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Herny’s Audrey by Chingilin

First off, I really think this is the best work I’ve ever done. So yeah, I’m going to go through the process. But let’s talk first about Audrey. She’s a blind Argonian created by Herny some years ago. 

http://hernyart.tumblr.com/ and NSFW: http://kindahornyart.tumblr.com/archive

I expect he thought she’d be a cute one-off character. Instead she’s sort of taken on a life of her own with tons of fanart etc. She’s even got a tumblr of her own!

https://the-audrey-fandom.tumblr.com/

I’ve been aware of her, being a big Argonianut. But recently I was searching for something new to color and someone suggested I try this:

That’s by Chingilin, based on the post at the Audrey Fandom site, made around Feb 4 2016 and termed a WIP. Normally I’d never do something that was being done by the original artist. However, when I went to Chinglilin’s DA site: https://chingilin.deviantart.com/ his last update was March of 2017. It references this Tumblr too: https://chingilinart.tumblr.com/ but the most recent post there was May of 2017. So I think it’s at least safe to say he’s gone inactive and is probably not working on this anymore. So I took up the mantle.

First I cleaned up the drawing and darkened the lines:

Then, of course, flat colors. TBH it wasn’t till I got to this step that I realized, “Hey! She’s laying down! This is a Dakimakura! (yeah, I’m slow that way.)

And then I got mad. I WANT to do super soft shading like Doomthewolf and MilesDF! But I’ve never managed it. I usually try by selecting a huge brush, hitting the softest possible settings, selecting the part I want to shade softly, and taking it from there. But it’s never looked right to my eyes.  Granted, I’m trying to do shading with a purple shade on a Multiply layer and not really using proper coloring techniques to do it.  But I still felt like it would still look good anyway if I could just get the shading right.

So last night I tried something different. I tried a curved gradient instead. One for each boob, one for the lower body, and a combination of gradients and my giant soft brus both for the arms, legs and tail. And some normal hard shading where I felt it was appropriate.This is the result…

THATS it! That’s what I’d been trying to do and failing! I don’t know if that’s how the ‘greats’ do it at all, but that’s what I wanted!  Now we’re cooking!!!  So the rest is more of what I’ve done before, though taking my time to complete each with enough patience to justify that transparent, curved gradient shading.

Here she is with hair shade and bed wrinkles in place.  But… I’m bluedraggy. I do shiny things.  Time to add some SHINE!

That… IMHO, is the best work I’ve ever done.  So far, of course. But I do feel like I’m finally improving again, and that gradient shading was the key to what I’ve always wanted to be able to do. 

Apologies to Chingilin for doing that without asking, but it did seem clear he wasn’t going to finish it after 2 years, right? I do care about such things.

The Chimera (short story and Guoh pic)

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Probably the oddest picture I’ve ever worked on. But as I was coloring it, I started dreaming up a scenario to explain how that scene could possibly happen – and turned it into a (very) short story to go along with my layers. 

“I, Sir Knight, am a Chimera!” she declared.

“A Chimera? What’s that?”

“As you can clearly see, my body is composed of different creatures. Five in fact. Hence, I am magical and you would be well advised not to cross me. You cannot get to the treasure until you have completed my puzzle!”

“Yeah!” said the snake-tail. “She’ll turn you into stone!”

“Wait,” said the Knight, “I thought that was Medusa.”

“Well, she’ll turn PART of you into stone,” the snake conceded.

“Shut up snake,” she said reproachfully, “or I’ll sit on you again!”

“OKAY! Jeeze Mally, I’m trying to help you out here!” it said.

“Mally eh?” the Knight said, smiling within his helm. “I know your name now, foul beast!”

“Dammit snake, you’ve done it again. Hold your tongue!”

“And I thought it was the Sphinx who required her question to be answered…”

“Not a question. A puzzle. There’s a difference!” she declared, a smug smile coming over her face.

“Bet you can’t name all five,” the serpent said. “If you can name all five, she’ll let you continue to the treasure!”

“SHUT UP EVIL SNAKE!” she said and tried to swat the head with a hand, but it easily moved aside.

“Missed me again,” it laughed.

“Is it true?” the knight asked the thing.

She sighed. “True enough. If you can name all five parts of me, you may pass.”

The Knight contemplated this.

“But if you fail, I will bring you bad luck for the rest of your life!”

“Is that true Snake?” the Knight asked.

“I doubt it. She’s not very magical,” it replied.

The lioness head roared, “SHUT THE HELL UP YOU TRAITOROUS TAIL!”

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“Well,” the Knight began. “Obviously the serpent tail and the lioness body are two, right?”

She nodded. “Yes. Go on…”

“Your chest can only be that of a dragon, though those boobs look awfully human.”

