Another vintage Frommer Possum piece for #CoatiMonday, a 1998 picture of me enthusiastic about spaceflight. Imagine me, being enthusiastic!
Frommer had a crush he never figured how to get me to reciprocate. But one time he was just messing around, and finger-painted me yellow all over and I realized, oh, that is *quite* nice. Rewrote my description to match. Being painted is a real joy and only a few people ever try it.
I think he never realized he activated a particular interest in me.
A surprise #CoatiMonday! crazyyellowfox@birdsite did a draw-your-mutuals meme and picked me for the bottom row. https://twitter.com/crazyyellowfox/status/1364797153365823491
I suspect a Frommer influence in how the head was shaped.
In 2004 Loam was annoyed my Livejournal didn't have an icon, and fixed that. This #CoatiMonday icon is still my default image at https://austin-dern.dreamwidth.org
The Krazy Kat influence is because I discovered the comic about the same time I discovered coatis and pushed both on my friends in the 90s.
Loam (https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/loamchu/ ) isn't an active artist anymore, a pity, though they are still around on FurryMuck regularly.
Love that #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. did a great piece of me having got into the paint bucket again.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40961642/
This was part of an art trade; https://www.furaffinity.net/view/40568860/ is my half of it.
Another vintage never-seen-before #CoatiMonday! This is another Loam-created sketch, practice for my Dreamwidth/Livejournal icons.
Loam is still around on FurryMuck and a few other furry hangouts but what I understand is he doesn't draw much and he posts even less.
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/loamchu/ for his gallery, though, including pictures of other coati characters.
Enjoy another Loam #CoatiMonday! This rough-draft is great enough I often use it as my first icon when I join a site.
https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/loamchu/ for Loam's finished work.
Another Loam sketch for #CoatiMonday; it's unfinished, but I do like its showing the thinking of how to abstract 'coati' in a few lines.
Also that Loam figured one of my default reactions to the world is wide-eyed surprise. I think it's still true, although in different ways from back around 2005.
A busy #CoatiMonday! Ardarius commissioned https://vk.com/art_niche to show me keeping him and Beltrami up to pressure. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/41130256/
Ardarius (the purple dragon) and Beltrami (the silver/clear dragon) are SpinDizzy Muck regulars and this is a view of me in inflatable form.
Another Loam-created study for an icon this #CoatiMonday. It's got a great soft look with a healthy-size snout.
I love these sketches for just expressing a quick mood, mostly 'startled', in this nice quick casual way.
I don't know, just seems like any old day to me.
(1998-vintage picture by Spaceroo, https://yerf.metafur.org/siemjohn/robotroo.jpg )
A gift from DeeterRabbit (on birdsite and Telegram) for this #CoatiMonday, showing off me with muscles I did not know I had!
CW: eye contact (cartoon sketch)
Pooltoy Austin drawing attention to *something* in this #CoatiMonday picture Ardarius commissioned from club182738933 on vk. Love to see seams like this all over my body, too.
Fun fact: coati tails are not prehensile, but they look so much like they *should* be that nobody's ever disagreed with the artists.
Chanspot's vintage #CoatiMonday piece captures me at a moment when I swapped my ears with a bunny's. It's a flattering image.
The 'Happy 10th' implies the picture's from either 2005 (my character's 10th anniversary) or 2008 (SpinDizzy Muck's 10th). I think the latter's more likely, as I remember the swapping. Also not sure what's being tossed at me there.
(I don't have an original URL for this, I'm afraid, and can't swear that Chanspot drew this rather than commissioned the gift.)
Hexadoodle Frog reveals how I get that great Shiny Day form this #CoatiMonday: it's all about knowing where to go. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42225400/
I believe this, after a quarter-century, is the first picture to show me in the act of transmuting or transforming, which seems odd considering how much that theme interests me.
(For those who worry, yes, it's transmuting into a living crystal. Won't be frozen in place until the next discoverer, unless I feel like playing a prank.)
Ready to hit the pool this #CoatiMonday thanks to FA/RyuCas helping me get in shape! I've had a couple inflatable pictures before but this is my first color (and lineless) poolring and it's a delight.
"Just because I took *this* peanut butter doesn't mean I took *the* peanut butter!"" Wonderful #CoatiMonday art by pencilforge on Birdsite.
I don't get to play the side of me that's a bit peanut-butter-mad enough and I'm glad to have something showing it off.
(That side is partly on real me, and partly on a rescued raccoon I used to sponsor who'd had his head trapped in a peanut butter jar.)
Art trade #CoatiMonday! @/ChavapaBearTW@Birdsite was kind enough to swap arts and to give me a great-looking nose.
My half of the trade is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42325797/
My dear bride BunnyHugger sculpted this for our anniversary and I share it this #CoatiMonday.
And how did she keep secret sculpting, firing, and painting a pretty good-size figure during a time when neither of us left the house? She said to me, "Well, I think I'll do something boring, no need to check on me for a couple hours," and that made sense to me.
