Kef's Ghoul Den

Introduction to the Ghoul Den

What I like is that you can actually edit these posts. So this is going up as a pinned post I guess. (When I get there.)

What I generally do intend to post here are just drawings of things that I like to do - or show off what I like but not limited to:

The Dracosphere project, featuring my personal main species called the Nari (or more commonly for my internal use - Dracoghouls)

Prehistoric animals and personal "paleoart"-inspired works

Anthro/furry stuff

Speculative evolution

Worldbuilding

Cursed ideas

And there's more. I kinda want to expand and experiment with things that I write.

I work with three major projects - one of them is currently shelved with werebeasts in them set in the early 20th century (Chimeric Chronicles) and two are things I still work, including the Dracosphere.

For reposts (if that happens): @other-kef

Ref - Ogmau Sarcosynkt (2026)

Juxia OC

Finally got off my chest to do a non-recent Cenozoic mammal character because there aren't enough of them... except for like the other ones that pop up in my head like Andrewsarchus, Daeodon (or more generally "terror pigs" - entelodonts) and Pakicetus.

Great Auk OC

Overview of Naric Draconian Breeds (V2)

An overview of Naric draconian breeds - part of the second and most dominant Dracoghoul species' piece, which has been simplified and now allows a form of "hybrids", though aren't true draconian-ghoul hybrids.

It Is Finished

After a pretty long journey of working on this project for like years, its finally over.

I've made this on the whim of finally finishing a long personal project that I wanted to drop behind for good (and for a long time, hopefully - life has sort of burning in my head for months and this was the weight that was pushing down), so its a relief that an overdue nightmare is done. (I can finally say that I can relax and not think about it now in my mind.)

Departing From Home

This is the final piece of illustration that I have imposed on myself before I can get started on completing the writeup of the next and final chapter of A Phoenix’s Ascendance - of which this illustration belongs. With that out of the way, I should have less distractions towards building up that final episode.

It took 16.5 hours over a few days (colouring took 4 days) and about five full watches of The Fifth Element yesterday to finish this thing. Probably the amount of dragon people didn’t help, as it was also trying to detail down every single prop, even though its very minimal and not so cluttered.

Captured Probe

This one was already done for a few days, but I had some trouble coming up with an idea or thing to write during this period. I already had plans to have the rest of the human world on Gaia (ATL name for Earth; unpopular opinion - a better name than “Terra” in sci-fi for Earth) - from the accursed worldbuilding project that’s been going on for almost five years - become aware of the first extraterrestrial life abroad (albeit not one that was surprising), connected to the already existing Drakons (feral!Dracoghouls) that have settled and spread through Gaia.

So yeah, that wraps up some of the delays. Really liked how it ended up on something I thought would be difficult to tackle at first, as someone who hasn’t tried to do a “broad” concept of an uncrewed spacecraft before.

Talk Show

Something to break the quiet times as I'm working to finish the last chapter of a personal project that's overdue by 4 months now. If this is the reason why I haven't been posting a lot that is exciting to me, that is why.

There's three more illustrations to go till I'm finished and satisfied with its ending. This is one of them.

Sandy Standoff

DracoGhouls | Ghoul Forms - #500-#549

Finally got around to posting this compilation of heads at the bottom of the second generation Dracoghouls series of characters. I'm thinking of just posting these every time I hit every 50 characters I've drawn in this series that I do sometimes.

Not that much important anyways, its just fun to just pull all of these together into one place for reference (and how repetitive/varied) of how the entire species (or at least the original version of it) looks.

DracoGhouls: #547 - #569 (159 - 162)

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Yet another quasi-monthly post of characters of my own Dracoghoul (or Nari, though now I just like using the former a lot more and only use "Nari" for specific worldbuilding purposes) species that I do in my spare time.

Usually I do these during my spare time and that I don't have any current ongoing ideas I plan to finish or want to take a break from that. Still going through many of the 2024 sketches and redesigning them to have better proportions. (There's like 500+ more of them in the stash btw)

In recent months, I also experiment doing large (or fat) characters where applicable (a few of them), since I find myself drawing a lot of thin/slim characters retrospectively (or not distinguish them well enough) but even when I try to intend to draw them to be plus-sized, they'd look thin or indistinguishable sometimes by the time I finish up the rough sketch (often I go for the head first then body... which might be a problem XD).

But yeah, retrospective style-wise, what I draw in 2024 doesn't translate well to something in 2026 atm.

Now I don't want to go quite overboard. I want to stick close to reality and not off to cartoonish or unrealistic proportions, so its why to me its a bit of a struggle to distinguish someone who is on the heavier side with lighter ones. I know that mostly that would be realistic (in my eyes) - that there isn't one specific size for a portly body shape but rather a diverse set of body types, so its just figuring out how to have the heavier side feel like it exists in my current way of drawing things (which changed quite a lot from knowing that).

Since I've reached 50 characters in this second generation "set", I've been planning to upload a compilation of those characters' headshots but in original "ghoul" form. I'll be doing this every time I pass a 50 character milestone.

One thing that I've been pondering in my head: A lot of the Dracoghoul heads by intent do look like horses, birds, or even tapirs to some - beyond trying to make them dragon-like in some ways. (Though the tapir resemblance is not intentional. I was looking towards bird beak and dinosaur muzzle shapes as loose inspiration.)

you know what, I'll just post my art fight profile over here too as a separate post and not down in an introductory post, since everywhere in April now, there's been some sort of discussion going on with preparation and I have some plans on character ref sheet overhauling for next month... No promise though.

I will likely be there this year so...

The Burning of Orcopolis

The picture took me 15 hours over 10 days to finish.

Unfortunately, while very complex, its also one of the more frustrating illustrations I've come to finish as of late. Been trying to finish off this long-running series with a huge bang - hence the torrential rain of illustrations that I've committed myself towards and the delays to writing the whole piece.

Scales and Skin of the Dracoghoul

Originally posted on 28th August 2025. This one was in the draft posts on this platform for a while now since February/March, that I almost forgot that it existed.