The snake snickered, but the lioness grabbed it by a paw suddenly and sat on it. It’s muffled cries were barely audible.

“The dragon is correct… enough. I give you credit since you’ve probably never seen lizardfolk. And the breasts go with it.  But yeah, that’s close enough. That’s three.”

“The wings, those are tricky.  Bat-like, but that red color is like no bat I’ve ever seen. Could be a red dragon’s wings, but I doubt that would work when you already have the green scaly chest and hands of a dragon.”

“Lizardfolk,” she corrected.  "But no, Sir Knight, you are right. They are not of a dragon.“

"Well! That’s awfully kind of you to say, Miss Mally the Chimera. You’re pretty nice for a monster.”

She shrugged. “Don’t get much conversation down here.”

“Does a demon count as a creature?”

She sighed.  "Yes. My wings are that of a demoness. But you’ll never guess that last one!“

He looked her up and down, counting off each of the four creatures he’d guessed at in each part of her.

"So.. body of a lioness, right?”

She nodded.

“And the hands go with the chest, right? They’re not a different creature?”

“That’s correct.”

“The snake tail…” he continued, to which she again nodded.

“And the demon wings.  Are you SURE there’s five?”

She smiled. “Yes, Sir Knight. There ARE five.”

Suddenly the snake wriggled it’s way out from under her.  "Check out her pussy!“ it called.

The lioness roared again and began running around in circles, trying to bite the head off her own tail while it screamed in panic, though it was clearly impossible that she could ever gain on it.

"Hold Chimera!” the Knight shouted over the roars and the little squeaky scream.

Suddenly she stopped and fell over, dizzy.

“Let me see…”

“But… He told you! That’s cheating!”

“Come on, that’s not my fault. Let me see!”

“Goddamned snake,” she whined, but she stepped over to a nearby stone and bent over.

“Farther,” he said, and she growled but complied.

“Neat!”

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“HUMAN!” he shouted.  "That’s the fifth creature isn’t it!“

She sighed again, and looked at her tail menacingly while answering, "Yes, Sir Knight. That is my fifth creature. You may proceed.”

The Knight stood up and stretched his legs. “Thank you, Mally the Chimera. As odd as you are, you’re not a bad sort.”

“Thanks, I guess,” she said as her eyes watched him go past.  Just beyond her, he reached the treasure chest. After checking for traps, he opened it. Within was nothing.

“Hey! There’s nothing in here!”

From down the trail, she shrugged. “Not my fault.”

“But you said if I answered your puzzle, I could get to the treasure!”

Oddly, she shot a warning glare at her own tail. “Not another word,” she hissed in a fair imitation of a serpent herself.

“What about that, snake? Where’s the treasure?” said the Knight, returning to where the Chimera sat looking around at anything except him.

“Snake?”

“He won’t tell you, Sir Knight,” the Chimera said. “But… I might.”

Suddenly the Knight became nervous as the Chimera rose and began to circle him, brushing against his legs like an overgrown cat.

“W… where’s the treasure?” he asked, his voice breaking a little now.

“Take off that helmet and I’ll tell you, good Sir Knight,” she purred.

“Why?” he asked, stepping back. But her tail tripped him up and he sat hard on the ground. Something behind him snickered.

“I just want to see you, Sir Knight. It gets awfully lonely down here, even for a magical creature. Won’t you let me see your face?”

The Knight removed his helm.

“Oh, you are a handsome man!” the Chimera said, and stepped on his chest, pushing him to the floor.

“B…but… the treasure!” he said, backing away.

The Chimera put her head very close beside the Knight’s and whispered…

“You’ve already seen the treasure, good Sir Knight.”

The snake repeated her words, “You’ve already seen it! You’ve already seen it!”

The Knight looked seriously at the Chimera, who looked at her snake-tail, then back to the Knight with a forlorn look.

“Did you bring any tape with you?” she asked.

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Guoh Freya by Night

Decided to give this one a night-vibe. Original by Guoh –

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After flat colors. Obviously removed most of Guoh’s shading to replace with my own. I also have to admit to rounding out her butt a bit. I don’t normally do that sort of thing. I know he was going for the skinny-rat style here, but her butt just seemed a little TOO angular. Couldn’t quite comprehend what was going on around her feet – lower legs either so I simplified those.  

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Gloss, highlights and shade. But I decided I’d like this to be a night scene, so just one sharp shade layer and pretty dark.

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And then a nice night background.  Followed a tutorial honestly, but I still think it turned out pretty much how I had in mind.

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She doesn’t look like someone you’d want to meet late at night actually. At least, not when she’s pissed off because someone stole her clothes.

