Another one of those long-winded, layer-by-layer things. Don’t worry, the finished product is first. The rest is at-your-own-leisure stuff that you may care less about. But I have to at least set it up. The current story I’m working on is the 3rd in the Spyjirra trilogy. Named “On His Mane’s Secret Service”, it will conclude the series and introduces a character (Named Quill-Weave in honor of the Prequel and Elder Scrolls characters) who is called the Histess. Sort of a high priestess of the Hist, she offers Ra’Jirra a boon in the form of Hist Sap, from her own… well… you’ll see. I subscribe to the notion that Argonian boobs are the Hist’s modification to allow Argonians to give birth far from the Black Marsh and endow intelligence to their young (who do not develop it otherwise).
So through a mutual friend, Boogeestro learned of that particular scene and wanted to draw it. I’m like, “Really?! Well… SURE!!!”. The result of his art and my coloring and backgrounds is right here. The rest of this is just going through my part on the finished product.
Yeah, can’t put that on Tumblr. In fact, it’s missing only one thing to be fully canon with my story – QW is supposed to be covered in moss. Not a failing of Boogs. I preferred her without it for an image.
Okay, so here’s how I got there. Here’s “pretty much” the image from Boogeestro that I started with. I did do a bit more line cleanup here than the original, but not much…
He did the nipplage and eyeshade, of which I kept both. The one thing I did drop was the slight red tinge to QWs boobs. But Ra’Jirra here, as well as his take on QW are both gorgeous! So, first up… Base (flat) colors!
Nothing unexpected here. That’s Ra’Jirra and Quill-Weave’s standard colors from Prequel. But for the ridges that Boogs’ design added to QW. TBH, neither character looks much like Prequel’s version, but I think they’re at least both reminencent of them. Next up, shading, etc…
I used the same shading layer for some other background things so that’s what those extra bits are there. Will make more sense when I show that bit. I worked pretty hard on Ra’Jirra’s hair here and I think it turned out okay. Highlighting…
Nearing completion of the two. Now, what background? Well, the story dictates that. They’re in QW’s private bedroom in the Argonian embassy (in Toval – capital of Elsweyr specifically). They’re also in a darkened room lit only by a single candle. Thus that backlighting on QW’s chin etc. So here’s what I came up with for a background…
Okay. I’m not real proud of the background. I just color man! I don’t draw! Well, it gets the point across anyway. The one thing I did like – the scale texture on the footboard of the bed. The Khajiits hastily created this “embassy” for the Argonians in the story, and that’s the sort of thing they might have done to make it seem more personalized for the lizards.
Just one more thing. In the story I have this sort of “official” outfit of the Mane’s Harem (which Ra’Jirra is now a member of) called a Raba. It is a blatant sexual offering of themselves for the Mane’s use (though he’s actually monogamous.) Anyway, it’s essentially a sheer dress with a special set of beads. In the story, Ra’Jirra scandalizes the Royalty when she dares to wear underwear underneath the Raba. But by this point in the story, with emissaries from the Altmer and the Argonians arriving, she forgoes the underwear and wears the Raba in it’s traditional way. Here’s my first version of the Raba:
So I added the same here to finish it off:
While on the surface it’s blatantly sexual, in context it’s not nearly as much as it may seem. This “gift” will one day save the Khajiit from annihilation. But I’ve giving too much away. The full trilogy in text-form can be found here if you’re interested:
https://www.prequeladventure.com/fanartbooru/pool/view/20
I do host it elsewhere, but since the whole thing is really an R-rated fanfiction of Prequel (or at least The Elder Scrolls), and Kazerad has been kind enough to allow me to post it there, it seems only fair I should link back to his site.
As for Boogeestro, without whom I wouldn’t have this awesome artwork of my fanfiction, he can be found here:
https://www.deviantart.com/boogeestro
And here:
https://www.furaffinity.net/user/boogeestro/
That’s it! The End. Go do something productive now! (or you can read my fanfiction of course…)
bdnsfw 