A refined taste.

Whispers among corporate types and go-getters tell of a lounge bar high off in Takamagahara Tower in Osako, one of the biggest cities in Sakuranio, a place so elite, so safeguarded, that nobody except for the upper echelons of top corporations would ever find themselves gracing. Furthermore, in this little slice of heaven among the clouds, far off from the darkened streets below, those who are leagues above even those rich stock-brokers and old-money barons and baronesses may be able to gain the ever elusive status of VIP, a reward so coveted one must know a VIP or someone connected to the restaurant in order to have a chance at gaining such a status. Whisperings tell of smokey after-meeting mixers and socials in these private rooms, where the alcohol is smooth, and the cocktail waitresses even smoother. Of course, this bar would find itself working toward a specific clientele, with all of its servers being effeminate men, with smooth faces and gentle curves, some eye candy to further sweeten the delightful foods one can order at the combined restaurant and cocktail lounge. Accordingly the restaurant is staffed only by multiple-time five star chefs and mixologists. All that is known about this restaurant high in the clouds is that one better hope to have a hefty wallet if they wish to visit, and an even more refined taste.

I finally got this piece done after a while of working it, I feel really proud of how it came out! I've been practicing a new shading style for my cel shaded works that not only looks better than my previous forms of it but also is easier for me to do and faster too! I hope to refine it further but for now I feel really happy with it, especially how bathed in shadow some spots look with it x3 Hopefully y'all enjoy~!

Here's a really cool ambient song!

Cheers~!

катовиро

A drawing I made the other day while listening to some nice music, I've been thinking about fashion and outfits a lot lately ><

I think this was the song in question dfshghdfghd

Photograph of a sailor, signed and sent home.

To be honest, I couldn't come up with much of a blurb for this one shockingly >w< -- this is a piece I've wanted to draw for a very long time, since I think Soviet naval uniforms look really neat. Sorry to anybody who can read Russian if A. my writing is horrendous and B. if it's horribly wrong, I let Google do the driving XwX;;

This was really satisfying to finally do though, I hope to do a few more uniforms soon, but I also have some other stuff to work on ^^

Cheers~!

KOSMOLOGIO

Spheres of the universe all intersect, one leads into the other, which leads into the other, and connect to all the rest. Circles within circles within circles, like a grand Venn diagram, but on a cosmological scale.

Just a doodle I did a while ago that I thought I should finally post,

Cheers!!

Happy Meowlidays and a Meowry Christmas to All!

This image is not at its native resolution! Please click me to view the full resolution high-quality version of this year's Christmas card, thank you~!

Here we are at last, the longstanding tradition here of a yearly Christmas card! This one is probably the most intensive of any of the previous year's, but due to that I also feel incredibly happy with how it came out. I got to include a lot of my friends in it, and since I've gotten a lot better at drawing human faces some of my human friends look a good bit better too! This year had some hard parts to it, and I've definitely found myself really busy recently, but I wouldn't trade it for anything, and I'm incredibly thankful and happy for all the wonderful experiences I've been able to have, people I've met, and all the (hopefully) lovely drawings I've been able to share with you all!

I hope your year was good too, everyone, and furthermore I hope that 2024 is great for everyone!

Listed left to right we have my friends Charlie, Hunter, Jager, myself, Mister DeWolfe, Sasha Koshka, Joel, Fuwa, (the fox below is...) Kaze, (the human above is...) Andy, Jade, Jazz, Tristin, Rose, Wolf, Evan, and last but not least, Blake! Also, that mask on the ground is toward my friend Danny, and those symbols above the windows a nod to my friend Marky's OC!

Hope that your holidays all go wonderful, whatever you are celebrating and however you celebrate it!

Here's a lovely Christmas song~!

And as always... cheers to all~!

"This'll kill ya!"

Just a spooky fast rollerskaty boy with a powpow I doodled to take a break from working on the Christmas card (which is coming soon!)

Happy Halloween, 1984, VHS Cover Scan, HD

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[An excerpt from a blog post by user TimigaHalovinoKato73]

Saluton amikoj! Today I bring you once again an obscure VHS cover. Sorry I couldn't get the back, this case is pretty worn and I don't wanna take it apart yet or anything, but it's for a film that even most of the horror lovers on this blog may not have heard of. "Happy Halloween", a distinctly Anglican name, and as such the movie also seems to be Anglican, though there's nothing to see of a publishing mark on it, beyond basic date and production house stuff.

Oddly, while researching, I found that most of the people involved with this film didn't star in a film afterwards, and further learned that all the companies involved in its production folded up shop afterwards, or at least assumedly did so since I can seriously find NOTHING about any of these actors, actresses, producers, or really just... anyone and anything involved. I'm working on trying to get this tape ready for ripping, but as is tradition I plan to watch it first... so I'll see you all next week with a new update, and hopefully, a new rip!

