This is something Kazerad drew for Rick2Tails quite some time ago. I was looking for something to color since I’d not done any of those for awhile and thought this was awfully cute. Porcupine-Dodger peeking at a Rick2Tails sketchbook apparently (though I thought it was a Elder-scrolls version of the Kama Sutra. On second thought, there’s probably not a heck of a lot of difference.)
First task, darken up the lines and flat colors:
…throw in a background and shading…
Then I shiny-ed her up a lot to make her looks more sweaty, and of course the standard eye-highlights. So final version came out like this:
Drawed by Kazerad, color and shitty background by me.
I started to second-guess myself on the shiny hussy Quill-Weave highlighting, but then I said WTH. It’s just for fun after all, right? I think that Bikini-Quill where I made her all shiny has somehow stuck, so I’m making her shiny here too.
But really, the pilgrim Weedum-Ja is being pretty hypocritical here even for a pilgrim! I doubt they’d approve of the gaudy gold headfin rings, and I KNOW they wouldn’t stand for the cross-dressing!
I was thinking about making Quill’s dress a sensible grey, but your eye can only handle SO much grey,black and white and I liked it better in pink. So QW gets to wear a nice pink dress. With frills. Don’t be upset Quill, what does that cross-dressing Weedum-Ja know anyway?
(Both characters technically copyright of Bethesda in Oblivion, though of course the redesign by Kazerad in Prequel Adventure. Also, if Kaz can be believed – and on this I think he can – Weedum-Ja IS a Pilgrim class in-game. So, nice little flip on the Pilgrim thing there.)
Rather than clog up your feed with yet another of my ever-expanding Dodger fanfic posts, I’ll just make this a notice that it’s up. New character – the gal on the right here.
I’m probably going to add another image to the post tonight as I have a new artist who’s going to be helping me out occasionally. It’ll be interesting to see what her rendition of ‘anonymous fantasy dodger criminal’ looks like.
I think she’s just going to send me line art so I’ll probably color it
too. She’s been working on doing Dodger too. Her comment, “Dodger’s
really a chrome dome, isn’t she!”
(And yes, I know that was just Dodger’s imaginary representation of the criminal class. She’s just had one actually appear.)
http://bdfanfic.tumblr.com is where I’m posting them now. Probably best to go to the archive if you’re not up to date though.
Today in an unprecedented release, Quill-Weave shook her fans to the core with this revelation that has sent millions into panic:
When asked to comment further, our favorite Argonian quipped, “Maybe they should just find a nice girlfriend?”
Our intrepid reporters immediately took to the streets to get the reaction from the masses.
“I… don’t know what to think,” said one fan, obviously heartbroken. “I sent her a marriage proposal just last week. But she never wrote back. Please, I’m just trying to piece my life back together. Leave me alone!”
Another expressed disbelief and outrage. “She was coerced obviously. There’s no way this could be true. There should be a congressional investigation or something. I will never believe it.”
Still others seemed to be resigned to the new normal. This distraught fan expressed the common reaction of most:
“I don’t care. Drawing, CGI model. Pixels on a screen. It doesn’t matter. She may be a drawing, but she’s still a PERSON. She has feelings like you and me. No one should be subjected to the outrage you in the mainstream media are putting her through!”
To gauge the reaction from the female public, the most common response was, “Quill-Who?”
We filmed one fan who hadn’t gotten the news yet. His first reaction, “Hey. She’s naked!” His second, “Get out of my room!”
In a brief statement, Quill’s publicist and creator, Kazerad had this to say.
“Well, she… kinda is. I mean, I just draw her sometimes. I don’t know why it’s big news to anybody.”
It’s obvious that Kazerad is trying to distance himself from Quill-Weave’s outrageous declaration, but deep undercover operatives have discovered that in fact he has a room FULL of pictures of the lovely lizard. Some fully dressed, some scantily clad. When asked point-blank about this, he denied further comment and closed his door.
That is the up-to-the-minute news, but we haven’t yet heard the last of this. Some have expressed the belief that Quill-Weave herself is, in fact, being held a prisoner in some dark basement in Maryland under the control of the nefarious Kazerad. Until law enforcement begins to take this seriously, we can only speculate on what terrible fate lies in store for the Matriarch of Prequel.
