yerf was big for me too. (at one point 'getting onto yerf' was a life goal.) safe enough not to scare off a very sheltered kid, curated enough that i'd regularly see something that wowed me and made me think this furry thing had exciting possibilities

searched bsky for just this. iirc last time she took a hiatus her publishers communicated it pretty poorly, so i hope it's just that and she's okay, but sending my well-wishes anyway. nu Nancy is a gem

a lesson from these was that constructing every character's head over a sphere, as i have been doing, homogenises designs too much; freehanding my way to the actual shape of the animal's head is uncomfortable but the results are so much more distinctiveness

(timelapse of the foregoing!)

(quote spackle because i messed up the threading!)

(and finally)

i find opossums weirdly hard to draw but i think Edith is getting there. and Sibyl has always been there

(home stretch)

more sheepsona and yingletsona thorts

Dinah and Stephen in party gear, recording their eleven-listener recreational podcast, and Gameing (Stephen's decades of experience knocked flat by Dinah's intense competitiveness)

i gave Prue a bit more fancy fluff so she doesn't look so much like Tintin; Matilda is reading Quaker Faith and Practice (qfp.quaker.org.uk) to better understand what her wife is about spiritually

they're lovers, and that is a fact. Jen and Huw

there is much more to Phaedra and Ida than fashion plates, but not today

aroace! (the most prevalent design i've found, at least)