Just realized that I only have three more parts for the MAIN section of the Blaze and Loona saga!

Hell of A Past
Hell of a Sex Life
Hell of A Reckoning

After that, the main saga is finished! There will also be some side content for the saga that features:

Loona doing a friend outing with Kimiko
Bee's adventures in Halloween Babysitting
Bee's other adventures in finding strippers for a performance
And more!

I do still also have some other character origin stories to finish as well.

Namely:

Mistral (My OnlyFurs Mother coming Nov 3rd and another story going over her earlier years)
Blaze (The Soulmonger's Strings coming Nov 8th)
Aislinn and Willow (The Abyss Between Us, TBD)
Issira (Collar of The Black Lotus, TBD)
Absinthe (Immortal Mistake, TBD)
Evin and Kayla (Hidden Wings, TBD)
Yurei (Currently titleless)
Frost (???????)

And then we have the Blaze "meets lady" stories. Remaining is:

Highwire and Kimiko Five-Tails (Battle Royal. Done, needs cover)
Mal0 (Digital Stalker. Done, needs cover)
Jenna and Aleu (Aleu's Mom. Needs written, needs cover)
Amaterasu and Ninetails (Sunbound, written, needs cover)
Goumang (The Gardener's Weed. Written, needs cover)
Muru (Fate Would Have It. Needs written, needs cover)
Roxanne Wolf (Highscore. Needs written, needs cover)

Annnnnnnnnd I think that's it! This is the writing lineup that's coming!

Hopefully you'll enjoy them :D

With the help of the wife.

So we just saw K-Pop Demon Hunters and loved it.

Now?

Collabing on an idea of "What if Eclipse and Blaze were in this situation."

So now we have a universe where Blaze is recruited along with Trace, Evin (a male character I haven't featured yet) and Frost (a character I have revamped) to form a kpop boy band.

Only to be going against the bad ladies of.the story, headed by Eclipse and her band mates Tricksay, Alura, Star, and Casey in a bid for dark over light and the winning of a greater good.

Problem being? No one remembers who the others are for... reasons >:3

So I'm getting a good number of people between here and IB asking about the physical copies of Hellbound: The Blaze and Loona Saga.

So here's my plan. Once I get my copies (I only ordered 4 for now) and check them out, if I like the final results, I may be open to taking orders for them.

Now, keep in mind they might be a bit expensive (45.00 USD + shipping) since these are custom prints in hardcover format.

But hell, if people are interested, I'd be happy to provide come the time!

Sort of awesome people are asking for books of my canon x OC ship. Honored everyone has been liking the story so far! :D

Just finished "Hell of A Threesome" which is the fifth act, and completes the first half! Which means I can now format those parts and move to having the first book of their story printed.

I plan to maybe have three copies of it printed (hardcover, about 450 pages) which includes one for myself, one to put away and keep clean, and perhaps a third that I can maybe auction off at some point if people are interested.

Which means now the stories will fall into the "Second book" of their story from this point onward, which include:

Hell of A Holiday
Hell of A Legacy
Hell of a Past
Hell of A Sexlife
Hell of A Reckoning

So look forward to those this year!

Me: I'm gonna write a nice story about Blaze meeting Loona.

Now me: It's a massive novel consisting of multiple parts covering their meeting, her first heat, Blaze's past fling drama, pregnancy and a son, and now?

A Helluvaboss-Style villain that emerges that has followed Blaze's multi-verse hoping abilities and knows about his prior life, and shall now try to use that through their son Laziel, which results in an epic clash of good and evil from different franchises to stop the crunch of universes that would end existence.

What. The. Hell. Brain. LOL

Though it IS resulting in a badass seraphim form for Loona that I'm loving!

I've been bored of porn recently and REALLY into emotional/dark/heavy themes as of late. Like, make you sob sort of stories that involve the backstories of many of my OC's.

Might post some of that here. Not sure!

At the moment I'm tackling:

Take The Stage: Tricksay and Star's origins
LAUGH: Sunny's origins (this one is dark lol)
Mutual Ruin: Itazura and Haiyko's origins

Fun stuff!

Yeah, I just have too many pictures in binders. Seriously.

So I might be going through all the stuff I've drawn and putting together bundles of my traditional art, including the Balto stuff, to stick up for purchase.

So many years of drawing by hand lol

In looking through my submissions over the years, I really think I'm the artist who's done the most Balto porn (easily over 100 pictures)

So many things with Balto, Jenna, Aleu and Trickster and now even characters created between them. And way more to come >:3

I've been experimenting with simpler methods of shading. You can kinda see it present in the new Balto and Aleu picture and a lot of it in the picture of Sunny.

