In this vintage #CoatiMonday convention sketchbook picture, FA/Amethyst answers the question, what if my wife and I were cute? Like, *really* cute? https://www.furaffinity.net/view/7923881/

Originally done at Morphicon 2012, which was the last of those conventions I missed because I was too busy getting ready for our wedding to spend a weekend out in Ohio.

Morphicon 2012 Inked Sketch- Bunny Hugger by Amethyst-Cat

A cute drawing of bunnyhuggers character and her fiance who is a coati mundi. Had a lot of fun doing this.

For #CoatiMonday enjoy this actual rubber coati, just like everyone wants. This balata rubber figure is one of three that I got at the Smithsonian National Zoo in 1999. I don't know why it has stripes down the back.

It's a bit whitened with age; for proper care it needs to be rubbed with skin lotion now and then and I haven't been reliable about that.

This #CoatiMonday my friend DeeterRabbit on birdsite ponders the question, what if I were anthro ... and buff? He thinks I might just look a little something ... like this.

Deeter's an old friend (I shared a room with him at ConFurence East II, in 1996!) and would like to see a bit more toon muscle on me. (I feel like a 1980s action figure doll.)

(Picture CW: partial eye contact, toon)

For the #CoatiMonday before Christmas, sharing an old gift. @/[email protected] found this delightful shotglass and thought of me.

I like having the chance to show off coatis as climbing animals since it's rather fun to hang around like this.

This #CoatiMonday I send the hope you were able to see some good holiday decorations and share in the spirit of joyful light.

My own art, and for a change, one where I tried doing a lot of stuff and it mostly came out like I imagined it would. Really feel myself punching above my weight, this picture, thanks in large part to ProCreate's 'light pen' brush and other special effects brushes.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45217815/

Austin Lawn Ornament, 25 December 2021 by AustinDern

Happy Frithmas to you all! Thought about how sweet those lighted lawn decorations look, and thought I'd try and get in on that acti ...

Ring in 2022's first #CoatiMonday with another of the Smithsonian Zoo balata-rubber figures I got back in '99! The white patches are from the rubber drying out. This is supposed to be prevented or treated by rubbing the figure with skin lotion, but it's a small figure and many of the finer details are difficult to treat. Anyway the raggedness seems to fit my state at the dawning of the year.
Spending this #CoatiMonday with a piece of my own art, reflecting how cute it would be to carry a bindle on a coati's tail. This was originally inspired by how I set up for this time we moved SpinDizzy Muck to a new server and I drew it up not quite ten years after the fact. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/44555986/
Austin with Tail Bindle, 9 November 2021 by AustinDern

A picture drawn up to celebrate FurAffinity's new roster of species tags (you can see them in the 'Browse' page), finally ...

And now the final balata-rubber #CoatiMonday! The third and most battered of the souvenirs I got at the National Zoo in 1999. This one's aged the hardest and I suspect I need to take a toothpick to it and sweep out old dried-up bits of skin lotion and reapply fresh aloe until it's quite as vibrant and glossy as it should be.

A #CoatiMonday for meeting your heroes! I forgot last week was the anniversary of Popeye's debut, so, have this now. It's my own art ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38887320/ ) disputing whether coatis are Jeeps and there's a fair case for it.

(There's some resemblance but my suspicion is when Elzie Segar designed Jeeps he was thinking of a way he could draw Krazy Kat in his own strip. He and Krazy Kat's cartoonist were fans of each other.)

Popeye and Austin, 26 October 2020 by AustinDern

Following up last Monday's piece [ https://www.furaffinity.net/view/38774971/ ], with another piece in which I just ... you know, t ...

Getting around this #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. was doing some round icons and who can resist being a ball?

Fun fact: my player has such tight hamstrings that he can't even *look* at this picture.

This #CoatiMonday FA/breakerfa again envisions me, with the physique I could have if I were anthro and didn't like eating bagels so much!

Inking by FA/Lodoss-12. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/45806976/ for the original.