[Never would the blog Fantomoj kaj Spiritoj update again...]

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One of the three Halloween pieces I have planned, this is the decidedly safe for work one, and the one I wanted to first complete for obvious reasons! I feel super proud of how it came out and it's honestly been one of the more fun pieces to work on, especially texturing it and making it look weathered, I have a huge soft spot for this kind of design work and was glad to be able to express it and do more research to make a piece, looking into old box art and even fonts! Hopefully you guys have a super happy Halloween and a fantastic rest of your October, make sure to watch plenty of horror movies, eat so much candy your belly aches, and dress up in something silly! Expect the other Halloween pieces sometime next month, or a preview of some sort for it, since I might push it onto the Patreon first.

Here's some spooky songs for y'all~!

Cheers, and Happy Halloween~!

Some drawings I made for general Patreon stuffs ^^

[--KoleraGrandaViro komenciĝas paroli al BrilaKato83 ĉe 03:06--]

[03:06] KoleraGrandaViro: saluton ulo ĥoĥoĥo mi pensas ke mi havas io TRE granda, TRE mojosa, kaj... simila... ulo vi estos iĝi freneza

[03:07] BrilaKato83: O? kia estas ĝi? vi soni tre eksciti ĥeĥeĥe

[03:09] KoleraGrandaViro: kaj ĝi estas por bona rezoni, mi havas io tre granda!!!!

[03:09] BrilaKato83: Vi diritis tio mdr

[03:11] KoleraGrandaViro: o fek vi ulo! mi transigantas la bildoj al mian komputeron...

[03:12] BrilaKato83: MDR X03 nej nej nej ulo, estu mojosa mdr, mi ŝercas kune vi, kia estas ti efektive?

[--KoleraGrandaViro komenciĝas mesaĝo kune fajlilo transigo al BrilaKato83 ĉe 03:15--]

[--kunsendaĵo: BLOSKI93.bmp--] [--mesaĝo: vidi ti mem--]

[3:15] BrilaKato83: KJF JEN NE EBLA

[3:15] KoleraGrandaViro: ĜI ESTAS TIEL

[3:16] BrilaKato83: KIE VI TROVINTIS ĈI, ĈI NE ASPEKTI SIMILA TIUJ MALNOVAJ FOTOGRAFAĴOJ????

[3:17] KoleraGrandaViro: JES, ILI NE ESTAS TIUJ DE KATOPUGO, ILI ESTAS NOVA, ILI ESTAS MIAJN FOTOGRAFAĴOJ ĤEĤEĤEĤE

[3:17] BrilaKato83: KJF KIEL?????

[3:18] KoleraGrandaViro: NU MI SONOS FRENEZA SED ESTIS BRILA LUMO... KAJ TIE LI ESTIS, KATSTOFER, EN REALA

[3:21] BrilaKato83: Pardonu mi bonvolu, mi bezonintis pensi pro momento...

[3:22] BrilaKato83: La fotografaĵoj, ili estas realaj, mi estas miri... kio okazintas ulo?

[3:25] KoleraGrandaViro: ĝi estas kiel mi diris! mi estis sola en mian ĉambro, kaj mi observis iuj televido, mi ne memoras kia la programo estis sed ĝi ne grava

[3:26] KoleraGrandaViro: kaj en la angulo de mian apartmento mi vidis tre malgrandan lumon aperanta. vi scias mi, la lumo tuj kaptis mian atento, do mi malŝalti la televidilo kaj rigardis la lumo

[3:27] BrilaKato83: Kaj la lumo, kia estis ĝi kiel al?

[3:29] KoleraGrandaViro: mi estis preskaŭ ĉe tia parto de la rakonto mdr... nu la lumo komenciĝis kreski pli granda kaj pli granda. post tio ĝi iĝis pordego, la lumo kaj la pordego estis brilaj kaj verdo, ĝi splendis kaj voblis

[3:29] BrilaKato83: kjf???

[3:31] KoleraGrandaViro: tiam li aperis, Katstofer, kiel mi diris en reala... Dio li estis tro bela... lian korpo faris mi ruĝiĝis kaj tremi, ne al soni kiel koboldeca ĥeĥeĥe -- sed li estis porti mallonga strikta pantalono kaj granda pufa jako... li ridis al me ĉar mi skuis kiel folio, kaj li ekkaptis mian mano, mian maldekstran mano! li tiris mi vertikala kaj apogis sin mi kaj diris «saluton, ne bezono diri unu vorto. vi havas fotilo jes? iri ekhavas ĝi pro mi, kaj ne esti malrapida~!»

[3:32] KoleraGrandaViro: do nu, kompreneble mi kuris al mian lito-ĉambro kaj ekhavis mian fotilo, kaj mi kuris kiel vesperto eskapis inferno!

