samurshalem

BLOG: Patreon Changes

UPDATE: made an error here--I'm relaunching this Patreon at the beginning of September, not October.

Hey everyone! It's been a minute; longer than I intended. I've kept billing turne...

ART: Carrie & Otterly Sketches

After a pretty long burnout period I've started to have some art inspiration again, so here's a couple of quick pieces...both sort of inspired by television.

One is Carrie, a painter cat. One...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Jacket

I tried to do a little visual reinforcement of the idea here--the jacket and the boots are tough armor against the world, so I gave them the only black outlines and left the characters with softer ...

ART: Jacket

A little bonus to the Zelda series. I'm not done drawing the two of them together, but this felt like a nice interlude after doing three comics.

BEHIND THE SCENES: You Must Be This Drunk To Ride

So, FUN FACT, this is actually the first picture I sketched out, before the prior two drawings. Then I thought, hmm, I'd rather give it some lead-up, so the sketch sat around for quite a while befo...

ART: You Must Be This Drunk To Ride

At long last, a sequel to "Wingman" and "2022-08-19 06:56:30 +0000 UTC View Post

ART: Old Stuff, Part 6

More old artwork!

First one is Alexis and S1m's character Luke, whomst he should draw more ;)

The rabbit & van drawing was a commissioned illustration for a fanfic that's since been...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Interloper

This one had a heck of a journey--I started it on one PC, had to switch to a new one, reinstall all my art stuff, fix tablet drivers, do a BIOS update to stop the NEW computer hard crashing all the...

ART: Interloper

Tired: trying to fuck your date without waking up your roommate

Wired: trying to fuck your roommate without waking up your date

(don't worry, she's used to it)

BLOG: Preview Sketches + Pausing Billing for July

Hey all! It's been a crazy month--I had COVID, then switched to a new PC and had to get all my art stuff set up on it--so I haven't finished up the two new pieces I'm intending to release this mont...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Nick Redlines

Here's another old thing that might be of interest--6Vulpes I think wanted me to take a look at their Nick Wilde drawing and make some suggestions, and kindly let me post the results. This is ages ...

ART: Old Stuff, Part 5

Here's a new batch of old pieces in higher res.

The top one here, with Zander (Zhanbow's horse OC) is another one I'm proud of for art reasons--I'd initially done it was a black and white ske...

ART: Old Stuff, Part 4

Getting back to collecting my old high-res images! In my earlier days I was a little more careless about resolution, so some of these weren't drawn very high to begin with.

The Nick piece is ...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Q&A

I have a two-panel comic sequel to "Wingman" sketched out, and this was meant to be a quick little piece to bridge the gap between them, but as usual I couldn't stop detailing the bed and floor so ...

Q&A

At long last, the sequel to "Wingman." Things are still pretty tame, but there's at least one more followup image coming, so don't worry ;)

Zelda here belongs to Fuel and doesn't hav...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Scar

I'm actually not SUPER happy with this picture--I liked the idea, but the pose looks more to me like an awkward portrait than the characters casually standing (which was more what I had in mind). I...

Scar

There were some lore ideas behind this one--in this world (which is kind of in a superposition of Zootopia fanon and its own thing at this point) this kind of bite is super illegal and would put th...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Poolside

So, the genesis of this drawing was that I had an idea for a Diane + Wolf drawing, but I decided I wanted to do something simpler and easier to get used to drawing in the Bad Guys' style before I w...

ART: Poolside

Of course she brought her work on vacation.

I saw Dreamworks' The Bad Guys a couple of weeks ago, and it was a great time. The Dreamworks sense of humor doesn't generally land with me, but ev...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Bad Guys 3D

I'm still kicking! Thought I'd share some of the stuff that's in the hopper right now.

One, some 3D sketches--I'm wanting to try to get my eventual Bad Guys artwork as on-model as I can so I ...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Book Club

I'd had this pose in mind for a while--came to find it works best with a smaller character in front, so bnuyy it is!

This was a pretty straightforward one to do--after the Pajama Challenge pi...

ART: Book Club

Moses is really into literature.

Featuring EngineTrap's character Elote!

BEHIND THE SCENES: Pajama Challenge

Okay, this one took me ages to get done, both because I've had a lot going on for the past few weekends and also the format--the double picture thing leads to me tabbing back and forth a ton and tr...

ART: Pajama Challenge

She's really late to this meme.

f. a friend's character, Melody! She likes long walks in the park and longer sits on the park bench.

ART: Old Stuff, Part 3

More high-res versions of old stuff! A couple special things in here--a birthday pic for a friend that I forgot to ever post publicly, and a WIP version of the ahegao shirt.

Also, full disclo...

ART: Yoga v2

Sorry for the double post here--I'd been looking back at this Loona piece and not feeling happy with it, so I went back and made some drawing revisions.

Enjoy the new version!

BEHIND THE SCENES: Wingman

New cartoon! I'm usually most proud of my comicky pieces with a bit of dialogue, so I'm trying to get back to those.

I'm a huge fan of Fuel's characters, especially Zelda who's kind of...scru...

ART: Wingman

Coyotes are very shy animals.

Featuring Fuel's OCs Taylor (who you might remember from a certain volleyball picture) and Zelda! I'm working on a sequel or two to this pic, so stay tuned ;) 2022-03-20 21:39:02 +0000 UTC View Post

ART: Old Stuff, Part 2

More high-res old pics! Please note that on a couple of these, the colors are slightly different from the original releases. In the past I often would mess with the colors after I'd sized down the ...

BEHIND THE SCENES: Yoga

This was a fun one! As you can see I was very inspired by a photo on this one. Baggy shirts are always a look.

I messed around with the color a bunch on this one, but I really ended up liking...