(Odd fact: the pose was inspired by that _Catdog_ episode where Cat decides to bulk up.)

Austin the Coati Toon Muscle (Inks) by breakerfa

Austin the coati (coatimundi), all buffed up with tons of toon muscle... inks by Lodoss-12

Happy Valentine's #CoatiMonday! Ages ago @bunnydoe commissioned this Couples Convention Badge and we still fail to coordinate wearing it.

It's *still*, years on, an accurate rendition of how I keep looking at her. I regret I don't remember who DW here was.

Also yes, we are very like this as couples and I understand the people who've had enough of it, but it's how we feel.

A #CoatiMonday featuring a con badge my dear bride commissioned from Kalinka at the last FurFright. She thought I'd never have a chance to wear it but Motor City Furry Con, theoretically a spring convention, is usually wintery enough to need it.

And I just found a scan of it by Kalinka is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/13128749/

Standard Conbadges 2012-2 by kalika

A batch of Standard Conbadges that were commissioned from me at FurFright 2012.. Top: Austin (commissioned by bunnyhugger) - gilga - gro ...

Last con badge #CoatiMonday! This gift from BunnyHugger. It's my most-worn badge, as you can tell from the fold lines in the laminate. Art by WindancerStudios, who doesn't seem to use that name anymore. I can't find what name they do use, if they're still in the fandom.
Today's #CoatiMonday features another gift from my dear bride. This one is a nearly life-size Hansa plush coati, a beautiful one with posable tail. It's also got the most realistic markings of any coati plush I know about; it's great for getting the feeling of having a real me around.
Another gift from my bride this #CoatiMonday. It's a delightful little wooden doll, a good paperweight size and very soothing to touch.
Another plush #CoatiMonday, with another gift from my dear bride BunnyHugger. This Fiesta coati has wonderfully expressive paws and a loose tail. It's not as easy to pose overall as the Hansa plush, but it flops out wonderfully.

This #CoatiMonday gift from my darling dear BunnyHugger is a coati carved from a nut (I forget the kind); bits of the shell make the nose. It's precious and beautiful.

The extensions on the snout may represent whiskers (we don't usually have tusks), or might have been something the carver needed to handle the material. I can't say for sure.

I took a bunch of photographs and they all washed out detail. Come over my place and you can get a good look at it.

One more gift plush #CoatiMonday! The Kosen is the smallest of the ones BunnyHugger gave me, and it's got the shortest snout, but it's the only one with a tail that naturally stands upright without fiddling.
A tabletop doodle of my own creation this #CoatiMonday. Motor City Furry Con this year (as usual) had paper tablecloths and boxes of crayons to play with and so I doodled me snuggling with BunnyHugger. She added the hearts. Someone else, not me, put the 'Art By [ some name I didn't photograph ]' which was there when I started drawing. Didn't want to overlap like that but I had to draw somewhere, you know?
A tabletop doodle of my dear bride's creation this #CoatiMonday. Motor City Furry Con encourages this with paper and crayons in the con suite and it allows for spontaneous little happy drawing like this. BunnyHugger wanted to draw herself loafing, but the eye came out looking a bit angry, so she added the z-z-z which made her a perfectly content drowsy rabbit. This is the sort of rapid thinking needed when you work in real media.

Comfort this #CoatiMonday, thanks to Alex_J_Cleret on birdsite drawing my common impulse to try and help. It's usually my first impulse and I don't always know, or have much, I can do, but it's there.

Also I really like how I look in purples.

https://twitter.com/Alex_J_Cleret/status/1514594745359687689/photo/1

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This #CoatiMonday is another gift from my dear bride. It's a rubber stamp that expresses a universal sentiment.

It's one of two stamps made about 15 years ago by Rubber Hedgehog and I set it in the paws of my old NABCO coati plush to give a sense of scale, for those who know how big the NABCO plush is. (The plush is about six inches tall; the stamp is maybe an inch and a half across.)

