Cheets!

That is gorgeous, such beautiful colors.

Thanks a bunch

Loving how this came out. Thank you :3

Yeah, was a pleasure working on it as well! Thanks again!

I like to imagine you had to traverse a muchly trapped dungeon, escape a band of angry gnolls, and obtain the goblet of badass color palettes to get this piece done~

For real though this is gorgeous as hell and I can't stop staring! <3

Yeeeesss, the life of an artist is an ever adventurous one! Clearly! Thank you :)

Oooooh what an awesome portrait! I'm again a great fan of the color choice, keep up the good work Nomax! <3

Thanks, yeah gotta go weird and pink sometimes!

The zipper is unreal....

It's just a squashed round brush that's spaced out a bit, seperate layer, lock it and then paint some colours over it to give that wavy impression. But that's the fun! Gotta try to be smart and find the easy way to do things!

I think that is the rule in almost every endeavor, but it is STILL cool as hell! It looks like a damned zipper!

wonderful work

Thanks Marcy!

Hnnnggg why am I such a sucker for locs <3

This is mega badass cool. Easy follow, hope I can snag something one day.

Thank you very much :) And i'm sure!

Random thing I noticed: Whenever I see the thumbnail for one of your pictures, it appears as it should, but when I open the full picture, the colours appear darker/muted. I noticed it especially on https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45373344/ in which the light column appears grey rather than white. Do you reckon it's furaffinity doing some compression or is my browser doing some fuckery I'm not aware of?

No, not your fault. I had some tech changes on my end so recently the pictures are coming colour profile. Which probably just isn't being applied to the thumbnail.
However the light column shouldn't be grey, that is a bit strange, and when i check on my decives (second screen, android phone, ipad) it appears to display correctly on all of them.
So it's a no, you're not doing anything wrong, but yes, if it's grey then it's not displaying correctly, however i don't quite know why and with things like that it's always tough for me to figure it out as i of course can't see how other people's screens display things.

I notice the grey light column only on my ipad when the brightness is lowered, then you'd probably notice whites being grey on other pictures too...hmm...

I just went and checked...if I hover over the picture on your profile page, it displays with the correct brightness. Same on my phone. However on both things the greyness appears when I click through to the full size version. So it appears that something is up with furaffinity. But yeah I'm not good with finding out the fault of such things either. Utterly mystifying.

Yeah it's strange, i'll have to figure something out for it sooner or later as it's clearly not ideal.

Do you upload your pictures in png or jpg format?

Recently mostly JPG as someone mentioned twitter apparently likes to compress PNG files weirdly.
The recent Of gold and riches painting was a PNG though, so if NSFW stuff isn't a problem you can probably see here if it's the same for PNG files with the whites and the difference between the thumbnail and the actual picture.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44735413/

The effect appears to be on that one. Interestingly it's not happening with Jungle Study or Racclantis for example, but Jungle Study 2 and Life Drawing 2 has the effect. Most curious is Other Worlds. It looks fine in the original pic but slightly greyed in the 2021 Art Summary. I am befuddled.

Yeah, it's stuff i bought last year, so the switch happened at some point in the year, meaning older pictures don't have it but newers do (for the most part).
Basically i need to for my display to show it accurately while painting. So if i turn the colour profile off it just ends up not looking like how it was intended. But yeah i'll have to see if i can sort it on my end as i don't even really know why it's the way it is. My old monitor was calibrated with the same software and didn't throw that extra wrench into things.

Alright, i think i fixed it, meaning going forward pictures hopefully will look closer to the intention, and thank you very much for bringing it to my attention!

You're welcome! Looking forward to future pics!