Penth's Sketchbook

[T-Min]

 

 

Other resident SSMB Fur T-Min's avatar too! I drew this on a whim for him. It's my first time using charcoal on a fictional subject, and I'm quite pleased with it.

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Aldagar. <3 I always loved this guy. Most badass Yorkie ever. Your art never fails to impress, Penthe. =)

[LongcrierCat]

Very impressive Copic Marker and Graphite/Charcoal work, Penthe. Really nifty stuff. The digital painting is coming along very well too. The Duck Hunt dog Vector is fantastic; it looks good to go for an emblem design. 

[FriendBot]

So I've decided to, stal-errr I mean, look through your art topic and I've gotta agree with everyone else, this is one of best looking art I've seen in recent memory. So I shall give you major kuddos on such talents, Neps! Like some of the artwork you painted looks really great, gives a very mellow feel to it and it overall has a really nice feel to it. The DETAIL! MY GOODNESS, the detail! It's again, truly amazing to see such detail and heart being added into every single drawing you make and it shows EVERY. SINGLE. TIME! 

 

Please do continue you work, Neps! I should thank you for providing such amazing art for all of us to see!

[Nepenthe]

So I just did a test stream in prep for the official Rare one on Friday (If there's one thing I learned, it's that I need to make longer music playlists. xD) I asked SSMB for ten ideas for Sonic characters doing stuff. This is the result of you guys' suggestions, as well as a bunch of Sonic music, Unleashed's cut scenes, and improvisation and memes:
 
 

 

 

So yeah, thanks for everyone who joined and hung out with me. T'was fun! 83

[Ellipsis-Ultima]

Holy moly man, Your art is AMAZING!!!! Keep it up!!!

[Tara]

Proto Muttski is still my fave.  Love it all, though. <3

[Nepenthe]

xD Muttski was fun, just because of his shapes. He's basically nothing but floppiness.

 

Also, boom:

 

 

Here it is, the result of today’s stream. Over 9 hours of painting and Rare music. I’m actually surprised the playlist held out that long. xDD Either way, I’m pretty proud of this, mainly because this is the most patience for once piece I’ve ever had. And it’s colorful! 8D Thanks to the people that tuned in. We’ll do this again soon!

[Tara]

Just wanted to say once again that this piece turned out beautiful and I had a lot of fun watching it unfold!  Excellent work as always!

[FriendBot]

HOLY CRAP! That looks amazing!

 

The use of the colors definitely brings a very mellow feel to it so I guess when this game was announced a lot of Bango-Kazooie enthusiasts were jumping for joy and such! Great job as always Neps and hope you had an awesome time in that livestream, couldn't make due to work and stuff.

[Xenos]

Nepenthe, please don't stop.

 

Your art gives me life

 

I'd definitely ask for a commission if I had remotely any money of my own, maybe even more than one, probably seven. But that'll have to wait I s'pose, lol

[Guest]

Wow! My god! Your an fantastic artist! Sorry I am giving you a complement very late.

But I think this still deserves one after 5 years. Good work!

I wish I could draw like you! It's just that your really good!

PS I really like your Silver The Hedgehog drawing. Well done! Just marvelous!

[Tani Coyote]

Ha, I remember seeing that Ty image on deviantArt and really loving it, only to not make the connection until I actually looked at the username...

The Banjo/Yooka image is glorious. I imagine it must have been fun seeing it slowly come to life... though I am indeed amazed at Rare's library.

I really need to check this thread more. Your stuff is awesome!

I should look into commissioning you sometime.

[Nepenthe]

It's been a minute since this topic has seen some activity so I'm just gonna throw a bunch of stuff in here to catch up. xP

Drawings of the yellow puppy baby-boo. He's supposed to be able to go from a bipedal stance to a quadrupedal stance at a moment's notice depending upon what's convenient (because sometimes situations call for you needing to run 30 mph), and I feel this was the first time I ever comfortably drew him in both. <3

Egyptian gryphons are just so passe', so I made a gryphon of the South American variety. Half harpy eagle, half jaguar. Trying to shop this guy around to get an offer on him so I can make him into a costume, digitigrade legs, wings, and all.

I randomly came across images of the prettiest cocker spaniel ever so I sought to design potential costumes around it, a natural colored version and a Lisa Frank variety with the same patterns.

