looks like someone LOOOOVES lickign candy canes ^-^

That's probably not all he loves licking 83

Because I'm a perv and I said so. xD

ooooohhh i believe you sir :D just give me the go ahead and i will give the wolf something to lick :P

I'm really liking the coloring style!
I would have suggested something for you to draw in that journal but everyone one else had it pretty much covered lol
but yes you should do something porny next X3

Next one should be better- I left a lot of open area because I'm tired and lazy today xD

I might do something porny, but to be honest, I'm getting the feeling a lot of people want me to do something clean lately... I'm feeling people are getting a little tired of relentless porn for some reason. xD

this is really nice test. I like your colouring style, but you have great expressions of characters too. Please can you tell me, if you use copic markers as a basis layer? :3 or how do you progress your pictures? :3 Thank you very much for the reply!

I don't use markers at all, actually- I tried art markers out a little, but really didn't like them at all to be honest. I actually use watercolour paints, I find them more forgiving and versatile. Then on top of that, I use coloured pencils to add details and textures.

If you'd like, I can actually put up an example of how I draw, in five or six steps...

that would be great! :)

wow, it looks like the markers. :3 thank you! :)

I'll see what I can whip up, maybe it'll help people see just how I draw :P

I second this notion :3

A step-by-step has been posted now, if you haven't seen it yet :3

thanks a lot :D

Now there's a tasty christmas treat.

And some candy. <3

yay candycanes

oh this came out great!

When he's done with that I will give him something so much sweeter to lick......

Different materials can have radically different effects. If you feel like you're struggling, then either you need to change yourself to use the medium better, or you need to change the medium to suit yourself better.

It's good to be able to do both, but the latter is generally the better option. It's good to promote your natural tendencies. And it very much works like that where you can think you must just be doing it wrong somehow, and then you change something in the materials you're using, and suddenly the exact same thing you were doing is golden.

Paper matters. _A lot_.

Another thing is to try other mediums. Like marker is mentioned above. You mention that marker didn't work well for you. But the same concept applies... what markers did you try? Different brands yield _very_ different results. And the paper used has dramatic effect on markers as well. Out of all mediums, I'd be inclined to say that markers are the most affected by paper selection, actually.

Anyway, a lot of people try Prismacolor markers on some random paper. And it's just all muddy. In my opinion, Copic markers are dramatically better. And Copic also sells a special paper designed for their markers and the way markers perform on it is amazingly different. Very well behaved. I would say don't give up on markers until you've tried the Copics.

This is not to say your watercolor isn't awesome. Because it totally is. In fact, I wouldn't have even thought it was watercolor. You make it do things other artists can not. So please don't leave that behind!

But... I've found in my own art that learning and experimenting with other mediums teaches me things that I would never have learned in my primary medium. Because other mediums have different emphasis.

For instance, I've never been good at inking. I've tried, but it just doesn't seem to work for me. However, I'm very glad I studied it, because I ended up applying inking techniques I'd learned to my pencil sketching, and that _did_ improve my pencil work substantially. I mean... it's kind of a bastard child misuse of techniques applied to a medium they weren't designed for, but hey... that's the best stuff! :)

Anyway, just some thoughts since I love the heck out of your art, and I get excited whenever you post.

And if you want suggestions, I'll just keep on suggesting gryphons. Especially female gryphons in bondage and getting fucked n stuff.

There's three things that I've discovered about markers that I just know I don't like. It's not that they didn't cover well or were muddy or anything. The first is simply that you can't cover areas fast enough, and they dry too fast- maybe not a problem for other artists, but I'm a very slow draw-er. xD Also the way I draw tends to have very large open areas where other's might not. Which meant I had to break out into two directions to colour everything, meaning somewhere there would be an ugly dark line where you pick up colouring again.

The second was that, on paper designed to use markers (which I've used :P ), pencils just don't work or look very good. Generally marker paper is very fine and smooth, right? But pencils need a little bit of grain and weight to work good at all. And while I'm all for experimenting with other ideas, pencils are at the very core of my drawing ability- any time I pick up a new medium, I always end up trying to use it the way I do coloured pencils xD So if I can't use pencils on it well, it's not worth doing, for me.

Third is that they're just -so- damned expensive! A decent, large set of markers can easily cost hundreds and hundreds of dollars. I've found the average price for art markers starts out at around three dollars per marker, and only goes up from there! That's just too rich for my cheap blood xD Watercolour paints, on the other hand, you don't have to use any fancy brand just to get decent results... (Which I've discovered with markers you pretty much have to- crayola's just aren't made to fill large areas smoothly x3) I'm using a set of 24 watercolour tubes that cost me about 12 dollars right now, and I've been using that same exact set for every picture I've drawn for the last -year-. They only cost me 12 dollars for a whole year's worth of use. Now that I can afford xD

I'm pretty sure I've discovered that watercolour, ink, and coloured pencil just suits my drawing style the best, I'm just trying to tweak it now. I think I might have found a paper which works much much better with the pencil half of my drawing, now I just need to see if it can still put up with the paint half of my drawing, by doing some sort of background for it :P

A lot of valid points. Especially that markers are quite expensive. The Copics are even more so, but they also have higher capacity and are refillable, so they're actually less expensive than the others in the long run, but a much higher buy in cost. Hundreds of dollars is right. If not thousands when you get into the full sets of good ones.

