>> swifty's hq v2.2 > art > charcharacter gallery
info
here's a list of my characters. you can also find them on my toyhouse profile for alternate art, poses, info, etc.
my artfight profile is here. though you know how artfight is in the early days of the season - that's why i have this page! it's a reliable backup! for you!
feel free to message me on artfight, neocities, or mastodon if you have questions.
colors are a suggestion and sort of a "as long as i can tell it's aiming for that color" situation. the only anthro character here is taqui, so please don't anthro-ify any of them.
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the cast
toby/tobias
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they/he/it | melanistic red fox | af#4128348
description
toby is a black fox with a white chest and white tail-tip. his eyes are usually a warm green or muddy yellow, but can also be artistically colored white. he occasionally wears a collar and sometimes has short muzzle whiskers. he is sometimes drawn with a long black hairtuft/bangs covering the right side of his face.
favorite things
plants, bugs, alone time ("me time!"), listening to ambient synth/jazz fusion/other relaxed or melancholy or experimental music, the color green (but especially a yellow-green that's almost mustard), rural woodland.
art prompts/ideas
listening to music with headphones, banging out the tunes, wandering the woods or fields, watching clouds pass over, following paths in the forest, maybe something with a photo-collage background/similar collage elements using personal photos you're nostalgic for. experimental introspective pieces are also very welcome.
miscellaneous
he has no distinct nose or mouth but can still speak and smell. the marking on his chest is just a white marking of some kind. friends can draw him anthro, otherwise exclusively feral form.
forest
[ref 1] / [ref 2] | [toyhouse]
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![[ref 2]](/img/char/ref/forferret.png){kind=link}
it/he | zigzagoon/ferret | af#5981658
description
forest is a shiny zigzagoon with white and orange coloration and silly-looking (usually green) eyes. his left ear is orange, but the other is not. its mask is also orange. it has bright lime green claws. he frequently wears a bandana.
in its ferret form, it is a white ferret with orange mask, orange ears, orange 'pants' marking, green claws, and silly green eyes. it wears a green bandana.
favorite things
dirty jokes, puns, goofing off, painting, getting into MISCHIEF, talking to others, being unpredictable
art prompts/ideas
dangling from something, vandalizing public property, being vaulted like a football, being wrung out like a towel, anything relating to a visual gag
miscellaneous
its zigzagoon form borrows elements from normal, galarian, and beta zigzagoon. its eyes are often placed far apart and one is higher than the other for a toony goofy expression, but feel free to also give them normal creature eyes of whatever style you usually do if you'd rather do that.
swifty/swifttail
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it/she/any | cat-thing | af#53027
description
swifty is an energetic white-and-ginger cat-thing with brown stripes. the left side of its face is covered with a ginger tabby patch and its tail is striped tabby too. the rest of their body is all white. they have vivid lime-green eyes and pink pawpads, nose, mouth, and inner ear (right; the left inner ear is white stylistically).
favorite things
virtual pets, netscape navigator, pokemon (wingull! togekiss! azumarill! clodsire!), drawing, going on walks, getting into mischief, retro furry art (especially from the early 2000s)
art prompts/ideas
exploring the internet, classic meme redraws (nyancat, shocked gopher, etc), emulating popular art styles circa 2000s-2010s, doing noneuclidean pinkie-pie type acrobatics or antics, or dancing to energetic music
miscellaneous
when it's in cat form, it is not a 'full furry' in the sense that it's pretty small and animal-like still. kind of like one of those magical girl mascot types. it could also be considered "chibifur".
taqui
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it/he/they | furry computer virus | af#2177211
description
taqui is a vibrant-colored anthro-form computer program. he is mostly black with bright yellow, red, and blue accents. he has long bunnylike ears tipped with yellow tufts. his tail is long and ends with three stripes (blue, red, yellow) and a yellow spiky tuft at the end.
favorite things
sending email, exploring the virtual landscape, 3d artwork and scenery, early computer design, BBS terminals, windows '98, dialup modems, audio visualizers
art prompts/ideas
scenery generated in an old 3d art program like bryce3d (or made to look like that), generic geocities-like tiled background images (especially stuff like water, stars, trees, etc), anything that plays with the division of real and virtual (like stepping out of the computer screen!), geometric shapes / forcing him into geometric angles and shapes, playing with stylized lineless, plugging into a pc somehow?!
miscellaneous
he does not have a defined nose, but he can be drawn with whiskers (free-floating or attached). the whiskers just have to be one of the colors already on him - red, blue, yellow. the mark on his chest is any sort of star/burst type shape, but doesnt have to be exactly star-shaped (or even have five points exactly). you can be creative with it!
hazel
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she/her | eevee | af#477511
description
hazel is a golden-brown eevee with a white blaze on her forehead (anywhere from 3 to 5 points at the top, rounded at the bottom) and a blue speedwell flower on her left ear. she has dark blue eyes in the style of usual eevee eyes, with the white highlight and blue in the dark part. she often wears a dungeon explorer's badge on her satchel.
favorite things
exploring new dungeons, learning about the world, rescuing pokemon from things, reading
art prompts/ideas
exploring a mystery dungeon, eating delicious food (like poffins, berries, etc), restocking on dungeoneering supplies, recruiting a new teammate
miscellaneous
she's often with apollo, who is considered sort-of her legal guardian, sort-of her brother, and sort-of a partner. she's something around 12 years old in human years, and comes from a troubled background, but is finally happy and free, so taking as much time as she can to enjoy herself.
apollo
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he/they | umbreon | af#477432
description
apollo is a standard umbreon with a yellow chest marking and a red shawl.
favorite things
reading, shopping, the mundane day-to-day life, astronomy
art prompts/ideas
helping hazel do whatever she likes to do, reading in a library, picking out stuff at market, focusing on important paperwork, using an observatory telescope
miscellaneous
he is doing some intense studying to understand the role legendary pokemon take in society so anything to do with that / celestial bodies is swag.
apple
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he/it/they | not-cat | af#5573428
description
apple is a ginger bicolor tabby with green glasses. he also wears a brown collar with a golden tag displaying a rune, a leafy patterned shawl, and a daffodil on his left ear. he has a beauty mark on his right cheek.
favorite things
heartfruit, shop-keeping, drawing (or trying to draw), taking care of plants
art prompts/ideas
gardening time, selling things in a rustic shop, creating some sort of artwork (sewing, painting, etc), checking his shop inventory, reading a book
miscellaneous
he's chubby even for a not-cat! his ears are also tufted at the ends.