Yeah, it’s important to recognize your deviancy before you can address them. Though I seem to just do a lot of recognizing and very little addressing.
So I wanted to color something again and ran across this Katia by luraiokun as a gift to Rick2Tails.
It caught my eye immediately. The white outline first, but notice the soles of the feet, the breast and the eye that aren’t colored in that light bluish grey really pop out. That’s the whole monochromatic thing again. But I just wanted a pretty cat butt to color, so afraid I didn’t go that route. Got rid of the square around it.
Another less obvious thing I did was remove all the saturation. There’s no color there, even if it appears to have blue in it. It doesn’t. It’s pure grey. That was done for a reason. Because when I apply my base colors on a Multiply layer, they will be darkened. But by first increasing the lightness, the resulting color will be just what it should be. I COULD have tried to remove the grey and make her white, but I’ve found that to be problematic. Better to leave it and brighten the base layer so the final color is what it should be.
You might notice I put the pale belly (nearly white) color on the underside of her tail also and very subtly in her… um… well… butt. No, it’s not canon, but I felt like it for some reason. Probably primarily to add a bit more interest. Also originally I had colored her entire soles of her feet in pink, but revised that when someone said they looked like rat feet. He was right. Pads are better. Next up, shading.
I started with this soft shading, but when I got to this point, I realized that – though I think it looks okay, it doesn’t fit with the style of the drawing and all those hard edges. So I started over and went with hard shading instead.
Yeah. I think that’s better. Not as “3D’ as soft, but it fits with the style better. There’s 2 levels of shading here. The obvious, but right where she’s sitting on her heels, under her armpit and on her neck just below her head there’s a dark shadow. Next, I got creative. I wanted to represent fur as right now she’s too smooth.
So what I did was used a small eraser with a short fade and “bit into” the shadow to give the impression of fur without having to actually draw any. Just tried to keep those “bites” flowing roughly in the direction the fur would at each point. This took, a while, but I think it looks better as a reminder that Katia is SUPPOSED to have fur, not just yellow skin. And doing it in the shadow seems to work pretty well.
And that’s it. A bit of gloss and highlighting, a butt-shadow and a (frankly very quick) background that’s suggestive of an outdoor scene if only by the colors. And now I can take a step back, look at her…
And feel bad because she’s disappointed that I again colored her nude. Sorry sadcat! You just look so GOOD that way. Hey, at least there’s no visible plumbing!
Another coloring thing. LOTS of in-progress images on this one. I’d done that bowling-ball crushing Katia and, though it was undoubtedly another lewd thing, I really did (still do) like it a lot. But it was time to do something a little less lewd and I’d noticed this one when I was looking through Zokva (Zokvic on FA)’s various galleries so thought I’d give it a shot.
As is my standard, I started by putting down the base colors. Because I’m a pervert, I did her under-clothing separately so I could make her dress transparent later if I felt like it. Sorry fellow-pervs, I didn’t end up using it. Awwww.
Next up I started looking for references for fringe, ‘20s style dresses. I came across this one.
What really caught my eye though was how the fringe falls away from the breasts, which calls attention to them without being too obvious, and how the underlying dress get’s REALLY reflective there. I went with a blue-grey color though because I think it contrasts with Katia’s color better.
Next was the fringe. I tried a lot of experiments but settled on 6 different layers of fringe, starting at the dividing line on her dress and following her contours, keeping in mind gravity will pull things to the sides.
I wanted more sparkle though, so I copied the fringe layer, added noise to it, and changed it to a Hard Light type layer. I liked the end result. Looks sorta like glitter.
Next I started doing shading, but was really unhappy with my results in the belly area. I even went back to the underlying body and drew some body guidelines to help me get a feel for the shading, but it didn’t help much:
So I did some Google searching for Female Belly Shading. Found a tutorial but I cheated. I just copied the image, reversed it to match my light sorce, overlaid it as a transparent layer, morphed it to fit my Katia and used is as a shading guideline for that part of her. Check this out:
That got me the results I was hoping for anyway. I could work with that. Here’s the final shading:
Might be a bit much for a “covered” belly, but I liked it anyway. So highlighting and I’m almost done:
Okay, She’s done, but what background? For some reason I decided a nice curtain backdrop would be easy and seemed appropriate.
