Hey just sort of curious now. How many folks would be interested in a return to drawing some BSDM stuff? I was curious about that as a started doodling a Dan and Terry BDSM series of pinups...

With some wonderful help I got a discord server all set up and ready to go! There's patron only sections too if you are a supporter of my art you'll get to see a bunch of stuff early and in progress :). But otherwise it hopefully will be a fun place to hang out!

https://discord.gg/Efxz9b

Just a reminder folks! The santas village ych bidding is ending tonight at 12 midnight mountain time. If your interested in it place a bid before then :).

now streaming for the public :).

https://picarto.tv/ColonelKlinkDraws

Now streaming for $1 patroen supporters!
https://www.patreon.com/posts/18666653

I have a whole new set of lower commission prices. Customers can get up to two characters drawn for as low as $15! If you are interested send me a pm :).

Gonna make a go of it on twitter. You can send a line or follow me at artistklink :).

How many folks out there would like to see some of my character concept doodles and practice pieces posted in scraps?

I greatly appologize for the delay on this announcement. I got a day job and once the workweek starts on thursday I tend to get lost in the heavy workweek.

Anyway, you don't want to hear my feeble excuses! The winner of the contest is....  iratami!!!! Look for the completed work this week or next!

Hey folks just reminding you that because of the attacks on furaffinity you unless you already have done so you must comment again on the YCH drawing in order to be in the running to be the winner. Several people who originally signed up for the drawing have not re-signed up and I don't want anyone to miss out on the chance to get some free art :).

click here and comment to re-enroll in the contest if you haven't done so already!

Well now with this whole attack on the site thing.... Everything has been warped back a week, I'm certain there are a lot of artists like me sifting through the "rubble" trying to figure out where to begin again.

I'm resubmitting the deleted comic pages. A new one will also come out this week. I'm also resubmitting my thank you YCH drawing. Fans of mine will now have until Friday the 27th to enter and win the role in the YCH.

Just curious now because  Kabier really has gotten me suddenly inspired to draw Kobolds... I have some ideas and kobolds of course are scalies, very small scalies lol.

Like a kobold war party who has captured an "unlucky" wolf and has their way with him :P.

Sorry folks, had my final college tests ect today so there is no comic release today. I'm bumping back to a Wed-Friday release of "the Couch Surfer." Stay tuned they are coming!

A conversation with another furry has me wondering. How many of you folks out there are into war thunder?

***Disclaimer:***
Please excuse any sort of rambling, possible poor grammar ect in this post. I'm just a tad loopy tonight as I'm on some pain killers while waiting on authorization from my dental insurance to get a root canal. I very well might be loopy for a few days/weeks.

So, I have long been trying to figure out what to journal about. I don't want to touch politics because people can get butthurt and really I didn't want my art to be associated with any sort of political thought or agenda. I didn't want people reading my comics (which I genuinely am writing better stories for, stories with actual three dimensional characters and actual character development not just "hey I got a penis" "I got a penis too! Lets fuck!") to be constantly distracted by how they perceive me through some political talk. And neither do I want people to just think I'm some stiff necked snob because I often write about my iron sort of attitude with my art ect.

Yet, I really do want to interact with my fans. This leaves to safe areas I think, the world of firearms/engineering (which I could go on and on about) or video games. So lets talk video games folks! :). If you would like me as a professionally trained gunsmith, former USMC armorer and current mechanical engineering student to talk about firearms in the future just tell me so in the comments! :).

So, Just Cause 3! I recently got this for my brand spanking new PS4 (which I could probably make another journal comparing that nice product to the xbox one ) and I realize while typing this that its almost impossible to actually really discuss Just Cause 3 in depth without actually talking about Just Cause 2. Basically both games (I never played the original) have the same premise. You are a crazy madman unleashed on an island hell bent on taking down some dictator (whom strangely actually seems to be dramatically improving the quality of life for the locals) by completing some missions and burning down every scrap of infrastructure you can find. To do this you have the unique super power of shitting an infinite number of parachutes, which you combine with a grappling hook system to help travel around the epic scale of the game (whose size is only matched by TES 2: Daggerfall which actually needed its fast travel system unlike Oblivion and Skyrim which shamefully removed the mark and recall spells.)