Another Rubber Hedgehog-made stamp, and gift from my wife, this #CoatiMonday. This stamp has a good bit of use, as my identifying mark for letterboxing.

Letterboxing is a geocaching-like hobby, about finding hidden journals to stamp. Most folks carve their own stamps; I used this because I wasn't sure I would do enough to make carving worthwhile. I should retire this in favor of something homemade, but keep not having the time or energy.

I bring a piece of my own art ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47153051/ ) so #CoatiMonday can properly observe #MerMay. The fish half is loosely based on sturgeons, which you never see used for mermaids, because I'm just like that.

This also was part of what's been my most-accomplished week of FurAffinity uploads. I'm *stunned* and so happy with how close this comes to what it looked like in my head.

Coati-fish, 10 May 2022 by AustinDern

Thought I would do a Mermay picture and draw a coatifish version of myself. This started as a sketch and then I thought, how hard would ...

My own art again this #CoatiMonday. It's me trying to help Zukaro, the wax robot fox, calm an anxiety that, for them, is actually justified. (They have a hard time dealing with feet.) Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47282393/

Zukaro and a lot of melty art are at https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/zukarotravon/

Austin and Zukaro, 19 May 2022 by AustinDern

You know how hard it is when your friend is anxious about something, and you try to reassure them, but you have to admit they aren' ...

A winner is this #CoatiMonday! LunaTheCute did this line art of Austin having snagged a sandwich. The illustration was a prize won at Furry Bingo this year during Motor City Furry Con and it's a delight to have a fresh picture of me doing one of my favorite activities, bringing joy to whoever just had a sandwich before.

By the way if you ever need cheering up look for videos of 'coati steals sandwich'. You're welcome.

#CoatiMonday today features an old Patreon reward, a postcard sketch by FA/Slickpuppy, from back when I was flush with cash and thought I'd have ideas for monthly sketches forever. (I ran out of ideas after the second month and Slickpuppy suspended his Patreon after that.)

Note the crescent moon on the foreleg there; this is the rare picture showing what I'd once tried to make a motif of my character.

It's a Saturday Morning #CoatiMonday! projectionedge@birdsite generously drew this fine nostalgia piece during one of his streams ( https://twitter.com/projectionedge/status/1534005858937360384 ) and, accurately, picked out one of those 70s Hanna-Barbera cartoons I couldn't get enough of.
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Leaping into summer this #CoatiMonday. This gorgeous picture was generously done by @/[email protected] and shows one of my favorite activities. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47668808/

Being painted is my most idiosyncratic special interest, and I'm happy to have any pictures that showcase it.

mysterious drawing 4, for Austin Dern by fmirsokp

that being austindern. I can see these are getting out of control already!. But I only committed to doing ten and have finished six so I ...

For the #CoatiMonday right before our anniversary, I share a drawing I did of me with my dear bride BunnyHugger, being happy together. This is one of our favorite pastimes.

This #CoatiMonday is part of a complete breakfast! And thanks to PatchO'Black, on SpinDizzy Muck, whose fun recent paint job landed me this tasty cereal mascoati job. This is another piece of my own art (see https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47863795/ ) but, uh, watch this space.

I'd *love* to do something in the style of 70s Rocky-and-Bullwinkle Cheerios comic book ads, but I lack the expertise in serial cartooning.

Breakfast Cereal Austin, 28 June 2022 by AustinDern

So over on SpinDizzy, the still-thriving furry muck that I run ( https://www.spindizzy.org/nwp/ and please feel free to try the place ou ...

It's a summertime #CoatiMonday, as wax robot fox FA/ZukaroTravon and I beat the heat by completely surrendering to it. This is my own illustration, done with a surprisingly successful experiment in digital watercolors, as seen at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/46058800/

I owe Zukaro thanks for rekindling my interest in melting/liquid scenes and getting me to draw them.

Melting Austin and Zukaro, 21 February 2022 by AustinDern

I love any chance to hang out with Zukaro_Travon but, you know, the more I hang around fox the lower my own melting point seems to get. ...

