Housepets!

Really nice job on this! That picture has come out very nice!

Decided to do some pose practice. Here's Mirage doing a flying kick.

Great work on the picture! I really like the pose!

So forgive me if I’m seeing things, but found this randomly on tumblr, wondering if I’m alone in thinking this guy looks like a buff version of King

Well, they're both corgi, but the styles are pretty different. Jes'my 'pinion.....

Could be King but just in a different style it seems. That style looks kind of realistic almost. It does look good but I don't think it's my cup of tea.

even accounting for art style the proportions are fundamentally different. it's likely more a case of a common fur pattern creating perceptual bias.

Pretty sure. I doubt King's pattern is unique. Like at all. I've seen a fair share of photos of corgis, this is among the most common. Not everything is a derivative of Housepets.

Heh, should have figured such. At least I’m not crazy for thinking parts of the design were similar

Cranial proportions are distinctly different in terms of bodily structure.

Been a long time since I've done this kind of portrait. Kitten time #3!

On the left is Bright Moon, on the right is Cheshire, aka Jolty-Kun. They're both more active on the Discord. And like the previous ones, didn't bother looking up pose references.
I was initially going to add more, but recently came across this song and thought to stick to a theme. Both characters are immortal, but when you really delve into it, immortality in a mortal world is quite a curse. All in all, fun challenge.

Those really came out very nice! Wonderful job!

Ooh, adoptables! I’ll take the one on the left. How much?
Jk, jk. Good job on these.

Thanks, and sorry, not my characters to sell.

Finished up another one.

"Why are you eating that?"
"Because I'm hungry, Harriet."
"No, I mean I thought you were a vege- you know what, never mind."

So, Harriet has joined. And she's no one's favorite person. Based her off of the legend of the white hare, which was the murderous incarnation of a woman who was spurned by the person she had her eyes on. She's a sort of "black widow" type haunt, bound to the mortal planes. New boyfriend pretty often, as they tend to not last.

The celestials all don't like her for this, with the exception of Nikolai, my nekomata character, and it's only a marginal tolerance.

Is that supposed to be a carrot she is eating? I can't tell.

Buffalo chicken drumstick, her favorite.

I've found that despite their hare appearance, the mythical al'miraj is carnivorous.

Nice work D-Rock, especially on Mirage's flying kick.
Mirage to Harriet: "Keep complaining. I'm in the mood for a second course."

Thanks. It's about time that I actually showed a bit of what Mirage is good at. Now if I can only manage a decent drawing of Macabre and his violin, we'd be good. I also just want to show the two of them being cute together.

dryideabat wrote:Mirage to Harriet: "Keep complaining. I'm in the mood for a second course."

...okay, I've been pondering that tidbit of the al'miraj description for quite some time, for now I'll leave it as "she could, but doesn't always mean that she would," at least with other sapient entities. Though different worlds work different ways.

It's a heck of an effective threat, though.

Mirage: "Hey, Macabre! Take a look at this!"

Macabre: "...is that a new victory pose, Love?"

Blame Brent for this.

I was feeling out of it, so I asked for a prompt.



So yeah, blame Brent for this.

Used an image of "dabbing Peanut" made by Chaoko for reference.

For some reason, it really reminds me of Steven Universe with the pose. I do not know why.

Hmmmmm. yeah.....

I think it reminds me of a pose that Pearl would do.

Only ever seen I think four episodes, so wouldn't know.

...is she summoning a Stand or something?

Don't watch that one at all.

So, I merely asked for a prompt on the Discord, and Brent popped in almost immediately with "Mirage dabbing."

And here we are.

i suppose this counts here too...
even if it is just an untextured 3d model.

OK thats good but uh, what is it?

an alien i'm using in an rp.

Huh, looking pretty interesting.

Well, another one based on a Discord prompt. This time, blame Damien (Discord-only user who suggested the character) and Star (for the pose).

Used the album cover for one of Bentley Jones' works. I have some of his music on my playlist, good stuff.

Let's see what else I come up with.

So he is bending it like Beckham now is he?

No clue. Don't keep up with soccer.

Reference used;

the man in the source image looks decidedly more stoned and/or drunk...

Rather nice songs, from what I've heard, though.
The first one I heard of his is Nothing and Everything. Strangely, song isn't available in English on Spotify, only on YouTube. Spotify I think is in Japanese. Been a long while since I last checked, though.

All I know about him is that he's an English recording artist who is based in Japan.

"...and this is why I prefer not to talk of my past, Ermina."
"Macabre, I'm sorry. It's not your fault for how they were with you."

I really needed to draw Ermina more.

So, I've mentioned several times that Macabre didn't have a good relationship with his parents; father tried and failed, but at least he tried, mother pretty much ignored him. He's told exceedingly few about this, and none of them were willingly.

Been some time since I've gotten inspiration from music for my art. They've been getting more intimidating lately, as I been wanting to add more emotion to them, which I'm still working on. Also, while this song made me think of Macabre, I couldn't quite get a perfect fit for the one actually doing the confronting. That's why I went with Ermina, as it fit even less with Mirage.

Song used, "Sorry About Your Parents" by Icon For Hire

Well at least his mother wasn't murdered in front of him. Or was it his father instead?

Macabre has no love for his mother, as he didn't receive any, either. His father, well, "strained" is probably the best way I can describe it.
Also, they're all Infernals, aka "demons", so kiiiinda hard to kill.

I know. I was joking when I posted it due to it being Cubone's backstory.

Ah, didn't know we were still doing that. Anyway, new one.

"When they say they don't believe, I hope that they see you and me."

This is something I never thought I'd get to, just because I was worried about getting it good (there's a good long list of those) and I'm actually not that fond of doing more than one character per pieced because of how lazy I can be.

As an Infernal, going with the idea of Macabre not being entirely trusted by the other low to mid level Celestials. Arin and later Mirage were the first ones outside of Cerberus to welcome him with open arms.

So a bit of a tonal change from my last pic.

Song used; "Be Somebody" by Thousand Foot Krutch

Yeah, changed the spelling of Arin's name due to the fact that I was informed on the Discord that "Erin" is a female variant and someone already thought he was a female.

You know, earlier some thought that Mirage was a male. I guess this is the downside of rarely relying on "gender cues."