Week 281! (Dec 19 Monthly Drawings) (Patreon)

THIS MARKS PAYMENT FOR THE WEEK OF 12/22-12/28.

Finally, for the last Patreon update of 2019 and the 2010s, here's the monthly doodle request things for December. Two requests this time, and one single other idea from myself.

First up on top was a request from Ulthar, who wanted a random horse boy or girl, because they were unsure if I had ever drawn a horse in the comic before. Turns out, after some research, I indeed had drawn at least one horse in Furthia High! This horse is Cody, a randomly-generated character that was in page 058 way back in 2008, during the Autumn Ball arc. Obviously after so much time, he was bound to look somewhat different now, but he's mostly the same as he was then. One thing I'll say is that I gave him regular (if black) nails here, where usually I would give hoofed characters hardened fingertips (the deer girl in page 58 sports these, actually). I don't usually like regular human fingernails on furries, since I think it looks weird, but I dunno. Hoofs actually are technically fingernails, so it makes sense in that regard, and I also don't especially like the idea of depriving a whole subset of people from tactile sensitivity in their fingertips. So this might be something I end up thinking about and maybe retconning someday. Or not! Dunno. Something to think about.

The other request was from Andrew the Emo Wolf, who asked for the very specific request of Fox Kale drinking tea while wearing a black tanktop and dark olive green shorts. So that is in fact what he's doing! Not much else to say. I'm not a tea drinker so I couldn't really tell you what tea Fox Kale (or any character) would like, but considering how high-strung he is, he probably should drink chamomile.

Finally, the drawing I came up with myself is Bruce and Lucy in the bottom-left corner. I had thought about it, and Lucy was a character I had yet to draw for one of these. To compliment her, I also drew Bruce, because the two of them have a thing currently going, but won't really be focused on again specifically for a long time, and also for a bit of a nostalgic callback to waaaay back at the comic's beginning where Bruce did this weird tongue thing to Kale. I thought about how Lucy might react to Bruce repeating that random act in front of her, and pretty quickly it was clear she'd be quite impressed and give him a genuine round of applause.

One final note to say thank you to all you patrons that are still around and help me out every month. As always, it's extremely appreciated and I'd be pretty lost without you! Here's to you and the next year and decade!

EDIT: Oh yeah, and also don't be afraid to suggest more drawing requests for January!