Hey Hive!
We're back again with another Art Attack! If you're new to the series, this is where I share my drawings and the process behind them. A behind-the-scenes look at my artwork, if you will. This is not to say that I'm very good at art, or that I'm a professional in any way. In fact this is the opposite, and serves as a reminder to how I first started, and lets me track my progress too!
Now that we're done with all the characters I drew for NFTs so far we're back to more art gifts I drew for friends! This time it's for one of my moderators, who goes by Nightsy on Twitch! He's also a fellow artist and is known for being a furry in my community especially since his OC is a wolf! Last time I drew this simple piece for him:
So for his birthday this time I thought I'd try to draw his OC together with his husbando, which is this character named Von Lycaon from Zenless Zone Zero, who is a wolf butler. ZZZ is a new game that Hoyoverse (the makers of Genshin and Honkai Impact) is going to release sometime in the future. And apparently they released some art including this of Von Lycaon:
Source: Zenless Zone Zero
I can see why Nightsy is a fan of this character since he's a wolf butler. Tbh I didn't really have any big ideas for this piece other than drawing them next to each other in a kinda side hug but then I found this fan drawn image of Lycaon sitting back pretty comfortably and thought it was a perfect pose for Nightsy to sit on his lap which I knew he would like so.
Here are the references I used, together with some of Nightsy's old sketches of his OC:
I had a hard time drawing Nightsy's OC again but thankfully I found a sketch he did last time that seemed to fit with the pose I was going for so I traced it along with Lycaon and it seemed to work. I adjusted the pose a little bit to match what I was going for and thought it looked pretty good.
After that I realised that Nightsy's pose should be changed since I wanted him to look more excited about sitting on his husbando's lap so I drew him in a more fanboy pose and outlined the whole piece too, so it looks like this:
After cleaning up the outlines it was time to colour! I started with Nightsy first since his colours are pretty simple, and I also drew the mod symbol on his shirt since I couldn't exactly put his mod sword anywhere.
Although his OC's colour scheme is technically all grey, I decided to use the colour scheme I used the last time and gave him more contrast, and I thought he looked kinda cute!
Then it was time to colour Von Lycaon himself! This was a little tricky since he has quite a bit to him even though he really only has 3 main colours. I tried to incorporate his shadows and highlights and did my best to be as accurate as possible. Colouring took a while but definitely not as long as sketching and outlining.
For the background, I went with something more simple, and maybe a little cheesy? Since I went with such a uwu pose for Nightsy I decided to go with a huge heart in the back so it looks like they're in a loveseat.
Overall, I thought it looked pretty good? It's my "furst" time drawing furry art and tbf I did trace most of it since I'm not good at drawing wolves and wanted the characters to be accurate anyway. I thought it still looked alright though, and thankfully Nightsy loved it! I was so happy and relieved!
Here's the 30 sec timelapse:
If you're interested, I do draw on stream sometimes and you can even claim free artwork if you get enough channel points! We also play lots of interactive games so come hang out with us on my Twitch channel!
Thanks so much for reading!
To find out more about me, check out my intro post here!
