It's that time again! Got a lot of cute and silly things I've made in between other projects or as warmups during streams.

In the first, quite eclectic set, we have an assortment of Bluesky shenanigans. In order, we have a colouring project from one of Lynn's bunny designs, which I got inspired to use for a Gotye reference; Plushie telling us what her gender is in one word; and me taking an opportunity to do a well-overdue drawover of a classic furry meme.

These were assorted doodles done during various streams for or involving, in order, Mot, Arwyn, Songbot, and a friend of Melody's.

And some bonus bunnies, as a reward for checking out my post. I found this set of sketches while digging up designs for my merch store, and hadn't uploaded anywhere.

Here's the most recent doodle pack finished from the end of last year. Some of these have been posted on social media but here they are in one place for archival and easy access.

Starting with the personal and somewhat emotional stuff, we have one that was inspired by a video that lived in my head rent free for weeks after it was posted and crossed my path. I had to draw myself as that tiny little puppy, cause I felt it.

The other piece was inspired by a predictably difficult time I was having in the midst of a good one, which was equally frustrating as it was upsetting to deal with.

Next we have a couple of pieces of game fanart which are strangely both horror focused and yet the resulting art ended up being completely tonally different. On the left, we have Blocks for Babies, a tetris FPS (you'll see); and on the right, an idle nightmare 2: SABBATH, a clicker game (trust me, it's good).

I will mention that the fanart of IN2 isn't based on any specific scenes from the game, but just something I imagined could have happened in the game.

Next, we have assorted stream gifts and raffle prizes, going in order;

FaerieAlex, Fiona, ShadeTavish, BlazingPelt, James, TrixterCat, and Plushie; Melody, Halley (ft. Arwyn), Dal and Pockets; Trixter's displacer beast; and another bonus Fiona.

Another batch of scribbles; some silly, some sentimental.

Myself, feeling pleased from the praise I was getting; TipTap and Arwyn, during a rather bratty exchange; Me comforting Millie (aka Malachyte) during a heart-to-heart we shared; and a redraw of a classic meme with me in it instead.

And last, but not least, some assorted but more detailed giftart for friends.

Arwyn, being her usual mischievous self; a rendition of a plushie that belongs to my friend Valk; and a drawover with me and Melody using an Animal Crossing screenshot she'd taken for a project of her own.

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.

So I do this thing where I keep one big file for my quick and simple, cheap and cheery doodles and sketches that might not warrant their own entire project file. Every now and again I refresh the file with a new copy, and post all the pictures at once for your enjoyment.

I took my time with this latest one, but since the file reached 450MB and was literally slowing down Clip Studio I figured it was high time I made the batch post and start afresh. Here they are in no particular order, just grouped in a way that made the most sense to me.

Here's a handful of one-off drawings I made for Plush, Feef, and James. The first two were warmups, while the other was inspired by James being his usual self - as depicted - during one of my Discord hangouts. What started out as a bit of a silly joke actually led to me digging up some preg art I'd done that I honestly still really like and am genuinely proud of.

Can you name those tummies?

Last weekend I stumbled upon this adorable tweet while I was having an especially bad day, and decided I'd make some silly vent art to get it out of my system. It turned out cute enough, but as a point of advice in future; don't make self deprecating jokes when you're already feeling bad. People might just agree with you.

Fortunately the art didn't go to waste, as I was later inspired by a silly TikTok that my friend Melody shared with me. I reprised the little doodle in a different context, and I think I like it a lot better that way.

I still think that I'm a little bit stupid, though.

Next we have some assorted silliness and/or one-offs I made for myself or in the context of other conversations.

First we have a transparent template of myself being shown something worrying, taken from my Easter comic;

A redo of an old display pic I'd been using for nigh on 20 years, as part of my broader transition process;

An illustration for my friend Shivers' silly tweet asking how C++ would wear pants if it could;

And a cutesy, perfectly innocent little Soul Choco and the post that it was inspired by.

Games! I like them. I made some fanart and self-insert designs based on the adorable game Vividlope, and a little drawover using the demo of the upcoming castle building toy Tiny Glade. I'm especially pleased with how cutesy Ruby turned out in Vividlope's style.

I'd been meaning to do some drawover art using one of these building toys, but I was always reluctant cause it feels like my default style doesn't fit well within the rendered spaces. I think it looks alright, but it could've been better somehow.

Next, lots of Melody bunnies.

The first is based on a conversation between her and Robin, where she threatened to drink the Coconut Nair soap and Monster she'd shown off to us. It's genuinely one of the most unassumingly conflicting thing I've drawn, cause every time I look at it I love how adorable they both look... But that little bunny is soon bound for the emergency ward.

We also have some cutesy doodles of the bun in less compromising positions.

