How Cutepet art happens - Molly Mauler Pin-up

Character Design Pin-up featuring Molly Mauler

Start with a basic concept: "New Foxy Fighter character. Scene girl mixed with dominatrix. Real mean. Small boobs. Skinny."

Warm-up by drawing a series of thumbnail sized gesture sketches. It's all about feeling out an expressive pose.

Focus the pose(s), making notes on the sketch and elsewhere to help solidify the idea for the character.

Design the character's signature outfit. Try multiple ideas, then pick the best elements and try them together.

Combine pose, character, attitude, & costume into a sketch with a strong silhouette, that clearly conveys the design.

Refine lines with ink. Color & add effects. Then crop the image, cover nips, and publicly post the art as a sample. ;)

Kingdom Hearts' Xion WIP

Here is the work up for the Kingdom Hearts' Xion image, from character design to final illustration.

The process starts with a character design turnaround. In the case of fanart, the character design stage is less about designing the character (since she is already designed), and more about "feeling out" the design details in my style. Xion wears a figure-obscuring long coat, so determining her physique was another aspect of the process.

Next, I came up with a rough idea for the pose.

Once I was satisfied with the composition and pose, I set about drawing it. Here you can see the clean pencils, ready for inking.

Then I prepared the general lighting, color scheme and background.

After that, it was matter of inking and coloring the character. Check out the finished image on Cutepet!

Ryougi Shiki WIP 2

Here's some more workups and sketches from the Ryougi Shiki picture:

Here you can see how I refined the rough sketches and concepts along the top into the final three picture candidates I posted in the last WIP post. Of the three concepts, I ended up going with image concept #2, which further refined into the bottom three sketches you see in this picture.

To really nail the anatomy, I took my favorite version of the sketch, and started breaking down the perspective:

Perspective isn't just for backgrounds. The character also conforms to the vanishing points. If you look closely at the top image, you can see where her body used to be, and how it was reworked to follow the perspective.

Working from the bottom blue sketch, next I did a final clean pencil drawing, and then finished it with the inks and color. A lot of love and time goes into each of our images, as I hope these WIP show. :)

Angelissa on a Cloud WIP

There's a new picture in the works of our favorite four-winged angel, Angelissa! Right now she is completely penciled and awaiting inks and color.

Here's a look at the progress so far:

Every picture starts with an idea. This rough thumbnail shows the general composition of Angelissa leaning back on a cloud while touching herself.



The idea was further refined into a slightly larger drawing This one is ballpoint pen with blue pencil for wings.



The final pencil art was done on 11"x 14" bristol in graphite and blue pencil. Her négligée will be drawn on another layer.



Stay tuned for the finished piece!

Elly and KOS MOS

Here's the newest picture I just finished up, some yuri action between Xenogear's Elly and Xenosaga's KOS MOS. Enjoy~


So I thought everyone would enjoy hearing a little bit about the creation process that every picture goes through.

The first step is coming up with the concept, which in this case entailed both coming up with a creative way of drawing the girl's outfits while exposing their naughty bits, and thinking up an exciting composition and poses. Each of these sketches are no larger than a inch or two in size so I can create them quickly.


Once I've settled with an idea, I create a rough sketch and work out the anatomy, the pose, and the background in a larger size. I typically drawn standard 8.5"x11" printer paper at this stage.


Once I'm satisfied, this sketch is enlarged to the full 11"x14" size for a final, clean pencil pass on higher quality paper.


Next, this drawing is scanned into the computer and inked in Painter (This step was skipped in the recent Chrono Trigger picture I did of Marle and Lucca to give the piece a softer, sweeter touch).


Finally, the background and characters are colored in Photoshop. That's the whole process! :)