As one of her biggest fans attests (and we can confirm we found no bigger fans), “WE BELIEVE IN YOU!”
Author’s note: I have no idea why I did this. It’s just another Kazerad sketch I colored. I suppose it’s a little nsfw. A little.
During a stream last week, I wanted Kaz to draw me something with Quill + (somebody who is NOT Katia) for Valentines Day. A lot of suggestions were thrown out but Kaz suggested Quill + Quill. Now THERE’S a novel concept! So thus began my favorite so far I think.
Here’s the original I got from Kaz (unfortunately a day after VDay, but so it goes.)
Talk about beautiful! That’s beyond adorable. And yeah, damned sexy too without being explicit. (BTW, on closer inspection I noticed he’d drawn flames around the pupils on the right-hand Quill).
Besides the awesomeness of two amorous lizards staring deeply into each others eyes with Love and Lust, I also particularly liked how it can be interpreted depending on your specific preferences. Right had Q can definitely be interpreted as male if you so choose, Or not! Whichever is just fine!
So I REALLY wanted to do a good job on coloring this. I hope the result is as good as I think it is!
That is, if you don’t’ recognize it, the I Love Lucy heart. Somehow it just seemed appropriate, even in greyscale as it is.
Intent is to show Q+Q at night, though I’m not sure if it translates to a night scene as much as I intended. I also slightly lightened the colors of left-Q. Just seemed appropriate. But regardless, it’s by far the favorite one I’ve done yet. Hope you like too! Lizards in Lust!
Frankly, I was not happy with that last one. I’m going to leave it as-is, but I felt it did a disservice to Kaz’ original sketch. This time I’ve got a pretty important image I’ve been working on, and it was important I get it right. So rather than draw lines over Kaz’ original, I just cleaned it up a bit and used his sketch as the line art layer.
Here’s the original:
This is, in my opinion, one of the best sketches of Katia and QW I’ve seen because I asked him to age them up a lot. Granted Quill would be the really tough one as, if lifespans are constant across races, she’d probably be dead by now. But I’d prefer to think Argonians live longer, whether or not that’s true in TES lore. Anyway, both are instantly recognizable but instantly elderly too, and they’re not wearing their “standard” outfits. Pretty awesome work IMHO.
I felt it very important I not botch this up like the last one. Here’s the end result. I don’t know that it’s as awesome as the original or not, but by keeping his linework I think it’s definitely a big improvement over the last one I did!
In the fanfic, Katia is nearly blind here and is dictating a letter that Quill is helping her write to someone. Pretty crucial image as it sets up the whole thing. Anyway, I like it one hell of a lot better than my last one. I think I’ll stick with this method. 2 more to do before I release the story.
Hey! I just thought of a caption! The Elderly Scroll.
I’m like way overhyping this stupid fanfic with these images, but so it goes. Anyway, I got the other 2 from Kaz I was waiting for. But then he went and barstreamed and I got 2 more!
Without going into detail, this is Katia hiding under a pew in the Kvatch chapel, and being coaxed out from under it by Brother Martin. The original sketch had no background though – not even a hint of one. So I dug this up as a reference from the Prequel archives:
Also I needed Brother Martin to get canon colors, but he doesn’t appear directly in any of the archives. But no fear, he’s there in Excelsior! so I grabbed this screenshot:
After finding this, I was kinda surprised by how accurate Kaz drew him from memory since as far as I can tell this is the only place he appears at all in Prequel!
So here’s Kaz’s sketch:
When I requested the next two the other day, he was wondering how much detail I really needed when I just line-draw over them anyway. But dammit, these aren’t JUST for posting. Hell, I might even frame the originals! So I broke out my whip and demanded top-rate sketches even if I ruin them on my color-jobs. So here’s the line-drawing and flatcolor version:
I obviously added the background and it’s kinda shitty – but gotta be something there right? Then added shading and highlights and this is the end result:
I’m not too happy with Martin’s eyes, but I’m not going to succumb to Perfectionist-Art-Syndrome, so this will have to do. Emperor or no, he’s still a pretty minor character. (I think I gave him jaundice – I needed less-than-white eyes in order for the white highlights to show up at all!)
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!
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