Homesick Hunter (WIP) (Patreon)

This started out of a desire to revisit some inhabitants of a much older world and do a little slice-of-life stuff. I also really wanted to work on environmental plants and how they could add a little life to the scene. I referenced Neoregalia sp. for a punch of pink (leaning magenta) and Aechmea blanchetiana for some nice bright oranges. The bromeliads complicated matters since I wanted to draw a Hyaenodon species that could more or less plausibly have existed in the kind of tropical environment they’d be native to. I don’t want to be too flippantly anachronistic or anatopistic, and eventually decided H. horridus seemed like the least dishonest option. This is now what... my fourth H. horridus pic? I guess I'm biased.

The idea is he’s been away from the pack for a few days on a long hunt, and hot and tired his thoughts wander to what he might be getting up to back home. Or at least what he’d like to get up to, pack dynamics allowing. In the context of it all, masturbation just seemed like another bodily appetite alongside thirst or fatigue, which kinda taps into the primordial angle I was looking for with this pic at the beginning. More to come next week, including two versions of the finished piece!