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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 11d

FREE ART OPPORTUNITY!

I'm creating this thread to gather some OCs for me to sketch eventually! Make sure to read the rules in full before participating!

Free Art Opportunity!

Please make sure that you read in full before commenting!

I want to practice drawing OCs other than my own to get experience
with species and design types that I wouldn't normally draw!
Drop a SFW ref of one of your OCs after reading the following rules!

- I am NOT guaranteeing art to anyone. I will draw the characters that I feel
like drawing whenever I feel like drawing them. Additionally, the quality and
finish of each sketch will likely be inconsistent. This is not bias, it just depends
on how much I'm enjoying the specific sketch!

- I will have full creative freedom over the sketches, but will respect specific
rules that you have in place for characters if you mention them!

- I will be pulling from this thread over the span of a few months, I'll be using
this as a resource for myself for practice and during periods of art block!

- Only one character allowed per person! Feel free to enter a character
if I've drawn something for you before, but please only make one entry
to this thread!

- New followers are allowed to participate, but raffle accounts and newly
created accounts will be ignored and potentially blocked.

I Will Draw:
Anthros
Ferals
Blood / Violence
Alcohol / Tobacco
Weapons

I Might Draw:
Monsters
Robots
Artistic Nudity
Mild Gore
Complex Designs

I Won't Draw:
NSFW / Fetish
Sensitive Themes
Humanoids
Heavy Gore
Hard Drugs

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 1d

I have a list of a bunch of different animals that I'm basing him on, but trying to make sure that all of them are incorporated in the way I want them to be is proving to be very challenging.

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 1d

Update: I did in fact cave and start designing him, but this design process is truly revealing to me how much of a perfectionist I am. (I've restarted the concept sketches numerous times at this point. 🫠) I have a really solid color palette picked out for him, but I'm indecisive about his anatomy.

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Korppu @unikorppu.bsky.social · 3d

Practice sketches

#sketch #dragon

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 20d

I'm still taking a break from posting for the most part, but I'll go ahead and show off this sketchpage that I did over the course of a couple of days to practice more natural poses since I'm really happy with how it turned out!

[ #oc | #ocart | #art | #digitalart | #animalart ]

A sketch page depicting various drawings of a bear/wolf hybrid character.

The top left sketch shows him standing on his hind legs with an angry expression. He's lurching forward while fire comes out of his mouth.

The bottom left sketch shows him at a side view running. He's smiling while focusing on something ahead of him.

The top middle sketch depicts him sitting on a rock and smiling. His front legs are hanging over the edge.

The bottom middle sketch shows him rolling on his back with his legs raised. He has a smile on his face while his paws are stretched out.

The top right sketch has him looking behind his shoulder towards the viewer. His paw is raised as the rest of his body is in a cautious stance.

The bottom right sketch shows him jumping away from the camera.

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 6d

First scene I've finished in a while! I've been wanting to do some autumn-themed art recently, and the Art Fright event was the perfect excuse. I went with the corn maze prompt and put all of my sonas in different costumes!

[ #oc | #ocart | #art | #digitalart | #ArtFright2025 ]

A digital painting of a corn maze at night. The moon is illuminating the maze as a farmhouse and silo can be seen in the distance. Four characters can be seen in the foreground, all cosplaying as different fictional characters. The bear to the left of the screen is running while cosplaying as Banjo from Banjo-Kazooie, with a vulture in his backpack with an angry expression. The dog in the background is slowly following behind the bear, looking down at his phone with a frustrated expression. His outfit resembles R.J. MacReady's costume from The Thing. The kirin character on the right is looking around inquisitively, searching for the exit to the maze. He is wearing the kirin armor set from the Monster Hunter franchise.

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 5d

I may have to cave and start designing him this week. I've been wanting a dragon sona for such a long time now, but I kept putting it off since I already have a ton of dragon characters in one of my stories and didn't want to make too many. 😅

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 6d

I need to have my tablet taken away from me. 😭 I'm yet again resisting the urge to design a dragon sona for myself because I absolutely do not need any more sonas, but I have some really cool ideas for a design that doesn't necessarily fit into any of my other worlds. 💔

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you, he's a kirin! I based his design on a bunch of different ungulates (draft horse for the head shape, okapi for the patterns, etc.) and included some dragon scales on his neck and torso!

