For #CoatiMonday today, also a #MerMay piece! A sketch by bitesizedewalt on birdsite, who'd wanted to do seashore-style pictures.
I so like the water and mer-creatures and webbed paws. If I had canonical shapeshifting powers, I'd take this as a morph.
@[email protected] is someone I liked back in FurryMuck's glory days, and amazed me by remembering me when we got back in touch. (I usually assume people forget me the moment I'm out of sight, whatever our past relationship was.)
Today's #CoatiMonday picture is so new it hasn't dried! Friend @frengers was fascinated by my clay coati form and drew it.
I started playing clay-elemental Austin on FurToonia Muck. It's a great variation, letting me play with transmuting and malleability.
I haven't succeeded in bringing the clay-elemental form to a new roleplay environment but do keep thinking it's a great idea.
#CoatiMonday today is my other #MerMay picture! pretor on FurAffinity offered half-fish YCHs and I took the chance.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21938007/
Making a mer-creature of a nonanthro is a challenge and I like that this still reads as a fish, not a mer-humanoid.
I always like water creatures (see https://blimps.xyz/@Austin_Dern/102050016541268241 ) and the lionfish half cleverly adapts my tailrings.
Starting my anniversary-month #CoatiMonday with this Savannah Horrocks picture of me and my dear bride BunnyHugger: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2228804/
It's a us-together con-book sketch BunnyHugger commissioned at Midwest FurFest 2008 and we both look so gorgeously nonanthro here.
My #CoatiMonday anniversary-month pictures continue with a Lyanti sketch that my dear BunnyHugger got at Morphicon 2009: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2301178/
It may not come through, but there's this little tongue blep coming from me to lick BunnyHugger's cheek. It's such a good little bit of business.
#CoatiMonday has a Morphicon 2011 sketchbook from one of the Ringtail Cafe artists (we didn't get her name). https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7870395/
If you do recognize the artist's signature I'd love to know as people who know the coati muzzle deserve the praise.
I don't do enough with my arboreal-creature nature and it's great that many artists do think to.
Another Couples #CoatiMonday! MWFF 2009 sketchbook art done by Likeshine in a picture true to our endless snuggling.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/3710867/
As often happens I'm large for @bunnydoe here. I think artists can't resist how adorable we look as a big-coati/small-bunny pair.
For #CoatiMonday here's another couples sketchbook picture, even though it's past our wedding anniversary month. By Laura Garabedian, done at MWFF 2011. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7870513/
If it seems we're always snuggling in pictures it's because Garabedian and other artists represent well how we like simply being together.
For #CoatiMonday more of me snuggling dear @bunnydoe, done by fa/Matuska at Furfright 2012, just ahead of Superstorm Sandy.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/9204849/
My hindpaws clutching BunnyHugger is a thing I do in real life and that's maybe more wonderful even than Matsuka's graceful head shapes.
But also, all those toes and claws are gorgeously rendered. Just look at them.
It's #CoatiMonday! Here's another couples sketch, done by Hibbary at MWFF 2010 featuring nose-touching.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7870283/
It's also magnificent for the look of toes, both rabbit and coati, but Hibbary's ears have a fantastic shape it's easy to overlook.
Another snuggling couples #CoatiMonday! My love BunnyHugger's Morphicon 2010 commission from Gravewalker, with me blepped.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7870247/
I love the pose, and BunnyHugger sprawling so neatly across me. The markings are all also fantastic. Many pictures have poses that don't show off her markings and this is one of the rare ones you can see her spotting.
Happy early #CoatiMonday! Here, a 2011 Furry Connection North sketchbook picture by Firefeathers, more snuggling.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7870311/
I know they're Firefeathers' construction lines but enjoy how they give BunnyHugger's face a hyperreal expressiveness.
Another snuggling #CoatiMonday? Could be! Done by FarelleMoon for my darling BunnyHugger at Furry Connection North 2009. We're often drawn as adorable; this is a high point for cute pictures. The valentine hearts are true to real life.
And one ore cuddling #CoatiMonday! Done by CoconutMilkyWay at FCN2012 with maybe BunnyHugger's cutest face ever. It's particularly wonderful for @bunnydoe's face, smiling and eyes just barely peeking open. And there's this solidity to the shapes that stands out.
