Messy sketchblog of one sweet and sour succulent (Main account: citrus-cactus). Mostly serving up quick-and-silly fanart of specific animated media, but really drawing whatever strikes my fancy.
Hey there! I’m @citrus-cactus, and welcome to my art blog! If I’ve drawn something and published it to the Internet, chances are it’ll end up here—handy if you don’t want to follow my main account and see whatever I’m reblogging and/or saying words about. The art that I’m REALLY proud of ends up (and sometimes starts) over at @citruscactus-art… confusing, I know, but that’s the way it is!
I’ve been in various fandoms for more than 20 years and periodically revisit them, so if you followed me for one thing, odds are good that I’ll circle back to it eventually.
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Savers Celebration Week, Day 7 (Prompt: Burst Mode/Free Day)
One final bit of lineart from me! Ikuto is my favorite character in Savers (and SUCH an amazing concept! Give me more stories about the Wild Boy of the Digital World, PLEASE!!!!). I felt bad that I didn't make a piece for him any other day, so here he is—finally! I love his character arc, and I LOVE that he and Falcomon are more than partners. They're brothers!!
I also wanted to try the thing, stylistically, where the digimon are absolutely GIGANTIC, and have bigger, chunkier outlines compared to everything else. It's so much fun!!
Very slowly chipping away at my "Old Men of Digimon" series! I've wanted to draw these two for ages, so they seemed like an obvious pick for this prompt.
I hope Commander Yushima was able to find time to relax with Kamemon sometime in between all of DATS' adventures!
If you know me, you'll know that I HAD to show some love for my very special dub-only awful boy today 🧡 If Citramon has ten fans, I'm one of them. If Citramon has one fan, that's me. If the world is against Citramon, I am against the world, etc. CITRAMON!!!!! 🍊💣🍊
I will continue to wait patiently for Bandai to make him an official Digimon. I will wait as LONG as it TAKES!!!
One more for the road: a cleaned up & colored sketch of Angelika in 1195. May we all be fortunate to lead lives as full as hers, and age with as much grace.
KATANA!!!!!!!!! Gosh, she’s cute. Never drawn a beaked gargoyle in 3/4 view before I started practicing for this, but I’m a convert at this point <3
And with that, I’m finally calling this series of portraits complete! One for each issue of the Demona miniseries, focusing on the major new gargs/character designs. Though, I do still want to color some more sketches of adult Angelika and adult Katana… and at this point, I’m REALLY looking forward to seeing more of Katana in future comics!!
I’m a big fan of Sentinels of the Multiverse (a cooperative board game where players form a team of superheroes and try to defeat a supervillain!), and felt like drawing some fanart for it. At the request of @firstagent, here's Tachyon, aka Dr. Meredith Stinson: scientist, speedster, and canonical wlw—plus, I’m pretty sure she was the first hero I ever played!
If anyone would like to see me attempt to draw another hero from Sentinels and has a suggestion for who it should be, I’ll happily consider it!
Aging Norwegian expat (who’s so incredibly tired of Byzantine political coups) plots betrayal, burglary, and maybe even murder. Odin the All-Father gave up one of his eyes to gain wisdom… too bad possessing a fake Eye doesn’t bestow it.
AKA, since I drew Magni, I also wanted to try drawing Modi. Having never attempted a bird-type gargoyle before, I think I put a little too much Griff in there by accident, but oh well.
Other thoughts about this guy:
1. In terms of voice, I can hear someone who sounds kinda like Xander Berkeley delivering a very deadpan/cynical “I sleep in an iron box. No gargoyle is safe in this world” pretty clearly in my head.
2. I think it would be neat if his feathers changed color depending on the season, like a ptarmigan or arctic fox.
Art summary time! This is my fourth year filling one of these out, though I’m submitting one of my vacation pics for March, since I didn’t actually draw anything that month (however, since photography is still an art and it’s a really good photo, it totally counts!!)
The template is by WolverWM and can be found here!
Some reflection beneath the cut.
2025 was a year of experimentation. I did three(!) screenshot/panel redraws over the course of the year, which were honestly a lot of fun and (I think) useful as exercises in observation. I also did a lot more drawing on the iPad, which was a nice… idk, tactile experience, since it was much more similar to drawing in a sketchbook than drawing on the peripheral Bamboo tablet that connects to my laptop (though there are some UI issues with the free version of the Sketchbook app I’ve been using that are not so stellar and it’s no substitute for CSP, overall it’s pretty good!).
