#nfc original

Okay so my bf sent me this

which apparently @were--ralph posted on bluesky as a draw your OC meme. I am happy to comply forever, but I don't have a bluesky for art. I just noticed I forgot Barley's canon nose piercing. Alas. I already had to go back in and add his tail after forgetting it the first time! I'm done with this one. It was a lot of fun to work up fairly quickly, but I'm not interested in spending hours aching over the tiny details of it.

This was my first time drawing Freddie too, and it was fun to try and figure out how to do it - though I am always extremely anxious when working with someone else's character about messing something up! It'll be a real challenge once I finally try to draw his face, haha.

I loooove drawing boobs in funny shapes. Takes some shaping but quite rewarding. I also like drawing hands up close, but man do I hate drawing them at a distance.

The first sketch was done a couple days ago, but each of them were blocked in using slightly different methods. I think it shows. Not in a bad way, I can just tell that the sketch process was different. I think I prefer the first overall. It's a combination of the pose and the more involved shading.

Referencing an older image of myself taken at night, this is an expression of Valeria drawn when we first found (and subsequently broke) our older drawing tablet. A lot of this piece's charm is influenced by the fact that the damn tablet didn't work properly. However, it is this piece that has us convinced we needed to re-uptake digital art proper - Valeria felt properly seen.

I had a lot of fun with the first two here, and was running out of steam by the time I got to the last one lol. I continue to struggle with the behind angle.