about us

behind the animals

about the webmaster/s

i am rowan, toby, forest, swifty, doggy, etc, and i am a (tme) nonbinary lesbian (it/they) from remote northern california. i've been drawing since i was a puppy, but now i'm a grown up doggy with problems. yayyyy

toby is rather serious and contemplative black fox. they like cold weather and forested landscapes.

forest is an orange-and-white stoat (and occasional zigzagoon) with an outgoing, jolly nature. they like saying strange things and making jokes.

statistics

interests	furries, artwork, environment design, computer maintenance, cat genetics, wizards, tarot, niche animal games, animal tf, taurs, forests
favorite music artists	fleetwood mac, vylet pony, june lalonde, king gizzard, andreas vollenweider, radiohead, psapp, david arkenstone (on early troika albums), lifeformed, sweet trip, black moth super rainbow, telefon tel aviv, zammuto, wolfgun, lookfar/louie zong, owl city, abba, animal collective, nobonoko, patricia taxxon, tame impala, the wonder years, halley labs
favorite series	myst, the elder scrolls, doshin the giant, pokemon (pmd > legends arceus > heartgold > firered > whatever else), minecraft, skeal, caves of qud, dwarf fortress, wolfquest, cassette beasts, super animal royale, katamari damacy, skin deep (comic), redwall, ojamajo doremi, warrior cats, magical girl lyrical nanoha
favorite animals	seagulls, badgers, mustelids, aardvarks, pillbugs, foxes, parasaurolophus, steller's jays, tapirs, stoats, cats, silken windhounds, yellow-footed rock wallabies

some misc links: old page layouts, old news archive

faq

q: what's with the multiple names?

a: it wad plurality

q: why do you say you're a dog?

a: sometimes people are dogs. (source)

q: what is a dogthing?

a: theyre just silly dog-like creatures that are easy to draw and facilitate my own artistic experiments without feeling like i'll fuck something up. they often lack eyes or noses and sometimes mouths.

q: how did you make [xyz]?

some answers:

• i made this site with 11ty and nunjucks as my method of static site generation (and i used to use zonelets when i first started the site). you might like this tutorial.
• the rss feed is from an addon for above
• the website uses a lot of flexbox elements, which are like a more modular table that can be resized for other screen sizes etc. theyre pretty fun! i wrote a bit about it here too.
• i edit the site code in sublime text editor (it's free and it rocks!) and use that to automatically push it from github to neocities with this github action
• i draw using krita, clip studio paint, rebelle 5, ms paint, chickenpaint oekaki software, blender 3d, sculptris, aseprite (has a freeware alternative, and various traditional mediums such as oil pastels, water color, and colored pencil - i am rather eclectic!
• the quiz script is from caveofdragonflies and the styleswitcher is from a website formerly known as dynamicdrive that is now being domain-squatted. i wrote about how to use it here.