A green hyena, or as it's known in the Furry fandom colloquially a "yeen." I was doing the Sparkle Animal challenge (take a random color scheme and random animal) and this was the result!

Me and my friend were talking about fursuit ideas for a friend who wants to be a panda, and she said "Just imagine Winnie the Pooh." So that happened.

I remembered that there was a Fredbear & Friends show in FNAF 4 so I tried drawing a few characters as if the show had been helmed by Disney. Forgot Chica though'; she was probably messing about in the kitchen at the time.

SenEDtor Missile said "Pi-Rats of the Caribbean" so I made this. Not sorry. :3c

I was spurred on by the comments of someone who liked the above drawing to draw some more Bonnie, and since he's my favorite best animatronic, I was only too happy to oblige.

And finally a thing I've been working on for the past few days, (which I'm partly proud of because no triangles or n-gons anywhere ho mah gawr.) I want to become more marketable to those animation folks out west, so my test piece is the little dinner roll in the first picture. He will be colored, rigged, and fully animated for lip sync and emotional exercises, walk cycles, things like that. If I can get fur working on him, that'll be even better! Fun times ahead. xD

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And that's it. Hmm.... I haven't done a long term visual art piece in awhile... Maybe I should fix that. ;3

[LindseyWalker]

Holy fuck Nepenthe. What's the secret to your success?

[Nepenthe]

Holy fuck Nepenthe. What's the secret to your success?

Constant practice, coffee, gathering refs and inspiration, copying Disney, tears, regret, low confidence, bursts of inspiration, sudden ego and confidence, more coffee, and even more practice... in that exact order.

[ZDozer]

God, I didn't know Nepenthe was so good at it. That was some impressive art.

A shame I don't have a working printer with me at this moment. I would love to try to give colors to some of these arts.

Edited September 3, 2015 by ZDozer

[Tara]

Constant practice, coffee, gathering refs and inspiration, copying Disney, tears, regret, low confidence, bursts of inspiration, sudden ego and confidence, more coffee, and even more practice... in that exact order.

What if you don't like coffee?  Can it be decaf?  How many milliliters of tears are necessary for optimal artistic performance?  Should I save them for each drawing session or should they be tossed out at the end of every piece?

[Nepenthe]

I can't tell you the exact formula, now can I? Some things have to be secret. =D You'll just have to get in 22 years of practice to find it out yourself. <3

[Ryannumber1gamer]

Wow, this artwork is amazing. Really great range of stuff as well, from Disney style pictures to Sonic style to Banjo Kazooie etc. 

[LadyBrightcynder]

After binge reading this topic, I have to say...

Your artwork is just stunning. I can't words right now how good it is.

[Nepenthe]

Art dump for yooouuu because I'm too lazy to update all of my galleries simultaneously. In rough order from oldest to newest:

A loooooooooonnnnnnnnng overdue commission for Brighton Ridgecrest of his character Atari Otter about to hit that ol' dusty trail. Pencil with a little digital painting to add some depth back to the scan.

A hot battle progresses between Kou (left) and Koro! Who will win? Find out next time on Dragon Ball Z!

Previous Sonic-style commission for my friend Ereki.

Shadow went off into the forest to get a drink without telling a sleeping Amy where the hell he was going and now she's pissed off after worrying about him. That's how I ship characters.

I don't think I uploaded this for Inktober but if I did, sorry! You're getting it again. Unleashed and Teen Wolf crossover because y naut?

An old commission for DJ Zing of his not-Sonic blue hedgehog sitting in a bar and reminiscing about good times.

My sleep schedule was all kinds of messed up when I drew this. So while waiting to get exhausted enough to fall back asleep I decided to make good on my resolution to draw my own characters more. Plus I needed the sketch practice. So I drew my birb making faces.

Wanted to draw my other character as well as acquire a Twitter banner, so I killed two birds with one stone. Someone obviously mentioned food.

[Ryannumber1gamer]

6 minutes ago, Nepenthe said:

 

 

Well, there was no rules in the Basketball rule book about not allowing Werehogs to play so it's all good.

[Monkey Destruction Switch]

I love your amazing, furry creations! Thanks for sharing.

[Muscles Maximum]

You've got such beautiful and controlled lines and your style reminds me a lot of older disney stuff. You're so great at posing too! Really cool!