Keeping cool this #CoatiMonday, thanks to FA/techno. kindly giving me a lovely marble-and-gold goop coating. Remember to keep the hottest sun off of you!

I don't know that the picture's posted on a proper gallery.

Gosh it sure would be unthinkable and embarrassing if this goop congealed into a solid mass leaving me a statue for the week, wouldn't it?

Enjoying a happy summer shower this #CoatiMonday with my own art, and experiment in drawing weather.

Done partly as Vahno-on-Birdsite was encouraging about my shiny art and my big fat foot-covering boots, so I looked for an excuse to do a little more of that. I'm sure it's a wild coincidence that I come out looking as shiny as the rubber boots and yellow hat here. Also because /@balloonpup has a lot of rubber characters who wear rain gear and I wanted in.

Fresh breakfast this #CoatiMonday? FA/techno. saw the cereal mascoati picture that I posted several weeks ago, and kindy decided to do it, but better! I'm always impressed by lineless art and the way they captured the look of 1960s Toucan Sam is astounding.

Enjoy seeing less of me this #CoatiMonday as I get into the invisible paint. This was fun but hard, because I had to keep thinking about what to show. The paint bucket particularly made my head hurt to think about.

I drew the snout differently this time, with more of a Preston Blair influence. Not sure if it works, but it's got a fun line to it.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48156798/

Invisible-Painted Austin, 18 July 2022 by AustinDern

A while back on Birdsite swatcher observed that despite the number of Golden Age cartoons where a character plays with vanishing cream o ...

A gifted #CoatiMonday; this is one of a sweet set of vinyl coati stickers my dear bride gave as an anniversary present.

I haven't decided what I'll do with the stickers beyond appreciating them and the desire to share them with me.

Having a bit of fun hanging out poolside with @/Eon, your inflatable friend, this #CoatiMonday! Also with one of those padlock stickers that people are so silly about putting on null toys. Anyway look how happy toy is hanging out like this.

My own art and wow but I feel good about how this came out.

CW: mindplay/hypnosis theme; consenting but one might read it as accidental.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48667912/

Austin and Headlocked Eon, 21 August 2022 by AustinDern

Oh, I think everyone knows those padlock stickers are silly harmless decoration. I mean, they put them on the blank spots of null toys, ...

Hanging around waiting for launch this #CoatiMonday, with another vinyl sticker my bride gave me as an anniversary gift. I *love* this pose; it's such a great nonanthro-animal-hanging-out look.

Keeping cool again this #CoatiMonday, thanks to FA/techno. who didn't just draw this in marble-and-gold (that I shared months ago) but also did this blue-and-purple variant. Remember to keep the hottest sun off of you!

I don't know that the picture's posted on a proper gallery.

A statuesque #CoatiMonday as I share my own picture of me somehow a block of living marble. It's a fun way to hang out and prank pigeons!

A while back someone messing around on FurryMuck flashed me with a Medusa Head, with no idea that I was going to run with that. You never expect how many people will ask why you're able to move and talk and all. I choose to think they're worried for me rather than wishing I were inert.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/47456324/

Marble Austin, 31 May 2022 by AustinDern

And now to close out May 2022, a month in which I mostly tried to do art. This picture is based on some fun events going on over on Furr ...

Another #CoatiMonday showing off that sweet cereal mascoati gig! FA/techno. didn't create just the one image of me with a bowl of breakfast cereal, but did a color variant that's got a similar yet not identical vibe. Great fun to have a bit of variety, though, as part of your complete breakfast.
For this special #CoatiMonday another gift: another of the vinyl stickers that my dear bride gave to me on our anniversary.
And enjoy a late bit of breakfast this #CoatiMonday, with one more representation by FA/techno. who so kindly created a pitch-perfect representation of a fun little gig.

One of my own doodles this #CoatiMonday, depicting one of the minor burdens of having such a great tail: fans who'll want it all for themselves. Yes, it's a struggle, but I endure it because it is worth the struggle.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/48886341/

Austin and Mouse, 5 September 2022 by AustinDern

You ever just hang around and then find some mouse has decided to wrap themself up in your tail? I can't tell you how many times it ...

