Auburn Arcana 🪄

This is a bounce chibi that I made last month. It was mainly an exercise with keyframe animation.

I did end up making two different motions in the process!

Trans Day of Visibility drawing '26

Happy Easter! With how close it was to Trans Day of Visibility, I had the idea to combine the two.

Local witch and pet rock are up to something! <(￣︶￣)>

Lily Blight

This is a chibi that I made for a Touhou Gacha Satire collab project. I had a silly Halloween-coded idea and imagined "Lily Blight" as some kind of anti-hero reaper / plague lord.

Backgrounds aren't a part of the submission proper, but I wanted to try my hand at one for fun as a side piece of the project. <(￣︶￣)>

Sherry Alistair character sheet

I've been working on a new character design sheet formula to use for a set of OCs. This approach is also useful to me for making individual outfits, showcasing equipment, and the like.

I recently finished this first one for Sherry!

Aspiring Wanderers cover illustration

I've been starting to reboot my OC projects recently, and wanted to try my hand at some cover art with the characters.

It's also for January's VGen Challenge, whose "Adventure" theme particularly stood out to me!

VGen post: https://vgen.co/challenge/jan-2026?contestSubmission=1ca5c677-f39e-49ce-b766-eff8cceca849

(For each month, you can vote for your favorites in the following seven days - February 1st to 7th, for this month of January!)

Auburn's art summary 2025

These are my highlights for the art that I did in 2025! （＾∇＾）

The art summary's design was made from scratch. Please feel free to use it for yours! You can find the templates here:

Friendly hug

For this month's VGen contest, I kept it simple with a drawing of two of my OCs Saki (fox girl on left) and Abigail ("arboran" girl on right) in a hugging pose together. I wanted to try some pose practice, but also had the idea of close friendship in mind.

Close friends can be family as well! "Found family" is very important, whether it's finding individual friends or communities to be close to.

Daiyousei chibi

Daiyousei from Touhou is a lot of fun to render, and can have quite a lot of color brought out! （つ≧▽≦)つ

There's also a nervous-looking variant that happened in the process of making this.

AuburnBless chibi

This is a chibi that I made for November's VGen contest! The theme this month was "Wishes", so I decided to try a Pray/Bless expression. Chibi drawing is a relatively new skill. I started occasionally doing them since January, learning from the book 「 Beginner's Guide to Drawing Manga Chibi Girls 」.

I find detailed fullbodies to be particularly fun. It helps me practice more thoroughly - and they're really good for emotes and expressive graphic designs!

Here are some sketches of the ideas as well!

Thanksgiving list '25

I made a Thanksgiving list to write down things that I'm grateful for! There are a lot of things that mean a lot to me here.

Thank you all for the support as always! I don't consider myself very vocal about it, but I really appreciate everybody who invests their valuable time with me in any way. <3

Lily White AYAYA chibi

I recently made my first Touhou chibi! I'm planning on making a set over time, but Lily White is one of my favorites.

Naturally, the AYAYA expression is easy to start with as well.

「 Face The Night 」

I like to draw costumes for myself each Halloween. In fact, my shadow youkai OC enables me to do two at once!

I recently started joining VGen's contests, so I decided to try a background with the "Fog" theme in mind. As for the costumes that I experimented with, I went for a knight & werefox this time, personalizing each to my tastes.

It's as if we're out on a quest, Castlevania style! Or we're simply trick-or-treating.

You can find the VGen entry here!