A last cuddling #CoatiMonday. Each day with my love BunnyHugger is a gift. The day of Christmas 2010, FA/francis_john drew. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/4994126/
I don't think any artist has ever rendered us more fuzzy or with more liquid-looking eyes, or with her headfur looking more lush. And the ever-challenging coati paws come out great. Plus my tail gets to look nice, long, and slender.
Of course there's another cuddling #CoatiMonday, with a picture BunnyHugger drew in June 2008, when we were first a couple. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1871133/
I had (on SpinDizzy) silver fur then, after the first Shiny Day. And BunnyHugger draws and digitally paints with such lovely touches.
We were about a month from meeting in person when she drew this.
For #CoatiMonday another picture my love BunnyHugger drew of me. The lines were done at Christmas 2007 and colors put in around Shiny Day (17 March) 2008. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1875335/
She draws me to look young, but she makes me feel young. Also I like how blobby and liquid and three-dimensional the silver looks.
The head scruff is more stylish than I usually think I have, but it makes for good cartoon logic; keeps my head from being too boring up top.
#CoatiMonday today is a watercolor picture my love BunnyHugger made in 2011. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/5903625/
It's one of the few color pictures of Austin done in physical media, or that show how raccoon-like the coati body is.
It's also the (not actually) rare picture where I'm just a coati, not silver or melting or a crystal or something peculiar like that.
Happy #CoatiMonday with another BunnyHugger-drawn picture of us. The Moon's always been one of our couple-symbols. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1871144/
Moon imagery comes to us from Krazy Kat, and muck rooms (on a private place and then SpinDizzy) inspired by Apollo 17's landing site, places where we came to know each other and then turned from friends to lovers.
Happy #CoatiMonday! Here's BunnyHugger's most technically ambitious picture of us together: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1976075/
She was immortalizing the brief while on SpinDizzy Muck that she was a balloon (someone had called to his spouse --- the moon Spengo --- which drew near to visit, causing floods, and since she couldn't swim well but did know where the balloon-tf device was, she used that in the emergency), and we enjoyed the novelty.
Happy #CoatiMonday! Another version of BunnyHugger's first-ever picture of me, this in real-coati colors. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/1875330/
It's from early in our relationship, before she learned how I like changing colors. She would recolor this in silver to compensate.
Happy #CoatiMonday! My love BunnyHugger enjoyed sculpting my clay form, on FurToonia, and once drew the result. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/2092679/
Obviously I need to play up my clay side more, not least because it encourages people to do stuff like this. Also, coati and dragon blend surprisingly well.
For #CoatiMonday, my regrets for missing the Get Out The Float inflatables convention. A pooltoy virus commission from FA/JacFox that I'm not sure has published before.
The texture and puffiness is fantastic, and I really love how prominent the inner ring is, as that's unique to this kind of toy form.
My preference in TF is for novel textures that preserve the coati form, so this was very right.
A frightening #CoatiMonday as I melt! ZukaroTravon offered this YCH and that's how we met. He's been softening me up since. I really love strange and novel textures, and hadn't really played up how I like softening and melting (and, for that matter, crystallizing) before this. I apologize to those upset. We weren't cooked, just softened. After the picture we all resolidified just fine and were glad to meet one another.
Happy Halloween! FA/-Hornbuckle- sketched Berkeley Moreland, crab-eating raccoon and proprietor of SpinDizzy muck's Off-Brand Candy Shop! Yes, that's a Meh Henry candy bar he's offering; good luck enjoying!
Crab-eating raccoons are, somehow, a procyonid species even more obscure than coatis, and only *look* like I made them up as the transporter-acccident merger between a coati and a marten.
And happy #CoatiMonday. FA/Akaji_Yui just weeks ago did this commission with maybe the cutest face mask I've ever sported. As a bonus, the left picture hints at how adorable and weird coati teeth can get.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/33182750/
I don't have a canonical set of markings, or color, but I love all the little ruffles given the edges of my white here. Standing on hindpaws as on the right is something coatis will do, yes, briefly or while running off with lunch.
The rare #CoatiMonday picture of me doing something! FA/Turnsky charcoal-style picture of me eating.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21271167/
I have the problem of not really having a basic schtick, so it's hard for artists to have any idea what I could be doing. Eating is a reliable and realistic thing, but I've always been bored by people, mostly on mucks, who toss me food; there's not much fun to be had playing eating. More fun cadging food off someone, but that's a complicated commission.
