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Riley/Lofty | Lurking Lurker☀️
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Riley “Lofty” | Oc Artist | Wildlife Enthusiast | Eternally Tired | Casual Gamer

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Me doing what im totally supposed to be doing and not lining this and instead going stupid over Lazlo’s shirt.

I distract myself so bad idk how i finish anything ever.

I miss drawing Lazlo, he’s kind’of the opposite to Dustan for me, which is fun since theyre a “pair”.

// #oc #wip
A screenshot of a rough draft reference for Lazlo, my demon/tiefling character. He’s a heavier muscular guy with wide shoulders and hips. He’s a soft red with wine and purple colouring along his crested horns and clawed fingers. He’s wearing a brown leather jacket over a brightly coloured button up shirt and black jeans that stop at his ankles though the image is cutoff. He has a long tail that cuts off the side of the screen. The same as the first image except the shirt is black with blades of grass on it. The same as the first image except the shirt is soft gradient pink with flamingos and pina coladas. The same as the first image except the shirt is bright coloured flowers.
August 6, 2024 at 9:28 AM
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I could finish these off~
Three very rough sketches of a Griffin, two full bodies and a headshot.
August 3, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Soto, Snoot, Sibel and Rita are what he would consider his actual “familiars” with Soto being a bit more significant to his physical being.

All four of them are intelligent and capable of speaking, though they generally dont since they’re perfectly fine communicating with Dustan without it.

3/?
A rough coloured digital sketch of Dustan and Soto. Dustan is wearing a black hoodie with a cigarette in his mouth while Soto, a large Raven, is perched on his hand. A traditional copic greyscale illustration of Snoot/Snoodle, a strange looking Viper draped across a large tome. A rough coloured fullbody of a large front heavy sabre-toothed feline. He has a shaggy rusty coloured mane along his head and neck that ends in the middle of his back. He’s long furred on the belly and his main pelt is varying tans and soft browns. A digital flat coloured concept of a white Saluki dog with a pink nose and blue eyes.
August 2, 2024 at 1:13 AM
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Remembered this // Dustan lore thread~

Due to social isolation growing up, Dustan is a bit of a kindred spirit with animals, having spent much more time around them than with other people.

He finds socialising with people exhausting, but with animals he has nothing but time and patience.

1/?
A sketch page of Dustan and various critters. A greyscale fullbody sketch of Dustan with a rat on his head and a large Raven on his arm. An uncoloured half body of Dustan getting dressed. A bottom left coloured bust of Dustan with a yellow Viper draped around his neck loosely like a scarf. A rough concept of a large scraggily looking Raven with a jagged beak. He has dark green eyes. Perched atop the Raven’s head is a tiny Azure Kingfisher. They’re small with a long beak and an orange belly and feet. A rough illustration of two incredibly large dark shadowy coloured felines showing affection to their keeper, smothering/crushing him between their faces though he is grinning and reciprocating the affection.
August 2, 2024 at 12:58 AM
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Hiya im Riley, i draw ocs of the fantasy kind.

A couple of my main ocs are Dustan, who is a Mage and Zoologist as well the personal favourite. Then there’s Fenri who’s a goofy ex soldier turned Werewolf.

Im a tad late so i’ll see if who id tag isnt already participating c:
An illustration of a pale human covered in tattoo’s wading through light and dark green water. He’s without a shirt and has his back to the viewer, showing the black wings and tail inked across his arms, shoulders and down his spine. The entire piece is harshly green lit. A three panel comic of my feral demon oc Malik, lashing out at Dustan who is a much smaller human. Panel 1: wide shot of Malik on top of Dustan who had his hand in Malik’s mouth. Panel 2: close up of Dustan struggling as Malik grabs his face with a large pawish hand. Panel 3: close up of Malik biting down on Dustan’s hand but green wispy light comes out. A rough illustration my original character Fenri, a dark blue elf with pale grey-blue hair asleep and cuddling into a brown pillow and mostly covered by a matching blanket. He’s covered in various scars and has a few pieces of ear jewellry. A flat coloured screenshot redraw of the wolf from Zootopia in the “you’re gonna start a howl” scene featuring my werewolf character Fenri. He is wearing a hoodie and stretchy pants. His pelt is a dark blue tinted grey over soft pale blue and white fur.
August 1, 2024 at 2:02 AM
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☀️✨🙏🏽
A digital clean sketch of two characters. Freisa who is quite large and muscular with a long shark-esque tail, webbed hands and feet, sharp teeth and a gravity defying mohawk. She is effortlessly lifting Zafira, a flustered dark purple skinned Elven guard with long white hair and under armour garments. A fullbody illustration of a male merfolk on a white background. He is tan with black hair, drooped down pointed ears. His left arm and shoulder is covered in various scars with a bloody rag wrapped around his bicep. His tail is a Leopard Seal tail curving up behind him, with white to dark grey spotted patterning with a few scars scattered along his, including a bite mark on his flipper. A rough coloured fullbody of a large front heavy sabre-toothed feline. He has a shaggy rusty coloured mane along his head and neck that ends in the middle of his back. He’s long furred on the belly and his main pelt is varying tans and soft browns. A rough coloured digital sketch of my characters Dustan and Lazlo. Dustan, who is a demon, is “perched” on Lazlo’s chest while gripping his hair and threatening him with his claws and teeth. He’s without a shirt but has torn jeans and a long sweeping tail that frames the bottom of the sketch. Lazlo is leaning back in shock and reaching up to grab at Dustan since he’s effectively climbed him like a tree.
August 1, 2024 at 12:21 AM
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Gay awakenings lol