Okay.. And finally, the floor and the cigarette smoke. Made the floor reflective of the curtains and her feet. And this is the final for FlapperKat.
Another that I played with by Zokva. Original Skull Crusher:
I went a lot of different ways with this. So first, here’s a “straight” version of what Zokva drew with colors:
I noticed then that she didn’t have a tail so I added that…
Then I thought… Maybe she would look good with her painted-on undies…
I really liked that. But then I did what I wanted to do all along. I didn’t originally see the guy caught in her leglock as a guy. I saw him as…
A bowling ball! And now that there is actually a bowling ball in Prequel, it makes more sense. You think crushing a pineapple between your legs is impressive? Katia can crush a friggin bowling ball.
That is probably my “real” version because I actually like how the paint turned out, but might as well combined the naked and the bowling ball I guess, right?
“That’s not weird is it?” Katia asks, concerned. “I mean, everybody can crush bowling balls between their legs, can’t they? I’m not weird, right?”
If you want to sex this cat, you’ll be risking your own life. Up to you if you think it’s worth it or not.
First, by ECMajor again. I’m just coloring. I got such a huge response from the last one though, how could I not? Of course, I know all the response was ECM’s And with halloween coming up, this was just a natural. HAPPY HALLOWEEN!
ECM calls it Nude Jersey Welcomes You.
I call it conflicted. I’m convinced it was ECMajor’s way of testing just how gross can an image be and still be sexy. Oddly enough, the answer is obviously, “Pretty Damn Gross!”. You’re gonna have to go even grosser apparently.
What is that? WHAT THE HELL IS THAT?
Well, I call it a Zombie-Dragon-Camel-Demon. Pretty common actually. 🙂
Now, I’ll tell you right now if you don’t zoom in on this thing, you’re missing a lot. And, of course, Tumblr doesn’t Iet you zoom in. If you know the 1280 filename trick, go for it. But I tend to ramble on, showing layers and stuff, but with all the new people watching, I won’t do that to you. Here’s my final colored version. You needn’t go any farther. Also I’ll put the full res version on FA shortly.
Okay, so here’s my layers. I’ll zoom in on the important bits so Tumblr’s shitty resolution won’t totally ruin it.
For base colors, I went with a rather tame fawnish color for the majority. Three levels of green for the scales. A sickly red for the topmost horns and that weird stuff going on at her back. Yellow eyes to pop out. I tried various colors for the wings, but the dark grey with a very slight blue looed best I thought. Mostly I am trying not to oversaturate colors. I tend to do that. Okay, on to shading.
ECMajor shades awfully well just in the drawing. There’s really little I have to do but follow his lead. And that determines the light source. I did bring the light source down somewhat from where most of his shade indicates though. Don’t know that it’s very noticeable. Highlighting is next, and that tends to be a problem for me. I definitely have a tendency to overdo it and make my characters look like they’re made of latex. (Um… I’m not saying that’s a bad thing. But my tastes aren’t necessarily everyone’s. Nor realistic. 🙂
Now for come closeups. Hey, you didn’t HAVE to read this far you know. Check out this beautiful face!
See why I suggest higher rez? There’s a lot going on there! Im particularly proud of the little muscles under the ripped off skin. Check this…
EWWW! That looks better (worse) than I ever expected!
Finally I settled on that rather plain background. I tried a variety of things, but really there’s so much going on her body, the background cries out to be simple. So I kept it that way in the end, just giving it a bit more than a simple gradient, and highlighting ECM’s sig that I’d almost obscured. Put my own in too this time. I used to think it was conceit to put a sig on for just coloring, but another artist pointed out that it’s preferred, so everyone knows if you screw it up badly, it’s not their fault. 🙂
Oh, and to leave you with another great part. Those outrageous hooves. Yikes.