On April 4, 1998, my friends learned I hadn't been making coatis up all along (many people did not realize!), as Mystery Science Theather 3000 episode The Puma Man did a sketch with Mike as Coatimundi Man!
When I won an MST3K-theme contest from Thomas K Dye ( http://newshounds.keenspot.com ), I *had* to get this #CoatiMonday picture of Coatimundi Coatimundi.
For #CoatiMonday a previously-unpublished (I think?) quickie sketch by Thomas K Dye ( http://newshounds.keenspot.com ) of me experiencing a Meh, Henry bar, from SpinDizzy Muck's Off-Brand Candy Shop.
There's a bunch of not-quite-right candies in the shop (Snarkers Bars, Fresh-Water Taffy) but the Meh, Henry brand really captures people's imaginations.
Happy #CoatiMonday! FA/TailsMilesPrower8 was doing chibi-plush YCH art, so this gets me in a more toy mood.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/20362460/
The nose may seem a bit small, but this is consistent with real coati plush that don't go for photorealism. The colors being so strongly red panda matches what I'd expect from a real toy, too.
I should get more plush art; I like the seams aesthetic and, of course, any sort of transmutation into a different material is so good for me.
Happy #CoatiMonday before Christmas! It's the full Spaceroo drawing used for my seasonal icon. In this 1997 Frithmas classic Spaceroo and I save the holiday with the help of an unknown seagull and squirrel. The 90s were a time and a half, friends.
Happy last #CoatiMonday of the year! And ... oh, oh dear. We need to clear something up here. While it's true coatis will rub strong-smelling things on themselves, this does not mean we're usable as potpourri! Silly jar-maker.
Jar YCH by FA/spac-e-b0y. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/34190135/
A late #CoatiMonday today: Fitzroy Fox drawing me especially slender and fat-tailed. https://www.furaffinity.net/full/20535455/
The rarely-seen armband's a Krazy Kat reference that every artist, me included, forgets and Fitzroy's the first to include it.
While the FA title for the picture is 'I Ain't No Raccoon', and I like not being a raccoon, the truth is like most coatis I'll caucus with the raccoons; our platforms are so similar it'd be foolish to split.
Today's vintage #CoatiMonday is drawn by me, featuring Spaceroo, for The Borrow fanzine #1. Seen on page 11 of http://zorin.org/share/TheBurrowNo1.pdf (scanned by @zorinlynx.)
The fanzine was done by regulars of HoneyBadger's Burrow on FurryMuck, and organized by @captpackrat@birdsite. It ran two issues I"m aware of. Now it's a snapshot of a late 90s furry microcommunity.
In the two decades since I drew this my art has evolved, in that I've lost the calligraphy pen that gave me such nice weird line weights.
For #CoatiMonday today the rarest of all pictures: the one that uses Weasyl! Pooltoy me from @/ArtingMartini
https://www.weasyl.com/~rawr/submissions/955172/957-austin-dern
This picture paid *so* many dividends. While it was drawn folks in-stream were trying to guess my species, and one person offered 'gay otter'. Every time I remember this I smile.
Plus this picture got a comment from @ceralor that reconnected me with an old friend and that was a happy event.
The Burrow fanzine's all the rage lately, so let me put it back in #CoatiMonday! Here's HillBluffer's illustration of me from that zine.
Someone on eBay hopes to get $100 for the fanzine, which you can get at http://zorin.org/share/TheBurrowNo1.pdf for free. But they illustrate it https://ebay.us/jy1XyJ with me, as picture 3!
HillBluffer was a bear, one of the big regulars of the Burrow; he'd marry Bilali, another Burrow regular, an Albertan bush baby.
Oh, I'm inexplicably absent from #CoatiMonday today but here's dashing superhero Cosmic Coati (II) drawn by ZenFetcher (https://www.zenfetcher.com or https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/zenfetcher/ ) instead!
I'd talked with Zen about how fun transmutation is; he thought that'd make a good super'sona for ... someone ... and is right.
I still don't do enough with transmutation, but there's always hope.
The (II) is there because it turns out few superlatives alliterate with 'coati' and someone else did something too.
