Kai!

@kaithelion

Animator / Picture-Drawer / Substitute Teacher! He/Him | straight/ace | 29! Expect to see lots o' lions n' such!

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Kai!@kaithelion· 4d

Alex da li-yon? What da heck are YOU doing here??? #WorldLionDay

Kai, my lion character with a blonde and brown two-toned mane and an extra fluffy tail, posing like Alex the Lion (from Madagascar) in a grassy field with a savannah tree on the background. He's getting his photo taken, and the camera has a derpy rendition of Kai on it.

Kai!@kaithelion· 25d

Got permission to share some more examples for this project!!

A drawing of Takemura, a vibrant cyberpunk inspired fox wearing 80s clothes and surrounded in 80s tech.

A half body drawing of PseudoCanid as a detective, hanging from the ceiling, the bright part-fu-dog's outfit hanging in a silly manner.

A fullbody drawing of Nila, a purple and blue dragon in presumably a dragon style pose if the Internet is to be believed, wings spread wide!

Kai!@kaithelion· 25d

I'm workin' my butt off to get all these character drawings finished up, but we still need 5 more themes filled to complete the set! Interested in having your character displayed on a wall at Eurofurence next month? Signup info below!

An image displaying the five remaining themes for Eurofurence that need filled! (Songs of the Old Ages - Middle Ages, 1001 Arabian Nights - Middle East, The Serengeti - Africa, Cunning Little Vixens - an opera, and The Unlucky 13 - Casino themed) It also has two example drawings. (They were some of the first of the bunch and I think I've improved a bit since then, but these were the only ones I had approval to share rn.) They're not first-come-first-served, with some time to respond via the form. Around €60! More info in the replies!

Kai!@kaithelion· 27d

Hey! We still need 5 more folks for the Eurofurence celebration piece! You don't have to be going to EF, but it WILL be displayed there! (They're themed pieces based on the previous eurofurence themes!) Price and signup below!

Kai!@kaithelion· 28d

Oh you know it~!

An incredibly poofy Kai lion with the caption "MAXIMUM FLOOF"

Kai!@kaithelion· Jul 6

Some process shots! Started by hand with pen and ink, then moved on to vectors where I refined things further, and then finally printing it! I popped in the magnets mid print and the two colors are achieved from having raised text and a pause / color swap. Fun lil' day project!!

A notepad with various attempts to make an ambigram of the word "Clean" and "Dirty"

A bad photo of my screen as I'm refining the ambigram in a vector program - with two view angles, one 180° offset from the other to see both words side by side as I'm adjusting the shapes.

A photo of the mud-print magnet, showing that I'm adding the magnets to the inside of the print rather than glueing them on. Press fit cavities ftw~!

Kai!@kaithelion· Jul 6

I may have gotten sidetracked today by wanting a magnet for my dishwasher that could say the dishes were "clean" or "dirty" - but me being me I wanted to make an ambigram. Now I know why there weren't a ton of options out there - making a rotational ambigram of this is hecken' hard! Fun though! x3

A flat blue magnet with white raised text. The blue base is sorta' lumpy and puddle-shaped. The text says "Clean" with some various lumpy bubble-ish flourishes.

A flat blue magnet with white raised text. The blue base is sorta' lumpy and puddle-shaped. The text says "Dirty" with some various lumpy bubble-ish flourishes. (Note, it is the same magnet as the one that says "Clean" - but rotated upside down it says "Dirty")

Kai!@kaithelion· Jun 24

Have you seen this cat?? O: Now you have!! :3c @fosterpurrnin.bsky.social

A style test sketch to celebrate Foster's birthday!! It says "Meow" and "Miau" in the background. The sketch itself is of a (French) black cat with blue eyes and blue sorta scifi glasses. He's got a cute happy expression, is wearing sort of cyberpunk style clothing in layers, and is posed with his arms wide, totally not because the artist couldn't figure out how to do good slim paws for him and ran out of time.

Kai!@kaithelion· Jun 20

It's past midnight, time for everyone to make and post quick TADC OCs now that the finale is out~ (No spoilers, obv) uwu

A quick doodle of a carousel lion with blue and red flourishes, standing bipedal with the carousel rod through him. (Very awkward for doorways) His harness features colored feathers, and he has a red white and yellow saddle. His mane has large swoopy curls, a motif carried through to his tail and various blue markings on his body. His name is "Care" - a play on both carousel and the act of caring. On the bottom left is a series of reference images of merry-go-round horses and a carousel lion. Made in less than an hour so stop being so judgemental, geez!

Kai!@kaithelion· May 13

Was struggling to describe a weird tree-trimming crab-like vehicle I saw in a dream, so I used that as an excuse to mess around with Toonsquid some more. uwu;

Kai!@kaithelion· May 9

Oh heck, it's technically the anniversary of my old comic series! I MIGHT pick it up again someday, since I've got a bunch of the story planned out, but for now, here's a smattering of images and a link to the kinda' messy pdf of the current pages below!

The cover page for TBR! (Pronounced Tibber)

It has the face of a grumpy snow leopard with purple holographic glasses on the upper left, a very concerned looking tiger face on the upper right, a serious looking fennec fox named Bev in the upper middle holding a scifi blaster of sorts, and a falling wolf named Tibber in a matching uniform to Bev. Below them is a funky house, with a much more chill trio of the tiger wolf and fennec fox, standing next to a confused and concerned blonde lion.

A comic page from TBR! An orange fennec fox is sitting in the backseat of a car a blonde lion is driving, the lion asking her "How are you liking it here?" The fennec fox replies "It's been... Nice. We haven't been here long though." Then it zooms out to reveal a wolf character with his head out the window, doing the wide-mouthed blowing-in-the-wind thing yelling "I'M HAVING A GREAT TIME!" The lion calmly replying "Aww, that's so nice to hear!"

