February 2026 Sketchbook - MastaFran ComicsMastaFran Comics

Traditional sketch and digital greyscale sketch of an anthropomorphic male raccoon, in a long hooded coat, as he walks among a crowd of various taller anthropomorphic animals, only showing their feet.

As of writing this, it’s my 34th’s birthday and I’m hanging out with friends to unwind about this rough month of family emergencies. The second month of the year is done, so it’s time to share all the new and old artwork I’ve been scratching up!

Black History Month Book Fair

On my first convention of the year, I went to an elementary school for a Black History Month Book Fair! With Game Store and Pizza Man content being less appropriate for grade schoolers, I had Shirley’s Day being the only comic in my line up.

While it was great to be an inspiration for being a Black artist, I couldn’t help but feel like an asshole, as none of my books featured any black characters at all. I’ve got middle of the road outlines and pitches for black human characters, but most of my artwork is my slow change up into drawing anthropomorphic animals. I still miss comics, so I’ll try to refine some of those outlines further down the line. There will be more conventions in the future, so keep an eye open for that.

Blackmask Status

Screenshot of a pixel illustration of an anthropomorphic male tanuki standing on a tree branch ready to fire his bow with an arrow tipped with a large leaf.

Outside of editing cutscene pixel art, I’m doing nothing significant developing Blackmask. Adam’s been bug testing between his dayjob and I’m organizing my writing files to tighten the looser aspects of the broad of the main quest story line.

Traditional pencil and digital coloring of a scene depicting an anthropomorphic cat wearing light armor with small pauldrons and tassets, standing at the counter of a shady anthropomorphic male raccoon inquiring about the hidden collection of various weapon and shield equipment behind the raccoon.

Art creation isn’t as robust as last month. I skipped my many of my Twitch streams cramming for the test to renew my CDL. It’s this odd in-between of rote knowledge I can intuit from experience and specific blind spots to exact numbers and terms the test needs answered.

Pencil sketch of an anthropomorphic male raccoon wearing a scarf, crawling inside a dark cave where he encounters four anthropomorphic rats wearing armor and holding tiny swords and spears in the raccoons face.

But I can’t complain; doing this will let me keep my day job and livelihood. I’m in no mood to go job hunting again, but you’re welcome to browse my shop for a sticker or two!

Blind Spots

Digital illustration of a small anthropomorphic raccoon wearing a long blue coat and brown pants, tiptoeing under the legs of large, brown maned anthropomorphic female lion in revealing red plate armor that barely covers her large chest patrolling near a brick wall, holding a large spear and shield. The lion seems oblivious to the raccoon underneath her carefully saying under the shadow of her large breasts. A small game UI style message reads: "Undetected"

Despite the bad art hurdles, I did get substantive artwork completed on a lark. Inspired by a BlueSky post, I drew an illustration of Cole taking advantage of his shorter height to benefit his stealth! You can check out the blog post to see the process creating this illustration!

Icon Commissions

Other commissions I’ve been working on are these icons. Making these icons are lighter work, but I feel slower than I want to be outputting these at. Being slow is worth it as the quality is good.Despite focusing on knocking out my big art projects My commissions are lightly opened. I don’t mind taking time for someone with money to tap me on the shoulder for a project.

More Rats

I’m still in a rat mood for Blackmask. I abandoned the characters for a short while because I still struggle to define them as characters instead of designs.

Pencil sketches of a turnaround design of and anthropomorphic rat wearing metallic armor and a tabard.

Pencil sketch of an anthropomorphic male rat wearing large armor and tabard and metallic books, holding up a single edge sword.

Ink sketch of five anthropomorphic rat designs of various different job class designs. One rat had a tunic, cape, and single edge sword. Second rat had a different tunic, cape, and double edge sword. Third rat had a full body hooded robe and magic rod. Fourth rat had a different robe, stocking hat, and magic rod. Fifth rat has a crown and dress, and holds her long tail as a magic rod.

Snake Scarves

Pen and ink sketches of an anthropomorphic female snake with arms and legs and a long skirt lined with gemstones. Her long neck is coiled around her torso to cover her topless dress. Bottom sketches show a turnaround of the snake in multiple views, with arms and legs and a simple dress and bag lined with gemstones. Her long neck is coiled around the neck area similar to a long scarf.

