stasisdelirium

Good Neigh's Get Cookies

"Ey, Rok!  Yer a good neigh!  Know what good neigh's get?"

"..A pet on the nose!"

"Nah, better than that."

"Oh, I don't need bett--"

"You get a cookie."

"...I do like cookies."

"This one has chips of the chocolate in it."

"I do like chips of the...

Hanno Concepts

Started as a Pathfinder character, Hanno Jatvirta is a sentinel (A type of ancestral guardian that look after sacred sealed statues in the wilds) from near the Tuulka Barrows in northern Valhaadrune.

He's still new to his role, and brash, and learning that you can't just smash head-long int...

Cat Day Afternoon - 300dpi

The big dots, for tiny mews.

-T.J.

Cat Day Afternoon - Inkwash

The 'inkwash' for sleet.  I'm going to try and start actually painting/colouring the rather massive backlog of sketches and inked pieces I have over the course of the month.  While there will be more sketches because.. I can't stop myself, I think I've got enough things to colour for pr...

Valhaadrune (The known)

The 'known lands' of Valhaadrune.  This thing took a long, long while to finally flesh out to this degree.  It's basically all of the work I had on the main continent of Felwroth over the last what.. 20 years now.

Hoo, that made me feel old.

The nice thing about this map is ...

Eden (Sketch)

Eden, meowing her way into the kitchen in the morning for a coffee.  I figured out (more or less) what most of the background elements would be.  The chair is from a free asset from Clip Studio that I changed pretty significantly.  It was driving me crazy trying to figure out the l...

The Mind Consumes You

So I had hoped to have a finalized sketch posted a couple days ago, as well as some colour work to show off that I've been poking at for the last couple of weeks.

It's been a bit of a struggle however.  I'm currently sick.

I try not to go into health things on here as that's not ...

Eden.

An image of Eden, waking up and wandering for a coffee in the kitchen.  I'm still figuring out the background, so I just boxed a few things in to block things in.

I'm not used to feline faces, but she seems to look meow enough.

-T.J.

Hanno.

It's a little hard to feel good about doing art lately, but I pushed through it and sketched out Hanno, a Sentinel from Javiiskarra near the forests leading to the Husk of the Mother still towers, the blackened tree a reminder of past sorrows.

Still have a bunch of things to tweak, but wolf...

Big neigh, small neigh.

I'm going to be trying a different style of painting once I get the current commission closer to completion.  I wanted to do something very quick, without a ton of detail and that had a bit of an 'animated' feel to it.

I've had this vision of a Lathraedi petting a Reix on the nose and ...

Mass.

It's the anniversary of my father passing away, and I was reflecting on a lot of what happened over the last year.  Life looks very different than it did back then.

It got me thinking about things I've been putting off for ages.  Some out of necessity, others out of an illogical f...

Gift.

One of a couple commission pieces I was working on over the last couple of months is finally completed and I was given kind permission to share it here. 

It's one of those pictures I'm biased towards, because.. Well.. Wolves!  But also an image featuring family.  I guess the ...

Crismsas

With the year winding towards a close I had a couple days to actually sit still and process just what a blur it really was.

Usually by this time of the year I'm burnt out on it's mere existence and I'm ready to hit the metaphorical reset button on the whole thing.  I start sending brib...

Pan at Home (300dpi inks)

Smol, but with many more pixels.

Pan at Home (Inks)

Clean inks of the 'coming home' sketch.  Despite every instinct to do so, I don't think I'll call the pony Lorrnath people 'Horflings'

-T.J.

Home

It's done.

The sale of my previous place has cleared.  I'm home.  I'm finally no longer in the limbo between places.  Owner of none, but keeper of two.

I'm home.

My cozy space.  Apartment, with fireplace.  I hope my old home's soul is kept and pervades t...

Coming Home

Pan, the pony performer (I promise I'm not trying to make that sentence sound like a nursery rhyme) coming home after a travelling tour with her troupe.  The door not even closed, and the clothing is getting shucked and a bath drawn.

I guess the 'home' theme is running hard in my mind ...

Living in the new age.

This is my inaugural post from the new place.

I hadn't hoped to be offline for nearly a full week, but due to a clerical error (and an employee strike) my ISP didn't get me hooked up on the move-in day.  But I've finally got internet back now at least.  Thankfully I had a cell-pho...

2 - Two - 2wo

In a couple of days I'll be doing the hot-plate scramble of finally moving into the new place.  I've planned that I'll be out of contact for at least a couple days, even if the internet hookup is supposed to take place on that day.  Always plan that it might take a couple days.

I'...

Trickses and Treatses

When I decided to try and do a kick-flip off of my front stairs and failed to stick the landing (the gophers all held up 4.5 or 5.5 signs) I wasn't able to effectively work on hauling furniture around or even walking all that effectively.

Being forced to sit around for a couple days meant t...

Deep breath, and a sigh 'Okay..'

This house, now stripped of all of it's baubles and dusty icons seems ready to slowly let itself perish.  The furnace, which was already humming it's way to the end for most of the last couple of months, has finally died.

Sadly, this is three weeks and a day before I move.  I had ...

October Oofing Festival

Just a post to send a ping that I'm indeed, still alive.  But I've been consumed by the gluttonous moving-monster.

As it seems with all months lately, October is already half over.  The trees in these parts are getting to that 'bare and spooky' look which is fitting for the month ...

The Wander Home

Finally I had a solid couple of days to do literally anything but pack.

I guess that's not entirely true, I did get to go to a couple of the Oktoberfest celebrations going on in the city which was phenomenal.  It was a night to just not have to worry about putting my life into boxes an...

Fest

It has been an.. eventful couple of weeks to put it mildly.

As I last noted, I had accepted an offer to sell the house, which still surprises me how fast it happened.  I've since gone to take a look at places and gone into deep research mode to figure out a place that would suit what I...

Rather Lovely People in Hats - revised

A quick update to the People in Hats image.  I wanted to add a little more visual interest in the midground area.  Plus, I finally gave Berrand his hat (A rather dashing swashbuckler chapeau) and Holly a field-worker's hat.

I'll be starting colours on this in between commissions, ...

Gift! - Inkwash version

The intrepid wolf-family on a warm late-summer/early-august evening.  A still in process commission that I'm slowly plugging away at (One of two, actually!) as I split my days between packing up the house, sifting through what I'm going to keep and what is going to go to Goodwill/recycling/t...

Well... THAT escalated quickly.

This morning my house officially went up for sale.  Within 2 hours there were four offers and one was for a fair bit more than asking price.

So, the agreement was signed.  I've been given a generous 3 months to find another place and clear this one, with a flexible final date.

Spreading too little butter over cement

The last week has been a ride.

I have lost a week of full productivity, but the cause is worth it.  I've met with a really solid realtor, had measurements done of the place, and photos taken.  In the next couple days a sign will go up.

I admit, I wasn't ready for how fast it...

Rather Lovely People in Hats

I had this sketch bouncing around in my head for a while.  This is the 'second pass' sketch, cleaned up enough to not be scribbles.

Cinders, a pony-reixa friend, Berrand and Holly welcoming the first arrivals to the club meeting.  Ellythistle, Raudhan, and her stallion frand (I ne...

The Leefening.

One of the trees on my daily walk who's getting an early start for winter's sleep.  If there's anything I will miss about living in the area that I do, it's the canopy of old trees, like friends that grew with you.  

Right now there's a Cinders in my head running in circles making...