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Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈

@foxingaround.bsky.social

13 Foxes in a Trenchcoat. All of them pretending to be an Illustrator named Val Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/FoxingAround Twitter: https://x.com/foxing_around

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Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2d ago

if an octopus wore a shirt, where would the arms go. and how many

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 3w ago

Hard at work building a tunnel Dachshunds were originally bred to hunt badgers in narrow burrows, as a result they often enjoy digging or crawling through tight spaces

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last mo.

children of any species are very good at being annoying and very cute while doing that

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2mo ago

First art class in history There are some cave paintings that look as if someone held a child's hands to guide them in applying paint to stone

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Our Ancestors. I can't help but wonder about those homo sapiens and neanderthal hybrid children, and how they must have been raised and loved and been part of their community #paleoart

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Doing the books at the Cat's Haberdashery

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Moth Bear. hide your fish and your coats

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 6mo ago

hey to my followers, if you can, could you help out my friend Ahmed and his family? I have been in contact with him for nearly 3 years, he has a fundraiser for food and medicine until the crossings out of Gaza are opened to leave. I'd appreciate if you could share chuffed.org/project/1508...

Please help Ahmed and his family get food, drink and medicine.

I am Ahmed Shaaban, a father of four children: Jana, Malek, Lana, Amir, and my wife, Laila. I had a link for evacuation and raised the entire amount. However, the occupation imposed a complete blockad...

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Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 6mo ago

light is the left hand of darkness… A lino print of Genly and Estraven during their long walk over a glacier if you are at all interested in buying one of those dm me, I can make more

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If a little old lady wanders into a bar for various creatures and undead, but doesn't bother anyone, you simply serve her a drink Inspired by Mrs Gammage in the Discworld novels

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Before he was the monster at the centre of a labyrinth he was just a little brother. Ariadne and the Minotaur of Crete, when he was still just Asterion #illustration #greekmyth

Kill James Bond!@killjamesbond.bsky.social · 12mo ago

James Bond should not be a woman. Or a man. Or nonbinary. James Bond should not be

Jessie Gender@jessiegender.bsky.social · 12mo ago

I don’t need a “lady Bond,” but I’m always intrigued when people say it “can’t work.” Do they mean his womanizing is too core? That a woman couldn’t replicate his films spy dynamics? Everyone seems to mean something different—and that’s what fascinates me.

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 12mo ago

lore drop. I have a little brother who's turning 8 soon, and he's requested a birthday invitation card with neanderthals and mammoths. I'll post it here once it's done, if he agrees, and his reference sketches if he permits.

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 12mo ago

Two kinds of early humans. I wanted to draw the Sapiens and Neanderthal couple again

an illustration of a homo sapiens and homo neanderthaliensis. The Neanderthal is a young woman with brown skin and black hair that's tied up. She wears tan and brown clothing and is kneeling next to the Sapiens. he is a black young man with short hair and beige clothing. both are holding pink flowers and the woman is placing one into the man's hair, both are smiling at each other

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 12mo ago

For a brief moment in time humans weren't alone on this planet. I do wonder if our ancestors took note when Neanderthals disappeared, or if they ever wondered where these people went #paleoart

first page of a comic. a small black girl dressed in simple fur clothing and with yellow ochre on her face and hair sits by a bush and observes a little caterpillar. There are mountains in the background and a few more bushes. She looks up as a woman approaches, smiling slightly. that woman has neanderthal features, her fave is broad with a large nose, her forehead very low. she has brown skin and short brown hair

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 12mo ago

For a brief moment in time humans weren't alone on this planet. I do wonder if our ancestors took note when Neanderthals disappeared, or if they ever wondered where these people went #paleoart

Page 2. The woman grasps the girl's hand and places bright red berries into her palm. the girl is excited and the woman grins at her before moving away, to were others stand, two black adults, one carrying a baby on her back, and another neanderthal. the girl eats the berries and watched her go.
three text bubbles show the girl's thoughts.
"when we travel we sometimes meet other groups, and sometimes we meet people who look different from anyone else I know. They speak funny, I've only learned a few words they say, and they don't know all of our words either. The adults trade with them for tools and fur, they tell us if they saw herds in passing and we tell them if we saw fruit."

