Idess's Gallery

Dark Shaman by Idess

Sun, 25 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

A fox you probably would not want to cross your path. Happy Halloween, everyone! © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Colored pencils on textured scrapbook paper
Tags: fox dark evil halloween witch shaman foxes

Rare Breed: Norwegian Lundehund by Idess

Mon, 05 Oct 2009 00:00:00 +0000

Here's the second breed of my "Rare Breed" series, the Norwegian Lundehund! The Norwegian Lundehund Club of America Website: http://www.lundehund.com/ The Norwegian Lundehund were bred to hunt puffins on the rocky cliffs of Iceland and Norway. They have six toes on each foot. The fifth toe is actually as dexterous as their other toes, and the sixth is similar to a dewclaw. They can also fold up their ears to keep out dust and debris. They are able to bend their neck backwards all the way and touch their forehead to their spine! They can also spread their front legs all the way out perpendicular to their body. The Norwegian Lundehund almost became extinct, but thanks to lovers of this unique breed, it has made a comeback and has been accepted into the "Miscillaneous Class" of the AKC. Original is 12.5"x18.5" ©M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Watercolor
Tags: dog dog dogs ocean puffin norwegian Norway coast lundehund

Hunting by Idess

Tue, 04 Aug 2009 08:52:23 +0000

This is Enakai, a character of a friend of mine. He's got face tentacles, which makes him awesome in my eyes! *loves flabbergyface things* I guess I sort of imagined him sniffing/exploring the ground with his tentacles XD Art is © M. 'Idess' Sherwood Character © Fire Dancer

Medium: Pencil and Photoshop
Tags: wolves monster wolf green water tentacle

Unlikely Friends by Idess

Sun, 14 Jun 2009 18:21:25 +0000

An elk and a young coyote, naturally enemies, form a friendship as they have a nice conversation while travelling across the plains. Though it seems the conversation is more one-sided... but hey, it's a coyote; who can blame him? ;) The background is a watercolor painting by myself, the character's lineart is pencil, and the characters are colored digitally. So this isn't really digital work... more like mixed media. Elk are awesome o3o There needs to be more drawings of them! ©M. 'Idess' Sherwood 2009

Medium: Watercolor, Photoshop
Tags: coyote elk friends

Break These Chains by Idess

Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:33:29 +0000

A sketch from December that I decided to color tonight, and first time using the actual sketch lines as 'lineart'. It was really fun and different. Generic black wolf, but I don't think any other color would have sufficed. (Sorry if it is too dark, my laptop screen is brighter than most). Background is my own, created from a watercolor texture I made. Someone at Further Confusion in January bought the original sketch. :) Thank you laserbeams for the new watermark! © M. 'Idess' Sherwood 2009

Medium: Pencil, Watercolor, Photoshop
Tags: wolves wolf black freedom free chains chain

Signet Commission by Idess

Wed, 03 Jun 2009 05:53:46 +0000

My last commission left over from Further Confusion! This took me much longer than it should have, and I still feel very bad about it. Signet, the commissioner, was very patient and wonderful to work with. This was commissioned as a "colored sketch" at the con (hence no background), but since it took me so long to do I added more detail and put more into it than the normal colored sketch. The requirements were to simply draw his KangarooxSeal character with a peach. I tossed around many ideas, but this one came to me and stuck :P © M. 'Idess' Sherwood Character belongs to signet_the_roo

Medium: Prismacolor Pencils on Bristol
Tags: cute kangaroo roo seal peach

Spare Bulb by Idess

Mon, 04 May 2009 01:23:16 +0000

A project from my college Art Design class. This is a collage using images from a magazine. I purposefully tried to make it so you wouldn't be able to tell which is painted and which is a magazine clipping. Due to copyright issues the magazine clippings were often changed dramatically (for example, the St. Bernard in the fron was a magazine clipping of a St. Bernard with his mouth hanging open and his tongue out).

Medium: collage + paint
Tags: anthro collage

Rare Breed: Mudi by Idess

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 19:50:41 +0000

I've been wanting to do a sort of "series" of pictures of rarer breeds of dogs that most people don't know about. This first one is the Mudi. The American Mudi Association Website The Mudi is a small herding breed originating in Hungary. They are recognized mostly by their coat, which is wavy and curly with short hair on the face and legs. They are most commonly seen as black, though they are recognized in many different colors. As a herding dog, they are very intelligent and willing to please their owner, though they are usually very reserved and quiet, and do not take well to harsh training techniques. Please check out the above link for the AMA if you'd like to research this breed more on your own! The original is 7x9" Watercolor + Colored Pencil mixed media.