[3:32] BrilaKato83: MDR

[3:34] KoleraGrandaViro: kiam mi reiris mi estis donita bonega surprizo! tie li estis, portis nur lian kalsonan, mi tiel embarasis ke mi preskaŭ tegis miajn okuloj... kaj vi scias mi tremis. li ridis kaj ridis ĉe mian ruĝa vizaĝo, paŝis al mi kaj metis lian mano sur mian ŝultro. mi pensis ke mi estontis fandi!

[3:35] BrikaKato83: Vi ne havas ia ideo kiel multa enviemaj pensoj mi estas havi...

[3:38] KoleraGrandaViro: ĥoĥoĥo mi scias! sed estas plu de mian rakonto... li staris por momento, permesi mi al ripozis en lian varmo... tiam li paŝis retroira kaj pozis, lian korpo brilis en la malbrila lumo de mian apartamento, mian komputero kaj la stratlanternoj ekstere kovris lian korpo ĉe lumo! tiam li diris unu ordono al me, «nu? mi povas vidi ke vi estas admiranto de mian laboro, tiu estas vian ŝanco estis la direktoro! Preni iuj bildoj!» mi ne volis desaponti! do mi prenis multe de fotoj... kiam mi prenis unu, mi bezonis preni plia, kaj tiam plia, kaj per la fini de niaj sesio mi estis eksteren de bildoj ĥeĥeĥe

[3:39] BrikaKato83: Se vi ne montras mi tiuj bildoj mi vundos vi MDR, Dio tiuj devi esti la plej bonaj bildoj....

[3:40] KoleraGrandaViro: ili absolute estas, mi estas skandi la aliaj bildoj, mi sendos tiuj kiam ili esti kompleta... ili estaaaaas... iom plu intensa ol la aĵoj ke mi jam sendis al vi

[3:40] BritaKato83: OWO;;;

[3:41]: KoleraGrandaViro: TRE OWO;;;;;;;;;

On my Patreon you can see the two alts for this image 3 weeks early, both very NSFW and, I feel, quite lovely! Thanks~!

Yet another year has passed me by, though this time it certainly felt a bit slower. Throughout the latter half of last year and a lot of this year I felt like I was going through something of a rough patch. Hobbies dried up and died, and I reverted into a mix of working, sitting around playing games, and feeling generally bad at times. While I don't know if I feel perfect still, I feel I'm finally getting a lot better. I've finally been able to keep myself steadily working, even on days where I don't feel the drive to push forward, and I've at last begun to pick up hobbies again, as should be evidenced by my hopefully alright Esperanto writing. My friend Marky (postgarf on Cohost) helped me proof-read this piece and make sure it's not all incoherent gibberish, which I'm super thankful for. This was written with heavy usage of a dictionary and conjugation guide, and I still imagine that it can't be perfect, but I tried; and that's what matters. I can fail, I can not succeed, but there's little more than light embarrassment in screwing a passion up, we can only thank those that correct us, or read those lessons we learn from it, pick up the pieces, and move forward, and I think I'm finally managing to do that with a lot of things. This piece took me a lot of work, and I think it represents, along with my last piece, a large jump in the quality of my work.

I finally feel like I'm managing a breakthrough, my poses are becoming something more interesting, my angles are looking less like ass, and my shading is actually workable, it's something I can fit into the backgrounds, which themselves have made an improvement. A word to fellow artists, while it's good to give detail in your lines, you can show so much more and in such an effective, efficient, and beautiful way by relying on your coloring and lighting work more. Look at artists you enjoy, observe their work deeper, pick it apart; don't copy anyone of course but noodle out how others apply their technical knowledge on the canvas. It does nothing but good, and all of us can continue to improve and learn on our artistic journeys doing it. I have some exciting things planned for myself for the rest of this year, and while they may not all apply to this page and its work, my birthday ref sheets were never really made purely for my sites were they? I view this almost as a somewhat public meditation of the year, it's a year in review for my art, but also a year in view for myself, a moment to be real and to show myself a little to those that enjoy my work and are curious enough to read.

So in short, I still have a good chunk of my troubles from the previous year, but there's a hell of a lot of bright spots in that. My friends, who mean the world to me, my family, who I'd do anything for, those that push me on and encourage my work, who I am unendingly appreciative of, and who help push me on, and for being able to keep plodding forward doing art. There's nothing I'd rather be doing, seriously, it's what I'm most passionate about. Sure, I'd like to produce more SFW stuff here and there, and I'm trying to slip more esoteric imagery back into my work Like in this post here, which I feel also very pleased with, especially as it lets me flex my muscles a little and finally show off some more symbology. -- One of my favorite things in art and indeed to show in my work is this kind of imagery, and so to be slipping it back into things again is very exciting. Furthermore, beyond all of these wonderful things, I'm finally investing in my other hobbies again and actually engaging in them, making music, writing, even doing 3D renders and such! So, all in all, issues or not, I'm really happy, and I'm really excited to plod further and further. Thank you all for another wonderful year, and I hope that we can keep going onward into 2024 with more wacky crazy stuff.