One last vinyl sticker this #CoatiMonday, another of the set my dear bride gave me on our anniversary! You see how cute coatis are as a species.

Going for a good stretch this #CoatiMonday. I have an elastic side I don't play enough and I'm trying to get that fixed. So this picture is based on the title panel for the story 'Bubble Gum' in Plastic Man #11, https://comicbookplus.com/?dlid=19957 page 15.

I posted it at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49082066/ too. It's made me realize there's potential in ripping off^W^W studying Jack Cole's work for my own use.

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Isn't that always the way? You find a great @Eon costume for a Halloween #CoatiMonday and then Eon is nowhere to be found.

Toy was so kind as to let me put it on, and draw this, as you can see at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49430374/ and this is one of the rare pictures where I'm just happy at how *everything* came out. A picture is never quite how you imagine it'll look, but this came much closer than anything else I've drawn the past month.

Austin and Eon, 16 October 2022 by AustinDern

It's so weird Eon goes missing right as I have something great to show toy, isn't it? . . Great thanks once more to thegraywo1 ...

Another of my own illustrations this #CoatiMonday --- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49695354/ --- of me with my favorite person, my wife. Drawn as a small gift for her birthday this past week.

A long while ago she mentioned a passing fancy of holding a tiny me and I finally illustrated it. (Somehow I usually tend to be the giant one.) You can pick whether this is a giant BunnyHugger or a tiny me, or both.

Another of my own pictures this #CoatiMonday, this time a copy I did from https://brevardzoo.org/animals/rainforest-revealed/white-nosed-coatimundi/ in the hopes of getting better to understand the beauty of the coati jaw and also just how wild our noses are. They're really splendid, aren't they? Bonus good stuff: the tongue!
White-Nosed Coati

Brevard Zoo

For this #CoatiMonday please enjoy two porcelain coati figures, apparently the same mould but slightly different after being fired. And painted.

The naturalistic-colored one was a gift from my dear bride to me months ago and I've shown it before. The Delft-style one on the right is one she bought recently and for herself.

Any resemblance to a before-and-after petrifaction sequence is coincidental.

For #CoatiMonday I repeat myself, sharing a dancing picture I did for Charles Schulz's centennial, seen also at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49974562/

Peanuts is the oldest thing I remember being a fan of; I can't remember a time before I could read and what I read was this comic strip. I can't say how happy I am to be able to draw a decent picture of Snoopy myself.

Snoopy and Austin, 25 November 2022 by AustinDern

Celebrating the centennial of Charles M Schulz's birth! Which, yes, I know is the 26th of November, 2022, but I didn't want to ...

Sharing a gift from my wife an a souvenir from Mexico City this #CoatiMonday. The coati magnet and the thought balloon are gifts from dear BunnyHugger. The goldfish-shaped magnet with the rabbit that's suspiciously close to her look on it is a souvenir she picked up back in 2018.

The fridge they are on is a Kenmore picked up from the Sears down the road in 2019 after we thought carefully about whether they'd be around the whole twelve-month warranty lifespan. They were not.

Fun side fact about that Sears: they gave us like one-third the cost of the new fridge in bonus points, good dollar-for-dollar in merchandise at the store, so I can't say we got the machine at cost but it has to be pretty close to it. Add to that the rebate the local power company gave us for replacing a still-working-but-ancient fridge with a modern unit and we made out pretty well on the deal.
Spending a cozy #CoatiMonday this week, wrapped up in my own art. It's based on the 'blanket burrito' technique often used to bundle up an animal for veterinary care, and seemed like it'd be fun to try out. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49560353/
Austin Burrito'd, 26 October 2022 by AustinDern

Just a little picture of myself wrapped up in a blanket. The burrito is a good way to secure a pet or small animal when you need to do s ...

