#lilarrin

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.

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.