Dangerous invitation
This is my second fully original painting. I pushed myself into some challenging territory for it. I set out to make a painting that features Aftyn‘s Dangerous Succubus on a bed in a space filled with flames, beckoning us to come to her. I started with a rough pose idea from a drawing by Alex...
Sleepy kitten
Hell yeah! This is a painting of Aftyn Rose, based on one of the most artistic of her Instagram photos. I have long wanted to do it, but hesitated due to confidence issues around the complicated lighting and shadows. But when I set out to work through my issues with painting brushes, a reference with distinct shadows...
Playful in green
This is a portrait of Aftyn Rose, based on a reference that is important to me in a way that made it hard to do justice. This is attempt number four. I have tried to come at this over a span of many months. Each time I try, my style is different, my intentions are different. I would want to change things, and then fail...
Happy Friday (painted)
A portrait of Aftyn Rose, looking comfortable and beautiful on her deck. This time, the painting succeeded. As I noted on the previous attempt, I painted this version without the use of a sketch. No guidelines, no Loomis head or whatever, just shapes. The dark mass of hair goes about here. Wait, too much. Carve it back...
Happy Friday
I decided I should add some Aftyn portraits to my current painting series. Like the last one, this painting was a failure. What you're seeing above is the sketch I made before going to color. It's a nice sketch, but the painting was never able to achieve a similar level of quality or likeness. It's uncommon for me to...
Ahegao
Another portrait of Aftyn Rose, this time focused on her ahegao face. It's something she does often, but I have barely tried to represent. I'm not entirely sure what she's expressing when she does it. For me, it sits at the intersection of silly, playful, and sexy that Aftyn herself exemplifies. The face is referenced...
Mrs Claus
It's been a while since I did a painting of Aftyn! Long enough that I felt a little rusty. But, after some false starts trying to decide what brushes to use, I got back into the swing of things. The reference is taken from one of her early ear licking videos. I just can't resist that smile! Ultimately, this was all done...
Aftyn figure studies 3
I had a confidence setback recently in my art skills, and wanted to salve that hurt by going back to some drawings of my favorite subject, Aftyn Rose. These are five figure studies rendered as nudes from a variety of non-nude sources. The bottom two drawings, sourced from one of my favorite videos, I did a long time ago...
Check out this butt
Monochrome drawing of Aftyn Rose showing off for her bathroom mirror before a shower. This is a return to an earlier piece I never thought was quite good enough. Because I have been using Aftyn drawings as a way to exercise my anatomical knowledge, I have also opted to remove her shirt. (And, you know, I appreciate her...
Color notes
I have been watching a bunch of Marco Bucci painting lesson videos, particularly his 10 Minutes to Better Painting series. The episode about color notes was particularly inspiring, and then the exercise proposed in this video gave me the impetus to try it out. Additional stylistic input from the apple tutorial...
Aftyn face study
I've been working on some drawings of Aftyn from imagination — full body poses — and struggling with getting facial likeness at that distance. The eternal struggle! After four disappointing attempts at the target resolution, I decided to draw a close-up with the intention of shrinking it down and drawing over it...
Lyra's perfect day
Lyra and Aftyn have been a team for a long time. I decided some time ago I wanted to do a portrait of them together. The concept is: what would make for an ideal day for a happy dog? Relaxing and playing with her favorite person. I found the reference for the image on the left, with those great smiles, on Snapchat. The...
Aftyn figure studies 2
Aftyn figure sketches, booty edition. I got to thinking how much I like to draw backs — and need practice at it! So I went looking for back-focused references for my favorite subject, and again am drawing them as if they were nudes to give the imagination some exercise. Getting some good back dimples on these, which...
Best booty
I was working on a new sheet of Aftyn nude figure drawings, and got a little hung up on the unfamiliar proportions on this particular booty pose. I was having a hard time getting it to look right, and having to also imagine what was happening beneath her shirt was just making it worse. So instead I drew it as presented...
Beautiful morning
A painting of Aftyn Rose lounging around in her underwear, feeling good about herself. I love both this painting and the reference it was drawn from. When I saw the photo, I knew I had to paint it right away, jumping to the top of my priority queue. Her beauty radiates in this. Light beams from her smile. The biggest...
Aftyn figure studies
I recently got a new set of Aftyn reference photos and felt the need to rush out and try my newly developed figure drawing skills on them. With permission, I have drawn them as nudes. The original references are sexy but not nude, so this was also an exercise of imagination. I'm pleased with the results. There were some...
