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loooove drawing someone in my sketchbook and then drawing their fursona right next to it. like just in case you forgot that guy's also a bunny

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forgot to say earlier... will not be doing artfight this year (july is gonna be a busy month + basketball brain disease)... but if you still wanna attack me my artfight is here

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WHAT is up you're watching hivemind, the CATTIEST show on the internet. my name is riley andasalwaysiamjoinedby my DOGGY co-host graydon 😊

text and no text version cus i still dont know which one i prefer

originally finished 4-14-2024

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the okc thunder have been struck by my furry beam :3

species + explanations below

shai (caracal): y'all may remember me drawing shai as an impala earlier this year... that was before i knew much of anything about him. i have reassessed his vibes and i think he's much more kitty cat now. i thought of making him a lynx since he's canadian, but lynxes are fluffy and he doesn't strike me as a fluffy guy. also caracals are a prime basketball animal (have a 10 ft vertical jump) (fucking crazy)

jdub (smooth terrier mix): i'm always hesitant to give people dog fursonas because i'm kind of a species snob but it just fits him (and jwill) so well. i cannot ignore all the clips of them barking. i think he looks a lot like a jack russell terrier or a beagle but i don't like either breed's markings enough so i just made him a mix of some shit and called it a day

jwill (bắc hà dog): like i said for jdub i cannot ignore the clips of him barking. and he just has the vibes of a really big dog that doesn't realize how big it is and jumps all over people. i chose a vietnamese breed because his family is from vietnam and it was a nice opportunity to look up breeds that aren't really seen in the u.s. ^__^

dort (wolverine): i was stumped on him until i looked up canadian mammals and remembered about the vicious wolverine. seemed like a very fitting animal for a guy who's short (compared to league average) but is a defensive nightmare on the court

chet (maned wolf): maned wolves are another prime basketball animal just for how Fucking Long they are; i was looking for a player that i could draw as one and i finally found one in chet. look at this picture. fucking ridiculous

cason (bison): i'll be honest i just made him a bison because i think he looks like rumble

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The best advice i can give any creator is do it before you're good at it, do it BEFORE you're happy, do it while you suck, do it while you're doubting yourself and get stuck the fuck in, because waiting around to be "good enough" is a motherfucking trap of the highest degree. You'll get good along the way and better after ever project is complete. Remember, this is the greatest thing you've ever created, and then you'll do something else. You're only ever gonna get better, but not if you stand still.

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youre not “bad at art” you just need to find a character to latch onto to where you draw them 1 million times and you improve dramatically

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guys you're not gonna believe this one... i drew ja morant again

ref pic is this from the 21-22 media day, he was sooooo cute here... also used that pic for my goofy pride layout on main

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the okc thunder have been struck by my furry beam :3

species + explanations below

shai (caracal): y'all may remember me drawing shai as an impala earlier this year... that was before i knew much of anything about him. i have reassessed his vibes and i think he's much more kitty cat now. i thought of making him a lynx since he's canadian, but lynxes are fluffy and he doesn't strike me as a fluffy guy. also caracals are a prime basketball animal (have a 10 ft vertical jump) (fucking crazy)

jdub (smooth terrier mix): i'm always hesitant to give people dog fursonas because i'm kind of a species snob but it just fits him (and jwill) so well. i cannot ignore all the clips of them barking. i think he looks a lot like a jack russell terrier or a beagle but i don't like either breed's markings enough so i just made him a mix of some shit and called it a day

jwill (bắc hà dog): like i said for jdub i cannot ignore the clips of him barking. and he just has the vibes of a really big dog that doesn't realize how big it is and jumps all over people. i chose a vietnamese breed because his family is from vietnam and it was a nice opportunity to look up breeds that aren't really seen in the u.s. ^__^

dort (wolverine): i was stumped on him until i looked up canadian mammals and remembered about the vicious wolverine. seemed like a very fitting animal for a guy who's short (compared to league average) but is a defensive nightmare on the court

chet (maned wolf): maned wolves are another prime basketball animal just for how Fucking Long they are; i was looking for a player that i could draw as one and i finally found one in chet. look at this picture. fucking ridiculous

cason (bison): i'll be honest i just made him a bison because i think he looks like rumble

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One massive, legitimate way to improve as a writer or artist or in any creative endeavor really, is to become absolutely obsessed with something and to allow yourself to be weird about it. Genuinely mean this btw.

