Sentient Socks Homage

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.

Glacierclear Katia

It was bound to happen. I’d been delaying this one for no reason other than that I’m always a little intimidated by Glacierclear. But I took the plunge this morning. Here’s her original:

So I went ahead and added flat colors to it first, but I colored her chest as if the shirt wasn’t there because… *magic happens* TRANSPARENCY! WOOHOO!

And now I put her shirt on properly, with just ever-so-little transparency to make it naughtier.

Yeah, I did put subtle little nippies in there, but they’ll be even subtler after shading…

There, no you barely even can see em. Another layer of darker shade, gloss and highlighting and you get… VOILA!

Colored version of Glacierclear’s Katia. Yeah, Gloss is glossy.

I was a little (very very little) upset when I put that Raydio slavcat/Rajirra recolor on the Prequel fanart booru and someone marked it as Questionable. Questionable? She’s just wearing a bikini! Well, I’ll show them QUESTIONABLE!

(Though really, I shouldn’t mind. Images marked Questionable probably get far more clicks than those without it!)

Actually this one really isn’t bad at all either – more importantly, I like how it came out and pretty sure Glacierclear will too.

Starfighter’s Thicc Rajirra

I showed it to Kaz and he was okay with me putting it on the Booru. Rather pleased at that, though if it gets taken down by mods, I’ll understand. It’s pretty much the furthest edge you can get without being totally totally NSFW.

Anyway, so I came across Starfighter’s work while looking for a Rajirra or Katia to draw, and darned if he doesn’t say right there on his FA page that he’s fine with others finishing/coloring his sketches. So I took him up on it!

Here’s the original by Starfighter: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/26743553/

I wouldn’t say I’m GOOD at linework/inking. Just that I’m getting better. I kept most of the sketch in behind my lines here as I was planning to go truly furry with it, and some sketchy lines enhance that I think.

I wanted to experiment with this one, so I tried some colored gradient shading on her boobs and a bit of belly. The result was less than optimal. Interesting, but naaa… It’s not just that I only did the boobs and belly so they pop out as 3d on a flat cat – but the color just is wrong and the gradient is TOO smooth. Someone said they look like eggs. (They do!) But it was funny so I’ll show it here anyway.

No, instead I went for 2 level hard-shading. This is an in-progress point. I had the background basically added and most of the colors. But I wanted it more furry than this so I wasn’t done yet.

And here’s the final. I got some suggestions – mostly on the shadow and there’s a VERY slight pink on the nipples. Hopefully almost imperceptible.

That’s it. Starfighter’s Rajirra. She thicc. I also learned a new acronym! BFCT.

There will undoubtedly be more of similar proportions to come. Starfighter has more! Hehehehehehhhh. I’m calling this one nsfw, because it isn’t. Nothing is obviously showing, but, let’s be honest, you don’t want to use this as a screen-saver at work.

Sashimi-Rajirra

I like Sashimi. No, not the food – the Prequel fan that’s obsessed with Rajirra. It would be easy to obsess over a character in secret. Sashimi is open to it, and like Rick2Tails, has to put up with shit for it. I find I like Sashimi’s Rajirra too. But she’s kinda been expanded so much that the original character is kinda lost in there somewhere.

Anyway, Sashimi commissioned Guoh to draw another scene from his fanfiction. Here it is, by Guoh:

It should be no surprise that I colored it. Jeeze, what a start! So I decided to do my best work on this one. I’m at 19+layers in my .psd file and it takes a good 2 minutes to convert it to a .png. Whether all that work is worthwhile is up to you, but I like it and – though as of this writing, Sashimi hasn’t seen the end result yet, he’s seen a couple of preliminaries.

Alright, let’s start with Flat Colors…

Yeah… okay. Nice enough I suppose. BTW this was the main color ref:

So… wood. There’s lots of wood in that picture. So I tried an experiment. This may have been done by plenty before me, but I at least came up with it on my own. I thought – what if I add some Noise, then Motion Blur it in the direction of the wood grain? I think it turned out pretty good actually!

As for the sky, that’s not a photoshopped real sky. Its a 4-color gradient, but I did nab the colors from a real photo. The scene is supposed to take place somewhere around dusk and I kinda liked the mood. But notice Kazerad’s colors above, in particular the pale under-colors. He shades them with a darker yellow- almost orange. That’s not what I’m used to doing… so let’s give it a shot!

Now I’m skipping over a LOT here.At the default res it’s a bit hard to see, but I’ve shaded the hair to be more like hair, put a lot of furry-edging on, withstrained my natural urge to make everything out of rubber (there’s some ‘sheen going on there, but for me I kept it subtle). Now just some shading of the wood and I’ll call it done. The yellow shade on the dress does look pretty good though!

It may just be my conceit that I think it looks much better at higher resolution. I don’t know why Tumblr refuses to link automatically to the higher resolution images that ARE stored in Tumblr. Bandwidth conservation? Anyway…

And there you have it. Sashimi’s Rajirra. He let me read a bit of his fiction to see what was going on in this scene. Trust me when I tell you that Rajirra is NOT just getting up from pissing in the bucket while reading a scrolled-up newspaper. 🙂 She’s accepting a reward for some heroic deed. The bucket is there for a reason and the scroll is too. Until his fanfiction is public, that’s about all I can say.

Anyway, hope you liked it. I may still have issues, but at least I put real time into this one and tried to do my best. For Sashimi’s Rajirra. (Not sure that I’d do the same for canon Rajirra!)

Poolside Quill Pie

Rick2Tails uploaded a sketch by Kandlin ( http://kandlin.tumblr.com/ ) of Quill-Weave in a bikini with pie. Specifically:

Now granted it’s just a sketch, but I wanted to color it anyway and I don’t think Kandlin would mind. I know Rick wouldn’t because I asked him first!.

So here it is.

It’s getting more rare that I can post things here in bdprequel blog that aren’t nsfw and are Prequel related, that I’m glad to have something new to post