SSWM 2026 Avatars

Decided to do a full batch of these again this year.
Funny how this has outlived NaNoWriMo (RIP) now.
Anthropomorphic animal characters.

Decided to do a full batch of these again this year.
Funny how this has outlived NaNoWriMo (RIP) now.
Lil floating head raffled as part of ‘Souls’s 24th birthday celebrations. As always, the smaller version is the intended use size (as a forum avatar).
Annual contest prizes for an event at ‘Souls RPG. Been a minute since I did them with traditional color.

Some floating dog heads.
These were raffled as part of a fundraiser last year for ‘Souls. Forum max avatar size is 200×200, so these are the intended display sizes.

After many years doing avatar prizes for everyone who finished SSWM, this year I just contributed one avatar which was raffled among winners. It is still weird to me to post larger sizes of avatars though, since they are meant to be resized down to 200×200 for use. A comforting loss of detail.

Most of the last several years of avatars have had a strong traditional component, if they weren’t just straight up 100% traditional, since it’s much easier (and faster) for me to work that way. Since I only had to draw one this year though, I wanted to see if 100% digital was still hard on my wrist.
Annual batch of floating heads for ‘Souls.
Probably my last year doing these. Just don’t have as much time these days. I think I have probably drawn a thousand forum avatars like this over the last 15 years or so lol, and ~200 of them were for ‘Souls prizes of one sort or another.
Annual batch of floating heads for ‘Souls RPG.
Pencils and inks from a recent commission, and then I promptly forgot to take photos of the finished thing, just the scan.
Fullbody character commissions.
Super cool dracula parrot x jaguar character by Lioness.
Little batch of bust commissions for June. Next batch opens July 5th.
Bust commissions from this month. The next batch opens June 7th.
Annual batch of floating heads for ‘Souls RPG.
A little batch of floating heads for @soulsrpg. Colors by my friend Quicksilver.
Annual batch of floating dog heads for @soulsrpg.
Badge commissions from Anthro NW. The first two were for @ghostlycorvid!
Fun commission of a foxy lady.
Commissions are closed and if you missed when they were open you should’ve been on the mailing list! https://kiriska.com/list
Another year, another very late batch of floating dog heads for soulsRPG.com.
Prize for something at ‘Souls.
It’s been a long time since I’ve inked something with nib on Bristol… I like the texture of the ink on the page, but it’s not really noticeable once scanned, so I’m not sure there’s really a benefit to inking with nib VS tech pen or brush pen. Maybe doubly so for something intended for use as a forum avatar though, ha.
Hogwarts theme badge commission!
These were originally FC theme badges, but let’s be real, I’m always down to draw Hogwarts AU. If you want one for Vancoufur pickup, here’s the form.