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the okc thunder have been struck by my furry beam :3

species + explanations below

shai (caracal): y'all may remember me drawing shai as an impala earlier this year... that was before i knew much of anything about him. i have reassessed his vibes and i think he's much more kitty cat now. i thought of making him a lynx since he's canadian, but lynxes are fluffy and he doesn't strike me as a fluffy guy. also caracals are a prime basketball animal (have a 10 ft vertical jump) (fucking crazy)

jdub (smooth terrier mix): i'm always hesitant to give people dog fursonas because i'm kind of a species snob but it just fits him (and jwill) so well. i cannot ignore all the clips of them barking. i think he looks a lot like a jack russell terrier or a beagle but i don't like either breed's markings enough so i just made him a mix of some shit and called it a day

jwill (bắc hà dog): like i said for jdub i cannot ignore the clips of him barking. and he just has the vibes of a really big dog that doesn't realize how big it is and jumps all over people. i chose a vietnamese breed because his family is from vietnam and it was a nice opportunity to look up breeds that aren't really seen in the u.s. ^__^

dort (wolverine): i was stumped on him until i looked up canadian mammals and remembered about the vicious wolverine. seemed like a very fitting animal for a guy who's short (compared to league average) but is a defensive nightmare on the court

chet (maned wolf): maned wolves are another prime basketball animal just for how Fucking Long they are; i was looking for a player that i could draw as one and i finally found one in chet. look at this picture. fucking ridiculous

cason (bison): i'll be honest i just made him a bison because i think he looks like rumble

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looking thru my files earlier reminded me that i never posted the rendered version of ja meowrant on here LOL oops

ja meowrant, gg jackson (both g's stand for grizzly), and yuki kawamura (i couldn't figure out a hare pun)

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tlb furry art from january. i was waiting to post these until i'd drawn dwayne to complete the set, but considering my current obsession... it's not happening anytime soon. just imagine him as a wolf

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end of an era in my life (just graduated) and this one's almost filled up... time for another sketchbook dump :3

descriptions and such below

ja action shots from getty images. i need to get back to doing these, i've been really stressing about how i draw human faces when full bodies should probably be my main concern LOL

figure drawings (5 mins each)

another action shot from getty images (ft. shai also this time)

furrifying players from other teams now. i know next to nothing about the kings but i have two friends who like keon so i had to draw him, he's a serval (thank you adrian for helping w/ his sona). the other doodles are just me

random hodgepodge page ft keon again, a pic of steph where he looks like mother mary, (furry) riley hivemind standing next to (furry) ja cus they're the same height, null, and other Ja Images

yuki and ja art drawn after the last game of the regular season (WHERE THEY LET YUKI ACTUALLY PLAY <333) and me stressing over the play-in game (i've been drawing myself as a bear when it comes to basketball stuff bc i root for the bear team LOL)

figure drawings (20 mins each). i had the goal of being way more deliberate with my lines this time and i think it turned out well -w-

all done after the play-in game against the mavs (except for spongebob he was right before). we proceeded to get absolutely washed by the thunder... but those maybe 36 hours after the play-in i was having the time of my life. I LOVE BASKETBALL!!!!!!!

the put-back dunk ja hit during the play-in. that shit got me so hyped if it wasn't like 10pm during that game i would've been hooting hollering and running around my apartment

i switched to rooting for the timberwolves in round 1 after grizzlies got eliminated. random pic of anthony edwards from media day, my fav guys on the team, crunch, and furry naz reid (i like having one player on the team be the same species as the mascot)

top part is mostly me finagling with the extra colored pencils i bought (chartreuse, turquoise, and process red. mostly bought the turquoise for drawing the grizzlies vancouver jerseys LOL). then some random jamies and rileys cus i was rewatching the hivemind starting 5s vids (they are 1000x better now that i know ball)

random hodgepodge page ft. santiago, furry jaylen wells (thank you veedy for helping w/ his sona), furry ja, me (normal tapir sona), and andre

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collection of creatures i saw today #MyCreatures

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draw it bad and draw it weird and draw it catered only to yourself and draw it wobbly and draw it too small and draw it with the default brush and draw it without using references and draw it and leave it unfinished and draw it for the first time and draw it

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The joke about furries defaulting to a dog face shape for every single animal is especially funny to me considering canines as a whole are the hardest furries for me to draw and any time i do draw them it feels like this

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hello writers.