I'm really enjoying the simple shading and even the cartoon style of things. They're faster to make and I dunno... I like the results?

So I'm going to mess around with that a bit more coming up. Again, heavy detail looks good and all, but it can wear out at times and I'm having fun mixing things up.

Now that's not to say the more detailed stuff is stopping, but variety, right? It's not like I haven't been doing this for over 20 YEARS LOL

Gonna try and do something I've wanted to do ever since I started drawing... which is draw one massive picture featuring all of my characters together!

Will it be easy? No. Will it be time-consuming? Damn right. Am I excited? Very!

Always wanted to see everyone in one picture together and I feel I'm finally in a position to make it happen lol

Looking to be about 15 characters if I count correctly.

So, with certain circumstances and action being taken, I'll be removing most of my new submissions of my own free will and migrating them.

All new artwork will now also be posted over to my new Inkbunny, and FA will function...as it did for the last several months. A place I occasionally log in to check once a month.

Sadly, I'm not surprised by the choices that were made, as I've encountered this in the past before. I won't, however, go into ranting details.

So yep! All new artwork will be posted to Inkbunny from now on. Feel free to follow there. In a way, a new journey is always kinda exciting. Gotta climb the mountain to see the vista, after all. Cheers :D

https://inkbunny.net/BlazeLupine

Break glass!

Or in this case, a backup plan :D

With the possibility of unforeseen circumstances interrupting my posting ability here, I have created an Inkbunny account, which you may find below:

https://inkbunny.net/BlazeLupine

I'm well aware of the content allowed there, but truth be told, I'm simply looking for a place where I can upload what I do without having unneeded anxiety attacks.

Furthermore, all content uploaded there (and should the fates allow here) will now be coming with a disclaimer in regards to the backgrounds I use within my art unless I myself specifically make it. It will basically consist of "The background used may or may not contain Ai influenced material. I will do my best to seek out backgrounds that do not use it, but in the event it does against my knowledge, my bad." And looking into Inkbunny's rules, it'll be tagged as such simply to cover my behind and to abide by their rules should that be the case.

I also plan to start saving the linework of my WIPs on occasion as well, just to have SOME proof that I'm the one working on them. It's sad that Ai has made such a thing a necessity, but starting that extra step again is better than not posting at all, I suppose.

I'll work on getting that profile fully setup in the coming days, but there's a link until then, woo!

Insert Pacha from Emperor's New Groove "just right" gif here.

Having a great time with it so far. Makes the six year wait feel totally worthy...also makes me realize how poorly made Scarlet and Violet (I did still enjoy them) were, oof.

Come on, Pokemon Company. You can do better than this. Hopefully you can show that on the next gen.

Or at least a small part of it, because I don't have the time, nor the desire, to sit and screencap/record my entire process of fudging around on Photoshop. Eyes are the most frequently brought up.

So my eyes are Ai generated because "they're blurry" eh?

Well, here's my step by step to address that one:

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52127919/

Hopefully we can stop going down this road now. People need to understand that inconsistencies do not = fake. Blurry doesn't = fake. The only fake parts about the pics I make are the backgrounds, which are ripped from stock lots, torn apart, resaturated and blurred until it looks "good enough" to fit what I need it to fit, and I've been doing that since I started digital.

Now shut up and move on already, because I'm tired of now getting notes of "Is your work really yours?"

Replying to this here, because e621 wouldn't let me comment on there since I just made the account.

https://ibb.co/G33LSLB

Ahem

1. Yep! The eyes are blurry. Why? I use the smudge tool. Despite new techniques, I still use old ones. The smudge tool blends well enough, but has the side effect of, gasp, making things blurry.

2. The one thigh is darker because I made the brown of Balto's ass show, where as on the other thigh, I made the gray extend too far. Looked okay at first, but eh, messed up lol

3. Anatomy error! Oh no, how dare I?!

4. Anyone who has watched me long enough knows hands and toes are my weakest point. Especially top views. And yep, the toes on Balto aren't even. I make anatomy errors, who knew?

5. More blurry lines because more smudge tool. He's a good friend of mine and we hang out often. I'm still new to layers and often forget I'm using them. My process used to be sketch, outline, paint bucket tool, outline, dodge/burn, outline, and all on a single layer. I'm still learning, but when it comes to fixing mistakes, I'm lazy lol

At the end of the day, I do art for fun, and for free. I've learned a lot, but at times I just don't care for perfection and the quickest fix is often the first I go to.

