the very worst thing

guess who got a fresh new anthology rejection email????

it me!

in honor of september just really…really going for it. really going there. have some fashionable (and one less fashionable but more Big Mood) Beaus. drawing my retiree wizard noodle son always calms me.

every time i draw him his hair gets longer so figure at some point this summer he chops it off. it’ll grow back pretty fast, i really just wondered how he’d look with shorter hair. also, he doesn’t usually wear skirts or dresses because he hates looking like One Big Tube but anything poofy or sheer enough probably works.

July’s patreon pin-up is a summer night being with neon light for an eye and spectral cicada friends.

her entourage are things that emerge from the darkness after many years, creatures talking to each other in the darkness, welcome breezes on cooling fabric, the certainty that you have been touched by an insect but it probably wasn’t going to bite you, and things that flock to small points of light.

the basket stars are some of the more mysterious mermaids, almost on par with octopi. their knack for finding (ensnaring?) unique items as they move through the Deep Territories draws the interest of many people. the items they collect vary greatly: forbidden knowledge, dead languages, fascinating skills, strange visions, or sunken trinkets from old cities. all these things have a price.

and they are never as interested in their findings  as they are the trades for them.

other merms say that the main thing they ensnare is people with too much curiosity. this is mostly out of distrust sown from myths that they’re either descended from one of the ancient human cities that was swallowed by the sea or fallen angels. its the arms and fused eye-stalk. too human a silhouette way down in the deep. too unsettling for most.

a merm design from over on patreon. This strikingly patterned lady belongs to a race of merms that function kind of like siphonophorae. Their bodies are actual communities of smaller creatures, each one with a function so specific that it would die on its own.

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i haven’t forgotten that its mermay.

this lady is actually a few years old. i drew her for the High Tide mermaid art book in 2016. never posted her here for some reason though.

i was supposed to post this earlier but i got to writing and ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

its time for some Late! Night! Loooooooore! here are some coyote sketches to start. up top is the Auntie of many names, a hare goddess who helped the hares survive the wilds of the mainland. below her is a sketch of a turned coyote and some signs of blessings from her. rabbits and hares don’t have pawpads but her blessings manifest black marks on their palms and give pawpads to turned coyotes. her blessings can also make hare antlers grow in pretty wild ways.

let’s begin with the ask that started this mess.

Both really.

Coyotes are just hares (or some heavily hare-blooded rabbits)who carry the wolf gene. They’re a little smaller than wolves, don’t usually hunt in packs, and are exclusive to the mainland. They used to be called wolves on the island. They’ve changed since then.

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while i’m posting pin-ups i might as well post this dwarven mage from over on patreon. i’d forgotten all about her until i was searching my folders for something else. i still think she and her little dragon companion are cute so i might do something with them later.

 my inktober 2016 Moon Dragon in both dragon and semi human form from a january prompt over on patreon. Trevor prompted: “Winter Sky Dancing Barefoot” and it made me think of her so i decided to use her for the january pin-up. but then i drew her a bunch so here we are.

come down to the Night Beach to watch her  prance around in the water like a 10 foot tall goober and bark at crabs until you get up the nerve to ask her for a boon that you probably don’t want in the long run. truly a mystical experience.

REMwolf: Lux

“Every month I get a new fur coat and skull crushing teeth and a frankly amazing meal delivered from the furry downstairs with the unsubtle crush. Honesty? This is me living my best life.”

a Remwolf with a design i like so much that i might rip it out of this project and use it somewhere else. she’s just…real okay with being a titty-out dreamwolf monster. i respect that.

i’ve missed a few days of spookmas drawing, gotta catch up. please enjoy these friends. not quite sure what they are but i’ve been calling them alchemy chimeras. if you follow me on patreon, the top baby might look familiar as i sketched them like a year ago.

the angel and demon from my Soft Growls monster girl zine that i made for a con a month and a half ago.

speaking of which.

hey, any of y’all want a zine? i already posted the whole thing on patreon but if you don’t follow me there you can buy 13 soft cute pin-ups for 3 bucks on my gumroad here: https://gumroad.com/kaneshabryant#

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My Mainlander darling from @theveryworstthing ‘s rabbits of downtrodden she’s a “bear” and “sheep” mix. Her mother’s family line is both extremely wealthy and very religiously devout/eccentric, as a close knit members of Lady Emelyrat’s court, and have very interesting fixations on butterfly and dragonfly wings and a deep seeded investment in emulating the Queen’s holy visage (their favorite royal,) her wings are absoloutely useless for flying they just flutter a bit. She’s been courting a certain young vagabond from Lady Mirriow’s family, she has very soft sleepy voice and her hobbies include finding and or making the most elaborate veils she can and causing interfamily scandals by dating outside of the “nice young people” within the Gentry. 

look at how cute this lady is holy crap!!!! this is the third fan mainlander ever made for my world (that i’ve seen. tumblr is a garbage fire) and they have all been A+ Good Shit.

she’s just….

sheep fro.

☆*:.｡.Sheep Fro.｡.:*☆

thank you so much!!!!!

a redraw of this shape shifting tiger monster from last year.  more claws, more floof, still no eyebrows.

just trying to convince myself that i know how to draw.

some valentines Beaus from last month on patreon.

@feverworm requested Beau with his hoard of unrequited love letters and all the bottom pics happened. the top pic is of his accepted date. he turns down a lot of people he tends to make exceptions for certain old flames. even if they no longer inhabit the same physical realms.