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 6d

First scene I've finished in a while! I've been wanting to do some autumn-themed art recently, and the Art Fright event was the perfect excuse. I went with the corn maze prompt and put all of my sonas in different costumes!

[ #oc | #ocart | #art | #digitalart | #ArtFright2025 ]

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Dakoda 🌿 @odaeshka.bsky.social · 7d

Raffle prize for @yvaelyn.bsky.social 💜

Tags: #art #artist #wolf #csp #clipstudiopaint

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 8d

OOH I FORGOT YOU HAD A KIRIN CHARACTER TOO 👀

I do plan on opening trades again sometime in the near future, but regardless of that I would love to do a sketch of this character soon! 💖

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Korppu @unikorppu.bsky.social · 9d

Cold and quiet (2023)

#art

A fullbody illustration of a white Japanese Spitz dog walking in a snowy forest. The colours are cold, consisting only of various shades of blue. The dog's expression is calm and his walk is drawn exaggerated. It is snowing.

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 10d

Forgot to mention this in the initial post, but I would generally like to avoid bear and canine OCs for this since I don't really need more practice with them! Birds and equines are a maybe since I already draw them pretty frequently, but I might be down to draw some still!

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Knight @endlessknights.bsky.social · 26d

Wanted to draw some neglected OCs, but then remembered that their only existing refs are two years old and reside in a sketchbook I left at my parents’ place, so they got new refs from memory lol. Kelpie’s also here because these three are a packaged deal #art #oc #ocart

A ref for a human-bloodhound-opossum mutant hybrid. He’s colored like a opossum with brown on his shoulders, ears, and belly. He wears blue shorts labeled B-7-3. The text reads “Project Ouroboros. Genome: B, Batch: 7, Specimen: 3, Codename: Barghest.” Below is a list of DNA sources, then more text reading “intelligence: human-level (low). Temperament: obedient, docile unless provoked. Safety level: low risk. Escape protocol: recapture by nonlethal measures.”

A ref for a human-barn owl-Amur leopard-mouse mutant hybrid. He’s colored like a leopard, with owl talons for hands and mouse ears. He wears blue shorts labeled H-6-8. The text reads “Project Ouroboros. Genome: H, Batch: 6, Specimen: 8, Codename: Hidebehind.” Below is a list of DNA sources, then more text reading “intelligence: human-level (high). Temperament: obedient, docile, timid. Safety level: low risk. Escape protocol: recapture by nonlethal or less-lethal measures.”

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 11d

Note that this is a separate thing from the art trades I'm planning on doing soon! This is more of a resource for myself to gather OCs to practice with so I don't have to ask people individually if I can draw their characters. 💖

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 11d

FREE ART OPPORTUNITY!

I'm creating this thread to gather some OCs for me to sketch eventually! Make sure to read the rules in full before participating!

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 11d

I have to delay this for a couple more days because something unexpected interrupted my schedule a bit, but I'll still try to have trades open by the end of the week!

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 12d

I may go ahead and open my art trades to mutuals in a day or so since I'm wanting to make some art that isn't study-related. If any mutuals are interested in trading and want to be tagged when I open them, let me know! I'll likely have a couple more character options this time as well!

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Korppu @unikorppu.bsky.social · 12d

Flight Rising commissions (2024)

#art #dragon #flightrising #frfanart

Two Flight Rising dragon headshots. The first one is a guardian dragon with a red hood and golden jewelery and the second a skydancer with red feathers and mane.

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 12d

I may go ahead and open my art trades to mutuals in a day or so since I'm wanting to make some art that isn't study-related. If any mutuals are interested in trading and want to be tagged when I open them, let me know! I'll likely have a couple more character options this time as well!

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 13d

AHH THESE LOOK SO ADORABLE!! 😭💖 You did such a good job at capturing their personalities here! I love andean bears so much but I rarely ever see any art of them. 😭

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🪐 maki @ljesak.bsky.social · 13d

andean bear studies, they're my fav bear species
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#art #animalart

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Korppu @unikorppu.bsky.social · 13d

This is still one of my favourite pieces to this day!

Art Fight attack for Shegoran (2024)

#art #dragon

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OkStets @okstets.bsky.social · 14d

AWW THIS TURNED OUT SO CUTE 😭💖

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