Are you going to end up mixing a pipe in there somewhere? X3

Possibly. Pipe and/or cartomancy, sigils/seals, knives, flower crowns, and all that.

all of the occult :D

For it to be all of the occult, I'd need to have some upside down triangle above my...
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Wait.

Well at least I'm an 8.

Your face is an 8.
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Gaah, this person looks so chill! This is relaxing to look at. Love the hair and the mixture of animals! Excited about the imagery you want to work into it too.

the way you stylize your anatomy is really cool to me...the little hearts you add to collarbones is so neat, I love it.

I don't think I can draw a collarbone without the heart. It might actually be physically impossible for me.

love the expression & how you draw adams apples. such a neat mix of animals here.

I <3 obvious adams apples on lanky guys. It might be a bit of a problem how much I heart them in artwork.
And funny enough, while it'll still remain a mix of all of those things, this hybrid form for me is just going to start being called a salamander. Even though there's obviously all these stylized attributes and stuff.
Gotta love the art community taking a species or genus and fucking with it completely :D

i am so with you on the adams apples
big adams apples are <3
especially on tallll lanky fellows
its just an aesthetic i like

fuck yeah creative freedom

I adore the anatomy here, I like how the sway of the body sort of leads the eye in a natural circle all around the picture... I like how "full" it is.

What makes you decide to stop at the points you do to record progress? Is there anything you look for before doing so, or is it more at-random?

It's usually that I either that get feeling that I can stop somewhere (ok, this step is done) or that I have to stop somewhere because I'm out of time/have to go do something else.
I usually try to break it up into the following though: Base Sketch/Map, Sketch Up, Ink, Color, Details, Background. Obviously not all of the pieces have those steps, and sometimes there's an extra here or there when I have to stop short of completing each step.

What I find funny is things like when I map out much more detailed realistic things (like that hand, which actually was quite a few layers going from cartoony to realistic back to symbolized so that way I could make it look right to me), I think purposefully loose a lot of that detail/stylize it more in inking. For that hand, the fingers will probably get thinner while the knuckles stay large and bulky.

Interesting! That makes sense.

You do a lot of your final steps digitally, right? I've always felt that inking something with microns is inevitably going to end up with a loss of detail. :/

I tend to do most sketches in my sketchbook, and then scan them and go from there. So the first two in here were traditional, and from there it's digital.

My issue with inking traditionally is a] I suck at it and b] I add a lot of accessories and details after it's inked and colored. Just how my brain works. Also, to ink I zoom in a lot, so funny enough I can out a lot of detail in, but I loose a ton of it a lot of the time when I shrink it down to a normal size.

also - love how this is coming along. i really love the hands.
would you mind if i drew you? is there any traits i should be aware of if i am to draw you?

Thanks. I'm fine with that, and I should be done within a few days to a week if you wanted to wait and have a better reference? Because there's a lot left to add to this, and I'm not good at explaining things on here... sorry. That's more of HGD's deal (being wordy on the internet).

This is coming along really nice! :O Seeing the progression of the work is always a lot of fun, I like that you and HGD take the time to do that.

So is HGD's design the same/a similar mix as yours?
This looks really nice. I love the color choices, the muted tones look great against the bright red and pink.

Yup, though there are also obvious differences. We're starting to realize I actually lack canine for the most part. Ty (who I'll be uploading a dirty sketch of in a while) is also similar but more fossa/axolotl. As it gets colored/added to we'll figure more out about it :)

Ahh, ok. :) I think I remember there being an absence of rabbit on his ref, definitely more mustelid/canine features and I think slightly different horns.