I was futzing with different adjustments though and came up with this.  Which I think I actually like better than the final above in an artistic way.

Guoh Freya Staff

I put effort into this one. 12 layers visible. I won’t post ‘em all here, but enough. Hope it shows! When I spend this much time on one, I HAVE to do the layers thing.  So here’s the starting point – Guoh’s original Freya sketch. He has a few obviously – this isn’t my first. And that’s a good thing ‘cuz I REALLY like Freya. And Guoh has a thing for anatomy I just haven’t seen often by anyone for ‘furry’ characters. Plus it seems rare that an animalistic character like Freya gets a good, ‘human’ backstory. So even though it’s been years since I played FFIX, I still remember her well.  Well, maybe not like this:

First think I did was removed most of his shading since I was going to do my own anyway, but I kept a layer with it still in place so when it came time to shade I could follow his lead.

Flat colors are standard next for me. I went with a bit more yellow than white because I needed a way to put highlights in and if it’s already white… cant get lighter than white. Hair yellow this time because… I wanted to?  As for the partial-pink tail.. hold on and I’ll explain in a sec.

I’ve had people say that my soft shading makes em look kinda ‘dirty’ – and not in a good way. So I’ve been leaning more towards hard-shading. But I really wanted to try soft again, so despite some people’s suggestion, we’re going full-soft shading this time. As for her tail, I wanted it to gradient from pink to her light color – that’s why I didn’t color that part after the bow directly. That’s here too.

Okay. Time for glossiness. Sorry, once again, I couldn’t help myself. Also highlighting which is primarily her eyes. (Higher res would reveal that best) 

Technically that’s it for Freya herself, but I didn’t want to go without a background. If you think about it, she’s in a really odd position here. How is that spear point working? I mentioned the issue to someone else, but I didn’t explain well and he suggested a cityscape behind her for a background. Interesting, but the problem of what she’s sitting on and how that spear tip is supposed to work was still tough. It’s obvious that the spear is at an angle, with the tip closest to the viewer, angling away. But still, it seems most likely she’s sitting on some sort of rock or something that falls away towards the viewer.  

So the rest of this is trying to do a background. I found a kinda neat cityscape from FFIX.

I just used bit of that, but it led me to how the “ledge” she’s sitting on should work.  I won’t bore you with more details. Here’s the end result:

I had to create the sort of wall she’s sitting on, but using colors from the road I think it integrates with the background okay at least. Homemade but sometimes that’s the best you can do. Also, not the tail wrapping around the sign. I thought that was cute and integrates her a bit more, even if it’s not immediately noticeable. Field blur on the city so it sharpens as it nears – primarily so Frey still stands out. Some of the shadows, upon reflection, don’t make sense with the angle of the sun. Hopefully they’re not too jarring because I’m leaving it as-is. I like it even if the light source is ambiguous at best!

Like, in the background the lightsource is obviously upper right and towards the viewer. Boob sheen reflects that too. But then the shadow of the spear indicates left and towards viewer.  Hmm… How does that work? 

Ah, it’s Freya cheesecake. Don’t overanalyze or it falls apart.

Guoh Maid Marian

I’m feeling sick these last two days. Some sort of cold. Anyway, I had to do something beside playing video games with my downtime, so I poked around in my Guoh folder for something else to color.  Came up with this.

Nice, Sweet, Not overly porny and I’m not sure if I’ve ever done Maid Marion before.  SURE!

Not going to be all coy. here’s the end result.

Probably went too glossy on her ass,, but… I like glossy ass! SORRY!

It let me play with a couple of things on her tail too.All those little curve things are actually alternating curves in 2 colors, each slightly below the next one. I like the resut. Not so sure I needed the shading on top of that to boot, but I did it anyway. I found a background that is, I believe, a cell from the actual movie. 

That’s it. Fox butt.

Everybody has that thing that turned them in their early years. Robin Hood was mine. It wasn’t a sexual thing – I don’t think – but it was the first time I realized that there was something more to life than just living. It really taught me what love can be. Just… two people who are so into each other.  The story was inconsequential. The cheap art and bad music were … well hell, it was a 60′s Disney movie. But it was at heart a love story that I could follow at, like, 7 years old.  

There’s a lot worse things than that out there a kid could get into.

Guoh Bagi

Really, it was just a matter of time before I got to this one. I mean, it was probably one of the first Guoh sketches that I saved.

But… let’s talk for a minute about Bagi, okay? Sure, I’ve seen it. Heck, you can watch the whole thing on Youtube now if you want… 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDYbmowyMG8

Came out in 1984, but before you try to defend it because of the date, here’s some OTHER animes that came out in 1984.

Nausicaä

Macross: Do You Remember Love?

