#PatchyPines

[patchypines]

This was over 80+ hours of work, all freehand crochet. I am so proud of how this little guy came out. I named them Syl, they are the largest moth I've ever made, double-sided wings so one side looks moth-ey and the other side looks bat-like. Poseable, cuddleyable, and their little abdomen/tail is a stim with rotating little stimmy parts hehe. They're done with crochet, Nalbinding, and hand embroidery.

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Work in progress of a winter beanie hat I've been working on that's in the theme of the Night Lords from Warhammer 40k

It's for my partner since he really loves the Night Lords a lot. In his favorite colours.

This is done with Nalbinding, Crochet, Embroidery, and weaving to make the design.

[unperfect-porkchop]

@patchypines @charyzard-art Finished my first good scarf! Gonna work on reading patterns next.

[amothmanslife]

I figured out how to make work in progress images, I mostly have them for my Etsy I've been setting up but regardless I'm proud of this. I've been working so hard lately. You can view the finished image here: https://www.tumblr.com/patchypines/710631990110617600/heres-some-art-i-made-for-crypticpuzzlebox-of?source=share

[cyanide-the-spider]

Continuing the trend of projects I worked on with @patchypines, these are just three of quite a few oak leaf patches that I crocheted for them. As their favorite sweater was in need of repair, we put our heads together again and came up with a few ideas to help repair the holes and cover the damage. These were a fun and casual project that I was able to work up rather quickly while quarantined during an outbreak at the cafe that I was working at.

[patchypines]

I made a bunch of Steven Universe fan OC's for friends and myself aa I love how they all came out ;u;

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A scarf I've been working on

this will be in the theme of the Night Lords from Warhammer 40k for my partner in his favorite colours.

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I got commissioned to make my own rendition and twist on the Black Lotus card for MTG, However I loved how it looked and decided to surprise my commissioner with a Gilded Lotus variant as well. I'm so proud of how this came out and had such a blast designing everything from how the card layout would look and more.

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Here's a redraw of an old image I made in 2022. I just drew this one of my Mothman fursona Macabre today. The original piece I made of my other moth character Strobus who's based off of a Spongy Moth for a comic series I've been working on. You can view the old image here since I forgot to upload it lol.

Honestly I really feel like my art improved so much, I was doing a lot of experimental work in 2022 while messing around with shading and highlighting and stuff. I still absolutely love both images endlessly, but I'm happy with how things look.

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Here's a commission I made for @cyanide-the-spider back in February 2nd, 2022. I still love how this came out, I watched her as she knit on webcam to make sure I got the pose correct.

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Here's an old commission I made for Boone back in January 18th, 2022! This is of his protogen, honestly I love their design still.

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It took me all June to draw this haha, but thank you to everyone who joined into my group pride image I hosted on Discord! I had such a blast drawing this!!

[patchypines]

How I colour with coloured pencil.

I am not a professional, this is what I taught myself over the years.

I was asked if I could give a step by step on how I colour with coloured pencil and this is what I do. Feel free to use your own method that works for you.

First things first grab a reference. I will be drawing this character from an RP i'm in who won a raffle I hosted in it:

When I have a good reference, I then sketch out the character very, very lightly with ballpoint pen or mechanical pencil. Keep the sketch very light and rough. I tend to detail in the lineart phase.

Depending on the character I will then outline it in something I feel compliments them. So for this it's red ballpoint pen.

When colouring I treat it like painting with acrylics. So. I only use 1 colour at a time for each part and lightly colour it. For this I used a light blue and light yellow ( I messed up with the blue and applied too much pressure on the bottom left portion )

I then think of scenery. I wanted the character to be laying in a green field of sorts but nothing too detailed. I work light to dark. So a very light pink and green.

Two different shades of pink to start making the colours match the reference.

Touching up, adding more reds and pinks to balance the character out since they are mostly a very light pink in hue.

Blend and add more detailed shading. For this I blended with white, added blue, and then blended more with white.

Blending is your friend, you can blend with either white, clear (if you have a clear blender ) or a lighter shade of a colour.

Usually for blending black I like to use Grey, Blue, Purple, Green, or Clear pencils.

Once done, I touch it up with the colour I lined it with, plus black marker or lineart to darken it and touch up the piece with some of the previous pencils I used.

It's not perfect but I do hope it helps you find a way you enjoy colouring with. :)

[patchypines]

So in the campaign I'm in, my character noticed the paladin's armor is super shiny where it casts a mild reflection. The goober wound up distracted and had to essentially watch the reflection whilst doing a little dance. Haven't really animated in forever, but this was super fun to do imo. ;u;

Gods I love this 1 braincell little freaky creature so very much.

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It's been a while since I drew my character Moth, I turned him into a big buff himbo and honestly I love him so very much.

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Another cute birthday art I made for a commissioner! I had such a blast making this for them!