Weedum “Six Fingers” Ja

Can you separate a name like “Weedum-Ja” like that? Well, anyway, I did. Here’s our Fourth band member, Weedum-Ja.  She’s the one that dragged S’thengir into the band. I call her “Six Fingers” because Kaz tends to draw Argonians with only 3 fingers per hand.

So here’s she is tickling the ivories as they say.  But this time I won’t post the layers.  Haven’t got a lot to say about it, though I do like her!

S’thengir keeps the beat!

Got another one!  Here’s the original drawing by Kaz:

So I took that and converted to line art, using the new skillz Kaz taught me sorta…

And then removed the sketchwork and added flat colors.  Well, I did do a gradient on the drums.

And finally the shading and highlighting.  (I must say I do love the eye technique that I learned on a tutorial!)  I could honestly have spent more time on shading in the chesticle area, but got tired of it so I’m calling this finished.

So now it’s time to introduce the drummer for the Not-Yet-Ready-For-Clothing Players band.  Yes, it’s that surly bartender you all know and love. Somehow the girls have roped him into playing for them, though he seems none too happy about it. But then, he never seems too happy about anything.

Personally, I don’t think he would ever have joined the band until he realized what the view would be like from the back of the band. He does have a thing for Weedum-Ja after all. And the others provide great scenery too.  Though, of course, he would NEVER admit it. He just says Weedum-Ja talked him into it.

Quill-Weave Vocalist Final

Rather than just put it here and shut up, I enjoy yabbering too much.  So I started with this. (Again, the blue is mine – I just don’t like white backgrounds) This is the sketch Kaz drew for me.

So the first step was to turn it into lineart that I could work the colors around.  After Kaz’s suggestion of using a tapered stroke on paths for lines that end, I came up with this improvement:

Now I did screw up a bit and put some shading on the line layer, but owell. Notice the lines around the nose for instance that fade, or the breastbone line. Anyway, once I did that, it really did improve the overall look. However, I suspect that drawing such lines is easier in GraphicsGale than Photoshop. So then time to flat-color:

Again, this had a bit of highlighting that I improperly put on the line layer, but so goes it. The only color I had to improvise was the tongue here really. The head does look a bit large to me, but I was worried about shading since I really didn’t know how I’d be able to shade the snout/forehead.  But I think I ended up doing okay anyway:

I watched a tutorial on eye shading and think I got a pretty interesting look for her eyes here, Spent an inordinate amount of time on her legs and belly, but that’s okay because I LIKE legs and bellies! And boob shading of course. Can never forget the boob shading.  Considered shading for the mic stand, but then I decided that based on the light source, it probably wouldn’t shade here.  Like my mic stand gradient? I sorta do!

And then, of course, throwing in the background. Definitely looks nice if I do say so myself!  Off to post it all over the place and get all the loves. (ok, ok, it’s Kaz that drew it.  But hey, I’m improving too!)

Hail, Hail the Band’s All Here!

Got the last two band members yesterday!

Weedum-Ja is tickling the ivories:

And Nah is on Guitar!

Now, Nah had me concerned.  See, I fully expected Kaz to have one nip obscured by a guitar strap and the other by the neck of the guitar or something. But no! As always, he defies expectations.  No, he delivered will full nippage. But what am I to do about that? Censor KAZ?! What a horrible thought. But I do try to keep this at least semi-SFW.  So I got creative. I removed the nips and put them in their own separate image:

Yes, these are Nah Nips!  Why, if you feel the urge, you can just paste them right back on! (Well, you might need to do some image resizing first!)

But there’s a bonus! I think even Kaz thought it might be a bit risque so he added an extra page (for envelope transparency reasons).  The caption will make all clear as mud:

Now, the number of questions this raises is almost infinite. Why is a werewolf attacking this innocent Lilmothiit? Why is the Lilmothiit walking around Tamriel without proper weaponry at the alert? Who owns the kitten? Why is he not defending his Lilmothiit master (or joining in the feast with his Werewolf master?) Why do I assume either of these are the kitten’s master? Why do I assume that kittens have to have masters?

Run away Kitten! Run away!