Here are a few paintings of “Chronos,” one of my personal anthro characters (along with “anthro eld” in the last post).
This top painting has been close to being finished for a while. I think I will finally finish it soon! I may update this post with the finished version, when I do.
Second Chronos wip. Not nearly as finished!
This is an older wip of Chronos that I remember I tried painting over a while ago, and I didn’t like it as much as the line sketch. I want to give it another go sometime.
I have some ideas for Chronos and eldrige that I think might be fun to draw. Need to carve out the time!
eldrige is a 2D artist living on the West Coast of the United States. They are a fan of anthro and Pokemon art, and love creating paintings that bring joy and delight!
Hello! Been a while, hasn’t it? I’ve been meaning to update my online presence for a while, but one thing or another kept cropping up. I am still “active” in that I still exist, but I haven’t been checking socials as regularly as I used to. I have been doing a lot of art, but much of it is
I realized with mild horror that I still had my Twitter page listed on my Linkspage. I could have sworn I updated it to Bluesky at some point, but I apparently hadn’t. Bluesky is the main platform I’ve been checking. I do also still check Tumblr, but I need to try and post there again. I have not been checking my Instagram since Meta announcing they were using user images to train their genAI model some time ago. I don’t know whether I’ll use that platform again or not, because of this. I’ll keep it linked for now as I decide, but I’m not sure when or if I will next update it. I might replace it with an RSS feed instead.
I’ve also decided to take down, at least for now, the “bonus art” section from the main navigation menu that was connected with Patreon. The link will remain live, and just unlisted – at eldrige.net/bonus-art – in case anyone wishes to view it again in the future. I might try Patreon again in the future, but I have always been uncomfortable promoting myself, and so I never really promoted the page the way I would have probably needed to. It will remain as a “tip jar” for now, similar to Ko-fi, as that is probably what the page most closely resembled. I might just post the free content I’d otherwise post on socials to there, as well, as I believe the members I have there now are of the free tier.
Anyway, one thing I also want to try out this time is exploring how the fediverse might be. I’ve created an account today on a Mastodon instance called squawk.social, which is a neat instance that has a focus on avian/gryphon anthros, though they say anthros of all types are welcome. :) You can see my page at squawk.social/@eldrige, and I’ll start updating it today.
I also have been doing art even though I’ve been inactive online – I’ve been planning to make some posts for them when I have a chance. Some process steps for paintings, stuff like that.
Think that’s it for now, if I think of more, I’ll update this post. Until then, see you next time!
eldrige is a 2D artist living on the West Coast of the United States. They are a fan of anthro and Pokemon art, and love creating paintings that bring joy and delight!
Oh man! Been a while since I’ve updated this blog. Busy with things, but I want to start adding to it again. Especially with the whole social media implosion over the past year!
The last time I wrote a blog post was in December of 2022, but for some reason, the WordPress scheduler didn’t work. I made it live it just now, which is the Pokemon Scarlet and Violet post with some of my thoughts. I actually still have not completed that game! Not for lack of wanting to – I haven’t found the proper time for it yet. Other things have been taken priority in the meantime, but I would like to go back to it sometime and play more of it! Always my dilemma with time-consuming games.
Anyway, I did this warm-up drawing of Beelzebumon this morning I wanted to share. I’ve been practicing with sketching more, and would like to finish this one sometime.
eldrige is a 2D artist living on the West Coast of the United States. They are a fan of anthro and Pokemon art, and love creating paintings that bring joy and delight!
Finished a painting of Floragato around the time I started playing Pokemon Scarlet, which launched last month on November! I was hesitant to play this entry in the franchise at first. The pre-launch info & screens were not the most appealing to me as we approached the launch date, especially after how much I enjoyed Pokemon Legends: Arceus. Then upon launch, I saw the plentiful accounts and growing backlash toward the performance issues the games were having. I planned to wait and see when Nintendo would patch the performance issues.
I was still curious about the games, though, especially as the backlash grew. I started watching a few commentary videos on YouTube, and stumbled across one that was less one-sidedly negative than many of the videos on there at the time. This video emphasized how the gameplay itself was quite revitalizing for the Pokemon main series franchise, while not downplaying the serious and unacceptable performance issues. The commentator guessed that the developers for this game were likely overworked, and this was probably why there were so many technical issues in this iteration. He emphasized how the underlying gameplay seemed very thoughtful in terms of mechanics – the game design itself being solid, and introducing many new concepts that the mainline Pokemon franchise has needed for years.
I’m glad I stumbled across his video, because his commentary was what swayed my opinion on waiting for a performance patch. I decided to purchase Scarlet the same day! I am so glad I did, because it didn’t take me a long time playing to realize that, yes, this is the best mainline Pokemon game since probably the Black & White generation of games.
i’ll link the video below & continue this post under the cut due to length!
eldrige is a 2D artist living on the West Coast of the United States. They are a fan of anthro and Pokemon art, and love creating paintings that bring joy and delight!
This was a painting I did after seeing November’s Ko-fi theme, “Fall Coziness.” I saw it on the last day of the month, but I loved the theme so much that it inspired me to try and draw something before the close of the month. I managed to start and finish this painting of Chronos cozying up to a warm mug of hot chocolate, and to my surprise it was one of the winners of the theme challenge! It was very fun seeing everyone’s submissions, and makes me want to participate again!
eldrige is a 2D artist living on the West Coast of the United States. They are a fan of anthro and Pokemon art, and love creating paintings that bring joy and delight!
