Anonymous asked: I'm super curious about Dragondove and I check periodically for updates and sadhdhghsdgjdfs; I'm such a fan

aaahh anon this was so nice to get!! I promise it’s not abandoned, I’m at a point where I just need to start drawing the damn comic already. but that’s the hardest part. not to mention some health issues that have set me back weh

here I drew a little thing

shepardsweetie asked: THANK YOU for posting all of your references and stuff, oh my God! You've helped me so much when I draw the pains-in-the-(sexy)-asses that are turians!

you’re very welcome! I’m replying to this publicly so I can include some images.

I dug up some of my first turians, and some of my most recent ones i dragged out of a sketchbook. they are definitely not easy beasts to draw. and I think I’m better at them than I was when I scribbled that tutorial. just draw from models a lot, pay attention to shapes and face proportions. and draw them a lot. I still get frustrated with their faces.

here is a good set of screencaps that might also help!

sketchyeh asked: Your structure sketches for the Quarian/Turian/Krogan were AWESOME. I loved them! Do you suppose you could do a very quick ort of thing like that for the Charr race in Guild Wars 2? I haven't been able to find anything else, especially not anything near as helpful, and I'm really having trouble. ;__;

thank you! unfortunately I have not played guild wars, not once in my life, so I couldn’t deconstruct charr with anywhere near the same amount of faked authority. if you (or anyone) can give me some clear references, I could try to give it a go?

Anonymous asked: Your geth are so cool! If Gaugin has a crush on Bhali, what's going on with Infrared and Priya? Friends?

infrared and priya have made it a few steps further, I’d say. this one is long too

infrared is a reckless hunter unit that got transfered from squad to squad during the war. no one wanted to work with a geth, let alone one that appeared so spontaneously violent and unstable. finally, it landed on a squad of mostly humans, including one young human combat engineer named priya.

priya is very antisocial and standoffish, and was never good at keeping human (or alien) friends. she has always preferred to be alone, amusing herself with studies and computers. the chance to study a geth until was something she couldn’t resist. so she became the first organic to try and talk to infrared. she gave it the name, due to the bright red paint on its casing.

their conversations began on the subject of geth, and geth culture as a whole, then moved onto the more technical aspects of geth software and hardware alike. she became fascinated with infrared, spending all her downtime around it. she always had new questions, and infrared valued the data it could gather on organic behavior. it was still settling into its reaper upgrades at the time. priya also took the time to repair its casing for it after the nastier firefights. priya’s friendship with the geth was getting her ostracized by the rest of the squad, but she didn’t care. she was having deeper feelings than friendship.

and the war was turning grizzly. she knew her affection for infrared was strange, and probably futile, but that didn’t stop her from mentioning it to infrared in one conversation. infrared appreciated her help and companionship, and wanted to return the favor. it knew that organics express affection toward one another through sexual relations. so with a few modifications to its platform, that’s what they did.

the two of them were in the final push in london. through a turn of events, infrared’s platform was severely damaged. there was no accessible geth server in range, so infrared had to talk the panicked priya through the process that might be able to save its programs. it never really sought to preserve itself before then, but priya’s influence made it want to stay alive. with priya’s technological expertise, she was able to locate technology to transfer (most of) infrared’s programs to, saving its life.

after sharing a platform with another geth collective for a while, infrared’s programs obtain a softer, domestic model on rannoch. it and priya are helping the quarians settle and rebuild after the reaper war. she makes sure to paint the new platform red.

lady-halibuts-chambers asked: Where and how did Marr get his kitties?

he found them on a human colony during the reaper war. his krogan blood said let the weak suffer. but his heart said awwww kittens.

so he raised them himself. they are named widow, mantis, and viper.

lady-halibuts-chambers asked: Can you tell us about Sabellius and Adri? They're really freaking adorable.

they’re not quite developed but I will tell you what I can.