Urusei Yatsura

Now I’m not Anime expert, but those are all pretty classic because even >I< have seen them! But Bagi… I tell you, if it wasn’t for Bagi herself, that would be the most shit anime I’ve ever watched. Not the worst in existence, just the worst I ever watched. Why did I watch it?

I’ll give you one guess. I mean, it feels like the plot – such as it is, was written on the back of a napkin, and they lost the napkin halfway through. I’m not going to turn all movie critic on you, but… dudes… it was bad. It really felt like it was written as a bad fanfic.  A VERY bad fanfic. She even licks the kid in the jungle? And dances for him? JEEZE! I think I wrote this when I was 14 and discovered my Special Purpose! And catgirls of course.

And yet… here I am 34 years after she was first created, coloring Bagi’s junk. I guess that just goes to show that even good things CAN come out of crap movies. Should you go watch Bagi? I guess. Sure. Just don’t tell anyone >I< told you to!

And there it is. Off model badly (thank God and Guoh!), and I felt her ‘real’ color was too light so I darkened it up some. And she doesn’t have a pale belly, but all catgirls should so screw it – she does now! 🙂

I do like Bagi – the character. And parts of the movie itself were pretty inspired. Too bad it was surrounded by so much other crap. And motorcycles. And Australian hats for some reason. And Astro-Boy.

And of course, thanks again to Guoh, who just cranks these things out it seems! Damn – how can this not be popular with such a beginning sketch? Not my most detailed coloring work, but I sure as hell like it! Like…. lots.

Selenophile Katia

On those hot summer mornings, isn’t it glorious to own an invisibility cloak? Just find a nice shady park bench, get totally naked, and let the cooling breeze waft over your entire body without a care in the world.

But… you know… you do need the hood on to activate the invisibility. You DO have the hood on, don’t you, Katia? Katia???

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This time I colored a sketch from Selenophile: https://e621.net/post/show/1024416

I think I saw it on a 4chan thread. I thought it was awfully cute – particularly in how her boobies weren’t drawn gigantic and the cute face. I did an inking on this one though. I don’t usually but there was too much scratchylines on it so I had to kinda start from scratch.

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For flat colors, I stuck with traditional. I also used my “wood” technique I learned on the Sashimi-Rajirra pic on the bench here too. Technically the “purple” shade at the bottom should be on a separate layer. I kinda screwed that up a little. But not a big deal.

I had a nice gradient sky, photoshopped ground and a photoshop-create 3d tree I was going to use as is. But I showed it to someone and they thought the background looked too realistic. So I Filtered it and I have to admit it probably blends with a cartoon character better this way.

Okay, Shade Time! Nothing terribly special there. For the most part I have her in shade, so there’s really just edges where the sun falls – and a few dappled spots around her head and shoulders. The 2nd level darker shade I kept simple and sharp as well.  I also made this censored version for the Prequel booru.

So I made up the little vignette at the top. She looks so happy and cool here. But she think’s she’s invisible and she’s not. Which she’ll soon discover. Actually that’s classic Kaz humor there. A happy character who the audience knows is about to fail and fail hard. But – for right this moment, she’s peacefully oblivious thinking her idea is the Best Idea Ever!

OH! I almost forgot! Someone said they liked her body but didn’t like her head/face. No, I get that – though I like em both just fine! So for those people, here’s an early edit I did to fix that problem.

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W4G4 Kobold – Does it Bite?

This is my second coloring of this Kobold from Waga (w4g4) here at:

https://w4g4.tumblr.com/

The first you may recall was this one:

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I was very proud of that one. Still am. She’s boobless and thus tends to look male, but I still liked the clean lines etc. (that I didn’t draw but still, she looks almost ready to animate or something!).  Anyway, I had another of her and I finally got around to coloring it. (Oh! She IS male… He! Yikes! But yeah, Kobolds are weird.)

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Not really anything in way of a background here, but I link the two together. She doesn’t get out of the caves much, after her bath she was out sunning herself when a stray butterfly dropped in. Problem is, she doesn’t know if butterflies bite or sting, and it’s sitting right on the tip of her nose. So she’s like, torn.

Coolest thing to me about this is how Waga managed to get those eyes to look like they’re focused on the end of her nose. That’can’t be easy! I just found his tumblr too, so now I might have to lurk there and see what other goodies he’s got that I might get my sticky fingers on!

Oh, and Olive and Mustard colors are just a perfect pair of colors for her, aren’t they?

Oh crap.  Well, that’s the risk you  run when you color someone elses’ work I guess.  You might have the colors wrong… (though hey, I was pretty close on the eyes!)… or the gender! 🙂

Er…. um… she’s Bim’s twin sister? Yeah? Maybe? (Mib)

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