So yep, the eyes I make are sometimes blurry, my lines are inconsistent at times, and I'm gonna make anatomy errors. Get used to it. And this is the last I'll speak of it. Curse the fact I need to be one of those artists who likes to check how their art does on other sites LOL

We're in an age where things are changing, and accusations get flung around like pies in the hands of the Three Stooges. I was waiting for a comment like this:

https://ibb.co/58sssTv

So let's address it :D

Yeah, I've not drawn in months. Prior to that I hadn't done much in nearly a year. Why? A lot's been happening, both good, and bad. Also, I was no longer happy with my style. I was stuck in a rut that was never changing as self-taught methods weren't allowing me to improve. Wanna know why my art looked the way it did? When I moved to digital, it was not only being drawn with the mouse on my laptop, but I WASN'T using layers for different lines or color shades. I WASN'T using actual shading techniques either. I used the burn and dodge tool, which can be akin to using Comic Sans on your professional design project.

You know what's an amazing help? Not only getting a tablet, not only having other art friends teach you things, but learning new shading, drawing and coloring techniques and spending a year in a cave (or your home) applying and actually learning things. I wanted to evolve. But nowadays, you gotta deal with this Twitter mentality of call-outs without proof.

"Their art looks different OMG ITS FAKE!!!"

Yeah, only thing I can't take credit for half the time are the backgrounds. I find stock images I like and alter them a lot since I work full time. Anyone ever look back at an artists' (mine especially) first works? Ever notice how it usually, like, I dunno, improves or changes as they learn new things? Yeah, it happens?

Other than this, I don't care to defend myself any further. I do art for fun in my free time FOR free. If you like it? Cool! If not, totally your right. But don't shout false claims when you're bored. I don't have time or desire to battle anyone over that :D

I can happily say I'm glad I never made an account on Twitter to post my work.

I swear, the discourse that goes on there in regards to the fandom is ridiculous. Post one suggestive piece of artwork of a cartoon canine and you suddenly have dozens of puritan teenagers with chronically-online syndrome gathering the forces to CALL YOU OUT FOR BEIN' BAAAAAAAAAD!!!

THEY MUST PURGE THE FANDOM OF ALL EVILS WITHOUT EVIDENCE!!!

The inability for certain people to seperate a drawing from real-life is just crazy lol

Been having more time this year, and I've been taking time to learn new things with art, my style, etc.

Been nice getting back into the swing of things while honing my abilities. It feels pretty good being able to draw some of the things I've wanted to draw but didn't have the skills to do prior.

...even if I still cheat with backgrounds lol

I recently did something I've been putting off for a long time on here, which was to go through the list of people I follow and remove the dead accounts. It's amazing how many artists have simply vanished from existence. Quite a few were names I really enjoyed seeing for the longest times.

Although it is nice to see some are still around posting elsewhere....mostly Twitter. I'm okay with Twitter. I use it for a lot of other things, but nothing furry related. Perhaps I should make an account for my artwork there as well to just like...have one. Not that I draw as much as I used to. Life has been busy!

I've done more artwork in the last 30 days than I have in the last 2 years.

Huh!

and I are engaged.

Now everyone's fanfiction dreams about us have become a reality! LOL

I honestly just haven't had much to post in regards to life things.

Pandemic is still going, but I'm working and tending to life things. Have a LOT of projects going on outside of FA, which have been going super well, but it's taking up my time. I've been trying to reply more often though while working on art here and there.

Hope everyone is well!

So I've been going through my old artwork and decided I'm going to take some of my favorite traditionally done pieces and update them into digital. I like a lot of my older stuff, but most of it hasn't held up to age. Not to mention the scans of these pictures just aren't that good and sort of blurry.

So it might be fun to remake a lot of these older pictures.

I've noticed a lot of inactivity on FA lately. Not only in artists posting/moving elsewhere, but also in regards to comments and interest in posts.

Truthfully, I've been part of it. I've been doing artwork, but it either isn't furry related or I just don't feel like posting it due to general lack of interest. I've always drawn for myself, so really, that's no big deal. I guess my desire to share just isn't that prominent anymore? I dunno.

Still big in the fandom (will even have a new version of Blaze's fursuit done!) but as far as other things I guess I'm just drawn elsewhere. Honestly, I'll probably be re-writing Echo Knolls down the line as well to feature human characters, as it was never really shown much interest in the fandom outside a select few friends.

So lots of future plans! Hope all is well for everyone!

Yeah, I never announced I was going to 2019 I suppose. Forgot xD

This year was a blast though! Seriously, while our group doesn't really check out panels or shows that much, we make our own damn party. There were lots of dances, amazing food (Bae-Bae's thinks we're obsessed lol) so much SWAG! I bought so much. Ugh, I swear that the ability to pay with credit card is the worst thing ever!

There was also a night that I can't fully remember, which was awesome I hear. There is also a night that I'll never forget, but that's all I need to say <3

So yeah, this was a great year with the best friends anyone could ever have! Hope others enjoyed as well :D