adri was born in ottawa but raised on a colony. never had a direction in life, so he joined cerberus for the health benefits. never had much contact with aliens. they were a scary unknown, so he might have harbored some prejudices. but never hated them. he served as general enforcement and security (as his biotic powers are somewhat advanced) until the reaper war started. he was drafted into the phantom research program. which soon got batshit insane. so he booked it out of there with a few other trainees.

he wanted to return to earth, to help with the resistance. he got a shuttle back, but it landed him in brazil. in the middle of the full scale invasion. he made some alliance contacts, but mostly just fought for his life. one day, he got separated from his squad. alone, he happened on a turian—sabellius, or “abe”— and knew he couldn’t give up. he had to at least protect him.

abe has few combat skills, so adri was his protector for the weeks it took to find others. during that time they told each other all about their lives. stories, memories, weird jokes, anything to keep their spirits up. shakily, a romance bloomed, the tension of the war and survival pushing it along.

eventually they found others and the war came to and end. but their relationship survived. abe, though obsessed with human culture, never though he’d have a relationship with one. but here was this small, fierce guy with such resolve. maybe he did like humans “like that” after all?

Anonymous asked: What's the deal with Sirrat and those Salarians?

hold onto your butts this is a long one

sirrat is a young female krogan who got frustrated with all her (girl)friends taking breeding requests and sinking into the dispair of the genophage, so she’s skipped town—left tuchanka as a stowaway. when she was still trying to get her footing in a colony somewhere, she meets this beautiful creature with the prettiest eyes she’s ever seen.

this being zola, a young, rebellious dalatrass-in-training who is practicing interspecies relations on the colony. but she wants to practice them in another way—in the seedy bars, where she meets sirrat. though the krogan is focused on trying to romance the salarian, zola just wants her kicks. they spend a night together on top of a building with an amazing view. zola refuses to tell sirrat any of her contact information. lovestruck, sirrat swears she will wait for zola in that spot. and she does, every night for several weeks. zola never returns.

heartbroken, sirrat eventually follows a job offer to illium. she makes a number of friends there (including another female krogan, rein) as she takes odd jobs. she tries her best to forget the night she had with zola. her lust for salarians and their pretty eyes is just about to dull when she has a chance meeting with another. a curious guy named harun.

harun also takes odd jobs. he’s intensely interested in sex as aliens experience it, but hasn’t had many long term partners. he’s initially very surprised by the young krogan’s romantic leanings, but easily falls into it. the relationship progresses, until zola gets transferred to the same city.

during an official meeting, she happens to see sirrat wander by. she’s tried other krogans in their time apart, and realized none quite matched the intensity of sirrat. she regrets never finding her again. so she rushes from her seat (knowing she’s going to get in deep trouble with the other dalatrasses) to chase down sirrat in the street. sirrat is enthralled by the reunion, but realizes that zola is cold and harsh—same as she ever was—something sirrat didn’t notice in her fantasy version of this lost love. they exchange contact info, but the reunion ends tersely.

the details from here out are fuzzy, but through frustrating negotiation, they work something out. sirrat sees zola when she needs to escape her duties and experience that rush. but harun is the boyfriend, the one that moves in with her, spends time with her, cleans up after her. sirrat wants that affection and togetherness, but her dream girl zola never wanted to give that. harun does. she falls more deeply for him, though her flame for zola never quite burns out.

gosh and that’s not even up to the reaper war.

Anonymous asked: aw kayri and kyung are cuties! what's the deal with his red spots?

those are just his natural markings! though kyung (his wife) thinks they look like blood splatters, and since he’s a doctor by trade, she finds it hilarious.