Once more but with colour!! I added an overlay over them coz they’re both wearing black 😅

Zafira discovers alot about herself after this interaction xD

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
A digital clean sketch of two characters. Freisa who is quite large and muscular with a long shark-esque tail, webbed hands and feet, sharp teeth and a gravity defying mohawk. She is effortlessly lifting Zafira, a flustered dark purple skinned Elven guard with long white hair and under armour garments.
July 31, 2024 at 6:51 AM
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How about big shark girlie instead~

Zafira(smol) and Freisa(tol). Zafira is by no means short lol Freisa is just… huge xD big things come from the sea.

I’ll colour this between shifts over the next few days hopefully.

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
A digital clean sketch of two characters. Freisa who is quite large and muscular with a long shark-esque tail, webbed hands and feet, sharp teeth and a gravity defying mohawk. She is effortlessly lifting Zafira, a flustered Elven guard with long hair and under armour garments.
July 26, 2024 at 10:20 AM
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☀️
A collection of four rough coloured character exploration illustrations of various male characters asleep in their beds. Top left is of Fenri, a dark blue elf with pale grey-blue hair asleep and cuddling into a brown pillow and mostly covered by a matching blanket. He’s covered in various scars and has a few pieces of ear jewellry. Top right is of Lazlo asleep on his side, wrapped in white blankets and sheets. He is a muscular POC man and has short brown hair with various facial piercings. Bottom left is of J, a pale feathered and winged humanoid asleep in a soft pink bed. He’s covered in various battle scars and has black, grey and white patterned feathers all over his back that reaches to his sides as well as along his forearms. Bottom right is Dustan, a pale human covered in tattoos asleep on his stomach, with the blankets half covering his body. His face is smushed into a grey pillow and a large black Raven is asleep between his shoulders. The mattress is old and uneven, dipping An illustration of a pale human covered in tattoo’s wading through light and dark green water. He’s without a shirt and has his back to the viewer, showing the black wings and tail inked across his arms, shoulders and down his spine. The entire piece is harshly green lit. My 2024 redraw of my dark Elf characters Fenri, Juno and Zafira. Theyre back to back in a triangle composition while gripping their pendants around their necks. The whole piece is mostly cool purple tones with deep shadows and pink and blue lighting. A rough coloured digital sketch of my characters Dustan and Lazlo. Dustan, who is a demon, is “perched” on Lazlo’s chest while gripping his hair and threatening him with his claws and teeth. He’s without a shirt but has torn jeans and a long sweeping tail that frames the bottom of the sketch. Lazlo is leaning back in shock and reaching up to grab at Dustan since he’s effectively climbed him like a tree.
July 26, 2024 at 7:42 AM
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Old design: because i was lazy back then.
A fullbody of the above character from 2021 except his wings, tail, fur, feathers, etc, are all white.
July 23, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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Thought I’d share this since i finally decided on what the grumpy griffin mans new colours look like.

I should have just gone with this from the start lol it makes drawing the wings worth it.

Harpy Eagle~

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
A concept/ref piece of my character J. He’s a humanoid covered in scars and feathers, he has digitigrade feet, a long tufted tail with a full set of feathers at the base. He has two large white/light grey wings with dark grey jagged stripes along all the pinion feathers in an almost checkered pattern. His body is littered with various scars including the bases of his wings. His colouration is based on the Harpy Eagle.
July 23, 2024 at 6:18 AM
loftyas.bsky.social
Woo woo!! Congratz on the 600 followers!! 🥳🥳🥳 im only new to your art but from what ive seen so far im honestly stoked to see more!!

