Kilkakon's Art (some nudity)

[Kilkakon]

Hi there everyone. BU told me that I should share my art here. I've still got saves of the various stages of the current work in progress piece that I am working on, so I thought why not. Constructive criticism is appreciated.

I generally work on a four stage process:
Primary: Sketching out the shape of the creature
Secondary: Lineart. This stage takes ages... trying to trace the character using solid, smooth, accurate black lines.
Tertiary: Colours. I pick out some colours and decide what will work out there.
Quadary: Shading. Takes a little while, but this is what turns the colour-by-numbers picture into a complete piece.



It should go without saying that I draw a lot of nudity. It's typically male, uncut pokémon or similar cutesy characters. Just a heads up before you see anything. It's non-sexual and it is adorable, but it's not for everybody, so yeah.




So anywhere here is my current WIP, which is a dragon I'm drawing for a friend from church.

Here is the sketch:

And here is the lineart and colours so far. Some people have said that I should add something to the top of the head or something.

[Buster's Uncle]

I'm not sure about horns or whatever.  I guess it depends on how it looks when it's further along - I know you work well enough to be able to tell that this isn't that close to being finished.

[JarlWolf]

I have no knowledge of the type of dragon you intend to draw, whether it's a specific "species" but I think a cool addition horns wise would be bony ridges on the back of it's skull/head and maybe some form of curved horns on the sides: Sort of like male, bull rams. Not massive ones mind, but just some jutting out the side should make some interesting addition to the form for the creature.

[Kilkakon]

This isn't any dragon in particular. I was just asked to make a tough-looking male dragon in a "ready to pounce", stalking sort of pose. And to pick colours off the top of my head, she had no preference, haha.

I'm half digging the simple head, but I might had a bit of a bony ridge. Thanks for feedback.

[Buster's Uncle]

With horns, I've had luck before making them an extension of a heavy brow ridge.  I might have a picture somewhere of a mask I did that way...

[ariete]

having a small head there is little space there in the middle, it seems that the bone crest is the only nice thing to do

[Kilkakon]

I've added a few more of those little spikes on the top of the head. I like the empty-ish head, but I did add a little bit.

Also did some basic shading, will add some more tomorrow.

[Green1]

My only issue is that I know you are a fan of anatomically correct.

The deal is most reptilian creatures have retracted or inverted reproductive organs that they store in their body for safe keeping and only whip out when it is time to do the deed. So it is not correct

Actually, it is a safer way to handle things. If I was a bad ass lizard creature that kicked enormous amount of tail, I would hate for my villainous rampage to be stopped by some hero that could just kick me in the nads.

Reminds me of a DnD game I was playing. One of my friends ad fellow DMs wanted me to play a guest villain, a green dragon. Long story short is that the monk character made a called shot to certain lower regions on the dragon with his foot. Since the dragon was male, it was ruled I would be stunned for 1d4 rounds insuring my hide as the newest dragon leather armor for one of the PCs. If I was not so amped on coffee and enjoying time with friends I would have brought up the retracted organ thing. Then I could have Total Party Killed my friends little DnD group and made it into an afterlife campaign

[Kilkakon]

Haha love the DnD story. I didn't realise that the game had provisions for groin attacks haha. ALL my DnD characters better watch out now... :O

Good call on the anatomical correct thing. It's true that God was really creative when he was coming up with all the different penis designs for the species that we have. Reptiles have completely internal gear which invalidates the way I draw genitalia on a good chunk of my characters, pokemon or otherwise. However I think foreskins are cute which is why I do things that way. Scienifitically incorrect sure, but it's what I prefer.

On a side note, I'm gearing up to finish this beastie off shortly.

[Green1]

3rd Edition rules did not have specifically called shots to nether regions, but it did have rules for called shots in particular. Under optional rules you could take out hands and legs and give penalties to attack or movement. For a nad shot, it would be -2 penalty to roll for called shot versus the armor class of the target. The armor class would be adjusted to size. The dragon's penor was small (not in actual terms but in game terms: ie the size of a small halfling) so would have an additional +4 bonus to armor class in addition to the dragon.s natural armor. So, the monk had to hit at 6 higher than a normal shot.

4th edition, this would probably be an encounter power at a negative to hit (dexterity -2 versus reflex) to stun 1d4 ad 1[w] damage. Monk rules could probably be augmented with psi points so you could spend 1 power point to probably increase damage or make this a automatic critical hit. Target would probably get fortitude save to negate stun.

DnD next would use a disadvantage mechanic where you would roll 2 d20s and take the lowest versus the target's armor class plus size modifier of the target (+4). Target would get a constitution save versus stun.

God, I am a nerd.

[Kilkakon]

I've only played 3.5 so I understood the first paragraph. XD But cheers for the explaination.

[Green1]

I've only played 3.5 so I understood the first paragraph. XD But cheers for the explaination.

It is all good. 4th edition, while I think the tactical rules are far superior to 3rd's was not well received by the old school. The battle mat tactical game of 4e I will take any day over 3e. SO MUCH lovely tactics I feel like I am playing Final Fantasty Tactics for PS! And deep..... You have marking, zones, and a much better clarified minis rules. Much better balance too. 3e tended to be you were either a wizard or cleric or druid or you were worthless past level 10 or so. Let's not go into the unnecessary calculus of the 3rd edition Epic Level Handbook! 4e supports demigods up to 30 in the basic PHB 1 book.

I also made a mistake in my 4th edition description of that encounter power. The encounter power would not be augmented, but in 4e monk powers have both a move variant and attack variant. (nerds call me on that if I am incorrect. the 4E PHB 3 and psionics is not my strong suit. I am also not sure if 4e essentials changed this).

5e (DnD next) is on spot, though for it's current beta.

[Kilkakon]

Here he is! I am happy with this now.

[Mylochka]

I particularly like the dragon's pose.  Very menacing!

I'd suggested letting the skin come down further on the dragon's claws -- like this. Make them look more gnarled.

[Kilkakon]

Hey thanks for the suggestion! I have posted it now so I will see what the friend who this is for thinks. If she wants changes I might try something just like that~