Medium: Watercolor + Colored Pencils
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I'm Just a Corgi by Idess

Sat, 28 Feb 2009 18:01:02 +0000

Just a small 5.5x8" drawing I did to cheer myself up. © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Colored Pencil
Tags: dog corgi pembroke dogs prismacolor welsh

Frequent Flier by Idess

Sat, 10 Jan 2009 17:59:44 +0000

For the Further Confusion Art Show, where it was framed and up for auction :) Sold there, too. Prints available for $7 © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: watercolor
Tags: fox fennec balloons

First Snow -Painting- by Idess

Fri, 28 Nov 2008 18:27:36 +0000

My second (ever) watercolor painting, for my Beginning Watercolor class. This is 100% watercolor. Nothing else was used. It was painted on Arches 140 lb cold press. The actual size is about 16x21 inches. My original photo: http://idess.deviantart.com/art/First-Snow-75891747 Art and photo © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Watercolor
Tags: snow dog watercolor dogs realistic dachshund photorealism

Juneau Dog by Idess

Tue, 21 Oct 2008 18:50:53 +0000

My first watercolor painting for watercolor class. I learned a lot of things about watercolor, which was completely foreign to me. For critique: For some reason people like to critique this piece. I am open for critique but I already know about the 'floating can' and 'floating dog', so no need to repeat that :) Thank you. Original photo (by me): http://idess-snap.deviantart.com/art/Juneau-Dog-71752263 Art and photo © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: watercolor
Tags: dog husky sledding alaska alaskan

Otter Chieftain by Idess

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:49:29 +0000

I got some cheap card stock the other day specifically for sketches :) So I drew up this river otter chieftain, complete with a kingfisher feather headress, a crane tail loincloth (if that's the right name), a shrimp net arm band, fish bone necklace, and various other reed accessories. There's a light blue initial sketch beneath the darker pencil lines. Art and design © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: pencil
Tags: otter river native chief

Sent from Hell by Idess

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 04:24:38 +0000

A gift for annushka (on here and annushkathesetter on DA) because she's done so much art for me and I have yet to pay her back! So this gift doesn't even begin to thank her enough! Check out her gallery; her artwork is a billion times better than ANYTHING I can do. This is her fursona Annushka, floating in space like the other cool wolf arts (lawl. No really, she's jumping). As usual, I tried something new with the shading. Kinda like it, kinda don't. Not sure what I should keep XD The background textures are complete thanks to hibbary! Character © Annushka Art © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Photoshop 7.0
Tags: wolves dark wolf digital fantasy texture

Icons 2 by Idess

Tue, 26 Aug 2008 22:38:47 +0000

The two winners of my icon auction I held :) I decided to do the classic deal with the large version of the icon with the real icon in the corner. Anthros! Dr. Kesten © SteelHelix Junjie © Himself Art © Idess

Medium: Photoshop 7.0
Tags: icon icons digital

Let's Walk Straight by Idess

Mon, 11 Aug 2008 00:24:03 +0000

Some fanart of a small dog anime I've been watching :) I won't go into the names of the characters here, but if you want to watch it, here's the links: Season 1 (4 episodes) - http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/CRSeries_-_Massugu_ni_Ikou Season 2 (5 episodes) - http://www.crunchyroll.com/group/CRSeries_-_Massugu_ni_Ikou_2004 Characters belong to the creators of Massugu Ni Ikou Art is © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Photoshop 7.0
Tags: dog anime dogs massugu ni ikou mametarou

Icons - 1 by Idess

Thu, 07 Aug 2008 23:48:42 +0000

A batch of icons I've done over the last few days. Solka's and Illusion's were free for them (given away on my Livejournal), and James and Corgi-Idess were done for my own LiveJournal :) I have a new 'style' with icons that I'm very happy with, I love creating them.

Medium: Photoshop 7.0
Tags: dog corgi icons dogs livejournal idess

Fox On Stilts by Idess

Thu, 17 Jul 2008 23:18:17 +0000

Maned Wolves are commonly known as "Foxes on Stilts". It seems the little red fox tried a bit -too- hard to be like his taller cousin! This original will probably be in the Art Show at Further Confusion 2009 (yes, January 2009). If not, I will probably auction it off on Furbuy.com. Prints of this will also be available soon, whenever I get the money to make prints :) If you think you want a print, send me a note. Maybe if there's enough interest I'll try to scrounge up some money for a small print run or something like that. © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Colored Pencils and Watercolor on Bristol
Tags: fox cartoon wolf foxes maned Traditional stilts

Blu Tag by Idess

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:13:11 +0000

A pixel commission for someone on Furry-paws.com of their character who is a bull terrier genetic experiment. © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: MS Paint and Photoshop 7.0
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Coffee Collie by Idess

Sun, 06 Apr 2008 18:12:21 +0000

I drew this guy on the paper wrapping of an image I was doing for art class containing non-traditional staining media. I was using coffee, and while I was waiting for it to dry, I drew him. I sent the original to my good friend/sister Brynn. © M. 'Idess' Sherwood

Medium: Coffee, Pencil, and some Iodine
Tags: dog coffee dogs collie border feral stain