Maria Ochoa

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Was away for the weekend but found the time to do some sketching! Found some ref images I wanted to use and I'm really pleased with how they came out! Fat Fin hands and the hand of a nameless figure for scale!

Get ready to S.M.A.S.H!

Im doing a little project on my Tides blog in the form of a tournament which is called Shattered Mast's Amphitheater for Scrappers of Hyrule (aka SMASH). I loved hosting "events" on the old CDN forums but doing one is a little trickier on tumblr s...

Comics - Xander and Famke

Continuing with showing some older art. This one featuring two FF12 OCs, Xander and Famke. I dont think I've uploaded this before, and probably because I was too shy at the time. This was done for a friend who created Famke, and the scene was take...

New Month, New Goals

IT'S OCTOBER WOOO!!!

Things may not be suddenly better, but I'll take in the little joys, and I hope you all can too!

Kicking this off with a new goal chart because I liked how the first one helped me keep on task. I'm happy I did mo...

Turak the Bone Collector

Those who know my mass effect OCs might recognize Turak's name. I've been wanting to design my krogan into various races in the zelda universe and I thought a rito would suit Turak well. I went with a bearded vulture because it went with some them...

Baby's first role play chat

I met a friend via Yahoo! Clubs back when that still existed which at the time were basically mini forums and a chat room. I just got my own computer and internet access and Ive been reading every single dbz fanfic I could get my hands on and I wa...

Wanna see some old stuff?

When Im in an art funk I look through old works. Years ago it used to make me cringe with the whole "oh god it was awful" but now it makes me happy. There was a degree of "devil may care" attitude that I lost in recent years.

There was an o...

Overload

A little bit of vent art but, I dont know how to explain it other than it's just something that needs to happen

I've been feeling overwhelmed, and it's been slowly piling up. The state of the world, worrying about my friends' safety and thei...

Birthday wishes from two meaty men

Today was the birthday of a buddy, Bec-son/Becquerelsplash! Featuring their character Becquerel getting love from their other character, Saphirion, and Fat Fin >:3

Bec you've been such a positive presence and I appreciate you so much! It'...

Cat Shenanigans

Last week I was making lunch after doing some work, and one of my cats was at my feet begging for some treats. I wasnt watching where he was exactly, but as soon as my foot stepped on a cat toy my brain thought "THATS HIS TAIL/PAW" and I jumped so...

A few goals met, and some rambles

Let's get the rambling out!

There's so many things happening in my personal life, but thankfully nothing really horrible (they do suck), just small things that seem like they're piling up. And then GESTURES AT EVERYTHING has me fraz...

September here we go!

This month started a little rough for me. My partner and I had to take a trip with his family to see more family and it was a stressful time for all, but we pulled through together ✊

then when we got home I ended up getting sick so spent m...

Tales of Hyrule - Chapters 7 and 8

With both chapters out now it felt like a good time to post my pieces done for our chapters along with the sketches! These last two chapters have been awesome because Werewolfsister joined Dwickery and I in the shenanigans :D I can't post their wo...

The shenanigans continue!

More drawings I did for my zorca blog, having fun with story threads and spoiling myself by drawing my characters. Doing story/RP threads on my blog was an unexpected but pleasant surprise. Which is funny because another friend once said that my a...

Paprika - Seismic Activity

We're working on the next chapter of our Tales of Hyrule series and the next chapter focuses on Sardon and Sona. This particular piece doesn't happen in the chapter but it came about from some jokes Dwickery, Werewolfsister and I were tossing arou...

Potential ship shenanigans

With permission I drew these pictures which feature a character named Nerissa who belongs to Myz-Wykkyd. A previous post showed Fat Fin was looking to court her. They haven'...

Shrimp Heaven

This was a little unhinged story Dwickery came up with and I wanted to illustrate it and make a post on my tides blog. He and I were talking over dinner one time about a completely unrelated topic regarding someone Cironus dated, who was a blue ri...

Paprika - Spicy and Sweet

Maybe a little nsfw cuz of the pick up line but other than that >> <<

More self indulgent stuff. I told Chaotic that originally I was planning to draw one piece and call it a day, but now I'm locked in. I'm lost in the sauce. We'...

Stuff in the works

Here are a few things I'm working on regarding my Tide's blog. Some of these will pop up or already have appeared on the queue I set up there. I mentioned in a previous post about doing things for fun and catering to myself but I still have that b...

Gift hunting with Fat Fin

As previously mentioned, Fat Fin is looking for gifts to send to Nerissa, you know, just doing basic courtship stuff :> He went diving for sunken treasure to pay for some deliveries (featuring werewolfsister's Xochitl) then ran off to collect o...

Receiving Letters

This picture was inspired by an interaction between Fat Fin and a lovely narwhal OC named Nerissa who belongs to Myz-Wykkyd! It started out as an ask meme prompt of Fat Fin ...

More zorca shenanigans

Im slowly working on character bios to post on my Tides blog. It's slow going because writing takes me a long time to do, and I get hung up with wanting to make new art for information posts like that. I gotta remind myself I'm not on a deadline! ...

Paprika - The Shark and the Wolf

Sharing these with Chaotic-Zora's permission! A while ago I came to them with the idea that their OC, Thresh, and my Finn could be Exes-turned-friends for the human AU we'...

Paprika (sorta?) - If looks could kill

I'D BE DEAAAAAAAD

This started out as sketch practice with Fat Fin and doing expressions for fun. I liked one of them a lot and decided to ink it digitally and it came out way better than I expected and more suggestive than ...

Paprika - More pin ups!

In between everything, I was taking time to indulge myself with more Fat Fin pieces. A friend also suggested Lurona pinups! I want to do more pencil sketches because I like the texture of it but I HATE how easily it smudges haha which is why I doo...

Tales from Hyrule: Chapters 5 & 6

Been busy the last few days drawing and personal life wise. The month is coming to a close and despite doing my fair share of doodles Im feeling a little scatter brained! Last week my partner and I did two chapters for our story and had a small hi...

Tales from Hyrule - Chapters 3 & 4

Semirampant-Dwickery and I have been chugging along on our project and it's been tons of fun! We both miss writing on CDN so this has been a nice way to get back into it and get those creative zoomies out. We have a basic outline of what we wanna ...

Sketches - tumblr shenanigans

When receiving asks on tumblr its fun to answer with drawings. There were a few times when I opened requests and I was pleased with the response! I want to try that here as well. Have a set time when requests are open and see if anyone would like ...

Sketches and small updates

Happy July...or as happy as you can be. The beginning started off really rough, and I kind of crashed out after a weekend outing with family. While it was a nice distraction from everything, it was a LOT of socializing that I wasn't ready...

Help Im obsessed with this human AU

Ive been exchanging ideas with a friend every so often and my brain has been zooming with the scenarios that have been spilling forth. And I also colored that sketchy piece of Thresh and Finn at the Waffle House ✊ Chaotic-zora brought up that hu...