Daily sketch practice: “Literal facebook”

Daily sketch practices: 10-13 Jan

Progress update!

Daily sketch practices.

Daily sketch prompt: ants on a log.

Started a new painting!

2025 art recap. A year of experimenting and learning. Still figuring things out, but I'm glad I showed up.

Painting.

Wrote a more detailed Furum thank you note on Facebook, but overall it was a great time meeting up with familiar faces old and new. Also helped that I didn't put too much pressure on myself to dress up and be noticed; no expectations means no stress!

Commish for @juniastrey.bsky.social of their character floating in the skies with the auroras 👀 #art #furry #furries #furryart #rat

A messy first attempt!

Started learning watercolours and it's definitely a lot harder to control than acrylic.

Experimental. Tried to follow the method I use for physical paintings by restricting myself to Procreate’s new default oil brush and painting on a single layer. Messy af but I think hot sauce ratboy turned out okay.

Sketch.

I've spent waaay too much time working on this redesign of my character instead of figuring out what to do for Furum…

Figure drawing classes are over! Was pretty fun and thanks to Voce for suggesting I give it a try!

That was tense, but phew, looks like I'm going Furum after all! Thank you, ticket overlords, for the second chance. 🙏

Long overdue art of @Madi_kazah on X (go check him out!)

Much improved, thanks to the instructor’s guidance!

Finally done after a two-month break!

No Furum for me this year since tickets are sold out. ☹️ Lots of FOMO seeing so many friends going, but I'm still figuring out how I feel about last year's Furum, so maybe it's for the best.

My first live nude drawing, just like a real art student!

Last day in Japan! Visited the Sapporo TV tower, the clock tower, the Hokkaido-jingu shrine, the beer museum before ending with some shopping on the Tanukikoji shopping street. This period also happens to be their Tanuki festival, so managed to see some tanuki-themed decorations!

Sapporo: Visited the Tarumaesan shrine, learnt about the works of Miwa Komatsu at the Sapporo Art Museum, toured the Shiroi Koibito park, then ended by gawking at the many many options for adult entertainment on Susukino street.

The fireworks got cancelled, so today was mostly spent at the Noboribetsu Bear Park before walking the Jigokudani and Oyunuma nature trail!

Dressed up in Edo period costumes at the Noboribetsu Date Jidai Village, experienced everyone's phone going off with a tsunami alert, rode the Mt. Usu ropeway, visited the Ginnuma and Konpira craters before finally enjoying fireworks at Lake Toyako!

Visited the Unkai Terrace at Hoshino Resorts Tomamu to observe the "sea of clouds", had a bagel lunch with (self-made) cheese at Chidorigataki waterfall, rode a swan boat at Lake Shikotsu, and now finally at Noboribetsu!

Made some cheese, experienced the Hokkaido Heso Matsuri (aka the Furano Belly Button festival), met a kemono cat in a food truck (https://profu.link/u/kumatoneko), watched some fireworks and visited a chapel on the water!

Biei And Furano: Visited the Shikisai no Oka flower garden, had Lavender ice cream at Farm Tomita, experienced a (tethered) hot air balloon and toured the Ningle Terrace craft village!

Asahikawa: Visited the Otokoyama Sake Brewery Museum and a random Tanbo rice paddy art display. Also had some delicious soup curry from King Bear and ramen from the Asahikawa ramen village!

Random shots from a day spent in Otaru, Hokkaido! Tried out Hokkaido's zangi fried chicken and Otaru's panju pastries.

Spot the differences…?

My not-very-flattering attempt at a life portrait.

I'm incredibly thankful that I managed to cross something off my bucket list today. 🥹

Back home and here's the posing practice art I made on the flight back! Lots of wobbly lines from turbulence. Also, I dropped my Apple Pencil on both flights and in both cases it was a pain getting it back from under the seats. 😭 Gonna need some form of tether in the future!

Poffertjes, mergpijpjes and stroopwafels.

As pride month ends, I think about the version of me who never got to exist: more creative, more openly queer, more willing to take risks. I don't know if his life would've been better, but I catch myself chasing him anyway. I just hope it's not a waste of the time I have left.

Saw a bunch of van Gogh paintings, but honestly it's the renaissance period and pointillism pieces that interested me the most.

I could (and did) get lost in these streets and alleyways…

Sketches from the flight (that I inked on the train ride)!

Looking to pass the time on my flight later with some art. If you don't mind me drawing your character, feel free to drop your ref sheet in the replies!

Heading to the Netherlands next week for a work conference. Will be the first time traveling alone for a long time and hope to explore a bit if my schedule permits!

Random art of nottgh being stressed out…

Not sure if the chest fuzz stands out too much.

Sketches. Trying to practice expressions!

In progress.

Surgery was weird. I skipped 8 hrs to a state where daydreams felt like memories and I had zero pain; was convinced maybe nothing changed until I saw the incisions. (Turns out whole area is numb and may take a year to recover; on the upside, no pain!) Now for the scars to fade…

Face needs some reworking.

No infringement intended.

New painting!