Here’s a couple of my fave pieces from this year c:
An illustration of a pale human covered in tattoo’s wading through light and dark green water. He’s without a shirt and has his back to the viewer, showing the black wings and tail inked across his arms, shoulders and down his spine. The entire piece is harshly green lit. A rough coloured doodle of Fenri, a big blue grey Werewolf receiving many pets and ear rubs from six anonymous hands. He’s super goofy looking with rosey cheeks and his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth. A silly fully coloured doodle of a red demon/tiefling character Lazlo, hugging a three eyed, green haired, pointy earred ghoul, Crust, to his chest. With a little more force than necessary as the ghoul is not able to breathe. The demon character is wearing a bright cool coloured button up shirt and has a very exaggerated happy weary(?) expression. A collection of four rough coloured character exploration illustrations of various male characters asleep in their beds. Top left is of Fenri, a dark blue elf with pale grey-blue hair asleep and cuddling into a brown pillow and mostly covered by a matching blanket. He’s covered in various scars and has a few pieces of ear jewellry. Top right is of Lazlo asleep on his side, wrapped in white blankets and sheets. He is a muscular POC man and has short brown hair with various facial piercings. Bottom left is of J, a pale feathered and winged humanoid asleep in a soft pink bed. He’s covered in various battle scars and has black, grey and white patterned feathers all over his back that reaches to his sides as well as along his forearms. Bottom right is Dustan, a pale human covered in tattoos asleep on his stomach, with the blankets half covering his body. His face is smushed into a grey pillow and a large black Raven is asleep between his shoulders. The mattress is old and uneven.
July 18, 2024 at 3:49 AM
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Tusks, horns and hooves.

Or alternatively, Tiothyrain, Billiel and Matthias. A few of the many characters that I’ve neglected. Slowly did these over the last month when i was able to orz

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
Three digitally coloured headshots of various fantasy characters. Far left is Tiothyrain, a dull green grey coloured Firorc with crested and curled horns. He has a three toned mane and a beard with four small ponytails in it. Billiel is in the middle, she’s a blue Satyr with dark brown/black hair tied back into a bun and long bent ears covered in fur. She has six glowing horns sprouting from her skull that twist in different directions. On the far right is Matthias, an Ozuran who has four large curled tusks, a crown of fire opal/gemstones that form into two forehead horns. His skin is sandy coloured and he has a dark brown mohawk thats been tied back into a low ponytail.
July 16, 2024 at 12:34 PM
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Im big Poke nerd, though im one of the “struggling to keep up” ones so im not overly familiar with the newest gen, and i may or may not be starting to forget names🥲

But never the less, i have Poke’Ocs AND a Poke’Sona c: my first game was in gen 3 so i knew my sona had to be from Hoenn.
A character reference of my Poochyena Sona “Rileyena”. It shows two full bodys of a grey scruffy canine with upturned fangs or tusks w/ downcast eyes. He’s wearing a black hoodie and in the anthro fullbody he has the hood up. The text reads “he/him” and then lists character/personality traits: - skittish - sleepy - loud - curious Barks when he smells coffee.
July 16, 2024 at 1:18 AM
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Its 11pm and i have work at 3am tomorrow 🙃but i wanted to draw my fave

Symmetry tool results, the tattoos were fun, took me like 2 mins to do them ᕕ( ᐛ ) ᕗ

Dont think ill be using it for human faces again though, he looks so weird to me😅Which… hes meant to be weird lookin but not that way

// orz
Two flat coloured headshots of Dustan. One front on, and the other a side profile. He’s a withdrawn looking male with faded skin and jaw length messy hair that has white forelocks in the front. His eyes are dark green with eye bags dark enough to rival a raccoons. He has symmetrical tattoos along his throat, chest, shoulders and back.
July 13, 2024 at 1:19 PM
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Another character design.

Amura is the result of a demon and an angel unknowingly fucking around and finding out. Now they play a suspicious fiddle and skip across the kingdoms playing music after giving their parents a polite 🖕🏽 for fighting.

