Makkon: some style experiment doodles while watching Kaz's stream before bed. Might ink and color them later. Sorry I never draw canon outfits.

Makkon: been going through some old files and projects and came across the chapel model I made for the Infiltrate update. The model was built (not to scale) in Maya, and imported and rendered in Unreal Engine 4. It's using some out of the box Distance Field Ambient Occlusion and Light Propagation Volumes because I didn't know how to bake lighting back then. The model was later painted over in photoshop and compressed to look like pixel art. The model has no ceiling, window frames, or front door/wall. These are some other lighting scenarios to show it off.

Makkon: @somethingsomething: I. Am. Not. Advocating. To. Support. Communism. If anything, communism has progressively stunted the eastern states which is why gay people don't have rights in Russia or China. When I suggest to show support, I mean solely for gay rights, not communist ideology. God damn, dude. You put so much effort into defending a system that wouldn't defend you if it was unprofitable.

Makkon: @somethingsomething: appealing to emotion to prove a point that I wasn't even arguing against is incredibly tiresome

Makkon: @somethingsomething: cool, if we're playing the obtuse game, I'm sorry to hear that the gay ideology killed your family

Makkon: hey while you're all arguing over what system has killed more people, I interpreted this image as a declaration for gay rights in Russia, which currently do not exist, and simply existing while being gay puts your life greatly at risk. So while you guys are making a numbers game of it, living people today need your support. So like. Show some support, or solidarity, not a pointless flame war about your state's economic religion.

Makkon: this is wonderful! Do they have a twitter or instagram I can follow? Sadly I don't have a patreon or fa

Makkon: yeah man, I dig this

Makkon: Nobody asked to see this, I just wanted an excuse to show the initial pose drawing. This was from June 2017. I wish I kept her left arm out

Makkon: Your rendering is getting better and better, Radian

Makkon: two cents that contribute to nothing, but I like talking about this subject. If we're looking for a point of reference here, I think the candy-cane picture is leagues more questionable than this (no offense Skoon), even though it features no nudity. The "appropriateness" of things can't be quantified into percentages of specific body parts visible. Context and intent is everything. Sure, the intent behind this one is still obviously horny, but it's quite a bit more tasteful juxtaposed to stand-out entries in the booru.

Anyways, do what you're comfortable with. Nice rendering.

Makkon: This is really good!

Makkon: @PermanentFace: I just find your...rather focused interest... on your dislike for this character and people who like her somewhat "borders on the obsessive." My suggestion for you is to just stop, please. The prequel fandom doesn't need shipping/fav wars akin to the Steven Universe fandom.

Makkon: @Kastor: No need for money! It's not my IP anyway so I couldn't sell it even if I wanted to. Here's a google drive link to a rar file containing the 8k PNG file. The image is about 200mb, uncompressed.
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1_43fV3l7J9g1IWo_Qxx6tAnnyvmX5UU3
Also, don't depend on this link to always exist. Drive occasionally breaks links, or I might have to clear up space in the future. Enjoy!

Makkon: @Shotgun_Observations: Kaz wasn't specific about the clutter. If you can imagine, there were a lot of other things we were more worried about.

Makkon: What the hell is going on in the comments here? Are people seriously, straight-faced shaming the artist/author for liking a flawed character? You guys should know that's the same thing as tumblr's "your fav is problematic."

Makkon: This is a perfectly natural progression and I approve

Makkon: @cardomajig24: I do! I have a few social media places.
https://twitter.com/BenjaminHale7
http://makkon.tumblr.com/
https://www.artstation.com/makkon
https://www.instagram.com/makkon_art/

Makkon: Second favorite piece to paint because ROCKS

Makkon: this was personally my favorite piece to paint, because I really love rocks

Makkon: HD deer gore. I even repainted the wall art.

Makkon: let me know if there are particular buildings you want closeups of, since I can't upload the full 8k^2 image

Makkon: cathedral and houses modeled in Maya before getting painted over. I'm a filthy cheater.

Makkon: this was painted a year before the other intro art, pardon the stylistic differences

Makkon: post your best bad anime CATption for this picture

Makkon: I unfortunately saved over the original resolution file, so all I have is the pixel version

Makkon: this is really great rendering!

Makkon: :(

Makkon: I love this

Makkon: @Tam_Lin: You might be right, I don't know Kaz that well and you guys have been in this fandom for much longer than me. I still hold the opinion that just because someone can take it doesn't mean it's an open invitation. Maybe your familiarity affords you some teasing.

@Skoon: I did misunderstand, sorry for the wall of text. It ended up being a brain-dump at everyone in general.

@Toryu-Mau: all meat-kind require sustenance. But also money, probably.

Makkon: @Skoon: I cannot and don't pretend to speak for Kaz, but I can give you my opinion. Projects like this do not fall on the lap of a single person, it's possible to be at the mercy of someone else's schedule or real-life occurrences when they are contributing to a project. This is not a professional product, there are no line producers, managers, and there is no schedule. This is a project done for free by people who like to create and want to share it with you.
I personally think that another factor is so called "fan-snark." Creators are usually acutely aware of their own shortcomings and frustrations, the expectations they've set for followers and for themselves, and it eats at them when they can't deliver on that for whatever reason. When someone turns that into a joke at their expense, it can be toxic. It can build up, eat away at you, turn what you're working on into a chore, make you feel sick, take a toll on your mental and emotional health. It stops just being a meme, it can become bullying. Maybe that's not a factor at all here, but it's important to understand that people like Kaz are human beings with limits.

I can't tell you how to feel about this, but if I have any advice going forward it would be to show empathy and be encouraging. Keep being excited, show your appreciation, still be a fan. It is empowering that you can positively influence a creator and make them keep loving what they do, for free, for you. And who knows, encouraging them might even get you updates faster.

Makkon: It's always a sight to see how fans treat creators in every fandom

Makkon: This... actually kinda works. I like it.

Makkon: wow, that source link goes straight to porn

Makkon: Thank you for uploading this one. I love it.

Makkon: I love everything about this

Makkon: I decided to paint a drawing from last year for the Official_Badass challenge.

Makkon: that's a pretty cool piece of software, thank you for introducing me to it!

Makkon: This is very lovely! Great paint strokes and textures.

Makkon: I like where this is going

Makkon: I like the purple guy, he's pretty awesome

Makkon: Dude, the animations in this are great!

Makkon: The snark is getting more advanced

Makkon: Sure. In my opinion, it's really freaking weird to remove your whole shirt to breast feed.

Makkon: Badass, dude!

Makkon: @GoodIdeasAreOverrated: Thanks dude! I'm not currently writing a book, the book I sent Kaz is an art book I've already published. And I think all I really contributed to the robe concept was color and few details. :)

Makkon: Thanks so much, guys!

@Radian: Thanks man. I wish I could give it to you for free, but shipping out of country is brutal :S Give that pencil a go!

@Bakannon: Sure man! I set up a bigcartel page a bit ago. You can get it here
http://makkon.bigcartel.com/product/maidens-and-monsters
You can see a preview of the book here: http://makkon.tumblr.com/post/152347412436/maidens-and-monsters-art-book-is-complete-see-you

Makkon: I sent Kaz a copy of my book and included a few post-it doodles as a treat. I forgot to scan them before I packaged it, but Kaz was nice enough to take pictures of them for me!

Makkon: I had no way of foreseeing this crossover

Makkon: I mean, that's a discord server... but okay.