Ispahan's Prince

It started out as a doodle to practice digital inking and eventually I completed it because his cocky self wouldn't let me do anything else.

His expression is a bit annoying, right? :/ He seems a little too dominant and pretentious for my taste.

... but I gave him a background anyway.

 Because all reasons are good to draw a half-naked boy. ^^ And here's the bearded version so there's one for every taste.

Lithium Lake

I don't think I've ever posted so many steps for a picture but here it is. I thought it could be fun to show the construction of the whole thing.

I got inspired by several different pictures of landscapes, mostly from Scotland, and wanted to go with semi-complementary colors, red/orange and green tones to make the background "powerful". At least this is what I tried to do, you tell me if it worked.

Adding the river/lake... but it seemed a bit off, for some reason. I kinda like this warm red water though.

This step was the occasion for a huuuuuge argument on reflections in water with my boyfriend. Being an artist gives you plenty of opportunities to have such silly arguments.

And now that the background is mostly done, let's start the boys. I just sketched different boys in various positions to see what they could do.

Aaaand for the grand finale... click for the high-res' picture!

Familiar Gay Centaurs as named by Dinosaur Prince

Some occasions are perfect for a collab-commission. Nay, ALL occasions are perfect for this! And Patrick (Fillion) and (Robert) Fraser's first marriage anniversary was a great symbol to celebrate -especially for me since the debate on Marriage for All was so nasty and disgusting in France, it warms my heart and gives me hope to see some countries are smarter than mine- but Dinosaur Prince found an interesting twist to make this couple portrait even better : centaurs. Pretty indecent centaurs of course. ^^

At first, Dino hesitated, he wasn't sure of the kind of picture he wanted me to do and as I said, I can do all the centaur porn he wants but porn of people I consider as friends? It was a little too intimate for me. ^^" Dino said he was less reluctant than I was, probably because dudes are dirtier than girls, I really don't think they are but drawings people with whom I've already chatted about food and casual stuff in kinky settings without their previous explicit consent... that was my limit.

Dino understood that and we went for relatively "casual" centaurs, very well endowed of course, I should say they're hung like horses. Literally. The trickiest part for me was to try capturing the likeliness of the faces, I hope they're recognizable. -And ohhh digital line art, it's not my first but it's still new for me!-

I loved coloring Fraser's horse legs, the little spots are cute! We went for a classic kind of background, country-style and bucolic for our two centaurs to roam freely the fields like forever young lovers... oh, that made me poetic!

To make it a little less poetic and a little more "life-like" we gave Fraser the small target he's got on his Twitter picture, and made Patrick's cape pink like his pink t-shirt. Eventually the target ended on Fraser's butt though, as I wasn't sure which one Dino would prefer I made both!

As always it was a pleasure working for and with them all and I must say I like the clean results, almost like a comic for children... well, grown up children! ;)

Seahorse's heir - long days of labor...

 I hesitated, should I post this picture here or not because it represents a kid? The laws are kind of a gray area but well... let's say it's okay. I wanted to draw a merman of color and thought, why not making him even more interesting than a basic merman and make him a seahorse? I know, there were other ways to make it more interesting -^^- but I wanted the picture to look good in a regular fantasy portfolio.

 So I drew a proud seahorse and his baby, that as every one of you know, he gave birth to himself. I thought it was a nice way to create a father/child bond in a fantasy setting. In the end I'm really glad of the way they look at each other. I hope I managed to create a "connection" between them. (Also, I harmonized the father's proportions because his head was really weird at first.)

Work in progress... it took a long time to paint the damn reef!

Almost done! I thought I was going to end here but the boy -mine, I mean- told me something was off, that it lacked the kind of perspective you can find underwater. It's true that it's a bit too "clean".

So, rays of light coming from the surface, make the detailed background you had painted a little blurrier, several layers of shadows to make the background disappear in the dark and eventually proud papa told me he wanted to blow bubbles to entertain his kid... pfeeeeeew finished! Or is it?

The size of your sin...

For once a little something different, still porny though. I wanted to make a short porn comic that would be straight but more "women friendly" than the majority of porn productions. In comics, peasants don't rape nuns, nuns rape peasants... ~which was kinda already the case, psychologically speaking... ^^"~

Keeper of the booty

I don't know how much time I spent on this painting but as you can guess, it was long. Looooong. I wanted to show a warrior (that ended up being a Targaryen from ASOIAF) sharing a special moment with his dragon. -Nah I know this blog is usually dirty but please, keep your hand on the desk!-

And since anatomy is better shown naked... I had to make a nude version, obviously ! Actually, I made the naked version first then added clothes to be able to put it in my "proper" portfolio. ^^"

 I spent a ridiculous amount of times on the scales, then an even more ridiculous amount of time on the gold pile. But I came to like the general atmosphere. I'll never be grateful enough for Youtube and its load of stupid documentaries about gangs, crimes and prostitution, racism, politics and religion. They kept me awake during those long hours smoothing scales. XD

And the finally version where all the attention is not drawn to the dragon, how strange is that?

Back to the roots

For some reason my sketches and I aren't really friends these days. :/ Shucks! Look at this bastard, he struggled, not letting me sketching him! I'm the artist, I'm the one in charge, dammit!

Anyway I came back to one of my first passions, harem boys. Wanted to try some new coloring stuff and I lost myself in the moucharabieh in the background. This kind of design is hypnotic and relaxing at the same time.