Shaking off the rust with some fountain pen snake doodles. I do like the idea of snakes having a long neck to coil at the top. This also led to a turban like design that I also dig!

Front and side view pencil sketches of an anthropomorphic snake with small arms and legs. Their long neck is coiled around itself replicating a turban shape. The snake also wields a small scimitar and shield in their little hands.

Digital Illustration of brown-furred male and female anthropomorphic horse characters wearing a Scottish-inspired green plaid kilt, tartan, and bonnet, over white shirt and socks.

For this Chinese Horse New Year, I’m sharing Scottish Horse characters, because they were in my hard drive and I didn’t want to post them until now.

Fan Art Uploading

I was asked online why I rarely make fan art. I’m not against drawing fan art as I’ve made it in the past, so I figured I’d re-share my old work I made in the past and post it to put it out there.

Traditional ink and digital color illustration of Mike Haggar from the video game series, Final Fight, who is a large, muscular mustached human,wearing green pants held by a single large suspender, holding Isabelle from the video game series, Animal Crossing, who is a diminutive anthropomorphic yellow dog wearing a green sweater best and skirt, over his shoulders above a celebratory crowd of other various anthropomorphic animal characters. The art parodies the political cartoon of 26th president of the United States Theodore Roosevelt, presenting his diminutive successor, William H. Taft on his shoulders.

I colored an ink drawing I made when Animal Crossing: New Leaf came out. I thought only coloring Mike and Isabelle was boring, so I added the crowd to be closer to the art I was parodying.

Traditional pen and ink and digital color illustration of an anthropomorphic rhinoceros wearing a blue kimono and black hakama and white tabi shoes with rope sandals. He stands with his leg on a rock eating a riceball while holding his katana on his back by the strap.

Murakami Gennosuke from Usagi Yojimbo

Traditional Copic marker portraits of rotating protagonist characters from the manga series, "Jojo's Bizarre Adventure" Reading from top left to bottom right, Jonathan Joestar, a black haired youth with a red bowtie, Joseph Joestar, a brown haired youth with a headband and stripped scarf, Jotaro Kujo, a dark haired youth in a black Japanese school uniform and tattered hat, Josuke Higashikata, a youth with a pompadour hair wearing a black Japanese school uniform, Giorno Giovanna, a golden curly haired youth wearing a heart-cut jacket, Jolyne Cujoh, a young lady with dark hair buns, streaked with green colors, Johnny Joestar, a long blonde haired youth, wearing a star patterned jockey cap, with a horseshoe insignia on it, Josuke "Gappy" Higashikata, a dark haired man, with dichromatic eyes, a wide tooth gap, and wearing a navy sailor uniform.

Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure drawings I made a while ago. Have yet to start Part 9.

Three black and white pen and ink studies of artwork created by Yoshitaka Amano drawn by Mastafran.Drawing from left to right are the White Croc enemy, the robed squid monster enemy Mindflayer, and the man eating plant enemy, Ochu.

Yoshitaka Amano Ink drawing studies made with Pentel Tradio Stylo Pen and Pocket Brush Pen for the spot blacks.

traditional marker drawing of Ganondorf from the video game series, "Legend of Zelda" wearing a large yellow hooded onesie pajama in style of the Pokemon Pikachu. Gandondorf crouches to the ground and kicks forward with lighting sparking out from his foot.

Ganondorf performing his Down Tilt Smash Bros. move in a Pikachu Kigurumi. If you know, you know.

Traditional pencil sketch and digital coloring of a pair of anthropomorphic raccoon girls sitting on a sofa in various states of bloody injury, with black eyes, broken teeth and bleeding mouths. The left raccoon with black hair wears a t-shirt with words that say, "I kill everything I fuck."The left raccoon with an eye bandage and cigarette wears a t-shirt with words that say, "I fuck everything I kill."

A pair of raccoon girls from my sketchbooks inspire by some music album.

Why I don’t make more fan art is that I prefer to make homages over retreading nostalgia and stretch myself creatively. Most of the old media I hear that is good, I take a while to get around watching of reading. If I become a fan enough to draw something, it’s not in the zeitgeist of current trends.

I make many other illustrations that you can browse on this website, as I even draw art for money, taking commissions for people! You can catch my daily sketches all over the internet and catch me drawing live during my weekly art streams!

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