Sensuality
This is a portrait of Aftyn Rose, focused on her beautiful breasts, as a capstone to my 100 sets of boobs challenge. It took me longer than expected or usual. I make no apologies for that. It was vital to me I get this one right. Not perfect, as I initially thought my goal to be. Nothing is ever perfect, and requiring...
Intrigued succubus
When I completed the 100 rib cage lesson, I knew I needed to take a break from instruction and just do something fun. I did a bunch of sketches, but this one jumped out at me as something I needed to polish up and complete. This is a painting of Aftyn Rose roleplaying as one of her succubus characters. It was a joy to...
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Sweet and messy maid
A painting of Aftyn Rose being an outrageously sexy maid. I've amped up the sexiness a little bit in this rendition as a Christmas present to myself. So, um, yes. Moving along. I have been doing some monochrome work with the Sinix brush set. While the wide dry brush has unlocked something in me for sketching, it makes...
(Very) Belated Valentine's Day
Portrait of Aftyn Rose from her Belated Valentine's Day video. This is a return to color work after a couple months of monochrome value studies. It was pretty successful, I think. I am seeing shapes more clearly now, and this came to fruition with a minimum of hassle. It finally gave me a chance to depict a couple of...
Chiaroscuro
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn made in a reverse style, adding white media over a dark background. I went looking for the highest contrast reference images I could find, and the source for this one really jumped out at me. The shadow definitions are wonderful — well defined regions of form shadow, cast shadows, bounce...
Shower thoughts
With all these value studies I've been doing lately, I got to wondering if there were any good Aftyn references I could use to study shadow and form. In her videos she usually employs a number of fill lights, so you don't get much shadowing. But a friend pointed me to one of her Snapchat pictures, a flirty shower pose...
Dancing girl
One night I was thinking about drawing instead of what I should have been doing — sleeping — and I remembered that Procreate added an animation mode. I wanted to try it out, and what better subject than Aftyn doing a cute little dance? It was fun to do, but animation is super tedious! I suppose that's obvious, but I...
Cameo
Sketch portrait of Aftyn Rose. Not so much a specific moment as just an attempt to represent her in sketch form with contour ink shading. I like how the shapes worked out. The shading style is still experimental, but I am starting to feel more in control of it. This is not at all similar to my original intentions with...
Fairies
Portrait of Aftyn from the video Sharing my fairies with you. It's a luminous and sweet, gentle video, although apparently there's no good way for me to link it here. Anyway, I've cropped the framing on this to emphasize her as the subject. The portrait comes on the heels of a little string of failures that got my...
Tsundere kitten
Portrait of Aftyn Rose role-playing as a tsundere kitten. I painted this with acrylic brushes in Procreate on the iPad. I painted it after the figure drawing class to relax a bit from that push. It was fun to do, and it turned out pretty good. I went for a bit of a looser style, although it's certainly not as simplified...
Yoko smooches
Portrait of Aftyn and her dog Yoko, who is apparently a very smoochy girl! I did it in Procreate on iPad with the charcoal tools. It's a little bit of a step back in terms of developing my color sense. I started out trying to paint with gouache colors. I've done a little bit with that in the past, but on this I hated...
Red panda
Digital charcoal portrait of Aftyn Rose in the super-cute red panda onesie she wore in herGuided meditation (progressive muscle relaxation) video. I use that video to help fall asleep pretty often; it's probably my most watched of hers. A combination of the pajamas and the exaggerated smile made this a lot of fun to...
Happy Halloween
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn as a witch from a few years ago, done in Procreate on the iPad. It's safe to say I had much bigger plans for a Halloween picture than what I wound up with. There are 3 witches in that video, and I had intended to do a composition with all of them in a cartoon style with a special decorated...
Relax in my lap
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn done in Procreate on the iPad. The colors on that satin robe were quite the challenge. I'm pretty pleased with this one. Much better than last week's effort. I did 3 sketch layers for this one, which is unusual for me. It just took a long time to come together. I'm still distorting things in...
Boosette
Charcoal portrait of Aftyn in a Boosette cosplay, done in Procreate on the iPad. I had this dumb idea about this one that didn't really pan out, where she'd be dialed down to 50% opacity so you could see the environment through her. And then I didn't put anything of interest in the background to make such silliness...
Touchy
An experiment in painting with a very limited color palette, inspired by Aftyn's Sensual touchy relax time video, which is pretty monochromatic. Given that it was my first time trying it, I shouldn't give myself a hard time over how hard a road this painting took to becoming reality. This was a labor. It does have a...
