Austin Dern, Dean of CoatisI was curious about Ecco the Dolphin and FA/techno. was happy to guide me around! A fun picture with a rare alternate body for me this #CoatiMonday, as I try on a more aquatic life than typical. Art by FA/techno. and I'll include a URL when it's posted to their gallery.
Back to my own art this #CoatiMonday, about that time I got to box @Eon! Toy's always so kind to go along with my silly ideas like this.
This one I feel like I did the folds and shine lines on Eon's face unusually well; so much of pooltoy art is about these little streaks of dark and light to suggest the material. A dark line with a light line on the layer underneath does *so* much.
The season's hot new toy this #CoatiMonday! FA/techno. was so delighted with my draw string as to want their own version of a me that only talks when someone else decides they'll take one or two sentences from me, and it is *wonderfully* soft and cuddly. Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/50889988/
Having a rock solid time this #CoatiMonday! Please enjoy a piece of my own art of getting to look incredibly lifelike, just a work of art, thanks to my discovering the star-filter brush on Procreate. Original picture at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51083272/
I agree, it's very peculiar that this sort of thing would just happen to me for no reason and that I'd look this happy about it.
Having a brilliant time this #CoatiMonday! A picture of a stained-glass cat sculpture that was going around here ( https://mstdn.social/@BadgerBadger/109927273293059764 ) left me figuring I could do that too, and so here I did. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51225687/ for your reference.
I loved doing this and want to do more with translucent textures. Will probably revisit the theme now that I've learned some things about how to do it.
That's Mr Badger to you 🏳️🌈 (@[email protected])
Attached: 1 image I've been saving this for #caturday but also because I have a thing for stained glass animals Edit - not my work, I just like it
An expert opinion this #CoatiMonday as @hexadoodle, professional limb appreciator, examines one of the many understated wonders of the coati form, our naturally reversible feet! Raccoons and squirrels have the same arrangement and it's fun when someone discovers that.
My own art ( https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51301935/ ) and my most challenging picture yet as there's *three* hands touching stuff.
And thanks to Hexadoodle for letting me play with a wonderful frog who is just *so* *much* *fun* to draw.
Hi, plush.city! Embarrassed to realize I failed to ever share this so I'll make it up this #CoatiMonday. I was having a soft time a month and a half ago and figured what I might look like as a plush doll and really liked how it came out. The draw string particularly is a *powerful* energy. My own art, here.
Hope your #CoatiMonday is starting as solidly as mine and Chase's! @chasetheredfox was good enough to join me in having a bit of time with nothing to do but be present, and also to do such a lovely illustration of it.
Let me tickle your fancies this #CoatiMonday! Or you can tickle mine. Here I drew one of my wildest fantasies, that of my dear bride BunnyHugger feeling absolutely free to tickle me because I enjoy it even if she does not understand how someone might like being tickled. Also, yes, I am ticklish enough in reality that people waving their fingers at me will cause me to giggle.
Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51480211/
I hope this #CoatiMonday that folks feel the delight I have in getting to enjoy eggs and lots of painting things strange colors. My own art, posted at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51714932/ for stable reference.
Several weeks back someone on SpinDizzy ( https://muck.spindizzy.org/ ) painted me pink, 'with pink bunny ears' and so that's why I've got more ears than usual. You know how it is when you're oddly susceptible to being painted.
It's a party-ready #CoatiMonday today! inflatessimal@birdsite was so good as to draw me as a mylar balloon, helium-filled and ready to join whatever the celebration is!
Love those seams, love those scallops, and love the rare chance to see a mylar version of me.
Enjoy the happy evanescence of a delicate #CoatiMonday! I knew that this soap-bubble commission from @frengers was going to be one of the best I ever got, but underestimated just how exquisite it would be.
This is so much a puff of air slightly contained in films of soap and water that it's a joy however long I look at it.
New month, new slapstick! After the sublime last #CoatiMonday FA/Lunara-Toons helped me get in touch with my cartoon side with an image based on a scene from the 1939 Merrie Melody _Porky's Tire Trouble_ (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7xefuj at about 5:20). It's a great moment of stretchy, rubbery action. Being purple was Lunara-Toons's inspiration but it nicely fits my interest in being novel colors.
Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51808572/
Enjoy some solid private time this #CoatiMonday with a picture by FA/techno., showing me curling up, listening to a little music, and feeling all secure that nothing troublesome is going to get through to me anytime soon.
And, for those worried about the epoxy here, please don't. This used up the last of the bottles so there's nothing going to waste. Also it's a five-CD model there playing burned MP3s so the soundtrack isn't going to be repetitive anytime soon.
A small embarrassment this #CoatiMonday: when people asked what kind of coati I am I've offered 'banana-nosed coati' and just recently checked and learned it's an idiosyncratic description! People write about white-nosed coatis but not the banana-nosed kind.
Well, I extend my thanks to FA/techno., who gifted me with a definitive picture of Austin the banana-nosed coati.
Here's a #CoatiMonday feature you won't want to duck! It's always a thrill, for artist and commissioner, is asking them to just run amuck with your character and see what happens! Panda Jenn delighted me with this beautiful piece based on one of those body goals I've had since childhood.
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52142044/
Take a little pressure off this #CoatiMonday and enjoy deflating from a room-filling balloon size back down! All you have to do is reach the shutoff switch ... uh ... all right, that's maybe a little too much fine motor control for right now. Well, just reach over and snag the air hose so ... uh ... okay, my arm's stuck in the window. Well, I'm sure someone will open a door and come in, help me out, right? Right?
Delightful YCH art by FA/BladeDragoon, https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52271128/
Tote your way this #CoatiMonday! Part of an art trade with FA/techno., their fox-corvid DJ RFX takes me for a walk in the Cat Tote Bag. The bag is a curiosity I saw in a 1946 comic, where it's presented as a way someone would transport their cat somehow.
My half of the trade, showing RFX getting a similarly fun ride, is at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52282691/ and links to the comic book that gave me this weird interest.
Enjoy a pause this #CoatiMonday! @/[email protected] sure is, in a drawing of my own that I somehow forgot to share with you all some time ago. This was a breakthrough piece for me in learning how to draw figures that look like they're touching one another. It was a breakthrough for digitalFox in that he got a pleasant weight on his shoulders, too.
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/49211911/
It's always great to have your limbs examined by a professional like @hexadoodle and to try out a quick swap and see how the other half toes. But it's also always nice to get back in your own feet and see what good shape they're in now.
Thanks again to hexadoodle for letting me draw a fun piece and giving me a rare chance to be a little modular this #CoatiMonday. Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52442234/ and following up on https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51301935/
This #CoatiMonday I ask: does this look like my kink? The headless hydra's a character I've been drawing a fair bunch lately. They've found they don't really need a head, anyway.
The scene's drawn from real life, where someone entering a room was surprised I was real and I thanked them for the confirmation my balance was still good.
The scene's also drawn by me. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52621325/ for the original art.
An #introduction #CoatiMonday! I'm Austin Dern, the first coati in fandom, and here's some of my art showing my favorite activity, being with BunnyHugger, my bride of 11 years and partner of 15. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52720495/
I'm a proud nonanthro, a moderator on blimps.xyz, and head wizard of SpinDizzy Muck, a longrunning furry gang living in a city in space on a journey they don't understand ( https://muck.spindizzy.org/spindizzy-jsclient/client.html ).
Follow me for impractical game concepts periodically posted.
This #CoatiMonday I invite you into the Cave of Wonders! On FurryMuck, I'm both giant and petrified and that's got some people very curious what might happen if they went spelunking. I'm open to it, of course ... not my fault if someone gets cold feet.
My own art; original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51793005/
Feeling in the pink this #CoatiMonday! A while back a friend painted me pink and I've found I look rather nice that way, and don't even mind the constant Henry Mancini soundtrack. Original picture at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51429526/
I hope the #CoatiMonday finds you well; me, I'm in the midst of summer and enjoying the melty weather. My own art. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51767279/
Don't worry about my body integrity, this kind of thing happens *all* the *time*.
Another way to beat the heat in a midsummer #CoatiMonday? Why not take on a fish aspect? I drew this as a #MerMay picture, as who wants to miss that kind of fun, but I like how it came out overall, especially in the paws looking webbed but not too wrong. Note the bold choice to just let my right hand be hidden instead of figuring some way to fit it on-screen.
In a small globe/bubble because why not?
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52317296/
Sure, it's #CoatiMonday but this week also sees the anniversary of Betty Boop's first appearance in cartoons (Dizzy Dishes). So thanks to #tf expert @chasetheredfox for letting me boop him! Chase doesn't normally allow that sort of thing, you know.
My own art, at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52224009/
Also if you'd like to read the thoughts of someone quite close to me about Betty Boop's debut there's https://wp.me/p37lb5-1SU ...
Trying out the hexapod life for this week's #CoatiMonday and who better to advise, and to illustrate, this than limbs expert @hexadoodle? The gait for having three front and three hind legs takes practice, but you can derive it from either eigenvector analysis or a more intuitive rationale.
Original picture at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53204827/ and there's a lot that I love in this picture but maybe the best small detail is tha quivering smile on my lip. Just *that* right.
Looking to beat that late-summer heat wave? There's nothing like a good solid block of ice to do it. That's my tip for you this #CoatiMonday. Your choice whether you want to catch up on your podcasts or, like I do here, just chill.
My own art; original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52453551/
Late summer is a good time to play some games with friends! So this #CoatiMonday sees me playing with Mischa, the inflatable genie, one of my oldest friends and the first object-tf person I got to know. So far as I know they're not on Mastodon but as with many object tf people, you'll see them all around, happy little things.
My own art, at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52152156/
My hindpaw holding that die isn't an art error. Coati ankles can twist all the way around backwards, like squirrels' do, the better to climb down stuff.
A belated birthday celebration this #CoatiMonday! I drew this as a gift for Zukaro, the wax robot fox with a tendency to melt. They're a great friend and have done a lot to help me lower my own melting point.
Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52057695/
(Since this picture they've gotten a mouth, which probably would have made it easier to blow out the flame. Also, the confetti seems like a bad idea while the flame isn't blown out. And don't worry about the melting ... Zukaro will be fine.)
So somewhere along the line I got the idea that one of the main models of coati is the 'banana-nosed coati', an alternate name for the white-nosed coati, and used that as the idea for what kind of coati Austin basically is.
I don't know where I got the idea of a 'banana-nosed coati' from and can't find whatever the heck my source was for the name.
But, you know, that's no reason not to sometimes draw a banana-nosed coati and share them on a mid-September #CoatiMonday.
Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/51907637/
Enjoy a protean #CoatiMonday this week. Anther piece of my own art, exploring how fun the world can be when you're a little glob of cytoplasm and great design.
This started as a test in drawing goo (you have no idea how tricky it is to draw something 'shapeless') and transparency and there's a lot I like about how it came out.
And a big #CoatiMonday to everyone! Here birthday-boy-tomorrow Deeter Rabbit shows off how his massive might lets him hoist a huge weight without effort ... and I show off that I got strength too, just don't show the muscles.
Fun, Popeye-inspired illustration by Panda_Jenn. Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53727663/
I could while away the hours conferring with the flowers on this #CoatiMonday! Panda Jenn did a wonderful rendition of the two of us in a favorite movie, The Something Or Other ... I'm sure I'll think of it at some time.
Original and just fantastic, everything I could've hoped for, art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53784798/
Getting into the spirit of the season this #CoatiMonday! @bakertoons took on the job of rendering me in a ghostly form, so I could spend a couple weeks less tangible than usual. It's fun, you should try it sometime!
And a most gorgeous #CoatiMonday #TF for you! This gorgeous sequence is from FA/LiimLsan. She was doing a TFtober project and looking for a good 'Golden' subject, and this fit beautifully with one of the aspects of petrifaction that I most love. That's the sense of a vacation from flesh, the chance to enjoy simply being, enjoying a pleasant stillness for a while. It's so happy.
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53979770/
Also this may have permanently revised how Austin's eyes look.
It's a good #CoatiMonday to hang around some! @bakertoons was kind enough to let me show off the rarely-seen coati'lope and the even more rarely-seen coati'lope letting someone pretend he's their trophy.
And, you know, it really is fun to spend a day hanging around.
And a happy #CoatiMonday before Halloween! Today I share one of my own drawings --- https://www.furaffinity.net/view/52559795/ --- as I enjoy and try to express enjoying a nice simple change of phase. Everybody goes liquidmorph, who goes vapormorph, right? So here we are.
I mean besides the genies, they do vapor. But the rest of us?
<- definitely not genie, do you even see an impossibly tight container to squeeze into there? Case closed except there's no case there, see?
Hang out with me this #CoatiMonday! FA/GrinchyinkReally found a ghostly hand trying to help me 'hang in there', as per their YCH, but you know how it is when you have a really low melting point and are going all goopy, right? Not to worry, we're having fun.
Original art at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54290309/ and this is a quite nice return to puddle form.
(The original picture was a YCH offering, 'Hang In There'. You can see many other people hanging in at https://www.furaffinity.net/gallery/grichyinkreally/folder/1051688/YCH/ )
Most things about being liquid, or liquefiable, are great. But you know what can be obnoxious? When some joker tries pulling a straw on you, like someone's doing this #CoatiMonday to me. Me!
This was a nice PWYW commission from Franz Jake, a liquid/elastic artist whose gallery I don't know where to find. Their first time trying a nonanthro critter, too, so why not go right for the great challenge of a coati done in Liquidator styling? Im' happy despite the insult to my dignity.
A restful #CoatiMonday is a great start to the eating holidays!
https://plush.city/@bunny_jane was so kind as to illustrate me in one of those rare storybook moments where I'm up to no shenanigans and can't be blamed for whatever is going on.
Robo-Bunny Jane (@[email protected])
33.5K Posts, 284 Following, 255 Followers · This is my private account. Try my public account https://solarpunk.moe/@psychoframe! I will deny any underage follow requests, because I post saucy selfies sometimes. Museum janitor by day, antifa mech engineer by night. I'm a 30 something trans woman who likes to tinker. I'm plural, autistic, and otherwise brain-different. (Account occasionally taken over by my NB headmate. They sign posts with a 🪲).
Happy post-Thanksgiving #CoatiMonday! So folks may know that I am willing to service-pred. It's not my favorite way to interact with friends, but I've seen coati mouths, I totally get why someone would want to hug my tongue. Seriously, our maws are just that good. And what the heck, I like bringing my friends joy. It's just, I hate to say, some of y'all can get *very* particular.
My own art, at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54041496/
Happy first #CoatiMonday of December! For this picture I tried drawing with simulated pencils and simulated charcoals for coloring to see how it looked. It's ... not bad, really, and I need to learn better how to do it.
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/53939340/ and I should say the pose is referenced from Nancy Beiman's charming _FurBabies_ comic strip, particularly the one at https://www.gocomics.com/furbabies/2023/09/28
A special historic #CoatiMonday for you, thanks to @zorinlynx ...
So in 1995 I was trying to figure out my character, and thought, raccoons are great but aren't there already so many of them? (No.) And looking around for something raccoon-like on my new Performa 6115, with the New Grolier Encyclopedia CD-ROM, brought me to this, if I'm not mistaken, the picture that made me aware of coatis as a possibility and so the thing that made me the first coati in furry fandom.
Handsome creature, right? No wonder I was convinced.
Original art credit unknown; ask the Grolier people.
Another vintage and personal-history #CoatiMonday this week. I recently rediscovered this, which back around 1995-96 was *the* good picture of a coati that I could find on the young, tiny, pre-Google, pre-Alta-Vista Internet of literally dozens of web pages.
This was my background image for my Unix accounts at grad school and if I needed to show someone what a coati was, this was what I had to show them, and I used it as personal image on furry mucks for years. I should re-add it to my standard references for artists.
I regret that I no longer have the faintest idea what site this was from, or who to credit for the photograph. If it's you, or you know who it is, let me know because that would be *astounding*.
And a merry Frithmas to everyone this #CoatiMonday, whether or not you had a little accident with the Christmas tree farm's tree-baling machine! Don't worry, this is really no problem at all, I'm pretty sure!
BunnyHugger, the rabbit, is my dear wife who worries more than situations like this really deserve.
Picture by PandaJenn, https://www.furaffinity.net/user/panda-jenn/
And a followup: PandaJenn is open for commissions and having a winter sale. https://www.furaffinity.net/view/54887439/ for the curious.
New Year, New #CoatiMonday! This is a piece of real-media art I did, a doodle on my New Year's card to my dear bride BunnyHugger, seen here in the lower right corner worrying about what I'm dangling from since the coati tail isn't prehensile, it just looks like it *ought* to be. This could be an unsafe ball drop!
New season, new icon! Changing out from the spirit of the season, by @bakertoons, over to ... a rare trophy, by also by @bakertoons.
I'm thinking to spend the harshest part of winter hanging out in the lodge of that naked white guy the Pink Panther keeps having to deal with.
Maybe mess with his dog who, you know, is faithful and true and all but also kinda Assigned Cop At Birth. We'll see who starts something first.
Yes, the Christmas season may be over by this #CoatiMonday, but that doesn't mean you can't still play with the tree-bundling mechanisms and ... uh ... maybe need a little help here?
Fun icon by @SqueakyCheeToy [ still open for commissions ] that I didn't think to ask for early enough this season, but that I expect you'll be seeing again in eleven months or so.
Don't worry, I'm sure this will be an easy one to get out of sooner or later.
You know what's a great way to keep warm on a chilly #CoatiMonday? Lava! And what better way to bring light to the world than be a lava lamp critter for yourself? Scuse me now while I put on some 13th Floor Elevators, maybe some Ultimate Spinach later.
Wonderful picture by FA/techno., but not yet posted to any galleries to my knowledge.
Letting you in on another great way to avoid the harshest parts of winter for #CoatiMonday today: sneak in somewhere and pretend to be an animal-skin rug! You get to rest by the fire of that Naked White Guy who's always harassing the Pink Panther, and as long as nobody sees you but his dog, you're living the life of ease.
Real-media pencil sketch by FA/Toonvasion. Not yet posted to any galleries to my knowledge.
Ever find yourself on #CoatiMonday in a bit of a Stitch? A friend who shall remain, for the moment, unnamed liked the idea of me as a genetic abomination and, sure, I'm for that, especially in Stitch's lovely six-limbed body plan.
So here's me doing a quick pose for you to admire how I look as multifur/coatitaur.
Popping up to bring some light to your #CoatiMonday! And what better way to do that than being myself, unless it's to be myself as a lavalamp coati? Don't thank me for turning on my heartlight; thank FA/techno., who illustrated this one too. So far as I know it's not on any galleries yet.
One of the happy things that can happen to you #CoatiMonday or any other day of the week is for wax robot fox Zukaro to basket you! And here, the artistic fox with the low melting point does as much for me, putting a lovely glossy shine on me in a cozy spot.
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55373155/
Sure it's #CoatiMonday, but it's also the middle of Feb-roo-ary and I couldn't pass up the chance to let transformation master @chasetheredfox let me see how the other half hops! This isn't actually the first time you've seen Austin in a coati-(something) form, this thread, although it *is* a rare event, so I hope you enjoy!
15-minute quickie sketch from Chase's charity stream last week; I got quite lucky with the random draws.
Not yet posted to any art archives (so far as I know); will update if and when it is.
You know what else makes a #CoatiMonday thematically linked to the month? What's more Febru-airy than a semi-tangible spirit? Other than a pooltoy, which I didn't happen to draw. But I was trying some new ideas about how to draw translucent bodies and I'm always a good one for being a little bit ghostly and here's the happy result!
Original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55648338/
Any calendar fan knows a leap year March starts out much like February and so this #CoatiMonday is a variant of February's first. When drawing me as a lava lamp FA/techno. did some color variants and here's a lovely one, in different lovely colored globs.
To date not posted on any gallery (to my knowledge); when it is, I'll try to remember to update this. In the meanwhile, please consider your day brightened by my participation in it and be careful about where you pick me up!
Observing a quiet #CoatiMonday with a vintage piece. You may have wondered whether the O'Reilly book series ever got a coati on a cover and, in the early 2000s, they did, using whatever 19th-century lithograph this is.
Sad for me, the book was one I didn't have any possible use for and was too expensive to have for just the mild souvenir value. And the book is now so out of print it isn't even listed on the Animal Menagerie search engine at https://www.oreilly.com/animals.csp
I may have retired for the moment @bakertoons's sweet trophy icon of me, but that doesn't mean the thought is wholly out of my mind. For this #CoatiMonday let me share my own take on the same premise, me just Gumping around, hanging out and sometimes messing with people who didn't notice me on the wall there. Again, don't worry about where my body is or what it's up to or how I'll get out of this fix; it's just a hangout.
My own art, original at https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55229582/
And not to brag but I really like the job I did on the iPod Shuffle's tangled cables there.
Observing the last #CoatiMonday of March with a last look at a lava lamp. This is a color variant that FA/techno. did of me in a plastic, hot, and slightly psychedelic version. Love to bring a bit of glow to your lives like this.
So far as I know it's not uploaded to any archive, but I'll keep you posted.
the Hearth 
@Austin_Dern Maybe someone's borrowing your body--you know how sometimes you just need a coati body for a formal event...
-F
-F
And this delight of a picture's been posted now, to https://www.furaffinity.net/view/55402583/
Terrana ΘΔ&@Austin_Dern Careful you don't melt into the floorboards
@terrana Ooh, good catch, yeah. I'll keep the fire where I stay below my melting point!