Looking at all this I had the inevitable question: Is the third game better than the second? They did away with purchasing equipment (which was so expensive you'd be a lunatic to do so) but also depressingly did away with equipment upgrades. So you can no longer through a great deal of effort upgrade your grenades to mini nukes and cackle with glee at the results. Instead they give you a series of dubious use generic upgrades. Ultimately I found only perhaps four upgrades were worth any bother. Which brings me to the single greatest improvement. They have rethought quite how the whole parachute grappling hook combo in and gave you a wingsuit (instead of hoping the game will contextually make you go into a sort of wingsuit mode like the first one.) This change allows you to while in wingsuit flight mode to use the grappling hook to boost your speed instead of stapling your face to a wall. Suddenly the sort of clunky flying around has become a pleasurable flight through the land with you the hero continually shifting between modes of travel to adapt to corners and new situations.

But there is one area where the game is decidedly a failure. Both games are absolutely epic in size, and I can remember with the first game looking at all the free play destruction targets, items to find ect and going "well I'm never going to actually manage to do all that...." The problem with the new game is that they have kept all that, but instead of completing missions for control of regions and liberating the people that way you instead are forced to do those freeplay targets. Literally, in order to beat the game you have to do the grind fest "blow everything up in one town after another. You must get EVERYTHING." Shoot mechanics are improved, the basic movement mechanics are greatly improved but everything is utterly ruined by the reality that the game more or less demands that you 100% complete it or not at all. Unless you are a die hard completion I do not recommend buying Just Cause 3 which is a shame because the previous one was so fun and this one simply kills itself by being tedious...

Some of you out there might be wobdering (especially with a new release I have planned this week) why my non comic art pages have had a shifting facial structure lately. Well the short obvious answer is that ***I*** am not satisfied with them yet. This ol war horse has dreams of grandeur and I really don't want to be the guy who shovels out the same ol stuff with no improvement. I have realized quite a while ago while meditating on my art that my greatest failing is lacking mesmerizing and highly expressive facial structures. So I am systematically playing with them to improve this. I want my foundation as a style to remain but I need a better cranial structure for eyes.as you have seen I also am trying to improve color and shadow technique as well as effects.

"Why aren't you doing this in your comic?" Well because this comic is meant to be consistent. My first comic was litterally done so I always had something to draw to keep practicing and master fundamentals. This one is supposed to be a uniform and consistent piece, which is another form of practice, especially as my true style keeps evolving.

There are other artists who have long since reached where they want to be and function by making an attractive and consistent "product." I just haven't gotten there yet and many weeks I honestly spend thirty hours trying to get there. This growth focus is why I welcome critisism of my art work. I won't lie to you, it can genuinely bother me on an emotional level. Someone made a comment about shin length that really bothered me, but the fact that it bothered me made me pay the hell attention and learn. It can be hard to deal with but it's even harder growing if you don't know that something is wrong. Anyway thanks for listening folks. I'll be seeing you around, this art "work week" is about to start for me so stay tuned!

Has anyone drawn someone using their hand to grab something in an odd position only to realize that you have drawn the left hand instead of the right? Only me? Ok ;(. lol.

That illustrates why its important to just sit and stare at one's art demanding that it tell you its wrongness! lol.

Well, Bottoms Make the Best Tops will have its final page released this Friday. Thirty eight pages is a hell of a run for a comic!
Over the course of those 38 pages I really have learned and grown. Starting out color was by far my greatest weakness as an
artist, but now I have a slew of color and shading techniques under my belt. Every craftsman needs to drive themselves to improve
and I believe I have accomplished that here.

I am actually quite a workaholic. I get horrifyingly bored just playing games and such all the time, I must be creating something.
As such you should expect the first release of my next comic on Saturday! That's right folks, just ending and already on to a new story!
No I'm not going to tell you which comic I chose to do next till Saturday. Its a surprise :).