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
Three digitally coloured headshots of Kalriel, a humanoid with horns and long jagged ears. They have rainbow coloured irises and what looks like a matching gemstone in their forehead. They have feathered cheeks and long pastel rainbow coloured hair tied back in a loose braid.
July 12, 2024 at 2:56 AM
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Messing with this guy a bit today. They have no name atm but im enjoying easin’ back into art and getting the creative brain going again.

I’m thinking they’re a higher form of Druid who’s embodied a few aspects.

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
A sketch page of my unnamed Turbo Chimera character. Their upper humanoid torso is green with navy and brown fur. They have long black hair with large horns and tusks.
July 11, 2024 at 3:29 AM
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Oh boy oh boy #PortfolioDay !!✨

I’m Riley, a trans guy who’s also a hobby OcArtist based Down Under™️
I work a retail job by day and then come home to escape into my brain fantasy.

// #art 🎨 #oc #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart
My 2024 redraw of my characters Fenri, Juno and Zafira. Theyre back to back in a triangle composition while gripping their pendants around their necks. The whole piece is mostly cool purple tones with deep shadows and pink and blue lighting. A collection of four rough coloured sketches of various male characters asleep and cuddling pillows. A rough illustration of two incredibly large dark shadowy coloured felines showing affection to their keeper, smothering/crushing him between their faces though he is grinning and reciprocating the affection. A rough colouree doodle of a big fluffy Werewolf receiving many pets and ear rubs from six anon hands. He’s super goofy looking with rosey cheeks and his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth.
July 10, 2024 at 7:31 AM
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Art? Art!!! Well its not new but its coloured this time coz i felt his gooby weewoof face deserved it.

I’m tempted to draw another version of this where he changes back accidentally xD

// #art 🎨 #ocart #originalcharacter #digitalart #werewolf
A roughly coloured doodle of a big fluffy Werewolf receiving many pets and ear rubs from six anon hands. He’s super goofy looking with rosey cheeks and his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth.
July 7, 2024 at 11:55 AM
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😈🦅🐺
A greyscale half body sketch of two human/oids, Lazlo who is taller and leaning over n embracing a flustered Dustan who is blushing, much to his disgust. A side profile of a gruff looking humanoid with pushed back light to dark grey toned feathered hair. He has long back turned ears with the one shown having two rings pierced into it. He’s got a mix of dark blue grey feather downs and contour feathers on his shoulders that have been parted by a large scar. He has a smaller scar along the side of his neck and two going down through his brow barely missing his eye. An uncoloured doodle of a big fluffy Werewolf receiving many pets and ear rubs from six anon hands. He’s super goofy looking with rosey cheeks and his tongue hanging out the side of his mouth.
July 6, 2024 at 4:11 AM
loftyas.bsky.social
QRP with your colossal art~

Old art jumpscare! I used to do copic stuff lol i had more time and patience back then.
A copic illustration of a giant serpent emerging from the sand and overlooking a caravan passing along the edge of the desert with the sun rising in the distance.
June 29, 2024 at 2:41 AM
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-cockedhip- //

Makes me smile that even when i cant draw, i can still somewhat draw the stinky favourite.

Was feeling pretty down with being sick n isolated from fun n stuff but plucking at this picked me made me feel better🤍💚🖤
A rough coloured digital sketch of Dustan. He’s smoking a cigarette and in a sort of leaning pose with his hand on a counter presumably. He’s wearing a black shirt with holes littered through it and the bags under his eyes are dark enough to match.
June 27, 2024 at 10:05 AM
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Oooh yeah, its gonna suck for sure😂😂

I have a messy sketch of his tusks(well his face) from last year to give you an example of what they look like!
A cropped image of a dark sea monster with glowing red eyes and a bright red maw with two sets of teeth. He has a set of upper canines and 2 pairs of tusks that curve outwards.
June 25, 2024 at 11:17 AM
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Wip wop

Smile and wave, smile and wave…

I forgot he has 12 arms and i gotta draw all that in 😵‍💫 reminded why i dont draw him lol

// #wip #ocart #digitalart
A work in progress shot showing a red maw with bright red teeth and tusks of an eel like face.
June 23, 2024 at 6:18 AM
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Random thought i just had while drawing tentacles.

I remember in Peter Pan 2 the Octopus would “pop” his suckers by sticking 2 together and pulling them apart. I had thought “nah Disney thing” but no.. they can and do actually “pop” like that, and “Octopus hickies” are in fact, a real thing…
Floating 3D text on a black galaxy background that reads “The More You Know” with a gold star under the “W” with red and green trail smoke.
June 23, 2024 at 4:22 AM