Here's an assortment of art recently inspired by a variety of events I've enjoyed in my different hangout spots.

My friends Robin and Mishka, who've been active on my Discord server as of late, are really cute and fun and funny too, and I like them very much. Here's a couple of silly drawings they inspired with some similarly silly interactions while hanging out.

This all started with Robin consistently greeting Mishka in such a wistful way ever since she joined, and since I wanted to draw something for both of them anyway, this was perfect for me to tick several boxes all at one go (props to my friend Ihddn for coining "scentpai," it was perfect).

I was hanging out with Robin in voice while working on the above sketch, and she was exceptionally slow on the uptake (sorry sis, but you were) with realizing that I was drawing her as a surprise. At one point I said I was "waiting for the other shoe to drop," anticipating her reaction to the drawing, and when she finally did, she blurted out "Oh, I'm the shoe!"

The way she said it sounded exactly to me like this line from Extinction Party, which then inspired this silly thing the very next day. I love ENA, and drawing myself in that style was such an absolute blast. We couldn't stop laughing about it.

A little while prior, I'd picked up Lethal Company to play with my friends Wolfie, Piter, Mel, and Plushie - the latter pictured in this recreation of an unfortunate but very, very funny and abrupt learning experience that she had while playing together.

Last but by no means least, a couple of cutesy things. One's a doodle of FaerieAlex, my little friend and charge who I often babysit online - looking rather flustered for whatever reason - and my own rendition of the absolutely adorable piece of giftart my friend Robin made me for my birthday.

For a while now I've wanted to revamp my themed, "branded" promotional artwork, and I was inspired while watching a stream vod where the streamer had their desktop on full display with a really cozy vibe to it.

That, combined with my love for things retro and synthwave led me to design a new template based on lots of old things instead. I plan on using this for a few different things, but I figured I'd put it through its paces by remaking my commission pricelists since they're overdue for an update.

Here's two of a set of four. I'm really quite pleased with how they turned out! While it's a little bit chaotic for the amount of information presented, I think it still makes for a nice balance where it's nice to look at, but still quite easy to understand what's being conveyed.

I drew this yesterday. I'm doing better today, but it's definitely still a vibe.

Just some more experimentation with a blocky pixelated style, giving Soul Choco some love this time.

Playing around with the colours was a lot of fun and, amusingly enough, the purple and green hues are taken from a paint colour called "Mischief," the purple being the base, and the green its inverse. The two tones got blended together over the course of toying with and polishing up the picture, so the brighter pink got a little muted. However, the end result was pretty much spot on with where I was hoping to get with it.

Fun fact: this is now available as a clothing design on my merch stores!

Felt the urge to do some more experimentation during yesterday's stream, after being inspired again by the style of music I've been binging for the past couple of months.

Although a lot of different things got thrown into a blender to create this piece, if I had to pin it down to a single point of inspiration, it'd have to be NANORAY's recent release, ZAPPER. The track SALMON CANNON DELUXE is probably the one that comes closest to the vibe I ended up landing on, which is especially appropriate since I borrowed a lot, subconsciously or otherwise, from Splatoon's visual language while figuring out its execution.

I also exported and uploaded a timelapse to YouTube to show the sketching and linework process. The colour work took a bit of planning and thought, but since it consisted almost entirely of reusing parts of the image and flood-filling the rest, it goes by far quicker than it did in practice.

For what it is, this piece was extremely fulfilling for me to make and while it didn't quite end up exactly as I'd originally intended, I'm still so proud of how it turned out. I got to try out a handful of new techniques that I've added to my repertoire and look forward to reusing, and I'm certain we'll see these versions of Choco and Ruby turning up in my art again in future.

I really hope you like it.

After my first attempt at creating this turned into something completely different, I decided to take a second shot at it using an online version of MSPaint that I'd found. It seemed well suited for the project, and I'd already had some experience using it in the past so I felt up to the challenge.

Especially in contrast to Reach, this felt really affirming to create; just a simple, light-hearted little celebration of my fursonas and what they mean to me, without much pomp and circumstance.