I also made a LOT of digital drawings of my original character and her original story, which are things that have lived entirely in the realms of pencil and paper up until now. I even completed—gasp!—a 31-day drawing challenge featuring that world and those characters, using some different coloring techniques meant to emulate the look of red-figure vases. This was a ton of fun, but also STRESSFUL (except when it wasn’t, lol!). Honestly, though, it was very rewarding. I was so proud of myself for DOING it, even when it was hard, and I LOVE having such a large body of work to look back on that feels… more real, somehow, than all my sketches previously. I definitely want to keep working in this space and sharing art for it in 2026, and maybe (MAYBE) doing another 30-day challenge where I jam on a bunch of quick/little drawings so that I can have something substantial to show at the end (I have at least one other outstanding project that would benefit from this focused approach!)
In terms of fandoms, only two are really represented here, which definitely reflects my shifting priorities: Appmon and Gargoyles. Aside from my original story (which will always have a heavily anime-influenced style), it’s just been nice to… idk, stretch out in a different direction. I mean… Gargolyes was my first fandom, so my very first attempts at humanoid art were literally just Gargoyle OCs, in the animated series style… but then Anime Happened and big eyes/small mouth dominated my influences for decades. So now, 30 years later, it’s also been very rewarding (there’s that word again!) to revisit that style, gaining confidence in it and applying all that I’ve learned artistically since then.
Combining that with wanting to put more OC art out in the world… idk, I don’t see myself contributing much to my “normal” digi- and poké-fandoms in the upcoming year. More than being an artist or a writer, I’ve always considered myself to be a storyteller, first and foremost. I realize this is not a unique statement, but in order to be happy Making A Thing, I have to have something to say through it (even if it’s just “look at this beautiful character with 0 other fanart of them,” lol). In terms of Digimon, there ARE still some things I would like to say—I have more ideas in the Digimon Survive space for sure, and I STILL want to host a 20th anniversary Savers/Data Squad event this April—but other than that…? Those depths feel pretty plumbed, and my thoughts in those “regular” fandom spaces need to hibernate for a time in order for me to find more stories to be excited about.
Of course, 2026 may surprise me! But that’s where i am right now. I hope you’ll continue to stick with me, regardless of where my storytelling journeys end up taking me!
As always, links to individual pieces (where they exist online) appear below!
January: Episode 47 screenshot redraw (Appmon)
February: Private (not fanart)
March: Clouds over Ponte Vecchio (Photo; not fanart)
April: Red-Figure Vase test (Original Character)
May: Angelika portrait (Gargoyles)
June: Demona #1 panel redraw (Gargoyles)
July: Happy Birthday Haru 2025/Sailor Moon redraw (Appmon)
August: Skade portrait (Gargoyles)
September: Konpeitō portrait (Dragon Quest)
October: Antiope n' Alesand n' Friendship Bracelets (Gargoyles)
November: 31-day OC drawing challenge, Day 7 (Original character)
Aging Norwegian expat (who’s tired of the grind?) reconnects with his old girlfriend, implicates his brother in theft, murder, and framing an innocent man (his brother is guilty), agrees to get gargoyle-married, resigns from his job, and retires with the love of his life and her immortal adopted mom. You know, as you do.
AKA I thought I’d make an attempt at drawing Magni, circa 1195 CE. His horns gave me a lot of trouble, but I suppose I got there in the end!
All the art from 30 31 days of drawing for my original story, which takes inspiration from ancient Greek mythology, theater, and magical girls.
I had a lot of fun trying to emulate red figure vases (and a few others!). I definitely want to keep experimenting with it, and adapting archaic design elements into comic-book-style storytelling. Not planning on this being the only visual look for this story, but I do want the visuals to reference it occasionally, particularly for flashbacks and flights of fancy.
If you're curious about any of these characters, feel free to ask! Some additional characters I didn't get a chance to introduce this time are shown here. Not revealing any names yet, but I will (hopefully) be making some character bios/intros in the coming year :)
Now that the daily OC-posting has wrapped up, I had to share some pencil-and-paper sketches of Angelika I did earlier this month (Issue 3 and Issue 4 look/ages, respectively)—which is also me double-checking my understanding of her wing design and how they look when they’re caped!
This is going to sound like a tangent, but my favorite detail in Future Tense is Broadway’s character model in that episode: how the spikes along his head are longer and his skin is a different color. Admittedly his appearance was at least partially manufactured by Puck, but I think it could be a neat blueprint for how (some?) gargoyles age. Definitely applying the horns-grow-longer-with-age thing to how I’ve been drawing Angelika :)