Mi amas la mundo! Mi amas ŝian homoj! Kaj mi amas vi! Dankon por ĉio!

And once again, thanks to my homie Marky for helping me proof-read the Esperanto story for this piece! You kick all sorts of ass!!!

Here's a great remixed rap track.

And, as always,

Cheers~!

Deeper he went, and darker it grew. He never knew a place could get so inky black, piercing darkness surrounding him from all sides, only the faint glimmer of the moist walls that suffocated and pressed around him. The man hadn't known whether it was stress or armor that had been making him sweat so much, but he'd felt incredibly warm, the deeper he drew in the damp underbelly of the aged abandoned keep the hotter it grew, and the more wet it grew. Often he found his foot-wrap dip into a puddle, the sound of the still water rippling making him shudder a little, himself breathing out. So far he'd seen nothing down below, had it been ransacked already? Did his handler give him poor information? He cursed, he knew it would've been wise to question the townsfolk before he'd set out for the aged stonework, about half a day's walk from town... but he didn't wish to alert anyone, he knew how these things could be. As he softly breathed out he held his lantern up higher, bolstering himself. No, there must be something down here, especially with how deep this place was. He'd entered with a new candle in his lantern, and already it'd burned to about the halfway point, making him suspect he'd been down here for at least seven hours. It was always hard to tell underground. Slowly it crept in, as he continued walking down the halls of the dungeon, plodding down staircase after staircase, stepping into empty antechamber after antechamber... how was this structure so deep? He furrowed his brow, trying to steel his nerves, but it didn't sit right with him. The keep was on a hill, a good sized one, but this much time going down, it just couldn't be possible without burrowing into the earth... and yet here he was, pressing deeper and deeper into the bowels of the earth. It'd grown so hot, so wet around him, the walls practically sweating along with him. He'd felt a small amount discomforted before, but by now he was full-on uncomfortable. He hummed as he looked about himself, tightening his grip on the lantern, its light flickering around him, his only safety from the piercing darkness of the castle's underbelly. He was knowledgeable... he'd delved into demolished castles before, he'd pressed beneath the earth, even fought other tomb-raiders such as himself... He had to be fine, no no he would be fine. He wiped sweat from his brow as he rounded a corner, gazing down into the gaping inky black maw of another dark decrepit staircase... he'd be fine, deeper, he had to go deeper, he was sure of himself...

SEND ME YOUR MOTHER

WHAT?????????

Yesterday I finally managed to put together an upgrade for my computer I've badly wanted for years. For almost a decade I was running on an aged Intel CPU that constantly maxxed out just while running basic programs and such. That was all thanks to all of you! To my commissioners, who are so kind as to come to me of all artists for work, and who are so kind, nice to work with, and polite. To my followers and the people who happen by my art and favorite, who I love chatting with in the comments, who help me to continue doing art as my main gig. To all of you! Thank you, genuinely, you're all so kind and wonderful, I'm incredibly happy!

To much, much more art in the coming years,

Cheers~!

MY FRIEND MADE ME DO IT I'M SORRY

A tanker catboy I forgot to post a while ago iirc, enjoy

Long ago, and high upon a mountain, far from the prying eyes of any lord or lady, there sat a lone priory. Holy men, under the order of Prior Grimoald, lived high up there, constructing a simple priory from the stone and earth, as well as the small sum of wood they had brought with them. Mist and clouds hung ever-present in such a high place, the lone priory standing in an eternal hazy darkness. Plants hardly grew in such a place. Light hardly pierced such a place. One could hardly view the stars from such a place. Though this may seem backwards to the want to grow closer to the gods, it was indeed by design. Grimoald Priory was not a place touched by the gods, no matter how it may have presented itself, its underbelly was dark and decrepit. Buried below the stonework and floorboards of the above level lay the truth of the priory, a dank and decrepit undercroft with which to practice toward other gods, less popular to many, the worship of some in fact deemed illegal by the courts of most the lords and ladies of the council; but this was of no consequence to Grimoald, whose care was to further knowledge of all things metaphysical. His peers understood themselves to be quite similar to he, yet as time passed, they slowly realized their aims to be more mad than good, yet it was all for naught. To this day nobody truly knows what happened to Grimoald Priory, only that it is a place of evil, that any adventurer, no matter how quick-witted, will call their grave upon entry...

Drew Catter as jester, totally didn't rip off Pochowek's effin radical jester staff at all O.o