Here's an assortment of puppy stuff I got done over the past several weeks.

I needed a new display pic to properly capture my two sides at one go. The mix of broken and contiguous lines across the boundary between the two was fun to work with without simply duplicating all the layers that would otherwise overlap. That, and it turned out real cute.

And speaking of cute; I needed a "quick" warmup one day and decided I'd lose myself in sketching out a happy lil' wuppy who seems very excited to see you.

My girlfriend Garnet needed some cheering up a little while back, and I couldn't think of a better way to do it than puppy kisses. The two pictures might look the same, but they're not.

After a stint of focusing on commission work more recently, I figured I'd make good on a bunch of inspiration I got hit with for puppy-related shenanigans.

First up is another scene involving Garnet, who I'm currently staying at; she recently started a new job and we've been navigating how to share the space that we both need to work comfortably during my visit. While discussing what might happen if I tried to sneak in while her webcam was on during a meeting, this idea came to mind.

She absolutely adored it when I showed it to her, and frankly, I love it too.

I'll probably give it a touch of colour and format it into a mini comic page before posting it up.

At that point I was on a roll with the self-indulgence. The first was inspired by some stream-related shenanigans related to mot, Plush and Arwyn donating to my streams, when I allowed them to provide one prompt each to combine into a picture.

The second was once again inspired by Garnet and her husband Piter, this time teasing me about "leaving me in the car" while they were out somewhere. The obvious connection was pretty much inevitable. There is absolutely nothing going on behind those dinnerplate eyes. Not a single solitary thought in that fluffy noggin.

Yas and Isaac sit on their roof together, enjoying the late night ambience of their neighbourhood while overlooked by the built-up city center off in the distance.

While working on this in stream, Dal made a suggestion of what's going on behind the scenes of this illustration. Although it wasn't exactly what I was going for, I kept the scene deliberately vague specifically to let folks fill in the gaps in this way. I liked the idea enough that it inspired me to put some audio to it to enhance the mood.

Open this video at 75% volume and this one at max volume if you want the full effect.

Isaac and Yasmin really dominated the Christmas stream sessions, though that's probably cause I was anxious and spent most of my time delaying from making anything by futzing around with my idea cards, so I had less of it to split it up amongst my other characters.

Never mind - enjoy these TF shenanigans with the duo.

I'm exceptionally proud of Isaac's sequence below, but I almost psyched myself out of drawing the last four images of the set. I clearly still have some hangups to iron out with my own work, but I'm hoping the new workspace will help with that.

Here's the first design of my planned cast of supporting characters. Today, we're starting from the one I've most strongly felt the lack of - Yasmin's partner.

I designed this well-endowed little slinky over the past 2 weeks or so, starting from just before my brief vacation up until finalizing his reference sheet today. Some of this information will be repeated from my earlier tier 2 WIP post, since I haven't changed very much from the initial concepts I'd come up with while designing him. I have fleshed things out a fair bit, though, so do read on if you're interested to know more!

First up, here's the concept art I got done in stream while figuring out his look. I polished it up in a few smaller sessions later on, while experimenting with little changes I thought might work well.

Isaac is a ferret, and Yasmin's partner. Just like Yasmin, he's very hedonistic and laid back, and shares a mutually beneficial and very open relationship with her. With her abilities and extensive contacts, she maintains and sustains their extremely indulgent lifestyle. In return, he takes good care of her whenever she might need the extra help.

He's a good match for Yasmin in terms of his personality and attitude, but he also has a special ability that allows him to be more hands-on with maintaining her - being able to alter the shape of those around him. This lets him support Yasmin more directly by taking some of the effort of maintaining her form off of her.

I wondered how best I would have him do this, possibly some way that's both a little restrictive and fun. I came up with the idea of "substance sharing" as a sort-of variation of how some characters use their own special scent or chemicals to affect those around them. In Isaac's case, if you ingest anything he's partaken in, such as second hand smoke or sharing drinks mouth-to-mouth, then he can use the exchange to change your form. Thinking purely in terms of the mechanics, this could come about directly from ingesting his spit, but that the effect also propagates through substances he's imbibed and would therefore grow stronger and more effective with the greater quantities of substances shared.

This worked well for him and Yasmin, as they're likely to smoke and drink together very frequently. Being a shapeshifter isn't easy, so on her off days Isaac can pick up the slack by smoking in the same room and keeping her together while she relaxes. On the flipside, however, keeping him close by meant that she could easily "borrow" his ability to use it on others - including himself.

The form we now see him in isn't what he originally looked like - Yasmin made him that way once she learned how to use his special skill. She frequently plays around with him this way if she happens to be in the mood, but this short but fairly well-endowed body is the one she likes the most. He's grown to like it too, heh.

His extensive experience with shapeshifting, both of others as well as himself, has left him with a fairly loose and flexible sense of identity. He's confident that he knows himself well enough and trusts that Yasmin wouldn't mess around with that part of him, but he's largely become detached from his physical as well as gender identity. Conversely, he's very pansexual and will pretty much fuck anyone who has a pulse and consents, or anything else that wouldn't mind either way.

Here's a few sketches I made while toying with his look.

And finally, the finished refsheet that sums this all up.

I'm very proud of Isaac's design, and quite pleased with how this little project has gone. I hope you like him too! I genuinely feel like I've gotten better at designing characters since I took on my "main six" earlier this year. Just gotta keep putting them to good use, now.