Snofu put out feelers for folks who'll do a quick trade with them, and I was quick on the jump cause I've always admired their work and it gave me the chance to do something fun and unusual while I was at it, too.

We gave each other our refs and a simple theme, and while I was torn between two choices, I'm really glad that we went for the same thing.

I'm really pleased with how mine came out, but god damn am I ever astounded by their grasp of anatomy and posing. I'm so goddamn full there, it feels good every time I look at it. They were even kind enough to go back and add my stretch marks in when I asked. Just a couple of copious egg-bearers doing what they do best..

Fun fact: I was wanting to make the post thumbnail half-and-half to include both of our drawings, but I try not to include explicit parts of the artwork in my thumbnails to allow people to opt-in to looking at the full piece.. And there was no way I was cropping their art to show my face on its own.

Quicktober! Quick draws for instant whims.

It's Halloween, and there's more costumes to enjoy!

At first I'd intended to do two for each of these two final posts for Quicktober, but once I got to four, I realized I was pretty much halfway done - and came up with an idea for everyone (with one exception, which you'll see below).

The poses and detailing work on all of the costume sketches were extremely fun to do; I felt like I was in the flow for the entire set, and I think it really shows through in the art.

For this set, we have Chili, Antoinette, and Me! Can you guess who we're dressed up as? There's clues and answers hidden below.

Did you guess them all?

With that, Quicktober is done! What a trip it's been. For a while since starting it, I've felt like this wasn't as ambitious an undertaking as Kinktober in 2023, but sitting with that feeling a little longer, I think I made up for the lack of colour and linework that I showcased back then, with quite a bit of storytelling and doubling up on several of the ideas I made every day.

I'm proud of having gotten it done, and what I got done as a result of it, too; especially with a lot of the other challenges I'd been dealing with this month, and not having missed a single day despite, at times, feeling like I really, really wanted to.

With that said though, you might have noticed someone missing! That's because my friend MoT was kind enough to make a costume for Chip while I was working on the first ones of these on stream!

It's such an amazing piece! Look at the BuBuy²!!

As some of you may know, my friend Malachyte has been exploring her little side lately. I've been quite privileged to support her through this process, as it's been a bit daunting for her at times.

Late last year, she announced a multislot commission she was taking on stream, and I couldn't shove money into her paws any harder than I did to secure a spot in the piece. I still love it to absolute pieces.

A conversation that closely followed (or preceded?) then sparked the idea for a followup piece, as I'd been gunning for any excuse to draw her adorable little self as soon as I could. When it came to me, I knew it would be perfect to bring my little FaerieAlex into it too, as she likewise had been going through an "enlittlening," as I've taken to calling it, of her own. Given that the two of them were also acquainted, this seemed like the perfect idea to me.

I sketched it out mid October last year, and I waited very impatiently for her to finish redesigning her fursona, including her little self, to make sure I get the colours right. I'm so pleased to get this done and dusted, as I was determined to be the first to draw and post art of both of these little sweethearts' littler forms.

I love you both so much, Mala and Fae.

Every now and again, the Little Troubles team organizes a gift exchange for participating artists. It works just like a secret santa, and this time it was themed around Summer vacation. We each submitted our Summer experiences, past or current, which acted as the prompt for the art we'd get from our assigned artists. That art would then be made into cards to be printed as part of the game's set.

You can see more about the game over at littletroubles.com.

My assigned recipient was Plant Panda, whose prompt talked about the deserts near their parents house that they loved to explore, enjoying the plant life found there. I decided to play with the idea of a literal "Baby Saguaro," which poor little Plant fell afoul of just because of their curiosity.

As I later found out, they seem to have a knack for getting pricked by the cacti they care for, so the pieces were truer to life than I was expecting.

It also turned out that some other artists had to drop out of the exchange, which left Melly Moona without anyone to make their gift art. Basil kindly offered a bounty for someone to fill the gap, and not wanting to leave her with nothing, I went for it.

