758e4cb31ec3dcb31a1/tumblr_inline_ozo4mvza7G1sn6wro_raw.png

Change the 78.media at the first of the url to data, and change the _540.png at the end to _raw.png

Doesn’t make a difference with Stripper Katia but it gets you the original, unmolested resolution. You might want it if you REALLY like Stripper Katia. So… now, on to the good stuff…

Cider drawized it on a recent stream. I was asked to color it and to say I did is probably an understatement. I went wild on it. I do feel bad though because I forgot who originally commissioned it! But honest he did ask me to color it!

So first, as usual, I added flat colors. Not much to that this time:

Which is nice. But then I normally move on to shading. Where’s the light source gonna be? Wait… Light source? On a Stripper Cat? Why, there would be MULTIPLE light sources. This was going to be interesting. So, put her on stage! (lighted purple stage that is)

Now suddenly there’s potential here! Lights! Camera! ACTION! Let the shading-beast LOOSE!

Nice! (or not. But I thought ‘Nice!’) Time for highlights and an audience!

I was working on this while also on a FurNut stream and threw it out there for comments. FurNut himself drew one thing that was obviously needed to make it accurate, pointing out that really since Katia is from Oblivion, the coins were more likely than bills. After a few tweaks I ended up with this. By the way, you can blame Sashimi on the coin that’s bouncing off her ass.:)

FINISHED? WHY HELL NO! I’ve got multiple light sources here! I can turn them on and off! I’ve got a damned animated GIF I can make out of this!:

And there you have it. Stripper Katia – Fully Loaded.

Think it will pass the Booru rules? Na. Probably not. And personally I prefer the non-gif one a little more. But a bit of easy ‘animation’ does spice things up!

Quill-Weave Carves a Pumpkin

Is this pushing a non-NSFW blog too far? Guess I’ll find out. It’s NOT safe for work IMHO, but it’s also not porn. I do hope it’s not over-the-top too bad as I’m going to insert it into my story. It’s a nekked lizard with naughty bits conveniently covered. I commissioned Cider to do a scene from Evil Quill Weave Pt. 3. Technically I asked for one where she was running around effectively naked with a Jack-O-Lantern. Sort of the main scene of the story.

This isn’t quite what I had in mind – but it works PERFECTLY with an earlier scene where she’s carving a pumpkin (and it says she removed her Evil Outfit, though it didn’t specifically say she was nekked.)

So, here’s the original sketch from Cider:

And here’s my coloring/background/editing thingy:

What do you think? Too far? I have a blog for NSFW stuff, but I’m really hoping I can slide this under the wire in the Fanart booru. I’m going to give it a shot anyway!

RD and Adine in the Shower

This was by Cider commissioned by Enheldor. I asked Enheldor if I could color it, and he said yes so here it is! I’ve got another of these two I’ll probably do too. I think my coloring style works best with cartoony styles like these. I won’t go through the whole thing, just the final version this time.

I have no idea why Rainbow Dash and Adine – but they are cute together I must admit.

Colorized Ciderward Sketch

Well, last night was an interesting stream. Kaz and friends playing TF2 while Cider drew commissions. I got a couple. One of Quill and Katia getting married, the other of a crying Quill-Weave.

I had thought to end my last fanfiction with this, so I color-ated it. Cider’s sketch:

First with flat colors…

A bit of shade:

But as much as I adore it, the words… well, no offense but…

I thought about putting a background in, but I kinda like it like this. So yeah, I’m going to put this in as an image in my most recent Katia/Quill/Rajirra story.

Some love for Cider, Flick and Trash Panda

I understand that little Aggy diversion was pretty much all drawn by Cider. Some time ago (like, years) I started following his Ciderward blog too.

http://ciderward.tumblr.com

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…

And finally, here’s to keeping the dream alive!!!