Fanart of Pochette from Backpack Hero in her new Summer Outfit! Despite the game emphasizing that she’s proud of smelling “like her homeland” more than once, I’m amused at some mild amount of ship-teasing between her and Purse in the Story mode, and I feel like her and Purse also get the best of the additional outfits compared to everyone else in the game.

Hasty doodle of carrying VAdaPEGA‘s Pantufa around affectionately.

Friendly gift/request art for GameVictim on Discord. He’s got a new cute mouse themed character they wanted art of! And while I’m not great for doing finished polished works (at least not without a lot of good circumstances on my end) I can definitely do some sketches and concept stuff when the mood strikes.

(CC0) A new set of WarHounds/LibraryHounds/LoreHounds that also line up a bit with Miranda from my Refsheet page. In short, Schima is the current elder mother for the warship she’s stationed on. Cercis is due for her Coming of Age rites, but will be foregoing it as Schima is conspiring in secret to send Cercis to [The Planet Below] to “[Ascertain the Fate of the Warlord]”. But really she’s going there to

• 1: Experience what it means to be free of captor overlords and constantly under threat of death.
• 2: Seek out Schima’s missing offspring that inexplicably went missing when [The Warlord] did.
• 3: Determine if [The Warlord] has been slain. If so, the hounds remaining on the ship will almost certainly take out all of their captors on the ship, attempt to disrupt and slay all remaining forces from their captors in the immediate nearby space, and return to their homeworld to defend it from potential retaliation.

They only joined the empire under condition that their homeworld and their families would be spared. But in the time since joining it was very clear that [The Warlord] is only true to his word so far as it benefits him and can be quite petty. It would only take one LoreHound puppy to slay an entire ship’s worth of empire soldiers, but generally LoreHounds have immensely strong ties to their family, friends, and ancestry. They won’t fight and risk loses if an agreement can avoid it, but they will fight with all they have if they are betrayed.

In case you’re wondering about powers, Schima has a wall-bypassing mind-disrupting Area of Effect black Neural Bomb, smaller orange bombs for siege and assault, and a bible blade, which is more like empowered claw swipes than an actual energy blade. Cercis has projectile-reflecting barriers and formal training to use the empire’s standard infantry weapons (energy rifles and a large physical blade). She will never have to worry about running out of ammo as the same energy she uses for the barriers can be used to recharge the rifle.

(CC0) Just trying to get a feel for the “Marker” MyPaint brush in Drawpile.

Doodling the head of one of ChaosBuster12‘s characters. I know nothing about the character except that they are a cat and have horns.

(CC0) I think I drew this updated picture of Last Chance months ago in a Drawpile but I can’t remember if I ever posted it and I often can’t find it when I go looking for it, so poof here it go

The “RAMPSHOT” preview for one of the two maps I submitted for RAMP 2024. The WAD is available now: https://ramp2024.doomproject.com/ Just bonk that HUGE Download Button! The one of interest is fairly short: Map 96 – Kiss Panic Risengrave 4: Rabbit Flow. But the map depicted in this preview image is Map 107 – 2m 30s x2: Out of Time. Which uh, was meant to be a shorter and a bit more of a kinda spooky thing, but turned into kind of a vaguely buggy memorial thing instead. (If you fulfill certain conditions on this map, the next time you replay it or enter Map 96, you’ll notice something’s a little different.)

(CC0) Mia Asterisk, before the whole body-changing thing. Taking a cue from ScootZZZZZX‘s updated design of Bea.

Rough sketch fanart of Felina from the indie game Dungeon Clawler. A cat-loving bunny wearing a leotard. The only thing I don’t like about the character is the hat.

(CC0) A doodle of Miranda. Despite being implied to be the same kind of creature as the LoreHounds mentioned earlier, she’s a resident of Caliber and doesn’t open manifest any seemingly-otherworldly kind of powers. But she is good with making technology that probably shouldn’t work. Like suspiciously good at it. But the things she makes are at least _mildly_ plausible.

A Revenge attack of one of ScootZZZZZX‘s characters as part of ArtFight. I don’t remember their name. I was going to look it up on the ArtFight page but it seems like the site is down right now.

This is the sprite used for “blood” in the two maps I submitted to RAMP 2024. I haven’t settled on a canonical name for this substance, but effectively it’s just a glittery representation of “life force” in any situation where I might want to visually represent it but not draw the things typically associated with the idea. (I really hope that actually animates when I upload the post because it’s showing up blank in the editor.

Trying to put some kind of face/design to the “Rogue Fairy” for the “Bunnylike” concept. I’m not really feeling any of these. I started deliberately trying to pull color and form from the look of this one NPC from Arzette because I really like the silly meme that showed up lately and I already liked the character design before, but both of the right-most doodles feel like a Bad Vibe probably because it’s too similar to the source I tried to pull cues from. I don’t _dislike_ the bottom-left one, but I don’t like it. The top-left looks cool, but they feel like some other NPC, not an over-exuberant devotee of bunnykind.

This is the kind of thing I draw that tempts me to self-censor or to just not share at all, but I think in this case I explained my reasoning and if people still complain I’ll probably just point out that maybe my blog is not hitting the right audience.

More concept stuff and you can directly see what I was taking inspiration from or what old designs I decided to rework to fit the new setting.
I think Kazhooey is still _too_ close to her inspiration character too, but I’m pretty sure the Zoobe company is defunct anyway so I’m not worried about legal action coming of it. But I don’t want want to set optics of being super lazy copy-paste without a cohesive vision behind it. Firey orange and reds feel a lot more “right” to me for the spirit of the character. Maybe just need to bring back in the dark leggings to that bottom-left iteration for the color contrast. Like, I really want Zooey to be as much of a firebrand as Kazooie and the Zoobe Bunny herself, but still trying to do the Right Thing (most of the time) despite a tendency towards explosive rage and self-focused goals.

