Syrel
syrelnumal.bsky.social
Syrel
@syrelnumal.bsky.social
Bi furry, fledgling artist, video game and TTRPG lover. Retired from IT career.

He/Him, 40.
Quick sketchy hand study with pencil brushes. It's amazing how much easier hands are when you use a reference picture but I keep hoping someday it will percolate into my brain to just free draw hand.
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 PM
I tried a bunch of shading things, didn't like how they turned out, and ended up doing it something in more of my comfort/usual method. Still, the practice was fun, this is just my favorite character to draw so I can't let him down.

#furryart #furry #cheetah
November 15, 2025 at 4:32 PM
Quick (well about 2hrs but that's still quick for me) flat color chee sketch. I want to play with fur brushes to try to render this later. I'm also trying to practice more poses, particularly with arms/hands. Front view is still my safe spaces for faces.

#cheetah #furry #furryart #sketch
November 12, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Finished sketch from earlier, I tried hard for me things with this like kneeling poses and rear head angles, so I'm pleased with what I was able to do even though I didn't get it quite right. Two slaves pray in a secret temple to the god of light for deliverance.

#furry #furryart #scalie #cheetah
November 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
Me: I want to draw butts. No.. I need to make the butts arty or something.

So I came up with this sketch of poor slave boys praying for deliverance in a secret shrine to the god of justice. I'm sure future me will not regret trying a snout from this angle. I like the concept at least.
November 5, 2025 at 3:20 AM
And here's the procreate replay if anyone cares.
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Finished up, I have lost all objectivity and sanity. It's extra hard to work on something you liked the sketch of, like I'm disappointing the imaginary hot man if I don't draw him right. Clearly the answer is to draw more hot furry men until I get it right.

#furry #furryart #anubis #jackal
November 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
After browsing for furry artwork to use in my gesture practice exercises because drawing furry men is more exciting than human ones, I remembered Anubis is really hot and so I decided to try to make my own hot Anubis. Still WIP.

#furry #furryart #anubis #jackal
October 30, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Made an Anubis, he turned out a little more feline than I was intending. Managed to do it without looking at references until I was done with the sketching and lineart, which is exciting for me. Today I tried more cel/anime shading style, haven't settled on firm style yet

#furry #furryart #anubis
October 29, 2025 at 1:05 AM
Worked on a lion gladiator boy, I wanted to try a fluffy white mane but I think in general I need to practice a new shading technique for very light colors. I'm sure it's fine to just fight things in basically no armor and a loincloth.

#furry #furryart #lion
October 24, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A very messy replay of the above
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Tried to redo my mostly-sona, Syrel, in painting. Then I redid everything like 5 times so it's sort of a hybrid between painting and some digital shading. I may have spent too long on this and gone insane.

#furry #scalie #furryart #dragon
October 13, 2025 at 5:27 PM
Replay of the above.
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
More digital oil painting practice time. I actually sketched the head without a reference and thought it looked like a nice cheetah which is a milestone, I can feel myself improving over time.

#furry #furryart #cheetah
October 10, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Procreate replay of the above. Either I spend forever on lineart and sketching or somehow I shade super fast.
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Melvis is one of High Justicar Ferro's trusted younger guards, a fox archer who doesn't scare easy and is serious when time calls for it. Unfortunately he's also a trickster who thinks the cheetah thief boy Ferro is chasing is fun to flirt with too.

#furry #furryart #fox
October 7, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Replay of the above. Apparently I took so long on the cheetah that the background just appears by magic at the end.
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
I did more oil painting practice off an anatomy ref and made Aion, the Dragon-God of Fire, whose preferred humanoid form is a golden-spotted red cheetah. As lover, warrior, and artist, he's an inspiration to many and good eye-candy besides in that tiny loincloth.

#furry #furryart #cheetah
October 1, 2025 at 11:08 PM
Here's the replay of the above. I guess 'you will see a bare butt in the middle' is a warning?
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
I haven't had the creativity to come up with new art pieces so for practice I went back to 'take an anatomy reference picture of a human guy and furrify it'. Or in this case scalie-fy it?

#furry #furryart #scalie #lizardman
September 29, 2025 at 5:27 PM
And in the replay you can see me fiddle around with stuff for a long time. I didn't end up using the flat color layer and instead did a layer of oil paint under the primary layer to fill holes but the replay likes to fixate on the earlier bits.
September 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Decided to do another practice piece this one of a wolf's torso. Didn't use a reference other than my standard generic sketchy ideal male body one then played with oil paints. You can't see all of him but this is my wolf Krenn.

#furry #furryart #wolf
September 25, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I didn't draw anything yesterday and I still don't have an idea for a new full piece but I wanted to practice. So my brain's like 'you should draw butts'. So uh.. I did? In two ways.

No active sex or anything but there are some dangly bits on one so..

#furry #furryart #cheetah #butt
September 25, 2025 at 4:36 AM
Here's the replay of the above, it gets weird because I resize the thing repeatedly since paint does not work at smaller canvas sizes.
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM
Tried digital painting something today for the first time seriously with the new Procreate brushes. I just sort of fiddled and had no clue what I was doing, but it was fun and I kind of like how it turned out. Turns out I like lions when they're slender boys.

#furry #furryart #lion
September 22, 2025 at 11:50 PM