Anonymous asked: Are Kohl and Zaira a couple? Seems odd for humans to be with batarians, bad blood and all.

yes they are! and that’s a part of their drama. for as long as he could, he’s kept his attraction to humans secret from his friends and coworkers.

zaira is a dancer on omega that he starts seeing in a casual capacity. kohl is grumpy, stoic, and emotionally stunted, but can’t deny he feels quite a bit of affection for her. when omega is taken by cerberus, he donates credits and resources by the truckload to aria, in hopes of liberating his secret lover, consequences be damned.

zaira doesn’t have much against batarians as a species. she recognizes early on that kohl is at least a man of his word. and his countless credits are nothing like she grew up with. that’s a plus.

Anonymous asked: SO what is the story behind Gaugin?

gaugin is a geth prime unit who joined the resistance forces against the reapers. it was sent to south america toward the end of the war, where it met sabellius (or “abe”), a turian who was teaching turian language on earth before the war started. abe helped gaugin learn about organics and human culture (he’s a bit of a human-enthusiast), but the geth took a strange interest in human art (thus earning the name from abe, after the impressionist paul gauguin). after the crucible is fired and the war ends, gaugin is still obsessed with finding the logic behind human art.

abe has a spectre sister, bhali, who he idolizes. gaugin has heard countless testimonies about how great she is, and by the time she shows up on earth, gaugin has quite a fascination with her. maybe a crush. much to bhali’s dismay.

Anonymous asked: If you don't mind my asking, what company/printing place did you use to get your stickers done? I'm looking into getting some made of a design I did up too.

actually, just a local office depot, because my roommate works in the copy center there. I supply my own paper, a semi-gloss label purchased online here.

if you’re looking for online printers, people recommended these to me before: got print, cat print, and fireball printing. not sure if they offer or the quality of their sticker printing, but there you go!

moo.com does vinyl stickers of certain sizes, so they might be what you’re looking for. I’ve personally used them for business cards, they do good work.

Anonymous asked: Which of your OCs is your favorite? Your favorites to draw/write about?

but i have so many, anon

a friend and i really do make too many ocs, but we always end up favoring a few at any given time. right now, my favorite to draw (and rp) are ranta and ken, who have quite a love story, the tragic kind that i just eat up sometimes.

Anonymous asked: Can we hear more about Tokagur's time spent pretending to be a dude, if you don't mind? Did she ever get caught? Is the stripper she's with in that one drawing just a one-time thing, or is Tokagur one of her regulars/friends-with-benefits?

this is the story of tokagur the lesbian krogan.

tokagur spent the first few hundred years of her life trying to have children like most females, but that got too depressing. she posed as a male to join a mercenary group for the ride off of the planet. she worked with them for quite a long time, actively posing as a man. by the time any of her superiors found out (if at all), she’d already proved her usefulness, and was kept on.

but once she left the group, she stopped enforcing that performance. not that she corrected anyone who assumed her to be male. she lived her life as many krogan do, taking odd jobs and merc work to get by, being generally unhopeful for the future. at least she had ladies.

the asari in the picture you’re referring to is just a random one. but she did have a casual asari partner for a while, who she saw between jobs. this asari wasn’t looking for a bondmate, but she was looking to reproduce. she asked tokagur to father her child, with no obligations of raising it. tokagur said why not. they parted ways before the child was born.

a few centuries later, tokagur is contacted by this daughter, an unconventional, creative entrepreneur named kama

she runs a business with her bondmate (a male turian), which is essentially a sex store emporium on illium. tokagur and kama became quick friends and remain close to this day.

tokagur later develops a casual relationship with dorjen, a female drell.

dorjen (sister to degas, if you recall him) works for fornax as both a performer and a reporter. she first hooked up with tokagur to do a story on female krogan, but stayed in contact. 

after the reaper war, they found each other again. tokagur, though over 900 years old, was shook to her core by the carnage and loss. despite her years of casual encounters, something more serious brews with this drell.

Anonymous asked: do you take requests?

yes I take them!

but whether I do them or not depends on the request

Anonymous asked: What do you think a turian butt/labia/vaginal area look like?

it would be awfully unladylike of me to talk about genitals in public