That's our Tri-Zone pinball machine used as background. Not its permanent home.
Keep cool this #CoatiMonday! FA/bakertoons was good enough to help me chill out in classic style. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42699351/
I've been feeling that UPA/Jay Ward/Total-TV look lately so I'm glad to have something in that tradition.
And a happy #CoatiMonday sprawl into late summer! FA/techno. helped the coatipiller/coatipede become a less-rarely-seen long version of me. ... Also I'm gratified to learn how many people would like me to have so very much belly and paws.
Hexadoodle Frog surprises me with a wonderful #CoatiMonday demonstration of how long my tail can be! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42979746/
Back in the 90s someone on FurToonia assumed coatis were my fan-species of Marsupilami, a character I had not heard of. But I liked what still pictures the Internet had. Also when they extended my tail so very long. I'm shocked I took 23 years to get a picture of the idea, though with someone else extending my tail this time.
Handling a #CoatiMonday heat wave with FA/techno. giving me a change of phase. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/42762904/
Something got me thinking about how transmutation is great fun but you almost never see vapor morphs, so I was happy techno. was interested in this challenge.
Ever have a #CoatiMonday where you're a bag-of-holding? It's a texture-shifting adventure that FA/KieliIndustries illustrates! This was a difficult idea to depict, not just for the burlap texture but for showing it doing something. Kieli (whose Elliot arctic fox provides the holding) did heroic work turning it into something manageable.
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43072504/
('Magic burlap sack' is a wonderful enough weird texture but the laces added something surprising and great to it.)
A couples #CoatiMonday, with this convention sketchbook picture of me and BunnyHugger drawn by Ifus showing how we pretty much spend our days, given the chance. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/3711512/
BunnyHugger likes to get a couples picture every convention we go to, but it's been harder finding artists she trusts enough to give a sketchbook with ten years of couples pictures to for the weekend.
A shiny #CoatiMonday is always welcome but spending it part-kobold? Credit FA/KieliIndustries for getting me into this fix!
Transmutation is more my thing but I'm not unwilling to spend a weekend as coati-and-something. This was a fun bit.
First snap of fall weather for a #CoatiMonday? Enjoy a mug of hot cocoati with whipped cream, courtesy of FA/techno., in a picture done as part of an art trade.
Chocolate (and related substances) seem like an inevitable transmutation for coatis and I'm not sure why I've never really gone in for them.
In for much-repairs this #CoatiMonday! A Termyotter raffle gets me in one of their slick robot forms, but, you know, this month. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43628736/
Termyotter has always been one of the best goo artists, and a fantastic bot artist, and feel so lucky to have had this chance. I have without exaggeration been hoping for decades they might draw me someday.
Also, ooh, but a body held together by force fields is sweet.
This #CoatiMonday FA/techno. helps me find a new position and helps me keep it together after a tough week! https://www.furaffinity.net/view/43808553/
I'm happy to finally have a couple modular pictures, especially this, where techno. got imaginative and a bit weird and delightful.
Please don't be alarmed by me in pieces like this. Right now I need the time to just hang around.
A precious #CoatiMonday! This adorable ceramic figure was an anniversary gift from my dear bride. From Etsy(?), from I believe a German maker who was under-pricing their work.
The rabbit in the background is the same old one you've been seeing for months around here.
Partner to last #CoatiMonday is this standing ceramic figure figurine, an anniversary gift from my dear bride. It also is from that Etsy(?) seller who was, apparently, under-pricing their work.
Our rabbit, whom you've seen in my month-starting 'rabbit rabbit' pictures before, wonders why this isn't about her.
A last blast of summer for this #CoatiMonday, me getting to the beach with Lobowolf the inflatable wolf! A gorgeous piece illustrated by FA/RyuCas, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44188045/
Lobowolf's been a friend for nearly a quarter-century now; he's among the first inflatables I knew and it's great having a fun time with him.
A heartfelt #CoatiMonday with this heartfelt picture of me and my bride, by FA/ToonFX.
Sketchbook commission from either Morphicon or Motor City Furry Con in 2014 and I don't know why I hadn't shared it before. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13333067/
My own art for this #CoatiMonday. On SpinDizzy Muck, PatchO'Black painted me up for the Halloween season as this heck-coati. It's a bit warm!
https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44423483/
(Patchy often paints me and I like it every time. He also painted bat-wings on but I can't draw well enough for *that*.)
Feeling like a Jersey devil for this #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. was inspired and drew me in the heck-coati pelage. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44443905
... I have no idea how to work wings, so, sorry they're going to be fwapping you in the face like that.
A first-plush #CoatiMonday, with a doll I got in the 90s, sending the North American Bear Co. a check after asking if they still had these.
The person answering e-mails didn't know this was even on their web site but loved it and said she put one in their store window, first of many people I've given the good news of coati loveliness to.
The thread is for a tiny booklet of coati facts I could never get back around its neck. The front legs are on hinges to swing a bit.
Austin Dern, Dean of Coatis
