Hello and welcome to my little musing page.

I'll be using this as more explanation on my art.

If you want to see more of my art please visit http://tavisharts.kamiki.net

close ups

XD After a few comments about the small size I like to post in I decided I would show a few detailed shots of some of my art.

For the most part I post small versions (and intentionally use jpg not at maximum settings) as an attempt to protect it. I also double sign most of my art (once with my username and once with my real name). I have seen people watermark the middle of their art to protect it but I don't really want to go to that extreme yet.

The reasons for this is that people have stolen my art in the past. Most of the time it happens its actually people trying to enter them into contests to win prizes or try to set up shops on avatar sites in order to scam people. I haven't heard of anyone trying to sell prints but the small size is to deter people from that. It has happened to other artists I have talked to.

This doesn't mean that you can never see a larger size. You have to ask me for it.

As a warning.. I do work on a massive scale. It's because I sell prints of my art so it makes for a cleaner and nicer print.

On to the art!!

First one:
Asian peacock: new years.

facecloseup
dragon close up
feather Close up
As you can tell she was one insanely huge picture. XD And I will add detail upon detail.

If you were wondering why I didn't add a lot of shading to the yellow part of her outfit its because it started to disappear the thinner it got. So I left it a bit brighter to allow it to be seen in the image overall.

Ashling

Face
vest
She was more of a test of coloring like I was using oil pastels. The idea came from using open canvas a lot.

Of bats and birds

face and birds
You will notice on a few of the close ups you can still see the pencil marks. I actually do that intentionally because I like the noise effect they have when you view the work as a whole. :3 I will also do this with scans of my inked works. So sometimes the lines won't be smooth.

Dark valkyrie

face and braids

Asian peacock

face
feathers
This one was intentionally made messy but you can't tell in the small version.

What are knuffels

You are going to see a lot of knuffels from me. I'm on a mission to try to draw all the ones I own. This isn't a particularly easy task due to the fact that new ones come out all the time.

Many people don't know what they are so I wanted to go into a bit of explanation to clear up any confusion. The long and short of it is that they are an elemental pet.

They originally started off on gaia and after it became really big it gained its own website. You can get one too on www.kofk.de

Knuffels evolve so the more you work with them the fancier they become. Also they are planning a battle system where the knuffels give you bonuses to stats.

This is one of the knuffels from start to finish.

I generally only draw a knuffel when they reach level 50+ (the 3rd stage)
I try to be as accurate to the knuffel as I can.
Example:

I hope this clears up things.

If anyone here is on kofk feel free to give me a poke. :).