Omg, I loved the textures the materials gives to your work. And that client is soo awesome to let you experiment with that ;3

aa oh goodness i love how dramatic the piece is and how much movement you can put into it even with textures
it looks so great! : D

I completely dig the pose. You captured it masterfully. I am really fond of the way you did the hind paws. So many artists either leave them vague, blur them out in a pose like this, or just get them wrong. In this picture they look real enough to touch.

Overall, a beautiful picture. Bravo!

Glad you approve. Hand and feet are about as important as faces when it comes to rendering, so I told myself I'd not shy away from it this year. When Stripetail told me he wanted a paws-centric image, I knew I was ready!

Kicky claws! Hands and feet are often afterthoughts. I'm especially curious in how they're rendered in humanoid form. We use them to interact and manipulate our surroundings, so they have to be dexterous and useful in anthro form. Digitigrade legs are even more interesting since they'd have to be beefed up going from quadriped weight distribution to biped. Feet would need to be bigger to distribute the weight. Now I'm being a nerd.

The prints cam out wonderfully

Yessssss! Super glad to hear that.

And always a pleasure to nerd-out about design. <3

I have yet to successfully nerd grok hanfu clothing compatibility with tails x_X my next hurdle. Yay anatomy, making things more plausible :3

I just need to find a frame shop to get these mounted, or try entering dimensions right the first time and use an online service.

Custom frames can be a little much, but nothing beats getting to talk to people in person in a frame shop! If you find a good online frame source, let me know so I can point everyone else in that direction!

These last two works... crazy!

Daaaamn, I absolutely how you barely leave anything without having less detail.

It's pretty common to see artists put less amount of time and detail working on certain body parts, but depending on the artist it comes off visible in different ways (ammount of detail, the relation of how "expressive" said part is, etc). You just make every part have extremely detailed and expressive, making it flow perfectly well with the rest of the body, the tail having this "pulled aback and going forward" movement that fits the movement the char is making, I see quite some people have gone into the hands and feet since, dang they are calling for the viewers attention here c:

Also, I freaking adore how you use the "paint" like colouring to make the actual strokes which it was coloured, to actually work as "movement lines" of sort, having em also work with the movement of the body, that's something it's extremely rare to see c:

Glad you approve! I'm still ironing out the creative process a bit, trying to marry happy accidents and spontaneity with discipline and attention to detail. Glad I'm a little closer to my goal! <3

you improve more and more every piece you post, bloods on hands. nods head knowingly.

It's not my blood. Do not worry!

Awwwww Twenty-twooooooo! <3

Oh, this was actually a 4x oilsketch. I forgot we added a last minute upgrade to bring it from "awesome" to "ridiculously awesome"

Mmm, thanks for the correction. I went back and forth on the numbers and forgot.

Holy fuck this is so good.

Love the action in this!

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HAHAHAHHAHA
I'd fave this if I could. Thank you. <3

the other one has been bestowed the dot as well, however to avoid clutter, seeing how i was the latest commenter there, i chose simply to place it in a reply to myself; the manner in which it was placed does not matter, only it's presence