#ikyle

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on October 31, 2023.

"I don't know how you convinced me to do this again."

Years ago, Yoshij1had had created some comics for me of Kye being turned into a scythe and obliviously being used to decapitate others by his friend, Koji. Needless to say, it didn't go well! At all! That's what you get for using a Softie as a sharp weapon, they're as effective as a knife made out of Play-Doh. Years have passed and Kye has (mostly) matured, thanks to just the natural aspect of growing up, and because of his new role as King (I also felt the obliviousness didn't fit his character anymore). Therefore, when he was approached to assume the form again "for old time's sake," he was pretty reluctant to do so. In the end, he went through with it, but he clearly wasn't told to like it!

I had something else in mind for a Halloween picture but just didn't have the time to do it. I also felt that I wasn't drawing the poses the way I wanted, so one morning this popped into my head and decided to doodle it. Honestly, I'm pretty happy how this came out despite it being a quick drawing, and a nice reference to a good friend of mine. This was also all drawn on my iPad! I tell you, I really need more practice on coloring completely on the iPad, this felt a little tedious to me even for a simple coloring. Surely I'll get better in time.

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on July 27, 2023 and FurAffinity on October 1, 2023. The original description from the DeviantArt upload is below.

"It's always important to take your Zerglings for walks!

...

Hey, wait a second. You're never this behaved on walks!"

To which Cookie would likely be dragged down the street by a quick-footclawed Zergling who acts very much dog but does not like being told he is dog. At least he wore his old hat!

While I don't like to use art posts for the purpose of updates, I also recognize that I haven't quite given one in some time, but for those outside my immediate group of friends, I've been in Albuquerque for most of July staying with my boyfriend LilArrin, and before I left, I wanted to get a picture done with him involved! This actually came to me shortly after finishing Lounging and involved another bit of figuring out angles for things I haven't quite drawn before, such as footpaws, footclaws and shoes, although that one's lazy as you can see. Actually, I'm not 100% satisfied with this picture as I originally was (I started writing the description for this about a week ago, and am only now picking it back up), considering that once again, I reused older art as the viewing angles were exactly what I wanted and I already had it available to me. The difference here was that I could quickly edit Cookie as his size was ripped right out of another piece of art of mine, while Zergy's sketch had to be sized up and recolored completely.

Still, I very much wanted to make something involving my Zergling and was determined to start and finish it while I was physically there with him. Not only that, but I was also able to continue using his computer to do my coloring. More specifically, his custom-built PC, which dwarfs any sort of performance my current 2019 iMac has. Then again, the scale of my projects are unnecessicarily large and really should be scaled down, as well as doing more coloring work on the iPad itself. But, I was once again grateful to him that he allowed me to use his rig to play on while he was at work and, by extension, doing art.

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on July 27, 2023 and FurAffinity on October 1, 2023. The original description from the DeviantArt upload is below.

"Perfect day to relax on the beach, right guys?"

It's the middle of July in Aunov, which means the height of summer has arrived. It's the hottest time of year, the brightest and longest the sun is out. Folks are staying inside as much as possible in the air conditioning, in pools, or as we see our quartet, at the beach. We find Cinnamon, Cookie, and Mac all enjoying themselves on this summer equinox along the southern Aunova shores, basking in the sun as they all share a conversation and relax. Cherry, on the other handpaw, seems to have found himself volunteering (or being volun-told) to be Cookie's beach towel. But can you really be upset at that? You get free hugs from him!

This is perhaps one of my favorite drawings that I've done in a long time. Originally, I planned to participate in Art Fight this year; I had planned to be on vacation for the entire month of July as early as last year to spend it with my boyfriend, and found the timing to be perfect to jump in. However, I was pretty sidetracked with taking care of Grandma's house, work, and preparing for my trip throughout May and June, and for two weeks on vacation, I still couldn't fight off art block. That is, until I decided to resurface an old sketch I had done in February 2021, which was meant for a new character reference. I was pretty happy with the pose (until I ran out of page space again), but felt that it would work better for something different, and converted it into this. Originally, this picture was going to be just Cookie. However, through conversations and ideas posed by my friends on Discord, it then became involving Mac, which then also became involving Cinnamon, and then also getting Cherry in here somehow. With the exception of Cherry, everyone in this picture was drawn from scratch, using bits and pieces from other sketches and drawings to get the right angles that I wanted. I spent all of Friday, July 14 coloring Cookie; most of Tuesday, July 18 sketching Mac and Cinnamon respectively, and then all of Wednesday, July 19 coloring them both and creating the background along with altering old art of Cherry to make him appear flat.

This is perhaps one of the largest pictures I've also ever made, coming in at 15,000 × 10,000, and that's really just a side effect of the canvas sizes I draw on. But it also ended up being this way because I was including three full-body characters in the same frame. If you couldn't tell, I really enjoy drawing full-body. Still, it's a reminder that in the future, I really should draw on smaller canvases and color on smaller canvases as well. That, or just start learning how to color on the iPad only. Shoutout to LilArrin and his custom PC for handling this mammoth project that didn't need to be this way, it handled the whole process so flawlessly that my iMac back home would've screamed trying to handle a canvas this size. But I love the way it came out, I loved drawing everyone in this picture, especially Mac. Sure, he doesn't wear much already, so that gave me the opportunity to come up with a summer outfit, and it's a good thing Beach Koopas are a thing because that was the perfect base to work with. Turn his glasses into sunglasses, give him a tank top and sandals and design both it and his beach towel with circuitry. Man, I love this look, I really wanna try and incorporate it into a new look for him sometime. Cinnamon was also a ton of fun to draw, it was just a bit harder with the angle she was in, and that includes her skirt.

