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Haven't drawn my characters in a bit, so here's one for inktober!

tfw you haven't drawn your own characters in so long you have to look up your own refs, lol

I always draw heads out of proportion when sketching because that cartoonin’ background likes to pop in and go “what IS real anatomy.” But yeah, airport sketch I added color to bc why not. It's been raining non-stop back home.

Dumb ballpoint pen sketch of my OC Elias as a lil babby teen

I wanna draw my own characters more in 2018 (and do fanart, ofc, but still), so here's a new year's pic from my brain to yours! There was going to be a second pic to go with this, maybe I'll get to it later when my brain can make art happen again. Photoshop is being a dick and keeps saving this pic weird >:| so that's why I added the close up.

I may tweak a few things/add a portrait or two to this, but I figured I'd draw my character Elias in his FFXV Comrades outfits for shits & giggles since I made him in the game, idk. Stole the base from some older character ref art I was working on because, uh... this is what I made it for, I guess.

I watched Yuri on Ice finally and almost did fanart but decided to draw my own characters instead, lol. This is something I’ve wanted to do for awhile but never found time for, I guess.

I have no idea how this is gonna look on Tumblr, but let’s give it a shot. I realized I had no current outfit refs for this character (which makes it difficult to ask other people to draw him for me...), so this happened. I only intended to do maybe 3 of these, but, uh... Idk I just like designing outfits ok

I also want to do these for the rest of my characters now. Never gonna happen buuuuut...

RIP this sketch of my characters that I started for inktober and never finished because I spilled water all over it. Womp womp. Maybe I can transfer it to new paper or finish it digitally.

It’s 2 AM which means it’s time to post some art?? Started this one around  a year and a half ago (there are progress pics of it on my tumblr somewhere), only finished it now because I needed to reclaim some table space for new paintings. I liked this at the time I did it, but I’m pretty meh about it now aside from the paint part.

I started this after I was confronted with some personal things I thought I had gotten past that hit me pretty hard at the time (and then came up again 6 months later, which is probably why it took me so long to finish this). Sometimes all you want is for the bleeding to stop, but it always finds its way out in the end.

Did a redraw of an old thing from 2010 for fun, I guess. I haven’t done one in like... possibly ever? I have no idea what I was trying to do with the background and was wasting time trying to figure it out, so I didn’t change much there even though I wanted to (and I wanted to put these side by side, but Tumblr made it awkward). It is 100% my fault that I only ever draw this character looking miserable, haha. He was my go-to for vent art back when I was a teenager and that... hasn’t completely changed, though he does have his good moments. That I don’t ever show.

I liked the line art on its own, so here’s that, too.

Some art I posted to Instagram. One recentish one and one from 2007 that I did for a friend of mine and just recently managed to find again so I can mail it to her!

If you’re wondering why there’s suddenly a flood of furry art on your dash, one of my oldest friends, Jolyn (@gingerpepp on tumblr, and SilverWing pretty much everywhere else), passed away suddenly yesterday morning. This is just a collection of art we’ve done for each other over the years, my favorites of the ones she’s done for me and her favorites of the ones I’ve done for her, including the first two drawings we ever did for each other what seems like a million years ago now.

I’m not really active in the furry community and haven’t been for a very long time, but it’s been overwhelming and heartwarming to see the outpouring of grief and love, not just from her family and friends, but from the hundreds and hundreds of people in the community who knew her even if they’d only met or spoken to her briefly over the past 16 years. There isn’t a single person who knew her or knew of her that didn’t know how unbelievably kind and giving she was, and I miss her so much. We all do.

We never expect that the random dumb message we send someone will ever be the last time we talk to them or that a few months’ silence will suddenly become eternal. And I know we all have our own lives and things to deal with and sometimes communication becomes difficult, but I hope everyone reading this takes some time to tell the people they love how much they care about them. To do something nice for someone they don’t know. To be kind. Not just today, but always. You never know whose life you’ll change, just like her kindness changed mine.

Some instagram sketches. The second one is old (from like maybe a year or two ago), but I still like it. First one is the same shit I’ve been drawing of this character since I created him, basically, but I never sketch on paper anymore so… feels weird, man.

Some dumb oekaki doodles I did today! I haven’t done oekaki in over 10 years, so it was cool and also frustrating to come back to it, haha. I could barely get this to happen with a tablet, I have no idea how I used to do it with a mouse.

More sketches, trying to get better at drawing my own characters more consistently because I don’t do it enough. Except the top set are @gingerpepp‘s Anima as a human, because...??? Idk, I had a lot of fun drawing his face, though. 2nd set is Jade, whose hobbies are owning 5 million animals and messing with dudes like Elias who can’t deal with people at all. They used to date in high school and are still good friends, so he’s used to it, I guess!