A note: I have tried streaming in the past but understand that I will not be doing that in the foreseeable future. My computer just doesn't seem to have quite enough oompf to both stream the service and allow me to work smoothly in high resolution on a picture. I know what your thinking, "Well buy a new computer dude." Well, I'll be honest with you here, that money is gone. I spent it on a brand new pistol :P.

I still am not taking any commissions. I am beginning the process of structuring a terms of service, a business plan, work hours, business code of ethics and so on around that whole issue. Suffice to say that commissions will NOT be offered until I am satisfied that I can provide the most professional product as well as professional service to go with said product. Call me anal retentive or what have you but I'm certain that anyone who wants to pay for art will be MUCH happier getting exactly what they expect exactly on time.

Anyway I think that's about everything. I mostly wanted to post this and chat with my fans out there because I really am excited about having
reached this milestone. :).

So as I get closer to the end of bottoms make the best tops I have been working on additional comic ideas long and short. I'm going to post my future projects here (not nessisarily in the order they will be made) so i can receive community input.

-The Team: lurking out there is a duo that few would expect. They stalk the night searching for their prety, men. Sasha (female) and Alex(male) work together so that no man gay or straight will escape their bedroom. Little does he realize it but isaac is going to get ensnared by the duo and experience sex with a woman for the first time in a MMF threesome.

-the Cabin: during some cross country skiing isaac breaks his leg only to be rescued by a great wolf whom splints his leg and provides him shelter. Trapped in the cabin isaac quickly learns that the wolf simply is going to take his reward from the horse sexually. Features hot male dom action including goodol resyraints, edging, denial, breath play and more.

-Dreams of Pink: Tyson is a mighty stallion whom all the mares swoon over but he has a secret. He wishes that he were a slim cute pony instead. Then one day a passing gyspy sees into his soul and gives him a magic corset to live his dream so long as he wears it. The magic fuzes with his flesh making him soft feminine and cute with the corset itself becoming part of his new body so only he knows that he is wearing it. Now all the stallions pine for him and he suddenly learns he may be attracting more male attention than he can handle.... And what will the gypsy extract in payment when she returns?

today I've been working on the 22nd page of Bottoms Make the Best Tops, planning additional comics, discussing with a few character owners about the possibility of drawing their character and generally just plain working hard on my art, this all has me thinking.

Once upon a time I was a US Marine and I worked in the armory. I was (and still am0 interested in gunsmithing, I wanted to design new pieces ect. So for years I dedicated myself to learning one new thing about firearms, no matter how trivial. Why right or left twist rifling? Handling heat, is having more metal better than having thin metal with lots of surface area to mass? ect. Now since I started my FA account I have put the same level of dedication into developing my skill with visual art. What is cute? How do people identify rough and hunky? What makes a piece pop? What makes it glow? As time has gone on my fans will have undoubtedly noticed continual growth and tweaking in my choices particularly of my finishing of art. These are of course in response to artistic qualities I appreciate in other artists, such as Red Rusker's shading techniques or how Tokifuji somehow manages his pieces seem light, warm and full of life. For those who just thought "your just copying others!" My response is that in every art a student first begins by imitating the master, and because I'm imitating several "masters", processing them in my own mind and applying them in my own way my art style though drawing inspiration from others(as ALL artists do) it ultimately is my own style.

Now this brings to a question for my growing fan base. I'm at an impasse in my artwork. On one hand I have the option to use thin careful lines for my artwork, like Tokifuji as one example. Here is a sample of a comic page with such a style:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17666513/

Now that piece does still have thicker lines than Tokifuji normally employs but its an example of a thinner line style. Then more recently I have grown to like the thick art styles. Here is a sample of a comic page I have done with such a style:
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/17823021/

So the question is, which is more visually pleasing? As my fans I would love input concerning this, focus on the characters and just ask yourself if you find the characters more enjoyable to look at with thick lines or thin lines.

This week my husband's mother is visiting and I really haven't been able to get any substantial work done on the comic. Production should return to normal next week :).