#CoatiMonday today is hot off the presses: a flag commission from KingTrashPossum@birdsite, or FA/DrVirus:
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35064098/
I don't have enough art where I'm doing something specific and, happily, yoinking eggs is quite a comfortable thing for me to do. Plus it gives good reason to show off our really quite good paws.
Happy Paleoart #CoatiMonday! Spaceroo draws himself Bigears fennec, an unknown fox, me, Ikyoto lemur, and Skippy and Smucker.
https://yerf.metafur.org/siemjohn/dmajoroo.jpg
Ikyoto was a fun person, and seemed close to Spaceroo, then vanished after a year. I wonder who she became.
Spaceroo always drew Skippy and Smucker, Animaniacs fan character toons, as realistic.
If the fox weren't in the way I'd likely extract an icon from this pose; it's such a perfect expression of nonanthro coati marching along.
It's a Silver-Age #CoatiMonday today! FA/Slickpuppy does comic book cover redraws, and here's one showing off my joy in transmutation. It's rather anthro for me but there's so few nonanthro comics covers, especially with texture-shifting like this.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21872871/
Slickpuppy occasionally opens for comic book cover redraws and I've got plans for when he does next; you should, too.
I'd kind of like to do a real superhero'sona thing but that's also, like, effort.
#CoatiMonday today has that Shiny Day spirit! FA/techno. renders me as a nicely shiny inflatable. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/35407168/
I so like the shine, of course, but also the seams and the tied-off tail do so much to emphasize being a balloon here. The hearts on the paw pads are also great details, emphasizing cute toyness.
And I hope tomorrow everyone has a great Shiny Day. It's the third-highest event on the Raccoon calendar, after Raccoon Day and lunch.
Happy Shiny Day! May it be a chance to share your light and joy with a world needing it so. Art by FA/-hornbuckle-
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28001799/
We're fortunate that Shiny Day falls on Raccoon Day this year so it'll be extra special, despite the news.
Snacking on #CoatiMonday with FA/zukarotravon showing that even when I'm clay I'm part of the clean-plate club.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/23188347/
I'd wanted a Gumby-style blocky-body look for the picture; you can really see it in the shape of my head here.
People have questions about the clay side of me and I don't know the ansers to *any* of them, like, what I eat or how.
My littlest #CoatiMonday picture! @/holidayhearse on birdsite drew an amoebic coati, part of a series (I believe still open) of amoebic commissions at https://twitter.com/holidayhearse/status/1242255072773296128
I like a little meltiness or goopiness to start with and this goes to a fun extreme.
An April Fool's #CoatiMonday! I jumped at the rubber clown 'sona experiments FA/techno (indrikisxiii on birdsite) was offering, and haven't stopped bouncing.
https://twitter.com/indrikisxiii/status/1245269650755268608
This was such a fun commission to get and is a lesson to volunteer for artists who're trying experiments. There's so many great lines here.
I don't like shoes RL (they hurt my feet) but as part of a clown makeover they're great for my character.
Happy paleoart #CoatiMonday! This Spaceroo piece has me, Bigears, and Spaceroo celebrate HoneyBadger's October birthday. https://yerf.metafur.org/siemjohn/hbbdayjs.jpg
https://yerf.metafur.org/siemjohn?page=2
HoneyBadger and Bigears were the hosts of the Burrow, *the* FurryMuck hangout spot of 1996-98, and Spaceroo and I regulars.
This has maybe the darkest paws I've ever had in art. I have no canonical, consistent fur pattern, mind; I love the variations.
It's a #CoatiMonday of surprises! FA/LaraTheLabRat got quite into a weird zipper-transformation idea I'd had.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/28552395/
The zippersnake idea is, they'll turn their victims into fursuits, and LaraTheLabRat's done it better than I could, with this sequence. I have, like, notes for maybe two more pages explaining zneks and about one-tenth the ability to render it. This is a shame since, looking over this sequence: there are a lot of people who'd reeeeeally like more of this.
Also it's my #CoatiMonday anniversary! I'll reshare the start, a Thomas K Dye ( http://newshounds.keenspot.com/ ) picture that got lost from the birdsite version of thread.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/30943322/
I should definitely make up a Generic Early-60s Hanna-Barbera Scene to get a 'still' from.