page 3
in the first panel the neanderthal woman and a black man with tied back hair and a beard are facing each other. around them the text says "they are shorter than even grandma and are really strong, stronger than papa I think. Once I got to hold one of their spears, the tip was attached to the wood with some black sticky stuff."
another panel shows a black homo sapiens man with a yellow headband and a brown neanderthal woman with flowers in her hair, they are smiling at each other. "Mama told me one of them went with her uncle and his family, but I never met them."
The next panel shows the woman with the berries walking off towards the mountains, following a few other stocky neanderthals. the little girl is holding an adult's hand as she watches them go with a smile, her parent leading her in another direction

page 4
it is snowing and the sky is grey. an old woman dressed in furs and a heavy cloak holds out her hand to catch snowflakes. it is the little girl from the previous pages, now with grey hair but the same kind of ochre paint on her face. the next panel shows her walking with a stick, around her are others, including children, all dressed in similar furs carrying bows or spears, someone is dragging a sledge. There is snow everywhere, covering the landscape and distant mountains. a wolf or dog walks with them.
the old woman is thinking "I haven't seen them since I was a small child. i often wonder where they went"

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 12mo ago

follow me on patreon if you'd like to see more work in progress stuff like this palaeolithic humans comic I'm working on. 🦇🦊 www.patreon.com/FoxingAround

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 12mo ago

The fiercest warrior needs the most good natured steed #illustration #medieval

ink and watercolour illustration of a dog dressed as a knight riding a pig instead of a horse. the dog is white with brown spots, it's wearing clashing green blue and orange in the style of a Landsknecht, with a plumed hat. it's holding a lande and has one paw on its hip. the pig is very fat, tan with brown spots. it has a saddle and reigns which are turquoise with yellow detailing

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last yr.

Doesn’t matter if there’s a heatwave or snowfall. You will always see both someone in a heavy coat and in shorts with flip flops on any given street

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last yr.

Spinning yarn with mama

Watercolour illustration of a sheep in clothes, with a lamb on her knee. The sheep is dressed in a skirt, cap, and is wearing a red shawl. She is sitting on a small stool, and the lamb on her lap is wearing a green dress. The lamb is reading out of a book, while the sheep is plucking at the lamb’s wool to spin with a handheld spindle

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last yr.

You expect a lot of rude behaviour working with customers, but being treated like you’re an NPCs is surprising

A four panel comic of a cartoon fox and a sheep. The fox is standing behind a shop counter and is wearing a dark blue apron, the sheep is grey and white.

In the first panel the sheep is walking up to the counter and the fox is saying “Good morning!” With a smile

the second panel is a close up on the Fox’ head, it is saying “what can I do f-“. At the edge of the panel the sheep’s hoof is touching a blue-ish panel with words on it, they are cut off.

The third panel is the fox looking shocked while the sheep smiles expectantly. A panel of transparent material is hovering in front of the fox, with all caps “skip dialogue” written on it.

In the final panel the fox is leaning past the transparent panel which the sheep is pushing. The fox is yelling “hey!”

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last yr.

Usually they say dogs and owners are the same. Sometimes apparently not so much

Watercolour illustration of people walking dogs. On top of the image it says “opposites attract”.
The first illustration is of a tan Great Dane with a red collar. It is being walked by a small old lady in a purple coat, grey skirt, and red hat. She is holding the leash and smiling, the dog is taller than her.
The second illustration is a broadly build balding man in a blue track suit and wearing sandals. He is walking a very small white and brown terrier, that doesn’t reach his knee

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last yr.

For anyone new here, I have a Patreon! Fox comics to up a bit in advance there, as well as personal art I make~ You can also request a monthly sketch starting at 10$ www.patreon.com/FoxingAround

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creating The webcomic "Foxing Around", occasionally other things

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Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · last yr.