Here’s ECMajor’s kobold. The concept was so unique, I HAD to not only color it, but to write a little short erotica on it too.
Now hang on – you gotta read my story before you get the colored version! (well, of course you don’t HAVE to.) The concept is, I think, ECMajor’s. But I ran with it.
Cave Syrup
The source of the mysterious substance known as Cave Syrup, highly prized by alchemists, healers and chefs alike and worth 40 times it’s weight in gold, has at last been made public. In this expose, I reveal not only the how the delicious elixer is extracted, but delve deep into the detailed workings of the process and it’s secrets.
As you already know, some few years ago the special sauce swept the world with it’s revolutionary powers. Often called “the elixer of life” by it’s proponents, Cave Syrup is so rare and difficult to obtain that the secret of it’s origin has been long shrouded in secrecy by those few (and now wealthy!) individuals who have managed to discover them. But finally one of those has come forward. Due to inevitable threats, he has chosen to remain anonymous, but not only has he told this reporter how it is done, but he allowed me to follow him deep into the cave wherein he has set up shop.
Yes, this reporter has personally witnessed the veracity not only of the source, but has personally tasted a drop of the Syrup directly from the source, as fresh as is possible to obtain!
“I’ve made enough money,” he said as we walked deep under the earth. “It’s high time the public know the truth.”
Finally we arrived at a small chamber wherein stood a unique stone, vibrating audibly as we approached. While rare, these stones are not unknown to spelunkers. Due to some unknown resonance with the surroundings, they vibrate at various rates and frequencies in the dark places of the earth. This one, however, was fitted with an odd collar of sorts at the top and had been fitted with straps down two sides. The birdlike metallic spout and the stone cup under it’s beak made it plain that the source of the Syrup would reveal itself upon this very rock.
“Resonance Stones are all different, you see,” my guide explained as he began to make a weird hooting call between words. “Most aren’t the right frequency for them. But this one is exactly right.”
This reporter reached to examine the collar around the stone, but my guide slapped my hand away.
“NO! Don’t touch that!” he implored and I desisted from further manual examination. He went on to explain, “I found the stone just like this. Who knows how long, or by whom this stone was fitted with the Gathering collar? I dare not bother it for fear it may mis-tune the stone from the right vibration – disturbing it may make the stone useless!”
And then the true source of Cave Syrup entered. She was a small kobold, no taller than my chest. Yes, a kobold – the humblest of intelligent creatures on earth, so worthless that even taking them as slaves is barely worth the effort. Yet here she came, and squawked in her unintelligible tongue. Fortunately my guide was familiar with their speech and squawked back in a similar fashion. She looked at me oddly, then hopped upon the stone. She spread her legs across the stone as my guide strapped her into place, her ass towards the spout as she began to coo.
“They love the vibrations!” my guide explained. “Gets em all horny. Here, look…”
He squawked at her again, and she opened her eyes from her rapture and looked back at us, raising her tail to reveal her butt and fine genitalia between the cheeks. Already her vagina was becoming moist. This reporter’s eyes must have grown large as saucers as the source of the fabled Cave Syrup was revealed at last! The unique aroma of the sauce verified in an instant that this was no hoax. The source was right before me, flowing copiously as the little kobold returned to her cooing.
The first drop splashed into the small but deep stone cup and the kobold began to move.
“You see, we don’t hurt them in any way,” my guide explained as the drops began to gather. “They get a little rambunctious near the end, of course. The straps keep her from moving too much, and when they orgasm the juice really flows! So it’s best we keep her pinned to the stone. Some of them get to bucking awfully much! Now Jenny here… I call her Jenny anyway… she doesn’t get too crazy usually. But boy let me tell you, she can sure produce the product!”
As if on queue, the little kobold’s rhythmic movements on top of the vibrating stone began to increase as her cooing became more of a guttural moan.
“There look at that!” my guide exclaimed and we got in close to watch as the fluid began to flow in greater quantity from the little reptilian pussy in front of us. ‘Jenny’ looked back at us, pure lust in her eyes, but her restraints held her in place and she closed her eyes again, squawking something with desperate tones.
