The Quiet Respite (Commissioned, NSFW) (Patreon)

A commissioned piece for a painting this time around.  I was asked to paint an older image I had done as a sketch years back and it proved to be a surprising challenge since I only had the flat lineart layer (I usually keep the multi-layer format as a separate file).  But this was enjoyable.  Painting a largely white wolf against a background of an evening in by the hearth is a bit of a bias of mine.  I like 'cozy' pictures of it's kind.

This also hits on the 'more adult' thing I was talking about in one of the coffee rambles a while back.  I largely kept away from the subject due to how I felt it was represented in most art that I saw.  That it was largely ignoring the 'person' and rather showing the 'parts'.  

I won't go into the whole reason that a lot of what is posted to FA doesn't appeal to me personally.  It isn't a slight against creators who do create adult content, or that what they draw is any 'lesser' for it.  I'm just not personally wired that way (I'm Ace, which is a whole other thing I won't go into).  But I do love images that show bonds between people, the emotions of the moments, and even the playfulness of the person in question.

I do get why I'm a bit of an odd-person-out in that regard too.  It's just how my neurons fire, and I try to never get obnoxious about it or put anyone down for liking what they like.

This image was a lot of fun to work on.  It was crazy to try an paint out the lines.. because I put so much linework into everything when I don't have an immediate plan to paint it.  But I liked the subject immensely.

With the (hopefully) end of the tax nightmare coming up in the next couple weeks, I'm looking forward to just doing a lot of free-form painting again, with commissions and with my own work.  I'm thinking of taking part of my weekend to do art as well but only if I actually feel like doing it.  I've found that Sunday just turns into me trying to find other work to do anyway, so I may as well make it enjoyable work.

Onto the next commissioned piece.  This was good.  Only my second commissioned work in probably the past five years or so.  But I seem to have enough of the rust cleaned off.  I do still need to figure out a better pricing structure, but this is me re-learning stuff that I haven't dealt with in probably 10 or more years.

-T.J.