Competition shows increasingly feel like people fighting for their life, not to show off their skills and craft

A four panel comic of cartoon animals.
In the first a fox is sitting curled up under a blanket, holding a remote and saying “lets watch some kind of competition TV show. I love seeing creative people display their skills!”
Second panel is a beaver speaking excitedly, there is a slightly rounded black border around the panel, like an old fashioned tv set. The beaver is saying “winning would really mean a lot, of course. But i mostly want the price money since it’s hard to make a living with this.”
Third panel is like the second, now the beaver is looking at the viewer with a stressed expression and saying “this is my only chance at happiness and a career. Between school debts and keeping myself and my family alive this price money is my last hope. If I don’t win I have to give up my dreams. Ha ha”

Fourth panel is the fox, under a blanket and holding a knitting project. It looks devastated and sad

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

Chick Peas

A watercolour and colour pencil illustration. In the background a bright green pea pod is lying on the ground, slightly open. Instead of peas two little yellow chicks are nestled inside it, with a space between them. Another chick is standing slightly in front of them, bent towards the ground where a few dots indicate seeds it could peck at

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

Some things, like foxes, really are upside down in Australia

Four panel comic, featuring a red fox, a grey cat, and a flying fox
Panel 1:
Cat: “who are you talking to there?”
Fox, holding a phone: “my distant relative in Australia”
Panel 2:
Fox, speaking from a phone: “say hi to cat!”
The face of a fox, upside down: “hi”
Panel 3:
Cat: “don’t you think it’s a dumb stereotype to draw Australians that way?”
Fox: “huh?”
Panel 4:
Zoomed out view on the upside down fox, revealing that it’s a flying fox so it’s upside down because of this, not because of a joke about Australians being upside down
Flying fox: “like what?”

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

I’m posting comics and other stuff as well! If it’s not fox comics it’s mostly work in progress things

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

www.patreon.com/FoxingAround If you would like to see comics early, or get a monthly sketch, I’ve got a Patreon to follow!

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

Woolly Bats… I just think they’re really neat

Digital comic of a small brown bat on a dark background, each of the four panels have white writing

Panel 1:
South east asia has a type if bat with unusual behaviour

Panel 2 (the bat is flying)
The Hardwicke’s Woolly Bat has a mutualistic relationship with pitcher plants

Panel 3 (the bat is approaching a pitcher plant)
For the bat the pitcher plant is a nice safe space to sleep in. They are too big to slip down too deep and touch digestive fluids

Panel 4 (the bat sits inside the plant)
The plant? Gets food fertiliser directly from the source (poop)

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

You ever miss one proper night’s sleep and suddenly you’re in the dungeon dimension

Three panels of a comic
In the first panel a pigeon is asking an annoyed looking cat “what’s with fox today?”
The second panel shows a fox in the distance, hunched over with fur bristling. A speech bubble says “sleep deprived…”
Third panel shows the fox in a blurred purple and green cloud, wide eyed and disoriented. Hard to read words, doodles, and sound effects surround it without much cohesion. The fox is overwhelmed and has thoughts going nowhere before fading away

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

It’s the season of seeing strange dancing lights in the darkness and realising a dog is coming towards you

A comic in two panels. The first is solid black with blurred dancing lights. The words say “a will-o’-the-wisp”?
The second panel is a dark grey, showing a person in a big jacket and a dog on a lead. The dog has a glowing lit up collar, the words say “no! A shiny dog!”

Foxing Around🦊🏳️‍🌈@foxingaround.bsky.social · 2y ago

The entire family can’t express emotions

A four panel comic of foxes, one slightly larger and a paler orange
First panel, the small fox has a speech bubble “people in my family don’t really talk about emotions or affection. I should do it more
Second panel, small fox: “hey mum! I love you, give my love to the others too!”
Third panel, larger fox is looking at the smaller in surprise
Fourth panel, smaller fox looks annoyed, larger fox looks agitated and is speaking: “oh no! What happened? Are you alright!?”