My half of an art trade with Poseidon Simons: his character Anna Brown.

He told me she was a vet, so I decided to draw her doing something veterinary. That puppy is objecting, not only to taking his own meds, but to the entire practice of veterinary medicine in general.
Artwork © 2010 Renee Johnson
Additional Credits: Character Anna Brown belongs to Poseidon Simons. Background photo thanks to Christine Baumann Interiors

My gift for Bad Karma for this year's Secret Santa exchange: A more animalistic portrait of his lynx character Frag Cat.

I'm a little displeased with how the scan turned out; the original pencil sketch looks awesome. Maybe I'll do more with it later on, but I'm going to call this one finished for now.
Artwork © 2009 Renee Johnson
Additional Credits: Character "Frag Cat" is the property of Bad Karma.

I did this more to satisfy my own OCD than anything. One basic point of furry anatomy that always sort of bugged me was how the head of a quadrupedal creature could possibly attach to an upright humanoid spine. So I found some pics of skulls, and with some clever photoshopping I stripped away all the fur and musculature so I could find out.

This is my concept of a wolf furry skull. The brain case is identical to a human's, and attaches to the spinal column in much the same way, though rhaps a little farther back from the mandible. To support the extra weight of the larger jawbone and nasal ridge, the spine does not have as much of a curve in the neck/shoulder area as a human spine would, and the vertebrae themselves are much thicker.

I'll probably do other skulls (a cat next, I think), and if I'm feeling really ambitious I may do a whole skeleton one day. I guess I'll start taking requests on these, too.

I'd be extremely flattered if you critique this heavily, if you use it to influence your own anthro art, and if somebody who's better with forensics than I could put some flesh on these bones; I'd love to see what the finished critter would realistically look like.
Additional Credits: Feature Images for the spine and Will's Skull Page for the human and wolf skulls

Sidley's new face as a supervillain. The succubus matron of the brothel he took over - along with basically the rest of the Capital - has brought out his true nature, and he has taken on aspects of an incubus himself. You'll rarely ever see this ugly face on him, though, since incubi also possess the ability to change their shape.

The face I'm intensely happy with, but I think I'd like a little less half-bakedness with the costume change. I may work more on that sometime in the future. I kind of hope whoever this model was comes across my gallery someday so he can see what I've done to his face. ^^;
Artwork © 2009 Renee Johnson
Additional Credits: Character Sidley Kynlif belongs to me; stock images used in this piece belong to Creasource/Jupiter Images and iStockPhoto.

My humblest apologies to Jupiter Images and iStockPhoto, but I had to erase your watermarks to make this comp make any sense. If a rep from either of these sites sees this image and has a problem with it, I'll gladly take it down; just e-mail me.

This is Sid, a truly incorrigible dirty old man and my evil wizard character in a claw-your-way-to-the-top-of-the-thieves'-guild campaign that my friend's running. I stumbled across a picture while I was Googling around and was struck by how much it resembled him, so I snagged it (thanks, Creasource and Jupiter Images) and Photoshopped it up a bit. A few aging effects; a nice change of clothes; and the black sash-worn-as-a-tie that all Shadows members carry, courtesy of iStockPhoto; and whoever that lovely model was becomes an evil blue mage. Go figure.

Character Sidley Kynlif belongs to me.
Additional Credits: Creasource, Jupiter Images, and iStockPhoto
Referenced Source: Dungeons and Dragons

Dunno why, but it never occurred to me to post any of my photos here. Don't consider myself much of an art photographer, I guess. ^^;

These cute little desert marigolds completely take over my back yard in the summer. The seeds sprout wherever they land, but for some reason you can't transplant them or make them grow where you want them to. A truly wild flower.

Artwork © 2007 Renee Johnson

This is actually an oekaki I did a long time ago, which I spent several months on and am extremely proud of. The thing about this site's oekaki is, once an image reaches somewhere around page 10, it sort of falls into a rift and gets deleted, so the board only contains relatively new images and really old ones. This one's fallen into the rift already, so I figured it'd be best to immortalize it here.

Spock is pwnt, in my humble opinion. Who do you think will win? >^.^<
Referenced Source: Star Trek: TOS and Star Trek: TNG

I'm in the middle of Watership Down at the moment, and felt like doing a sketch of the three main characters before I sat down to read. I tried to capture their most important traits: Bigwig's militaristic wariness, the awareness and closeness-with-detachment that comes with Hazel's leadership, and Fiver's ability to tell when it's all okay.

First drawing in my new sketchbook! w00t. Pencil on A4 paper.
Additional Credits: Richard Adams
Referenced Source: Watership Down