“She wants you to stick a finger in her,” my guide explained. “I usually don’t oblige them. Afraid my finger might contaminate the Syrup. But you’re welcome to if you’d like. Stuff is even better when it’s still warm and fresh from the pussy!”
I took him up on his offer and plunged a finger deep within, feeling the soft walls inside her clench it, while she tried to buck against my hand. But as much as she obviously wanted me to continue to feel her vagina, I extracted my finger and smelled the single, glistening drop that hung there. This was Cave Syrup, pure and unadulterated! I let the drop fall on my tongue and swirled the sweet, pungent liquid all across my tongue to be sure I tasted every hint of it’s flavor. It was better than any Syrup I’d ever had, still warm and viscous.
“Delicious,” I said, opening my eyes again to the smiling Syrup purveyor.
“It is, isn’t it? Best thing ever. Oh! Looks like you’ve set her off!”
Indeed, the little kobold was looking back at us, her eyes almost shut as she rode the stone to her climax in front of us. The flow of Syrup changing from individual drops to a stream that threatened to overflow the cup. I looked at my guide, but he shook his head.
“No, she won’t overflow it,” he said over the screaming of the kobold in her orgasmic throes. “I know my Jenny. She’s just about done.
And again, the Syrup Farmer knew his stuff. The bucking kobold was indeed slowing, looking back at us with longing now as her hips began to slow, her bottom wet with her own juices as she slid over the stone’s slick top. The flow slowed until it was just occasional drops and the kobold was moaning now.
My guide unstrapped her legs and ‘Jenny’ hopped down off the stone and hugged my leg. I had to shoo her away from my own genitalia as we bent to look at the cup. Nearly full! This single cup would fetch thousands on the market.
"What do you do with the rest on top?” I asked as he covered the cup and replaced it with a new one.
“Oh, I usually just lick it off. You want to do the honors?”
While the leavings on the stone were cooling by now, it was still nearly as fresh as straight from the source and was probably the most Syrup I’ve ever consumed in my life. I felt refreshed and, frankly, looked at the cup in envy.
“No, no, young man,” my guide said as he cleaned and polished the stone till it was sparkling. “That’s for the market!”
We began walking from the cave, the little kobold still holding my leg. As we neared the exit, the kobold cried something in her language and my guide answered her before she disappeared sadly back into the cave.
“How many you got down there?” I asked when we returned to his farmhouse.
“Oh, 18 active females. Some younger and some over the age though too. Had take the males out. They’d always try and come in and take over the milking. Made a mess of things. But I let em join the females in the springtime. Boy does the Syrup flow then!” he laughed, and I laughed along with him as we shared an iced tea, with just a hint of fresh-drawn Cave Syrup.
This is another color-job on a drawing by ECMajor ( http://www.furaffinity.net/user/ecmajor ) – the same artist who drew that burlesque Argonian I loved so much a few weeks back. I really like his style, and he doesn’t color much so it’s a golden opportunity for me to break out my crayons!
Don’t expect that level of quality, nor those colors. Thing is, about a week ago Furnut pointed me to this video on Color theory. I really like watching stuff like this. I love to color, but I don’t like to draw. I accept that – I just don’t find drawing fun but I do like coloring stuff. But the more I learn, the better I’ll get at it. Highly recommended:
After watching that, I really wanted to try a Monochromatic work, where the entire image is shades of the same root color, varying only in saturation and brightness. So that’s what I did, using a reddish tone as the basis. Here it is:
There are only 3 bits that aren’t various saturation/brightness altered shades of that red. Her eye, the bell, and… um… another body part are the only things that aren’t based on that red. The idea is that the eye should be drawn to them since they don’t follow that shading. Definitely works for the bell. I think it works for the eye. And that other body part… I’m afraid my eye is already drawn to that so hard to tell. 🙂
Anyway, that’s it. Got lots more ECMajor stuff I may do too. If I’m disappointed in this, it’s only because FemtoAmpere’s version is so much better than mine. But I’ll get there someday!
bdnsfw 