Surely someone has made a pet of one of these!

haha yeah that one more or less in Typecast, which everyone should go buy on steam right now.

No technique in particular. I'd recommend just drawing hand-shaped blobs first, then trying to detail them out. I tend to use a lot of implied lines. For instance, the fingers often actually blend together in places, which is fine as long as there's some line somewhere to delineate them.

Unfortunately no, but I am a freelancer, so a small commission is something I'd be open to!

oops I messed up the outline color in a few frames my b

ah thank you! that means so much to me, viv <3

whoops here's one with a background

Thanks a lot! It's 8 frames.

Thank you so much! Honestly I dont remember how long it took. I made it sometime last year so it's been a while!