Gallery - Richard K Niner

Batter Up! Badge Concept

2012-04-07T16:20:44-05:00

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It's that time of year — baseball season is upon us. And it looks like RK is set to play for his hometown Blue Jays; he'll probably end up watching from the stands, though, seeing he's not that good at baseball, and that he'd have to change numbers.

For something I was planning to do quick, this sure took a while - way too many distractions this weekend. So here is the finished product, as a rather plain baseball-themed badge.

The original plan was to make a template to speed things along for other characters and teams, with an eye to making these available as cheap commissions. On that note, I'm wondering if I should go ahead — while I'm sure there are a few baseball furs, I have to wonder how many will see my announcement. Might just go ahead anyways (or not and move to another design or drawing idea).

An Exhausted "Gopher"

2012-03-25T19:16:42-05:00

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Seems like this squirrel's just way too tired. Perhaps she should go lie down for the evening.

While sitting around last week, I had the idea for what I thought would be a creative partial fursuit design — a gopher (i.e. furry convention volunteer) that was simply exhausted (or looked and acted that way). For bonus points, I figured I'd use an animal closely related to the gopher - the ground squirrel.

And so, here I've taken the design of a previous (but mostly unused) character I had created, Sylvia the squirrel, and adapted her into this ref sheet. Constant panting, droopy bloodshot eyes, generally dazed stature…

So, how well does it work? (And does it seem like a good fursuit idea?)

"Innocent" doggy

2012-03-11T19:57:36-05:00

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RK grins nervously while wearing a fake halo. Perhaps he's trying to look innocent of something?

Decided that, with a new year of Furnal Equinox coming up next weekend, and a new theme to work with, I'd finish off and print out a new badge (hey look, the price dropped 10 cents). This year's theme, "Infurnally Yours", plays off the contrast between heaven and hell. I decided that RK would look better faking the former than the latter. Besides, don't all dogs go to heaven?

Frisbee! Fetch!

2012-03-07T22:04:23-05:00

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RK reaches to try to catch a frisbee that just flew by him. Looks like he might succeed, but I'm guessing he'll drop it. Still, looks like fun.

Figured it was a while since I last drew my fursona, at least with full colour. I decided to use this as an opportunity for updating my avatar collection and Google profile, too, since I figured I could use it for a neat strip effect; it took a bit of work, involving rotation and bending the arm differently, but I got that working too.

Enjoy! *tosses the frisbee back*

Experimenting with Perspective

2012-03-04T20:38:46-05:00

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Felt like trying a more dynamic angle while drawing Niner out. Not sure if it worked, but this was the result.

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).