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Sketchbook (PAGE 11)
🕑 Added 2025-05-15 21:55:21 +0000 UTCRight away, this page has a little piece to appeal to Foxer421! This was a bit of birthday art, and for drawings that don’t necessarily need to be super high-res I’ll finish them up directly on the sketch page. Which removes some of the intimidation of opening up a whole new blank canvas…
Brandy (the porcupine) also shows up, flopped on the couch in a pretty provocative way. This one got the full-color treatment (FA | e621).
We’ve also got an urban chic raccoon girl showing off her clubbing outfit. A dress code for mammals. The eyeliner still goes on and she’s tamed every flyaway hair. Maybe there’s even a little lavender lip gloss. Her clutch carries a restrained decadence and plays off her glittery choker. All of which is why her toplessness feels (to me) like such a dissonance -- she can only do so much to curate that natural mammalian display, and so maybe it becomes a deliberate rejection of that kind of curation when she choose to just leave the girls out. And well, a large part of my affinity for nudity (partial or complete) is this kind of surrender to vulnerability. The “pretty animal” theme I tried out with this raccoon is one I’d love to revisit with a better handle on where exactly I want that dissonance to lie.
At the bottom there are some prep sketches “Lost Woods Juno” where she’s in her rare moth-fairy form and coming in for an enthusiastic landing (FA | e621).
Just got back from FWA last weekend with renewed inspiration! I just need to get past the sleep deprivation.
Comments
patient_zaero
I think it’s funny how “Pay a little more attn to her ears” is for the char that has the biggest breasts of anyone on the page! 😆
Kalahari
That means a lot. It's a really good feeling to do a gift like this -- and I just wish I was able to make it happen a little more often.
Kalahari
If nothing else I'll be there next year! Anthrocon is also very likely this year.
Foxer421
I still cherish that illustration and keep it in my folder of most loved gifts/commissions. Your art is always more than the sum of any references!
floobadeedoo
Ahhh I forgot you were going to fwa! It would have been cool to meet you!
Kalahari
Porcupines do have their soft sides. Man, those foxes came from a dream... I envisioned a whole sea of them just kind of chomping on each other o.o
Kalahari
Yep, Topaz is there too! And probably pretty upset that she hasn't featured in a pic of her own for a while
J. N. Squire
I noticed a pretty genet too ❤️
Adleisio Cefnfor
I love seeing the sketch pages, both informative and just wonderful to see.
Admiral Storm
This is lovely! Always great to see the sketches!
ThatDirgeDude
The perspective on that classic image of Brandy is so fantastic! I also love the (possibly somewhat horrifying) derp foxes haha
Kord Graves
Stunning as always, my friend!💜🐺
Kiko
Absolutely wonderful stuff. It's always great to see what you imagine and draw, even if it's just sketches.