For the last #CoatiMonday before Christmas the finest of all possible gifts, me! This picture of a coa-tree was inspired by @Chiaroscuro and was a fun idea.

My own art, posted up at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50236689/

Coatree, 15 December 2022 by AustinDern

So chiaroscuro was playing around with idea and pitched 'coatree' and my but that's a nice notion. I may not have the cha ...

Happy #CoatiMonday! Did you catch me in the parade? Well, if you missed it, here's my own rendition of the scene.

Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49947805/ and yeah, I drew it in time for the (US) Parade Day back in November but other stuff took my Monday publication slots, so this seemed like a good secondary day.

Parade Balloon Austin, 23 November 2022 by AustinDern

Happy Turkey Day! Since I've learned like three things about how to draw inflatables this past year I thought I'd take the cha ...

Happy 'Roo Year? Wait, that's not supposed to happen! This is #CoatiMonday! What's with the fat toes? The floppy ears? The pinkness? The --- ooh, free pouch! Okay! But seriously why is Roofus_roo's toy that I'm sharing for her so broken that it's doing something like *this*?

My own holiday art; original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50450175/

A surprisingly rare transformation picture from me, considering how much I like the theme.

Happy Roo Year's Austin, 1 January 2023 by AustinDern

Happy Roo Year! Wait a minute, something's very wrong here! macropus's shiny toy is broken or something, this isn't suppo ...

I'm helpful this #CoatiMonday! Vahno's been content or even happy as a Free Will Drone, but they still have some adjustments to make in not having a face or mouth or such.

Free Will Drones are an idea we've been roughing out, and it's like you think, a rubber drone that isn't compelled to be someone's toy or maid or such. Just someone with low initiative and less intense personality. They enjoy it, in their way.

https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50425363/

I look like a Muppet here.

FWD Vahno and Austin, 30 December 2022 by AustinDern

Boy, isn't that always the way? Free Will Drone Vahno settles down to what would be a favorite little comfort meal, if Vahno had en ...

Ever have one of those #CoatiMonday days where you're trying to get somewhere and a mysteriously context-free hoist is taking advantage of your natural elasticity? So *rude*.

My own art, at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50614269/ and a rare moment of me drawing a not-generic emotion! I'm very happy with how this came out.

Outstretched Austin, 14 January 2023 by AustinDern

Boy, ever have one of those days when a suspiciously context-free piece of lifting machinery of some kind gets looped around your belly ...

A bit of a redraw #CoatiMonday for me as I revisit the 'Austin in galoshes' look. I like the idea and am trying to get a handle on avoiding drawing paws by covering them in things. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50717135/ for my upload of this to FurAffinity, or https://blimps.xyz/@Austin_Dern/108708906162261316 for the earlier take.

Sure is weird those boots are blushing, huh? Wonder how that sort of thing comes about.

Austin in Rain Gear Again, 22 January 2023 by AustinDern

Another sort-of redraw here, tacking the great theme of me walking in the rain while wearing rubber boots. And, now, carrying an umbrell ...

@Austin_Dern heck, this is cute

we should talk to vahno more
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@Hearth Aw, glad you like!

And yeah, I know they'd be glad chatting with you more.

@Austin_Dern That does look rather cozy, though I may be biased.

The real trick is how you wrapped yourself up so snugly, unless you got some help.

@digitalfox Aw, well, the trick is to start with an okay wrap and then improve it bit by bit, you know?

@Austin_Dern Coati!

That is awesome.

@frostwolf It's a sweet one, yeah.

@Austin_Dern Wonder how hard those are to get; we could really use some wolf ones. :3

Do they adhere to things like laptops, and detach in such a way that they can be reattached later? 'Cause repositionable/transferable baptop stickers would be /great/.

@frostwolf I can't imagine they're hard to find; vinyl printers have gotten common enough. I believe BunnyHugger found these on Etsy and I have to imagine wolves are enormously more popular.

They should be able to attach to laptops, but I don't know about detaching. Haven't tried putting them on anything yet.