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on July 27, 2023 and FurAffinity on October 1. The slightly-edited description from the FurAffinity upload is below.

A belated happy birthday to one of my best friends who's out of this world!

In an attempt to fight off art block, I expressed interest in wanting to color sketches that I had or friends had made for me. This one was created by one of my closest friends Ryex, who is unfortunately no longer active on DeviantART [or FurAffinity], back in August 2021 featuring my Koopa, Mac, and his original Tychan K'enehk, Pleebo, but went uncolored all this time. However, with his permission, I wanted to give it some color and decided to do so as a birthday present for him.

Work out in the galaxy can be pretty tiring for Pleebo and the crew of the Broken Arrow, so every now and again, the K'enehk finds his way to Aunov to visit his Koopa partner, but every so often, the latter finds his way coming up to the spacecraft to spend time with him, giving each other incredible views of the planet below and the far reaches of space. These two shy nerds lovingly embrace for a lovely picture together, with the great beyond as a backdrop.

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on March 28, 2023 and FurAffinity on October 1, 2023. The original description from the DeviantArt upload is below.

A little something I put together for SwissYosh, a pal of mine from Twitter and Discord. We had spoken a number of times about getting something finished for him but thing after thing just prevented me from finishing it. It was a recolor/retrofit of a base I had, but I still felt a bit guilty I didn't finish it, I still desired to make sure something new was done; that's what I wanted to do more for him rather than yet another reuse of my old art.

For the most part, I'm happy with how this came out, but there are days where I feel on my game and days where I feel like I struggle to draw even when I've drawn Yoshis for so many years; it felt like the latter this time around. I also couldn't quite get the pose the way I wanted, I wanted him to hold the flag with both handpaws but could only manage the one. Maybe next time! I also wanted to make the flag a checkered one, since Swiss is very much into Mario Kart, but I didn't sketch that out previously, and didn't want to wing it freely in Paint.NET, so I took the opportunity to make it the flag of Switzerland, which is where he's from and holds in pretty high regard. He loves where he's from and I give him my respect for that. 😃

Anyway, that's about it for this one, thanks for looking!

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on February 12, 2023 and FurAffinity on October 1, 2023. The original description from the DeviantArt upload is below.

"When I was offered "field tickets" for the big game today, this really was not how I expected things to go."

Happy Super Bowl Sunday to all of my American friends, from a fellow American who doesn't care about sports! I question why I even made this but I guess sudden bouts of inspiration and a desire to draw will do that to you.

Here we have Cookie, who as he said, appears to have been offered a ticket to tonight's local game, described as "field tickets." Usually, you'd think this would mean he'd be fieldside, where the players and coaches sit. Instead, he's found himself in the [un]lucky position of tonight's ball! Tightly squished into a familiar shape and coated in a primer meant to help keep his shape, Cookie is even put on a stand during pre-game shenanigans for fans and press to look at and take pictures with before he's sent to the field to be thrown around. They even gave him a little bit of paint to look like the real thing! So how long into the game before he's flat as a pancake? Won't that be a whole new level of Inflategate.

I had a lot more fun putting this together than I anticipated, I did this in two days rather than one because messing with effects bogged my computer down to a disgustingly slow crawl. While my computer is only 4 years old, the hardware inside of it is showing its incompetency. Anyway, I did the coloring one day and then the background the next, which was a little bit of a challenge to think of one. I had known from the beginning that I wanted to put Cookie on a display in front of a backdrop but as someone who doesn't watch sports really at all, I had to come up with something and what I came up with was a green background with the endzones on them; if you know your Morse code (at least for the one on top), that's a stylized version of it that does say a word if you can make it out!

This was originally uploaded to DeviantArt on February 12, 2023 and FurAffinity on October 1, 2023. The original description from the DeviantArt upload is below.

Back in 2014 while chatting with LilArrin, I remember talking to him about changing up the glasses design on my Yoshi, but couldn't quite figure out what shape or type I wanted to stick with. This was long before I was being less stringent on how I wanted to design him; as in, I wanted to design Cookie as close to how I would dress as a Yoshi as possible, and that included eyewear.

I was stuck between square frames, circular frames, even a sci-fi visor, which I believe was one of the first times that ever showed up. Not only did he draw four different frames for me, all of them had different expressions too. Last month, while I didn't have anything new drawn up to color, I decided to take three of these, give them color, and then use them as emotes in my Discord server. So here you go: doughshi_ponder, doughshi_think, and doughshi_cheeky!

I also recall doing all of these a little differently from each other; after all, I really hadn't opened Paint.NET in months, so I was feeling a little rusty about how I wanted to approach it. I did them in this order, left to right, so as I went from one to the other, I figured things out better, especially when doing the eyes.

Zerglings can get fired up by all sorts of things. Not having enough Minerals, Terrans invading their land, or...a complicated physics problem that shouldn't be on your current level of homework?

That's the vibe @LilArrin had years ago during his Zergy Physics series in which he shared that exact scenario - 10 years ago, if you can believe that - with this being one of the doodles he had drawn within the very tall image. Surprisingly, I had already done this two years ago and I never uploaded it. So, I wanted to get that fixed. It was mostly to be a silly emote to use on Discord featuring Zergy.

Up until now, this is one of three times, I believe, that I've taken someone else's artwork and given it some color. While I feel that I did a decent job giving sketches some new life with color, I will say that I could learn a thing or two about it, as knowing how the other artists do their coloring in comparison, something feels lost on the image with the way I do things. For something like this and Cookie's Expressions that I did earlier this year, which are meant to be seen on a small scale, the lack of detail and shading doesn't really matter too much, I think. But when I did Shy Guys, which is a much bigger image, I felt I still could do better.