INKtober 2016, Day 9!

INKtober 2016, Day 9: Like a Kitten
9x12 Prismacolor / permanent marker on Crescent Rendr paper

Sketched in Prismacolor marker.

Kritchpaw is not amused.

Once again borrowing Dad's tiny netbook to reference my blog!

Kritchpaw hates being carried around like a kitten, but she lets Tailscuff do as he will more often than not. She cares for him like a brother, though others rarely see it.

Tailscuff was separated from his mother early. The epitome of a gentle giant, he is motherly at heart. He and Kritchpaw met when young. They were conditioned for pit fighting together.

I need to draw Maubork again to round out my primary KriMauTai crew! I think they're destined for a comics venture.

INKtober 2016, Day 7!

INKtober 2016, Day 7: Kritchpaw and Chester
9x12 permanent marker / color marker on Crescent Rendr paper

A fun, fairly quick drawing of Kritchpaw and Chester, two of my KriMauTai characters. These gals look like they're ready to cause trouble! Kritchpaw excels at hand-to-hand combat; Chester's specialty is subterfuge.

INKtober 2015, Day 25!

INKtober 2015, Day 25: Fight Prep
5x8 Derwent Inktense on cold-pressed watercolor paper

Rough sketch compared to character studies from July.

I love drawing Kritchpaw. Now I need to catch up for poor Maubork and Tailscuff!

INktober 2014, Day 11!

Day 11: Kritchpaw Fights

5x7 pen and ink on Stonehenge paper

Kritchpaw is fun to draw no matter the situation. I want to sculpt a maquette of her someday.

Col-Erase sketch.

Tiny sketch made to test Kritchpaw's pose.

30 Day Art Challenge, Day 18!

Day 18: Draw a couple (any two people).

Two pages exploring how Tailscuff (the big guy) and Kritchpaw would interact.

Maybe it's a stretch drawing cartoon cat-things in place of people - but this was a good excuse to continue developing their designs! These two (along with Maubork) are part of a fledgling story idea I have under the working title KMT. I think they may be pit fighters of some kind.

Tailscuff's hind legs are underdeveloped, so he uses his tail like a third leg. Kritchpaw cares about him like a brother, even though she's not quick to show it.

A study made to fix the positioning of Kritchpaw's forelegs.

9" x 12" Prismacolor pencil and Copic marker on sketchbook paper

Quad side view of Kritchpaw drawn on tracing paper.

Her lifted foreleg needs a design tweak, and I don't think her shoulder should be so defined. She can switch between bipedal and quadrupedal locomotion.

Slightly earlier pages revisiting Kritchpaw for the first time since INKtober.

On the second page, I forgot that her chest is nothing but fluff.

Playing around with Tailscuff's poses / mobility. The mouse is named Friend.

INKtober, Day 9!

Kritchpaw Charges!
6 x 8 pen and ink / brush pen / technical pen on mixed media paper

Teeth: dip pen. Claws: technical pen.

Body: Pentel Pocket Brush Pen.

I almost thought I couldn't save this one: I learned that my brush pen bleeds on mixed media paper. Though tempted to quit after finishing the line art, I decided to add some tone and make it a worthwhile piece. Having work won't keep me from busting out heavier inks!

That said, I still need practice with making tones in general, and I must study lighting again.

INKtober, Day 4!

Tailscuff and Friend
6" x 8" acrylic ink on mixed media vellum

Seeing as I began inking last night's piece so late, I wanted to make another small piece for Day 4. Quick and simple!

Tailscuff belongs to the same story / idea / world that Kritchpaw does. I'd meant to introduce him shortly after posting her character development process. The best way to describe Tailscuff: simple, juggernaut, and eager to please. He's a big sweetie who cares deeply about his friends. (The mouse by his paw is, in fact, simply called "Friend.")

Inked with a #2 round brush. I should have used a smaller brush on Friend, but she's still pretty cute.

Two sketchbook pages from May in which I explored Tailscuff's design more thoroughly.

Character Development: Kritchpaw

Character development is, for me, often a lengthy process. I may not realize I like a design until I've left it alone for a year or more, only to pick it up again to try and improve it. Such has been the case with Kritchpaw.

She began - as many of my characters have - as one of those silly ideas that simply popped into my head, demanding to be drawn before I forgot. From walleyed goofball to grumpy, reactive fighter, Kritchpaw's design has been a lot of fun to explore. 

I'm not sure what she is exactly. Mutated pet? Alien species? Parallel universe denizen? 

Kritchpaw and a couple other characters I've developed (I'll introduce them soon!) are part of a story I'm keeping in mind, perhaps a short comics venture. Consider it an ode to my love of the odd.

Just a little something to post about before a larger update on the Oaxacan Coyote.