Me ("Blurry"): "Hey, you. Explain to me your character archetype, your way of thinking, and your motivations, aspirations, relationships..." Almy: "I don't follow. Shouldn't you know the answer to all those better than anyone? You’re our artist, right?" Me ("Blurry"): "I struggle to develop you satisfyingly. Hardly any ideas I have for you manage to stick." Almy: "Maybe... write things down, then?" Me ("Blurry"): "That just leads to a vicious cycle where I can't accurately describe what I'm feeling, so I just rewrite my own work over and over again with no progress." Almy: "Sounds rough."

Hashtags of #SaveSlyCommunity, #SlyCooper and #SlyCooperOC

…If only because this is a Sly Cooper OC that I'm venting about. I've spent a decade struggling to pin down who she is and what exactly I'm supposed to do with her.

You guys ever have a love/hate relationship with your own OCs?

I've spent over a decade trying to figure out the lyrics to this song; they're apparently all in English but nobody's listed them anywhere

(This song was made for the Japanese version of Sly 1)
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youtu.be/u_oNkU9X_Qs

Becca: "You kinda suck." Almy: "No, you kinda suck."

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Friendship

*notices uw wawwet*

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Experiments with drawing an older Carmelita Fox (nicknamed "MILF!Carmelita"). Done through tracing over and through some Sly 3 art (where she's in her early 20's) to understand the anatomy, and then making my own sketch of her, followed by an aged-up variation of it (where she's meant to be about 50). Sorry, guys. That darn Sly Cooper got to her first. You can want, you can you'd-like-to, but you can't have.

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Be normal, guys

A digital SKETCH of Sly Cooper holding a PENCIL to be used for ART Pick it up

Ran into some AI-generated #SlyCooper art and IMMEDIATELY went to sketching this out of anger

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Zephyr (the main character of Tornado Outbreak, an obscure 7th-gen game) is adjusting a pair of sunglasses on his face. Almy is looking a bit flattered/shy in the background. Zephyr: "I was unsure at first, but maybe this could work—thanks!" Almy: "Just happy to help!"

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Thought I'd cross my cringe Sly Cooper OCs over with #TornadoOutbreak; the two games share key staff and even an art style, after all

I personally associate Almy with the wind anyways, so here's her helping a guy because the sun is a deadly laser

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I usually hate rendering; it takes a long time and I struggle to wrap my head around light in 3D space, but the inks here were good enough that I decided to try it

Sorry again, Becca, you'll have to endure it

An older Sly and Carmelita getting all smoochy-smoochy and touchy-feely, good for them, good for them Oh, right, some random brat is also there and she's gagging for some reason, but that's not what's important here "Happy (last-minute or belated) Valentine's Day"

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Here's your Valentine's Day shipping trash, guys

Becca had to suffer for you to get it

I hope you're happy

A Becca with oni-like traits to match her weapon, presumably just a costume but who knows

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oni

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Okay, now it's art

Almy sits on the stomach of a Murray lying down, in the thinker pose. Murray slightly lifts up his head and asks, "So, uh, you done thinking, sweetie?"

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Something else I did a few days ago

Becca: "I'm gettin' real sick of that guy treating us like some prissy princesses…" Almy: (sigh) "What a gentleman…"

Becca: (confusedly) "What?" Almy: (defensively) "What?"

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Hey look, it's Becca and Almy again, what are those two knuckleheads doing this time

Almy: "I tried to warn you…" Becca: (resting an ice pack on her head) "Shut up."

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And now, back to our regularly scheduled programming

Panel #1: An extra-smol toddler-aged Becca (with a hairstyle and appearance that her present-day self would very much not want to be reminded of, lmao) standing in front of a pale blue background with a chalk/crayon sun and rainbow on it. She looks proud, hands on her hips. "Ev'yone knows my mama n' papa 'cuz dey've done a ho'e watta gwate t'ings!" Panel #2: Everything is black-and-white and zoomed-in, with the background turning completely black. Toddler!Becca has a shocked expression, as a "realization flash" or "beam of enlightenment" (you know, like the ones that show up in anime) passes behind her from (our) left to right. The onomatopoeia reads, "Suddenly… sentient thought!" Panel #3: Colors and zoom return to before, but the background turns to a blue gradient. Toddler!Becca looks somewhere between sad and bewildered, like she's beginning to have her first existential crisis. "D-dat means I gotta do some gwate t'ings too, wight?" *By the way, this is how Sly sees Becca even today

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Becca but bab

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This is a quick sketch I drew
Please be normal about it

Expression redraws of Becca, based on "Toon Link" from The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker.

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Becca sometimes reminds me of another expressive character

Almy's face being constructed step-by-step #1: Base circle #2: "Rounded square" shape and construction lines #3: Eyes, eyebrows and nose — upper face #4: Cheek fur, mouth and face markings — lower face #5: Ears and neck

Design notes and guidelines for each step

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I want to draw Almy more consistently (since Becca has some of the work already done for her) so I spent the morning figuring out how to make sense of her head design

So here's an updated take on The Murray's daughter, hair construction will come later

Becca with a troubled expression thinking, "Why doesn't anybody take me seriously…?"

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OCs, especially next-gen ones, tend to get a bad rep and get viewed as "cringe", "uninteresting", "shallow copies", etc.

I think the joke at the heart of Becca's character is "what if one of those OCs took stuff like that personally"

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Two mercenary kids and their enabling "supervisor"

Sketch redraw of a scene from the first episode of the 80's Dirty Pair anime; Almy is in Yuri's place and Becca is in Kei's

The original screenshot from the anime

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Aiming to watch some "lady action" anime (as Kyoto Video calls it) like Dirty Pair and the like to better inform what I wanna do with Becca and Almy

The dynamic that Kei and Yuri have is very close to what I want theirs to be

Becca and Almy in pajamas, Becca's clothing colors are tweaked (dark blue socks, shirt color changed from pale yellow to white to be easier on the eyes)

Becca and Almy stretching, Becca's shoe bottom is now white rather than red

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Some relatively minor edits of my last two arts. Onwards to the new year!

My original and very rough sketch of Becca and Almy stretching, based on some poses I found online. Almy is doing an overhead arm stretch while Becca is doing something similar to a cross-body shoulder stretch.

Will's take on the previous sketch. Onomatopoeia has been added; Almy is now yawning and has a more relaxed expression. A cracking sound comes from Becca's body, and she has one eye open and one foot slightly off the ground.

A refined remake of the previous two sketches, updated with the duo's "current" look and color scheme. The two seem to be loosening up their bodies after their previous stretching, and are now visibly smiling at one another.

Way earlier this year, I shared some B&A concept art with @groovywill.bsky.social and he surprised me by putting his own spin on it.

So for my last art of 2025, I've decided to take things full circle.

And hopefully, 2026 will be a better year for me.

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bumping my goat
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two eepy furry kids in jammie-jam-jams, now in color

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two eepy furry kids in jammie-jam-jams

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Quick Almy scribbles plus a cameo

Happy holidays from Becca and Almy

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Had an hour and a half or so to burn, so I cobbled this together

squish

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parenting

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(No, seriously, save him)