Her Summer experience was a long road trip, where she got to stay in and see various places. Seemed to make sense to me that long stretches of road would cause anxiety for someone who might struggle with potty breaks, which led to this idea.

She said that this is how she looks during car rides, so I'll definitely chalk this one up as a win as well.

And here's the set I got! BottleBear treated me and Garnet to an absolutely precious set of scenes that about perfectly summed up my experiences lately. I submitted Garnet's reference sheet along with my request because she was involved in many of my adventures this Summer, but I expected (and specified) that her inclusion was optional, and only nice-to-have.

Either way - and needless to say - I was extremely happy with what Bottle cooked up for us, and it gave us lots of cozy, sweet feelings to enjoy together. I especially enjoyed how he played with my bun-to-pup transition in both illustrations, and love how adorable I look snuggled up to her.

These were posted with permission, and you can find BottleBear over on SubscribeStar as well as many other places besides. Please do check him out.

Hey!

Jager Darklite needs to secure a baseline monthly amount for his comic series' crowdfunding campaign to make it feasible for him to continue making art full-time, and is currently running a subscription drive. This is due to a sudden change in his situation, which has put a lot of pressure on him both mentally and financially.

Jager is a good friend of mine who makes absolutely stunning art that frankly feels as though it's tailored specifically to my tastes; involving gratuitous amounts of transformation, magic, messing, diapers, and even hypnosis! If you're into what I'm well known for, you're sure to enjoy what he's got.

He's running this campaign until around end of February, by when he'll need to be more self-reliant. He'll be making pages in the meantime to give early pledges something to enjoy until then, but he'll hopefully meet his goal and keep making more well beyond that!

Please do consider supporting another great artist who's already contributed a lot to the community. I know I would wish for the same if I was in his position, and I know y'all appreciate dedicated creators and the art they make for us, too.

If you're unable to afford a monthly subscription, you can share the campaign on socials with the buttons below!

Starlight, AKA Vlue, and I organized an art trade a while back, and we both got it done last week. We asked for very similar themes from each other, which makes sense given how much our tastes and subjects in art overlap. However, as you might expect if you're at all familiar with their work, we both took rather different approaches to the crinkly hijinks we were going to subject each other to.

You can see their absolutely adorable half of the trade on Twitter and FurAffinity!

As I'd mentioned while working on this in stream, I was really excited to do this since I'd been looking forward to getting my hands on them again. Back when I still made direct art rewards for my crowdfunding patrons, Vlue was one of those who I drew a lot of, and very fondly remember enjoying experimenting on over the years! (NB: You'll need to be logged in and set the search range to "All Time" to see them)

And yes, I do mean "experimenting," as you'll see in that collection.

I genuinely had a blast making this, and I think it's some of my best work in quite a while. Although the planning that went into it to make all the layering work with zero redundancy (or as little of it as possible, anyway) was a bit of a headache, it was a fun challenge that I enjoy giving myself, and it worked out especially well in the end. I'd love to do more trades in future, it's always a good time.

I'm especially fond of the outfits I dressed up 73 in, as well as how menacing Soul Chocolate looks. Since Soul is very much "artist surrogate" in pieces like this, I figured it'd go all out on 73, much like I did when making this. It knows what a good mark they are, so might as well dial up the shenanigans to 11.

When I first came out as puppy, Tiff was immensely and actively supportive of the new development.

Along with providing plenty of goading, encouragement, and teasing, she also went so far as to commission art of us together; both from myself as well as from my friend Ari, AKA Farore, who made this absolutely wonderful sequence of Tiff taking me out on a picnic while in puppy mode.

Given that it had to work without a proper refsheet, it did an absolutely wonderful job of capturing my puppy side's essence in each of these, and especially how much Tiff encouraged that side of me while I was in the early days of exploring things. I love how cute and fluffy we both are.

This was posted with permission. You can (and should) find Ari's work on FA, linked here.