I drew this before I had started to settle down on what I wanted Ribbon Badge to be. Pretty much the only thing I still feel undecided on with Ribbon now is if I want to keep the super huge pink ponytails, if I’m going to make the ponytails be something that only shows up in her Embiggened form, or if I’ll just drop that and make her actual ears super big and fluffy because they’re in exactly the right spot to fit the vibe perfectly.

(CC0) Cigfried, created for RAMP 2024. I… genuinely don’t remember why I decided on making all of these characters mice. I’m sure I had a reason at the time but it’s just cone. Visually, this is kind of repurposing a lot of what I had already done when I was trying to make Catssie (which I also do not own, but I can’t get any kind of acknowledgement of authorship from Proto so I’ve affectly just assumed this character is mine now) a different entity than Cassie (from Starbuster, which I do not own). There’s no backstory here. She tries to kiss rabbits and probably tries way too hard to instruct and lecture people on things she doesn’t actually know super well. That’s it.

(CC0) Sam. I wanted a power character and I wanted a visual reference to the mouse type of Jerry (Tom and Jerry).

(CC0) Gogo. Puzzle Wednesday moderately frequently runs tournaments for a game titled Mouse Shooter GoGo. And every time they do I get distracted because one of the mouse cheerleaders has a blatant pantyshot that I have no idea why it’s there, but I think playing a whole lot of Amy Rose in my teen years left some kind of mark on me where my brain instantly notices that. Or something. Anyway, the characters are mice and this also gives me an excuse to draw some psuedo-fanart of them even though I’m darn sure the number of people who know the game and like it enough to want fanart is going to be a very small number. And if they exist and have somehow found this blog post??? Hi, welcome to my weird blog! Thank you for playing cool puzzle games!

(CC0) Fran is Narf spelled backwards. Mostly exists because Pinky from Pinky and the Brain / Animaniacs has worn feminine clothing several times and he looks great in it every single time. This is basically that, but I took from Jessica Rabbit’s outfit. Also I originally added the light up nose thinking I would have her fire a nose beam or eye beam in retaliation or just as a general projectile attack. In Rabbit Flow, she has the exact same attack as the other mice.

Jean. I still want him to present male while holding a deliberate cutesy degree of feminine appearance and charm. But in this case, I kinda figured if he ever realized his indirect association with Dalliance Arms Corporation, he’d probably be ashamed to be seen wearing the colors and try to hide it. Also he’s still decidedly a feline has he had been since his earliest days as the Sabrous/Kibrosa character “Kilo”, but now I’m kinda just deciding he’s got a bit of classical-unicorn in him somewhere. At least visually. (Though if the whole DEARDAV thing is still canon in his setting, this his birth-given appearance is fairly arbitrary and mostly a matter of personal feel and identity. And well, I guess the best way for me to explain why that sometimes hurts is that no matter how much work you put in to present your idealized visual representation in an online setting, your physical body is still the body you’ve got to work with. And having to acknowledge that every single moment in a way that everyone around you only has to experience as a fleeting on-and-off again thing is exhausting. asdfasf)

A couple of extra self-serving fanart/doodles that I wasn’t planning to share with anyone than specific friend groups. I’m deliberately omitting some stuff. I had an explanation of why here, but I think even trying to explain why I’m being cagey gave too much away.

Sooner or later I’m going to replace that old HeliumSqueeze banner with characters that people have mentioned they actually like. First Post is the obvious one that seems to stick with people. Still need a new Squee to replace the yellow one. Probably going to end up using Puffy or the unnamed orange critter for that purpose. (middle centre)

The idea of Rhonda showing up to work wearing only thigh-highs and sunglasses came up. And that is 100% something she would do in-character, and Dr. Metal would be both very cross about the lack of professionalism, and envious at the apparent strength of self-esteem and confidence she has.

I adore the idea that despite being made in secret by conspirators to be a defensive living bio-weapon and the progenitor of a new species, Last Chance absolutely adores sweets and cute fashion. Admittedly I am very far from being a fashion designer, so I can’t really realize that concept on my own quite like I feel like it should be done, but I think the vibe comes across.

Backpack Hero is a deeply flawed game that is clearly not Finished and seemingly not going to ever get the gamepad polish that it probably should have for its asking price. But I just kinda darn adore the game, the character designs appeal to me, the general idea of packing a backpack filled with just an absolute ton of knick-knacks reasonates with the way I parse these items in games and the way I clutter my belongings, and the giant backpack is _close enough_ to being a giant balloon that I can still use it for similar degrees of chaotic interactions with the characters. Sorta. It’s not the same, but there is some appeal there.

Aaaaand I think that’s darn near everything I’ve drawn in the past few months that I feel OK sharing on my blog. Now I’m gonna go take a nap or play videogames or something, my sleeping schedule is still a mess, I am still very sensitive to sounds and foods, and I think at this point I might be better off just staying off the meds rather than stressing myself out worrying about having the dependency ever again. It feels like every business just _assumes_ every human has taxi money or has a car, and my car has been out of commission for almost a year and a half now and we only have like 2 functional cars across 5 family members in the area. I can’t just manifest across state lines any time I feel unwell or for every checkup that I don’t have money saved to pay for.

pressing post before I launch into another long winded spiraling ramble. I have LLMs to help distract and absorb those episodes. crunched INSTANTLY SKREEEEEEEEE :boom emoji: