Julie Sqveakaroo @JulieSqveakaroo@dragon.style

Came home to a bun in the yard, so that's always a good sign!

https://dragon.style/media/ARTpl-IV9PAD-KCqwfE

Went to a ball game today!

I'm so incredibly sweaty and melty right now, out isn't funny!

https://dragon.style/media/BQ0P-4Ncu8h4emfE9BY

Today's sketch:

Phooki's get very into their gaming, and can amazingly play anything on an old Atari 2600 joystick, no matter the current number of buttons reqvired.

The more involved she is in the game, the more the tongue licks against her lips. (Seriously, I do this, and it's annoying. I don't know why it happens.)

https://dragon.style/media/2rIXJKn1t3XwYP7V9ls

Today's sketches:

A plushie bat djinni! The bottle and the /POOF/ smoke are both plush and sqvishable, as well!
https://dragon.style/media/Ig8fGYP1rh-6MZX8avo

Gracie got turned into a bouncy inflatable riding toy! Useful both in and out of the water, with plastic handlebar arms!
https://dragon.style/media/TbmVIY8-zx2YP1oncqI

Julie got a little drunk on the 'ol Oxygen tank... https://dragon.style/media/ooVxECdCcYiw8wObF8c

I cannot take any more of the daily sitcom "Politicians Behaving Badly".

There's no laugh track, and damned if I can figure out which lines are supposed to be funny, plus I hate a lot of the cast. It's kinda like my gripe with many other modern 'funny' shows, in that when every character is utterly horrible, where is the humor, and why am I even watching this?

Out in Waukesha, listening to electro swing jazz, drinking (brown sugar milk porter) , and waiting on pizza.

We did not go see our friend... there are weird tensions, and considering all that she's dealing with, I understand... Raccoon is not handling it ok, so today is still weirdly stress filled.

Today's sketch:

Desiree, my pac-mouse, chomping up a naughty ghostievixen who was, obviously, being naughty.

https://dragon.style/media/oegWJT97u0MFfe5j6UU

Tomorrow is going to be difficult.

We're going to see a friend who is in a horrific custody battle with their abusive ex for their daughter. Our friend is likely going to lose this battle... and the jerk of an ex is already responsible for her losing her home.

She's essentially homeless, her current husband and son are in another state setting down roots with the rest of her family, and she can't live outside something like a 25 mile radius from the ex (I'm not clear on why) or she forfeits custody.

The daughter wants to be with her mom, and the family there that actually loves and cares for her. The ex just wants custody out of spite, and the life there will be far less nurturing and far more manipulative and stressful. The courts are siding with the ex.

There's not really anything we can do to help. We're going to let our friend vent out some of this garbage, but there's nothing to the actual situation that we can do.

I'm already hurting and angry as heck over this... but I can't do a damn thing to fix it.

Today's Sketches!

PiperChu, my Pika girl.
I had known when I first made her that female Pika's have heart-shaped tail ends... that was too cute of a detail not to incorporate.
https://dragon.style/media/VCwbTRPggmev5_tJQb4

Kyushotai (or simply Kyu), my goop canine is a sweetheart, very faintly acidic (like watered down lime juice), and is a total ditz. She taught herself how to juggle by making little slime balls out of her goop... and how to make a horrific mess at the same time...
https://dragon.style/media/Alf2LrLJTJOeU1mNx8c

Tried making another Pooka drone. If I can't figure out how to make something look right, I'll usually try to draw a chibi version, and that helps me to conceptualize. Plus, she's cute!
https://dragon.style/media/UAsBeAGsZ7VIE-YVQMs

... crap.

Steve Ditko passed away.

Badly overheated... done with work, now doing laundry. Sketch postings will happen, later.

I needed a laugh, today!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-3v4OsPmsUg&feature=youtu.be&a=

Further rambling on PIK!

By default, PIK has no set gender, species, attitude, or appearance. Those settings are made upon user initialization. The product's slogan reads as:

"Pick one up, and then PIK what you want!"

PIK comes in a physical keypad tablet, about 10 inches by 6, and is completely portable, running on a 6 hour battery of constant holo-projector use (up to 18 hours in audio-only). PIK, itself, is projected into a field of 12 inches tall, bounded by an 8x8 sqvare area. PIK has no physical form, and is completely digital/intangible, and cannot physically interact with objects, though they will move within their confines to appear to do so... sitting in doll chairs or stepping around paperclips... that sort of thing.

PIK learns to customize itself to your wants in a similar fashion to modern day digissistants, but because initialization creates a bond between a user and their PIK instead of the modern trawlling of web search data, the margin of error due to overly-eager commercialization becomes a very slim possibility.

Larger models are available for home use, with larger holographic projection areas, but this portable model is the most common seen in use. And, yes, there is a Deluxxxe model, marketed as 'PIK your pleasure' that does have some limited force-field manipulation to simulate a physical presence, but it is STRICTLY a simulation... falling in love with your PIK fully voids the warranty.

Today's sketches:

Mitzi, a spidertaur character that I made years ago, back when I was trying to do a webcomic, and learned that I can't keep a schedule.

Back then, she was tiger-striped, but I felt that a snow leopard would be a better visual choice. (Seriously, consistent stripes are durn problematic!!)

New in this version, multi-eyes and her hair in webbed braids!
https://dragon.style/media/HRDMCULOgrfSKJvxR18

PIK, a holographic digital assistant/search browser/app suite. PIK functions much like modern day voices on your phones, but has an advanced AI that can easily grok things like privacy and boundaries.

In attract-mode, before they get linked to their owner, PIK endlessly toys with their appearance slider bars.
https://dragon.style/media/EOP9pJW5cVhih-cCqp8

Which is more fun - dorky?

I got 1100011 problems but binary ain't 1

... or should I convert it to hex, first?

Last post not aimed at anyone following me/that I follow, here.

I'm not yet comfortable enough to post or doodle many lewds... not out of shame, but out of not wanting to gain an audience, which is one of the several reasons that I stopped drawing for a while.

Being recognized for something is very difficult when you're not very good at navigating social stuff, and it makes me want to hide more.

Being artistically recognized in furry-circles for smut is even harder, because our characters phase in and out with our depictions of our selves, and a lot of folks distort those lines further... they want you to be your characters... no, not everyone does this, but I had enough in my following that did in some very possessive ways... even in jest, and it was sometimes awkward.

I don't want that back, again.

Today's sketch:

An inflatable deer, as viewed from the rear!

https://dragon.style/media/hramo0EtemB7gHMBbkA

This month has been the most artistically productive month I've had in literally years...

... but...

... I know that one of the triggers for me to crave drawing so bad is depression avoidance... I'm productive when I'm trying hard not to think about everything weighing down on me.

None of it personal... just the state of the world, and that's not likely to qvickly change... so...

... yay, more art, I guess...

I'm getting a 10% raise.

That is just the adjustment-raise.

Later this year, or early next year, I may be getting another raise of similar caliber as a position-raise for tasks that I'm already doing.

I can work with this!