Gallery - Richard K Niner

Dragoness Rides

2012-01-12T22:09:50-05:00

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Aldegunde the dragon woman gives Jerry the raccoon a free airlift. Hope she doesn't slip and drop him at those speeds.

Aldegunde is owned by Spray, and JerryArr by himself.

Puppy New Year!

2011-12-31T17:16:57-05:00

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A golden retriever pup plays with a roman candle outside to celebrate the new year.

Felt like finishing off my drawings for 2011 with something cute. So here you go!

Fuzzy Weather

2011-12-30T14:25:28-05:00

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Haze, a badger (and distaff counterpart to Spray) strikes a pose and shows off all her fluffiness. Just don't draw to much attention to her blaster.

Decided to mess around in pencil for a bit, and came up with this.

Smile!

2011-12-27T17:06:20-05:00

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RK holds up his camera to snap some pics.

Felt like pulling my painting supplies out this time, and making a new conbadge — the challenge was trying to work with a much smaller area (I'm still a bit shaky with a brush, but it's gotten better I think).

Fireplace Fox Furpile

2011-12-04T21:22:11-05:00

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To keep warm over the winter, a trio of feral foxes furpile in front of the fireplace.

It's been a while since I've tried doing lighting with fire, and about a month since the last pic I uploaded. So, I figured to go after both of those with a holiday-themed pic like this. Enjoy!

non-lo-so's Robin Hood commission for Flow

2011-11-08T20:59:50-05:00

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Two months ago, a local feline fur/fursuiter/builder by the name of Flow asked if she could borrow RK for a commission she was getting. The theme (and goal) were to match the title card for a 2006 British TV version of Robin Hood.

Not one to squander opportunities to get art of my fursona, I took her up on the offer. Just today, I saw the work was finished; it is available from the artist on furaffnity.net. I think I can say that the work is awesome. © 2011 non-lo-so and/or 3245kat (i.e. Flow)

Going to his Happy Place

2011-11-01T21:41:35-05:00

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Felinaeus, after taking his new fox tail to work on Halloween, finds the stress of that office slowly getting to him. By petting his tail, he is able to maintain his sanity; then the voices in his head start to get louder and louder, occasionally switching languages and not stopping.

Before long, the poor rabbit is rocking back and forth, trying to find his happy place...

After catching a post on Google+ about this rabbit and his puppy coworker, this image popped up in my head. Granted, I had some help from the comments, but I had to draw it the moment I got home. After adding some colour, I kinda like this result.

A Rainy Day Badge

2011-10-26T20:10:05-05:00

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It's been raining a lot lately, and I'm not a fan of that. Especially since the temperature has dropped too.

I decided to put that annoyed, wet expression on a badge for this weekend's furmeet.

Cute Foxy

2011-10-23T12:30:42-05:00

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Decided to draw a feral fox today, enjoy!

It's a Wabbit!

2011-10-16T19:51:47-05:00

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…So that's where our carrots disappeared to!

Dook!

2011-10-13T21:05:50-05:00

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Here, have a cute ferret.

Ear-Tilt Kitty

2011-10-10T18:55:05-05:00

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A curious cute tigerkitty wonders who wants to watch him play with his ball of yarn.

A second cute feral animal pic this week, felt like making a feline counterpart to last week's pup.

Window-Smooshed Puppy

2011-10-05T21:32:10-05:00

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Felt like trying to draw something as cute as I possibly could. If you check out my Twitter, you can find the sketch result — figured I'd scan and colour it.

Had some input on this one from a bunch of furs who all agreed the sketch would look awesome as a sticker, once I coloured it. So here you go.

…if you need a dentist, I'll be over there.

Firevixen in a Tree

2011-09-18T18:11:08-05:00

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Michelle, a red panda (a.k.a. firefox) relaxes in a tree.

Decided to pull out the paints for this one, since I could use more practice and they're slowly improving with time. Besides, here's a character I haven't drawn for a while. Enjoy!

Jerry Always Wears his Sneakers

2011-09-11T20:14:14-05:00

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JerryArr always wears his shoes, even when he's not wearing anything else.

Silliness inspired by random IRC comments, committed to paper with coloured pencils in a Google+ Hangout.

A Taste of Summer

2011-08-21T19:21:42-05:00

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Colin, a fotter (fox-otter hybrid) relaxes by a pool, licking his popsicle.

Here's a character I haven't drawn in a while, and he probably looks a bit different from the last time. I felt I needed something a bit more summery in my gallery, and a fur licking a popsicle works quite well for that.

Niner's New Bike

2011-07-22T21:02:48-05:00

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Niner gets ready to ride his new bike, a road-based hybrid.

Done entirely digitally, I decided to use my own body to help get the pose right, tracing the result (of course, changing from human to canine in the process). That's a large contributor to why RK looks different; the flat shading seems to fit the image rather well.

A Tigercat at Play

2011-06-04T17:30:12-05:00

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A tigercat plays with a bunch of cat toys. It looks like he's enjoying himself. Just make sure that you don't try to take his toys away…

Decided to play with coloured pencils for the first time in a while; the lineart for this pic came out way too cute, and I didn't feel like trying to trace it on the computer. From start to finish (except for the background), I streamed this piece over the internet, which I seem to be doing with a lot of my new art these days. So if you want to catch more, stay tuned!

Mmm, Knight Crispies!

2011-05-22T17:45:57-05:00

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A cute little green dragon nibbles on an even littler knight.

Was messing around today, and this was the result.

Okay, Blue Jay

2011-04-10T15:43:54-05:00

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A puppy (not RK this time, an anonymous yellow lab) tries to play fetch with a blue jay on a nice day. Baseball season is here.

The sleuths among you might recognize that the Blue Jays are Toronto's baseball (they play in the AL East, along with the Yankees, Red Sox, Rays and Orioles). The pic here is a play on their theme song chorus (appearing during the seventh inning stretch): "OK Blue Jays / Let's Play Ball!".

I decided to paint this one for a change... Seem to be getting the hang of it in parts, but looks like I'll need a bit more practice before I'll make it look as good as my digital works (which also get proper shadows on them).

2011 Reference Sheet

2011-03-27T13:26:23-05:00

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Since it's been a few years, and I've had a chance to improve my drawing style, I figured it would be good to create an updated ref sheet. I decided to render RK nude from three angles since I'm also looking into commissioning a fursuit (possibly).

It took a few evenings to finish this after creating the original sketches over the weekend. I had initially drawn the tail in for the rear view, but after consideration removed it so you could see the rear markings properly.

Changes since the 2008 sheets:

Changed how my inking practices to all-digital and reduced the lines for fur texturing
Smoothed and defined markings
Reduced fluffyness in various areas so others would be more noticeable
Made tuft fluffier
Redid the sideburns to accentuate cheeks and ears
Lowered the tail to better reflect accurate anatomy
Put more effort into a consistent look between poses
Layout improvements to reduce by one page, while including more information

Kitty Demands Bellyrubs

2011-03-14T19:13:38-05:00

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A cat demands the same attention RK did in a previous pic. Quick sketch between events at Furnal Equinox.

Rockin' Raccoon

2011-03-14T19:11:06-05:00

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A raccoon with a guitar rocks out by himself. Quick sketch between doing things at Furnal Equinox.

W00f!

2011-03-06T14:36:28-05:00

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RK jumps for joy as I finish another picture. Just felt like making him toonishly, heel-clickingly happy for a change. Also wanted to reduce the complexity in drawing his fur to see how it would look.

Conbadge by Arrowroot

2011-03-05T10:30:04-05:00

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A conbadge I commissioned from Arrowroot for Furnal Equinox, which starts next week.