Leg massage
This is a painting of Aftyn Rose from the Legs and feet massage video. This is another picture I thought I might be able to tackle, despite the wealth of little details, and I think it turned out pretty good! I must say, though, if I never have to paint those Røde microphones again, I'll be happy. As an experiment, I'm...
Wet dress
That Pink kitten painting went well enough that I was emboldened to try and do a painting with translucency. I'm still making progress with converting reference images to sketches, and to painting with those sketches. Edge lines aren't nearly as bad these days. My color blending with Procreate has improved...
Pink kitten
A portrait of Aftyn in a cute, pink kitten outfit, done at the request of an avowed fan of her ear licking videos. This is my first painting after a week of just sketching, and I think it turned out great. During that week, I was developing a better eye for converting a reference to a sketch, and I think the likeness is...
Earth Spirit
Sketch portrait of Aftyn's Earth Spirit of the Elemental friends. Earth has a fun potted bonsai that makes her segment of the video something special. I was feeling pretty low after the Fire and Water struggles coming into this one, and my initial sketch was straight-up shabby. I refused to let that stop me, though, and...
Water Spirit
Sketch portrait of Aftyn's Water Spirit, one of the Elemental friends. You'd think the simplicity of the pose would make it easier to do, but the opposite turned out to be true. I struggled to find landmarks and couldn't get the sketch to settle on something that looked like her. In the end, I gave up. Water Spirit is...
Fire spirit
Sketch portrait of the Fire Spirit, from Aftyn's Elemental friends. She's a bit of a pyromaniac, a trait I suspect is shared by Aftyn herself. Getting the lighting to look right in this picture took a surprising number of false starts. My rough guide to shadows, with lightly hashed blobs, looked pretty good to me, but I...
Air spirit
Sketch portrait of Aftyn's Air Spirit from the Elemental friends video. The Air Spirit is my favorite of the characters from that video. She blows on the microphone and that... does something to my scalp. I think I'll do all four characters in this style, each with this monochrome color scheme. I'm really happy with the...
Worst kitten
Worst kitten got her hands on a camera again! I'm getting more confident with these cartoon renders. This one was a challenge, though. I tried freehanding through the sketch stage. Individual parts fit together fine, but it was riddled with distortions. That keeps happening to me with full body sketches. I need more...
Fall clothes haul
I wanted to revisit some of the subjects that I failed at capturing when I switched to Procreate on the iPad, including this one from Aftyn's Fall cloths haul. This time, I went with the cartoon rendering style, which felt like the right choice for the roundness of the pose. I got a little abstract with the shadows...
A girl and her cat
Portrait of Aftyn Rose from the video Just a girl and her cat. I got a little experimental with this one. I've been pushing my boundaries with respect to sketch and line layers, painting in details, etc. Add to that my first time painting a cat — a black cat in a dark room, no less! — and you've got a challenging...
Teacher
Aftyn's teacher roleplay was the first thing I ever saw of her. This is an attempt at doing a much more graphical style than I usually do, a product of looking for ways to work around my troubles with the Procreate blend tool. My line work is definitely improving. I've been saying I needed to get okay with hard lines on...
Silly girl
This is a silly portrait of an occasionally very silly girl. It was painted with just the basic round brush, although I allowed myself to use the blend tool this time to soften the pigment patches. Quick and messy, and really just a way of experimenting with trying to eyeball colors and light placement. Valuable...
Ear massage
I went looking through Aftyn's videos for moments that would work well in a vertical orientation to make a phone backdrop. This is from the one titled Ear massage and eye contact. I really like the way the lighting turned out here. This was the first time I did a spotting pass near the end to try to get the subsurface...
Pink sweater
There is such warmth to the video this originates in, I couldn't help but do a picture from it. This is my first portrait where I chose to hide the outline layer I started with, which gives it a more painterly look overall. The soft focus depth of field comes through in an interesting way. Trying to do the pinstripes on...
Supernatural
Portrait of Aftyn as Twin supernatural babes. This is my first color portrait that I think is actually pretty good. Doing this picture, I found the painting style that worked for me in Krita. Every time I tried to use a brush with less than 100% opacity, any regions of overlap between strokes would leave denser patches,...
Dangerous succubus
My second pencil portrait of Aftyn Rose, from the Dangerous succubus cosplay. I felt a little more in control of the pencil tools at this point. While doing this, I was thinking consciously about how to get viewers to enter the picture through the eyes, and I think it worked. I tried a color version of this picture...
