Amazing pics, as has always been the case from you, o Kalamos. I have to say you shouldn't need to worry about the whole furry thing...
while the babe certainly has feline qualities she's more overall human than most furries would consider for the genre if my own experience with 'em has taught me anything.
At any rate, I think your works of art would be considered an honor for the genre so I doubt anyone will be calling stepped-upon toes for this piece.
Thanks for your words.
My only gripe, if any, with furry pics is rendition of feet.
I grew up with Scarry, Avery, Disney and so on, so I am used to "anthros".
Feet, though, should look as human-like as possible, for me to truly enjoy the pic...
I used to be a fan of Gargoyles as well - and in spite of her generally spiky appearance, my own Gargoyle retained human-like feet, with reasonably rounded toes and no claws.
I think feminine form can be attained by keeping some details soft and some lines curvy enough; you can add horns, manes and even claws, but some details must stay for the char to stay feminine and hence sexy.
Your black and white pieces always seem so ageless, like they could either be seen on a computer screen or found in some ancient tome of a master artist of old who longed for a time that tickling of this sort would become acceptable. It's a quality I've only ever seen you do effectively, so bravo for that.
I must admit I didn't even cheat that much with this sketch of mine.
I only added the sepia filter - which is a quick matter of adding a low contrast red to the pencil.
Didn't even clean stains a spots a bit.
Glad you liked them.
I am sometimes cautious about posting monochromes - as they might look unappealing to the general audience, all with photoshops and tablets being so common nowadays...
It's nice knowing somebody still digs old school enough.
I have a couple more sketches lying around; I'll start digging through the archive...
The pencil drawing: Diversity is for the win! This is a beautiful rendering of that, very nice.
The colour drawings: I like the one on the bed best, and most surprised I am by how well you made the stockings turn out so realistic looking! Another beautiful piece of artwork.
I wanted to go wild - and what better way than having the girls go wild themselves?
Plus, I craved for some diversity myself, so I had fun making those ladies as diverse and alien as possible.
Those colour pieces got a LOT of attention, rivalling the time I usually spend on ezine covers...
I even tested out some techniques I don't usually employ, since I wasn't too sure about reaction and effectiveness...
Stockings are a bit of a trade secret of mine... I usually add them as a different layer altogether, and fiddle with filters a bit, until I get the transparencies right...
Glad you liked them.
Christmas in November! Three beautifully balanced group scenarios, each with its distinctive theme and approach!
Foursome freaks indeed, eh?
#1: Yeah, these are undeniably Kalamos gals, despite the range of genres! Those intense eyes and full lips are unmistakable; the heavy cocoa tones, likewise. Wonderful shimmer on the leather restraint gear, and that unusual chest striping distinguishes the cat girl as furry in a way I've never before considered (admirably, credibly organic)! The gargoyle... now that lady scares me! Too many sharp points!
I actually like cats quite a bit, so I tried to retain a reasonably realistic mane on her, while adding clearly human-like features, so she'd look female and strikingly so...
Since cats tend to be rovers, I went for a gypsy-like set of trappings, from a cloth bandanna, to jewels and a chocker...
Maybe I should have added an anklet as well, but for some reason I forgot.
The gargoyless was a bit spiky, but I tried to stay on the soft side of feminine with her general shape: to contrast the ligress's curviness, I added a lot of jagged jewels and details, but her feet stayed rounded and her lips full.
I gave her vaguely savage looks with those heavily decorated tresses - a bit like a barbarian princess or warrioress...
The tail IS a bit scary though.
I think the scariest is the gimpette; being unable to see her face, she could be as daemonic or angelic as your imagination allows...
And my imagination can spawn rather mind-shattering horrors if let unbridled.
Just look at those whip burns on her bum...
#2: Aside from the guy in the red turtle-neck (who's enjoying himself way too much!), this crew's consumed by the dead-eyed scientific detachment that breeds sci-fi nightmares! One needn't be crazy to undergo such therapy, but I'm sure it helps (that much less far to fall!) The clinical gray of the equipment, along with the rather sterile read-out screens (which no one is paying any attention to, I notice; with fresh meat twitching on the table, who'd want to!) presents an effectively neutral background to paint the lady's sweaty isometrics against! Whatever the rigors, this beats shock and lobotomy by many miles!
Most definitely so.
It would seem, they DID try it, at least for a short while.
They did not run low on poor souls - or soles - to test out, while securely strapped to a sanitarium's padded bed, back then...
#3. The high-angle perspective is rather startling; the setting amazingly spare (no floor or furniture... the ladies seem to hover in their reverie); exquisitely detailed and composed (the richly intricate rug bunches round the victimized beauty in the image of unfurling butterfly wings; her sensual metamorphosis, or am I overanalyzing?) Certainly warm with intimacy... the sedate, comfortable atmosphere; the subtly varying bared skintones; the central clinch, as artfully obscured genitals draw daringly near. This is my favorite of the three... intensely tactile, yet rich with spiritual awakening!
No over-analysis there: the shape was a gentle nod of mine, plus the atmosphere of the piece was deliberately dreamy - a bit in contrast with the original request for a earthier context.
Since all ladies were supposed to be "caucasian" types, I tried to retain some flow and richness by varying hues a bit, thus making them different sub-types of the same genre...
I often surprise myself with studying females a bit longer than safe - I am never sure whether I do that out of love, admiration, envy or what.
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At any rate, #03 was the piece I could connect the most with too: it was torture, yet of the consensual type.
Watcher could pick any role in the composition, if any, or switch between any of them at a single whim.