I have to miss #CoatiMonday on an urgent appointment that suddenly arose! But never fear here's superhero Cosmic Coati luckily here just as I stepped out of the room. Picture by FA/Zen_Fetcher.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/21925616/
Gloves and sneakers may seem like a lot to wear but you do want something to keep transmutation powers under good control.
Is #CoatiMonday getting warmer? A melty commission by FA/techno (at that time, plushcub) of me being all soft-hearted and soft-everything else.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/25788646/
My melting point has been pleasantly lowering. ZukaroTravon and techno have been great influences, as good solid non-solid artists.
And you may recognize this as the source of the banner and my current (early May 2020) icon here.
#CoatiMonday digs into paleofurry art! In '98 Cecil drew me hanging out on a mouse mage's shoulders.
https://yerf.metafur.org/rydedavi/kara.jpg
I still leap onto people's shoulders, but less often as, like, I'm a giant on FurryMuck and that can be trouble.
Cecil was a regular on Furry and FurToonia and his archive has a lot of regulars of the era. https://yerf.metafur.org/rydedavi
If my snout seems off remember this was posed before Google existed. Reference photos were rare and getting away from dog snouts was hard.
A hot new #CoatiMonday! @/Bimshwel on Birdsite (FA/fmirsokp) offered sketches and was kind enough to take me on for this gorgeous piece.
https://twitter.com/Bimshwel/status/1262123085244874752
I've admired their drawing style, and humor style, for *years* and am thrilled to have a joyful piece like this.
An ancient #CoatiMonday! In 1998 Shadow joined me and Spaceroo at Albany Anthrocon, and drew us at the diner. https://yerf.metafur.org/kalecorw
https://yerf.metafur.org/kalecorw/fcrdiner.jpg
Shadow and Spaceroo were wizards on SpinDizzy Muck (and its predecessor Toons Furr and Fluff) with me. I've lost touch with that Shadow in the decades since, though, and miss him.
You can see this is before I was eating vegetarian.
#CoatiMonday provided by FA/techno. today, who was kind enough to draw my first(!) pinball portrait.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36454962/
I am amazed it took me this long to think of 'draw me doing the thing I spend the most time doing'. Seriously, pinball is about 60% of everything I do in normal times and I still had trouble thinking of what the picture should be me doing.
Happily techno was game. Read the comments for why that's funny.
Another vintage #CoatiMonday as Shadow draws something 'based on a tale' from Albany Anthrocon that I don't remember at all.
https://yerf.metafur.org/kalecorw/dernquix.gif
I like being thought of as someone who could help in a crisis, though, and remember, #BlackLivesMatter and always shall.
It's hard to say why all furry art looked like this in the 90s, but an important part of it is that scanners didn't work and nobody knew where to get paper and there were, like, two marker pens anyone could buy.
@balloonpup I made it to both, in fact! Anthrocon 2000 was the last convention I got to before 2010 or 11. So it's very plausible we crossed paths.
I'd have been the big, heavy white guy with a scraggly beard and poorly-combed hair. Probably wearing sweatpants.
@porsupah Aw, gosh, thanks.
I was thinking I should get some more H-B style art and even maybe have worked out a scene with a giant over on birdsite.
Some more Tron art would be great but I'm thinking to go *really* hipster with this and do Automan, if I can find an artist who'll take that sort of thing even for hazard pay.
@porsupah Thank you. They'd wanted to do some experiments with shiny and inflatable art and that's so very much my kind of thing.
This is the same artist who did the very goopy melty me I'm using as an icon and profile header. Does a good bit of robot work too, if you know anyone who needs to be a robot or maybe made of rubber.
@Austin_Dern Oooh. I'd /definitely/ be up for seeing more of cybernetic-me, when circumstances permit. Could be fun making a group scene of it, even..
Oh, they were robocoon! Still got a couple of his old pieces in the archive, from 2010. =:D (Including one rather fun piece of someone discovering they'd already been converted)
@porsupah Oh yes, they were robocoon back in the day. And, yeah, any of their pictures with people learning they're robots or cybernetic or such is really nice.
(Now I can imagine a retro-style image of you bringing the red panda tail for trade on a rabbit tail.)
Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis
Formula.
Lily Ingersoll / Briar
Shy bunny
Garan
Nikon Raccoon