Dated 13/10/2013

When Rodney invited you over to see his 'massive pad', you thought he meant he had a big house. Much to the bear's delight, you didn't realise your mistake until it was much too late.

(Alternative 'clean/non-musky' version available - click here)

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Boy, am I glad to finally have this one finished.

I started following  dj-rodney 's artwork before he even joined FurAffinity, and I have always been a fan. While I have only occasionally explored my enjoyment of bear feet in the past with pictures such as 'Walk In The Woods' or 'Alternative Hypnosis', I do find their size and predominantly fleshy soles to be extremely attractive. Seeing the particularly appealing way in which Rodney depicts them frequently whets my appetite for them, and inspires me to try drawing them more often. Hence, by means of a tribute, who better for me to draw than his own bear character, Rodney Uriel Medina?



As everyone probably already knows, musky feet are perhaps my biggest fetish, albeit occasionally switching with stomp/crush. Given that I had seen sufficient evidence over the years in Rodney's artwork to believe he shared this particular kink, I decided to base his gift image upon this theme. On reflection, the end product has become something of a combination of various past pictures of mine, with elements reminiscent of 'The Summer Job', 'Feline Supremacy' and 'Post Match Musk'. Should anyone be put off by the musk however, there is an alternative non-musky version available from the link at the top.

This is the image to which I was referring when I hinted last weekend that I was close to completing another picture. Unfortunately I had to revise my planned submission date - a variety of family issues took priority in the past week, and coupled with my job, I decided to submit the picture this weekend instead. In truth, it was a good job that I did, because it gave me more time to work on it and develop it to a level of detail that would not otherwise have been possible - at least not without rushing it considerably.

I started the drawing back in about July/August, though as I am by no means as familiar with drawing bears as Rodney is, I found the exercise quite difficult and never quite got it right. Things were then complicated a bit more by some unfortunate timing when Rodney submitted an updated reference sheet for his character, thereby overriding his old one. As I had originally based my drawing on the old reference sheets, I took the opportunity to adjust various features in accordance with the new design.

As mentioned earlier, the additional time I granted myself by revising my personal deadline meant that I had time to go a bit mad on the colouring and detail for this one. Most notable was my experiment with the texture on the sole - I had tried painting such sole textures in the past (such as in "Annihilation") but it had never turned out as I'd hoped. This time therefore, I used the same technique as with Rexar's scale texture, sourcing a photographic sample that I then colorised, scaled and rotated accordingly to make it fit to the shape. It was experimental and isn't perfect, but I am much more satisfied with the result here than in previous efforts. Of course, the difficulty presented by going to town on the sole texture is that you then introduce the need to implement similar levels of detail everywhere else, hence I added the fur, the wood texture on the table and various other features.

This is one of those pictures that I think ranks up with the best I've done, so I hope it is to everyone's liking - particularly to you, Rodney. Sorry I kept you waiting.



RRRex