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[Velvet D'Coolette]

Val, I've never looked at this thread properly, but I'm glad I have now. You've made some fabulous artwork here!

[Valerie Valens]

Much thanks. :3

New sketchblog post made

'Tis a fun anatomical and pose study. ;D

[Valerie Valens]

Reviving this.

Description is in the link.

[Ratty Randnums]

Awesome work as always Val the costume and heir of mischievousness/knowing something we don't- combine with consistent quality to make it distinctively yours. Again as always

[Velvet D'Coolette]

Very nice! I see you've gone for a more conventional balance of lower limb size to upper body size. Often, it seems to me that one of your hallmarks is big legs (although whether that's got more to do with taking a low, close-to-the-ground perspective or not I don't know). The big legs thing is nice, but your style works well on balanced subjects, too.

I love the level of detail on the uniform of this one.

[Valerie Valens]

A little preview of of something I am working on. It's of Mahina Kahli, a character I am making for the forum RPG that is being set up.

[Velvet D'Coolette]

Mmm, technicolour!

Once again, stylishly made. Interesting velociraptor claws, though!

I always meant to ask: you've mentioned featherboxing before as a persuit some of your characters learn, but is there really such a thing? I once did a search to see if I could find any real-life examples, but the nearest I got was a YouTube of a black cat fighting a feather. Did you make the discipline up or was it invented by someone else? I like the concept

[Valerie Valens]

I made it up. It's based off of kick boxing, but with the fantasy bonus of being able to do crazy aerial combos.

[Valerie Valens]

So...you may wonder where I have been and what I have been up to. Well, I am still drawing like a motherfucker, but there are a couple of reasons why you guys haven't heard from me in a while. One, I am very lazy when it comes to posting my work in more than one place. Secondly, a lot of what I am doing these days are very fetishy furry stuff that I doubt any of the Admins would approve if I posted them here. However, for some strange reason, I feel compelled to post here. So let's start up from Day 1, which is the September 30th of last year.



Here's an early design of my second alter ego Arche. It's a glimpse into the past for me as an example of the style I used to draw in before the Lulzdraws exercise.
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Day 2 has me designing a weapon for one of my characters Skye Valken. It's a beam-scythe/grenade launcher combo.
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(Mature) Day 3 was when I decided to try my hand at using photo references and making my own interpretation of it. There will be many more to come in the early days.
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Day 4, This is my attempt at drawing a 4-barrel minigun. Why 4 and not 6? Because I am pretty awful at perspective and technical drawings, hopefully I would be making some headway by now.
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By then, I have been told that I need work on the way I draw the faces, as evidently seen in Day 1. So these two days were spent doing some head shots.
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Not satisfied with my handiwork in the last 2 days, I took the advice of some of my peers and did some skull studies to help visualize the head shape.
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(Mature) These three pictures were referenced from various pinup photos I have found.
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Gift art for Sechs Freehaven, the owner of the goddamned furry imageboard.
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Sally, as visioned in a dream I had the night before.
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Practice with torsos.
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A bust shot of Valerie. Experimenting with purple leads, didn't work out, scanner picked up the purple lines all too well.
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Jessica, because I felt like drawing her on that day.
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A much-needed study sketch-o-rama of the rotator cuff muscles. Had extra time that day, so I scribbled the alphabet of my conlang Τερρανος.
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This one was borne out of frustration. I had an idea in my head that I couldn't get right, so I sketched this out quickly to make up for it. Ailís sitting in a lotus position.
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Couldn't shake off the funk from the previous day, so this was all that I could draw on that day. A retarded sketch of a villain character of mine Berach. He gets no love, as in the storyline I am cobbling in my head with these characters of mine involves him being brutally murdered by Jessica after he made the mistake of putting her family in peril.
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Got back into my groove on this day. Used a photo of a statue of a nude male Olympic discus thrower to draw a female squirrel lady doing the same.
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That's about it for now. If I showed everything I could show in here from day 1 to day 133 (Currently), we'd be here all day. I guess tomorrow I'll post more. Ta -ta.

[Ratty Randnums]

Simply beautiful stuff :3 it's amazing what a difference 100 days can make when you apply yourself
Though I still maintain your art was good even before X3. I think it's matured and come more into it's own now it's been amazing watching the quick evolution and elevation of your skills, it's just too bad so many of the lulzdrawers didn't stay on. X3