Here's a couple of sketches I made for my friend Cashmere, who I got to know recently.

A hug to comfort them after a moment of worry, and some fanart of the little tinsel plushie red panda they've been taking on a trip with them, named after the nickname that I coined for them.

And as a treat for looking through this whole post, a bonus Ruby pleasuring herself.

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.

I'll start off this post by saying I'm doing fine now; although this part is related to some feelings that need deeper investigation and work, it's not as bad as what I illustrated I was going through at the start of this series.

A couple of nights ago, once I'd cleared my mental processes of the anxiety and fear that was stopping me from making things, some feelings of inadequacy and self-doubt started creeping in again. At the time I didn't really know what they meant nor where they were coming from, but the very next morning (which would be yesterday) it dawned on me and I knew exactly what I needed to draw.

Therapy set me straight on a lot of what was plaguing me, but I still wanted to see this final part of the trilogy through as I felt like it showed the other major aspect to my personal dysfunctions and insecurities, which was just as important for me to get down on paper.

I don't expect this particular saga to go on much further, if at all, this time around; but this certainly won't be the last time we see the dysfunctions turn up again, especially in my art.

That said, "this last time" also involved a bonus "Finale" that was suggested by my friend Plushie. In her own words, "Draw me helping you kick the shit out of 'im." Once I realized what I could do with it, the rest of it just fell into place as a fun, silly little ending to tie things off. Please don't feel bad for it, it'll be fine.

PS: Yes, it's also a Jojo reference.

PPS: This isn't the actual finale.

I drew this for my dear friend Malachyte to absolutely destroy her in the nicest way I know how.

And I can say for a fact, we both had a lot of fun with the process of making it, too. You can tell by how she's actually a red panda, and yet her fur still isn't the brightest shade of crimson visible on her face.

I hope you like it, cause I know I do!

My friend Malachyte has been exploring her little side a bit more actively as of late, and it's been a genuinely wonderful time helping and (somewhat zealously) encouraging her with that.

When she shared a sketch she'd made of herself in an adorable little's outfit and playing in a space to match, I jumped at the chance to contribute, and asked if she'd be okay with collaborating on the piece. Needless to say, she said yes.

Working with someone else's sketches is always such an interesting and exciting experience, cause there's a sort of conversation taking place at every step of the process. The linework is largely instructed by the sketches that are already in place, but there's a certain level of improvisation and decision-making that varies throughout; where the lines being worked on go anywhere from between being directly lifted up to the next layer, to just taken as vague suggestion.

I've always really admired Mal's artstyle and the expressiveness of her work, but also felt that our styles are almost adjacent to one another's. The entire process felt very natural to me as a result, thanks to several commonalities that they share.

As for how I feel about it? I fuckin' loved drawing her this way; it was just so much fun. Her sketches were a joy to work with, and even the parts I ended up improvising on or tweaking along the way felt trivial to do given her lovely anatomical work. Treating a friend to something like this is always special, and I'm really glad I got to do it, both with and for her.

You can see more of Malachyte's work over on FurAffinity.

I came across a cute edit of a meme on Twitter (made by Lilly! for Fisk) a while back, and decided to make one for myself and a handful more for some friends while I was at it, too.

Coming up with the sides of the trade was really fun, but not as much as drawing the cutesy little caricatures to go along with them.

The smug as fuck expression on mine is definitely my fave. :3c

July was rough for me, but I still got some sketches done in between bigger site art and commissioned work.

I was not doing okay for most of the time due to some major life events, and this resulted from a cute little comic that popped up on my Twitter feed and touched a nerve that was still quite raw from the experience.

Next is another silly thing from Twitter, based off of the "BIG X vs BIG Y" meme that was making the rounds at the time. It was a good excuse to draw something fun and cute for my good friends Wolfie and Ru at the same time, especially given, well, them.

I could've probably exaggerated the sizes a bit more but, eh.

Last but not least: wahs.

Plushie and I kept tossing back and forth a screencap I'd taken and captioned of one of the fuzzy dumbasses from the hundreds of videos we shared with each other, and figured it made a good base for a sticker for her as a little gift.

I also practiced trying to capture their iconic and adorable empty-headed vibes, with somewhat mixed success.

Around the beginning of Q2 this year, I rebounded something fierce from my months-long depressive spell. What followed was an avalanche of artwork, some of which was fairly random and silly.

Here's a handful of doodles for myself and friends alike, that didn't quite merit their own post. An attempt at updating my realsona's design to match my new hairstyle back then, a friendly little rat, and a derpy doggo.

Here's a brief, silly exchange I had with my friend Plushie, which I thought was funny enough to immortalize in a little comic.

Here's a brief, more serious exchange I had with my normie friend Silver, which affected me enough to immortalize as well.