#kwillow

[chocodile]

*bakes your OCs into pies*

[marcasmacmanus]

Three Nobleman (Pt. I)

Duke Arcturus Aleksander Hyden the IV.

The first of three portraits I did for @kwillow and @chocodile. This is the second painting I ever did in oil on canvas , yet completely different from my first one of Lord Ambroys - oil-on-canvas-painting-of-lord-ambroys -. The project started at the beginning of January and Hyden ( by @chocodile ) happened to be the first one I wanted to work on. It turned out, that it was quite difficult to me, to find out what color his coat is supposed to be. I still think it turned out a little bit darker than it should be and maybe a little bit too much on the "green side". But I also learned a lot about shading and gradients as well as I was reminded of how hard it can be to paint "toon characters" without outlines in this specific style. One can notice it hadn't worked out for the mouth and the eyes.. it just looked wrong so I decided to go with just black lines, what makes them look more toonish again. Speaking of the style, it's hard to overlook that it's completely based on @kwillow 's artwork. This one specifically on the following piece - theo-was-tremblingly-eager-to-help-hyden -. This also means that I don't want to take credit for the artwork itself even in the slightest. In the end I just changed the medium, nothing more. The painting process itself took me about 50-55 hours (yeah, I am that slow) but it brought me a lot of joy and it was a very interesting learning process of how oil colors work.

[viva-la-topknot]

An attack for @kwillow of their character Ambroys (Amaranthine)!

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I uploaded the wrong version to AF, the one without the BG is the correct one. 😭

[ncblevicartstudic]

@kwillow I felt bad for the pretty bird lady in the latest ambroys comic, so I drew a small doodle of my girl Roselyne helping her feel better.

[claepots]

I've been wanting to draw Ambroys for the longest time and now that I know he's on AF I figured this would be the best time for it! I love this dude. (Character belongs to @kwillow) Anyways, I can easily see him as one of Fiammetta's childhood bully, hence this interaction! The other kids mainly teased her for her bloodline's connection to werewolves, though her family does not share the curse of lunacy true werecreatures have.

Posted using PostyBirb

[bird-shaped-abomination]

After seeing @kwillow do one of these for their character Theo I got a little motivated last night and put one together for my horrible bird. Then I woke up and they had one for Ambroys too!

Abnormal amounts of fun throwing it together. I ought to post more here.. like ever.

[comicsdork]

I have no idea what Amaranthine is, but this looks amazing!

Old Wounds

So excited to finally post this comic collab between @chocodile and I! She did the initial thumbnails and colors and provided the evil wizard rabbit, and I did the script, sketch and lines and provided the pathetic prettyboy unicorn.

Old Wounds is a look into the alliance between Duke Hyden and Lord de Luxe, an alliance that winds up being a mere ploy for Hyden’s experimentation with unicorn blood and leaves Ambroys feeling rather drained (and often unconscious on Hyden’s floor). It takes place towards the end of their “friendship”, after there’s some serious bad blood between the two - bad blood that sustains a centuries-long grudge.

(Well - I say “bad blood,” but Hyden seems to think the blood is juuuust fine.)

[pcrfumebcttles]

"Crap. Didn't work. Looks like that show pony is a lot more durable than I thought..."

She sighs before letting out a little giggle. It's fine. She's got her methods. Much like herself, Celestials are much more durable than they look. ... Still. A lady has their ways. Experimentation is trial and error, after all. She'll just have to be more clever for next time.

[lambstooth]

comms from last month for @lsdoiphin, @chocodile and @kwillow who just keep giving me the most fun dudes to draw!!!1!!

[kurooharuniji]

Attack on @kwillow!

I love Ambroys, such a delightful character.🥰

[chocodile]

Happy Holidays!

Hope you get what you want this year.

[marcasmacmanus]

Three Nobleman (Pt. III)

Lord Ambroys Belrose Desoleil

The last one I worked on. May one can tell this character is something really special to me.. and maybe that's one of the reasons this last portrait was a hell of a roller-coaster to me. Almost leading me to quit and abandoning the whole project. The reason why this particular painting has a different background than the other two is that I had to start over completely. The first mistake I made was the scale. At first I wanted to show way more of the character itself, what meant on the other hand, that all the details got way smaller and I just wasn't able to adequately handle that. The second problem was that I somehow messed up his face/expression and wasn't able to figure out what went wrong or what it was exactly, that make it seem so odd to me.. And last but not least, my absolute lack of understanding color.. yep, I like painting stuff but I don't really understand how colors work.. His mane/hair became my arch nemesis. Not that it is hard enough, to work with bright colors that are pretty close to each other, without outlines, no, I had absolutely no idea how many different colors are needed to mix blonde.. just to make that slight difference to his coat. The decision to use the "older" version of him wasn't helping either. His younger self doesn't have the straight mane/hair, which makes it way easier to let it look like "hair". Well, at least to me. But in the end I think I somehow managed it to a degree that it is acceptable (for my fourth time with oils). To end the part of my struggle with this one, there was one thing left I wish I had noticed earlier, and that's the position of his left arm. I just took the sketch from my first try and scaled it up, not noticing that the arm may look a little bit odd now.

But that's aside, I also had a lot of fun with the painting. I totally got lost in the rose on his revers (because I love roses the most) and there are some more details which made me really happy how they turned out. But I have to confess that I cheated a little on this painting as well. It's the only of the three portraits that isn't exclusively painted in oils. His horn is actually painted over with nail-polish to get that opalescent shimmer.

Ambroys' portrait took me about 90 hours (first try included). It's based on this drawing by @kwillow - how-much-conditioner-do-you-think-olderamby-goes -, which again means that I don't want to take any credit for the artwork itself.

Yes, Ambroys means a lot to me and that may be the reason I look more critical on this one. But the most important thing for me is, that the new owners, @chocodile and @kwillow, like them and can gain some joy out of my work. You guys gave me so much through your characters and their stories, and helped me through a very hard, and so far the darkest chapter of my life. And therefore, thank you!

[viva-la-topknot]

A roundup of the attacks I drew for ArtFight, week 3!

Characters belong to @kwillow, @laureleikirsch, and Snappy_saur!

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[lsdoiphin]

CHRISTMAS.

@broncoburro

@kwillow

@chocodile

@teethterror

@lozchic3

@featheredbeardog

@vaultcinda

[ljesak]

for @kwillow !

[abnomi]

I FINALLY FINISHED THE THEO 3D SCULPT (theo belongs to @kwillow !! IM IN LOVE WITH YOUR WEIRD GUY.) i enjoyed making this as much as i enjoyed learning from the process. theo was a lovely subject for me to visually dissect even if he looked angry with me the entire time!

+ more under the cut :-)

Full turnaround!

Somewhat poor quality gif of him spinning around!

Flats to make it easier to see the coloring!

A few other shots!