The cover page for TBR! Tails of Past Futures! It features Tibber floating in space over some planet.

A comic page from TBR! Tails of Past Futures! Bev, the fennec fox, is stopping Roland, the tiger, from stepping out of an airlock, asking if his clothes have environmental systems. The tiger brushes her paw away, insisting that of course he does, and that he invented the technology after all, a fact that confuses the fennec. Roland continues, asking if she thought he'd simply walk out of an airlock without proper protection? Bev simply stares at Tibber, the wolf, him giving her a questioning look, before insisting it was only one time that happened to him. Bev corrects that it was actually three times, which Tibber amends his statement. Bev continues that she also had to save him each time, which Tibber argues back that he appreciated this fact. Roland is simply looking back at them, obviously annoyed at their squabbling.

Kai!@kaithelion· May 2

Lil' 20 min tiger study~ ✨

A Bengal tiger looking excited to see you! (Referenced from a photo I took, but with several liberties taken. Mostly referencing it for shapes and her stripe patterns.)

Kai!@kaithelion· Apr 16

These kids got no idea~

Kai, my lion, substitute teaching, sitting in a class while all the students in the foreground are talking about Pokémon. There's text saying "They don't know Im part of a Pokémon YouTube video series."

Kai!@kaithelion· Apr 2

HA! As IF I'd ever NOT be a lion! Could you IMAGINE?! ...Wait, y'all didn't like Kai-yote more, did you?? ;w;

Kai, my lion character, looking cuncerned at the quoted post below, saying: "I hope the just like the drawings... Hopefully they don't prefer me as a coyote!!"

Kai!@kaithelion· Apr 1

I've been messing around with some coyote designs the last few weeks and... Well... I kind of fell in love with how silly they are. ^·Å·^ So say hello to the new Kai! (Or should I say, Kai-yote??)

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 31

Okay, I can get around that funky bug by duplicating the vector layer and applying the outline to the layer underneath while keeping the top vectors smooth. Annoying workaround, but at least there's a workaround! (ALSO very reminiscent of Flash with all of ITS workarounds.) uwu

Before (outline applied on Vector layer)

After (outline applied on duplicated layer below, outline set to centered instead of outer. Increased size to compensate)

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 30

That all being said, I DO need to figure out what's going on with the rasterization of the vectors. My linework wasn't SUPER clean, but there's some funky artifacts being introduced when it's rendered out...?

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 30

Wait, Toonsquid has decent vector drawing?? And a really nice timeline and feature set??? This has my *first started drawing and animating in Flash* brain firing on all cylinders - clean animation may be back on the table here soon...!

Kai, my lion, looking utterly perplexed.

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 18

What's this? A sticker pack for @howler-frostbite.bsky.social?? It's more likely than you think!

Five stickers of a white wolf named Howler with blue paw pads and blue highlights in his fur. The first sticker has Howler holding a snowball with an evil grin and flashing eyes. In the second, Howler is cutely booping the camera. In the third, Howler is stretching and yawning. In the fourth, Howler is happily waving while holding an umbrella. In the last sticker, Howler is hugging a YCH feline!

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 11

IT FINALLY HAPPENED!! (Technically)

Kai, my lion, giving a thumbs up and crying about an empiric victory, finally the art teacher, but during a short day while students are busy with ongoing projects. There's a series of thought bubbles that say "I'm finally the art teacher! It's a short day though...! (And they're deep into projects.)" Also there's a note on the bottom that says "But I did find a brown!"

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 9

Any day now~! (On a related note, I REALLY need a brown pencil.)

My lion, Kai, writing notes on the board for class. He's writing "Reading Chapter..." and he's saying "One of these days I'll be the art teacher...!"

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 4

Learning something new each and every day at this job~! uwu

Kai, my lion character, frantically texting the secretary of the high school he works at for the lesson plan the teacher he's subbing for left for him. The texts read: K: "Hey! I don't have a lesson plan!" S: "Ill send it to your school email!" K: "Thanks! Follow-up question: I have a school email??"

Kai!@kaithelion· Mar 2

Callie requires ATTENTION!

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 25

My cat did the thing again today~ uwu

My orange cat, Callie, shrimping a bit in her cozy bed. (She is extremely content.)

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 21

In other news, I'm really enjoying putting this trail cam in random spots to try and capture the bazillion birds and squirrels that are always at our bird feeder. xD

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 20

Substitute teaching really keeps you on your toes~!

A traditional doodle of my lion, Kai, in front of a classroom with a cliche movie cart. He's putting on a forced smile, with a thought bubble saying "I was supposed to be the art teacher today." There's a note on the bottom saying that he got switched last minute.

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 15

Let sleeping shrimp lie~

A doodle of my lion, Kai, snoozing in a shrimp pose very much inspired by my cat.

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 15

Super rough lil' 1 hour practice since it's been a minute. uwu

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 14

Oh hey, it's been long enough that I can repost my old Valentine's cards of my comic chars~ uwu

A valentine's card with my fennec character Bev saying "Blank... You're alright. I can stand to be with you. Keep it up, Blank."

A valentine's card with my character Tibber, saying "Blank! I really really really like you and I think you're super duper neat!! - Your best friend forever always, Blank!!!"

A valentine's day card featuring my character Roland, saying "Blank, I appreciate your continued presence. - Platonically also here, Blank."

Kai!@kaithelion· Feb 11

THANKS!! <3 I forgot, we kind of met after I got an iPad and could suddenly draw digitally anywhere. My traditional drawings kind of went off the wayside since then, but this was my go-to back in 2018! x3