Sal Valia - Isher in Repose

This next piece is a little different - and I'm particularly happy with it and how it turned out as a standalone piece.  Honestly....it's not actually my first piece of commissioned fan-art for another artist's OC - but it's pretty close.  But this is definitely the first piece of art commissioned specifically in response to an artist I found through Cheasy's podcasts.

Sal Valia was featured on S2E2 of the Changing Times transformation podcast.  Through his participation, I found out about his excellent transformation-themed fantasy comic "The Out Of Placers."  I gotta say, he's really done an excellent job with world-building here.  A number of different, unique races and species - very different from the average fantasy tropes - he goes into some detail on the background on the podcast which I highly recommend.  The characters themselves are well formed and grow on you very fast.  This became an instant must-read for me after I went through the archives and I look forward to every new post.

Honestly...one of the few webcomics that's ever resonated with me on a really emotional scale - ie. this strip.  Talk about sad.

Anyhoo....I love the character of Isher - and she does have some similarities to some of the other characters I've been working on.  After seeing this pic of her - I really had to commission something too.

Mini-Updates

In reference to my last post - following my participation, I did take the time to go back and download and listen to all the other podcast episodes.  I enjoyed them all a great deal - they brought back a lot of good memories of different sites and interactions over the years - even if I don't know all the folks involved.  It helps that I have already commissioned work from several of the featured artists - with more on the way!

I highly recommend giving them all a listen.  Cheasy has put a LOT of work into their production and has done a great job moderating these for the community.  A nice little series of time capsules and snapshots if you will.  I gave him a few recommendations of other folks who I'd love to hear on his program in the future - we'll see if any of them show up.

Today's update is a set of updates on the Gift Art/Request page.  New art by Gnome-oo, an update to an art contest entry by zdemian and a piece of cluedog art colored by technosasquatch.

Cheasy-Dino - Changing Times S2E3

Well, this is one unique piece.  I was invited a few months ago to participate in Cheasy-Dino's TF-themed podcast "Changing Times."  It was a real honor to participate in this sort of project - my first time ever - and my first real skype session too ;p  In retrospect, I should have listened to the rest of the episodes beforehand to get a better feel for things, but I think it turned out really well (but boy...I'm a little long-winded when it comes down to it).  Next time I'll try and prep some more specific references rather than droning on and on.  I did have some specific artists in mind when I made some of my comments, but I hope they weren't too specific and that nobody takes offense at my personal opinions here.  Both Cheasy-Dino and Pheagle were really great folks to talk with and I enjoyed myself immensely!