Where you mention getting any ugly dark line when you pick up coloring again, that's what colorless blenders are about, btw.

Anyway, it was just a possible suggestion. I'm a big fan of your style as it is, so it's not like I was recommending you abandon it at all. Just some possible tips.

I didn't end up being into markers myself, but I did work with them for a while and learned from the experience. Mostly it was useful to take what I'd learned back into other mediums I was better with.

You make a very good case for watercolours. I'd been considering getting some markers for a while, but now I'm tempted to find an old set of watercolour paints and see what I can do with them...

Also: This picture doesn't look like much, I know. You're insane. Yeah, it might be a simple piece, but you can see the artistic skill here, to make something that refined so economically. (That you can play down a piece like this just makes me jealous.)

cool a giant candycane
im liking the pose

Awesome. Good work

Sweet (pun intended) and seductive...*smirks*

I really love how you do the fur!
I've been trying to figure out how to draw fur like that for a while now, but haven't exactly got it down yet :P

Ah, the way I draw fur is pretty simple. It's really not hard at all, but it is pretty specific to the materials and method I use, so replicating it with other materials could make it fairly tricky :P

Yeah, I work on a digital medium, so it's difficult to mimic the tools used in traditional work.
I tried working with a canvas once, but I couldn't stand not having an undo-button XP

Clean and cute makes an outstanding picture most of the time anyway. I still like how you draw fur. It's very unique in styling.

It can be fun now and then. But I'll be honest, it's hard to keep from doing the more perverse pictures I'm more fond of x3 Glad ya like though, thanks much :P

Not a problem. :3 Those tasty pictures don't draw themselves, eh? XD

His taaaaail! -huggs it-

It's just a wolf tail? x3

-loves tails- you saw nothing! O_O

Handsome fellow, cute scene, paws, floofy tail ^.^

Writing some kind of checklist are we? xD

Nice Ru!

haha!
sexual innuendo

Oh man, that Taakuin dude is pretty rad for coming up with this idea. :V

Tathe like thhhhhanta

...santa tastes like candycanes?

would that be a bad thing?

If santa looked something like this-
http://www.furaffinity.net/view/1808729/ (Minus the badly drawnness...)

Then no. Then it'd be awesome.

If he looked like this-
http://www.santaclauschicago.com/santa.jpg

Then I really wouldn't wanna know anyway xD

Well the 1st one would certainly be preferred (hardly badly drawn silly :P)


and if it had to to be the 2nd one, well...


then at least you'd leave with minty breath to go with your broken spirit. XD

He looks waaaaaaaaay to content licking that candy can. I guess you drew him like that on purpose, eh? *Nudges* Eh? Naughty. But I like naughty. Naught is good. Mmmmm...xD

I want a candy cane to lick now...

Sorry for the spelling mistakes. x.x

Well to be honest, I was originally going to make this picture a lot more suggestive and perverted than it ended up being, it just wasn't going in that direction so I didn't force it, but facially he still ended up looking like he's having a little too much fun xD I really didn't mind, was just a test anyway. :P

Well it's very good, Ruaidri! ^_^ I hope someday to get good too.

Hehe, well if you keep at it, you will! It's all a matter of patience and practice. :3

I know, so everyone tells me. My main problem is that I don't have a style of drawing. Like...how to get the pose and stuff. I need some help, I think. Maybe a really good tuturial, but I have yet to find one. :< I dunno.

I think that's another thing that just comes with pratice. You just gotta hammer away at it over and over until certain things start to feel natural. A simple way to start is simply by reffing poses and copying off artists who you like. Draw things that others have drawn, using that as a starting point. Naturally you won't want to post these things, or if you do give full credit. But as you do this over and over you'll start to get a feel for anatomy and poses and how to set things up, then you simply start to try a few pictures on your own, without a ref. And it'll be hard and you won't know how to do it at first, but if you keep at it and try over and over, you'll start to get more and more natural at it.

At least, this is how I did it. x3 My first several pictures weren't actually my pictures, they were copied by sight. Once I started to get ideas on anatomy, I started to draw based on my own imagination. And, they sucked, terribly. But that's how it starts x3

From what I saw in your gallery, you seemed to have the right idea. :P

Yeah, well that's all I'm really good at right now. Copying from sight. Thank you for telling me all this. I hope I can at least get as good as you. Thank you. I know it's going to be hard, but I'll give it my best.

Mmmmmmmm. Wuffy lickies are teh best :3

Hehe, not very suggestive :P

Great job, this style looks great! ^^

*nods* i agree, those are some of your best pieces! and this one looks great too. I certainly like this style of shading and fluffyness :D The inking works quite well too.

Candy cane love. *snickers* Awesome. :)