#jongler jonuary

[melonsalts]

[Final drawing up front, since it’s the only rendered piece this week! Heavily based on the Looney Tunes end card. It’s nothing crazy, but I’m glad I did one more rendered piece.]

[And then, for the other three prompts, I ended up combining them. Arm injury is still bugging me, so I wanted to take it easy. Not to mention, these were some of the hardest prompts, and I simply didn’t have the brain power to come up with much this late in the month ^^; Here’s also the one and only out of costume Pluey I drew. All of his fun design elements are in his costume, so I very often default to having him in costume. And it’s canon that he prefers it, too :) ]

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Happy Juesday yet again, everyone!! Here’s the last two drawings for Jongler Jonuary! I’m quite proud of myself. Despite all the hiccups these past few weeks, this is the first drawing challenge I’ve ever finished. I’m glad it was for Jongler, this gave me the opportunity to draw the Mikes so many times, just like I wanted to :) Though I don’t think I’ll be drawing them again for a while, a new piece every day burnt me out a bit. I want to get back to my own characters, and drawing stuff for my ask blogs. They had to be put even further on the backburner for this, unfortunately. But now that this is done, I’m hoping I’ll have lots more time for my own projects!

Thank you all again for all the support this past month! I honestly don’t post here much because I tend to get nervous about showing my art nowadays, but you have all been wonderful! I read every reply and comment in the tags, and I truly appreciate and cherish all your kind words! ^^ ❤️ Maybe I’ll try posting some of my original stuff again, this art blog feels very under utilized. I have so much art that never sees the light of day, when I really should be curating my own little museum here :) Let me know what you think, I always love hearing your thoughts!

Happy Juesday again, and have a lovely rest of your day everyone!!

[moonyistired]

This Jongler Juesday I ask you a question: why dedicate a day of the week to Jongler... When you could dedicate an entire month?

Introducing Jongler Jonuary, the event where every day for 31 days in a row it is always a Jongler Day!

Prompts are left vague on purpose, so you may interpret them however you wish.

You may participate in any way you seem fit: art, fanfic, edits, you name it! Just have fun!

You may include other characters; in fact, some of the prompts were created with shipping Jongler with Battat and/or Pluey in mind.

Remember to tag your post with #JonglerJonuary and/or #JonglerJonuary2026 so other people can more easily find it!

[core-bagg]

NOTE: ALRIGHT WISEGUY, LET'S SEE YOU SOLVE IT >:( /ref

DAY 29!!!!!!!!!!!

They're all stupid but Jongler too dumb to notice, Pluey couldn't give a fuck and i feel like Battat's too vain to realise

[melonsalts]

Happy Jongler Juesday, and Happy Jonuary!! A whole month for my favorite Mike to kick off the new year, what an occasion! I’m trying out this prompt list by @moonyistired, and I’m hoping to draw at least something every day this month. Some days might just be little doodles, (like day 5) since I’m busy with college. I’ll be posting the week’s worth of prompts on Tuesdays, of course—-

Here’s days 1-6!!

[melonsalts]

[Elec Darkners probably can’t sweat, but I imagine they can still overheat—- And I can’t see that awful jacket being breathable in any way.]

[Still trying to figure out how Jongler’s tail works. I like drawing them with a big long snake tail, and with a shorter one for hopping around! I’m unsure how that works anatomically.]

[My beloved cowboys!!! I like to think that Jongler is my Shadowguy Reed’s mentor in the ways of the cowboy. Taught him how to give the best hugs :) Take a look at my askblog @reeds-rodeo if you like my silly goober!!]

[Pluey’s up by one piece now, Battat is owed another solo piece with Jongler next week :) Zip zap!!]

[Based on my headcanon that Jongler’s buttons get jammed a lot, and Zappers’ volume level affects their senses—- So high volume also means high sensitivity and they’re always yelling, low volume means low sensitivity and they’re whispering all the time. Muted means they just can’t talk or hear or feel much of anything, so it’s a bad time when that button ends up getting stuck. The boys are helping with some pressure therapy until the button unsticks itself!]

[This one’s for my friend Tav! They’re juggling (jongling) buddies!!]

[And lastly, today’s prompt is really quick because I still have class and a project to submit tonight. This prompt is a break for me too, so there I am! :) I feel like Jongler is more of a tea guy, personally. They’d like berry tea, because berries are the same colors that they are!]

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Happy Juesday yet again!! Here’s Week 3 of Jongler Jonuary! I barely got these done on time, school has been kicking my ass these past couple days—- So only one fully rendered piece this week, gotta prioritize class!

This week has some little blurbs about each piece, because I love to ramble, and as it was so succinctly put last week: yapping about your art is always morally correct!! It’s my house and you guys decided to walk into it, so read em if you want to!

Prompt list below the cut! Have a good rest of your Juesday everybody!!

[melonsalts]

Week 2 of Jongler Jonuary!! Once again experimenting with ways to quickly do rendering, and I’m happy with those more rendered pieces—- I tend to render everything I make a bit differently, I like to play around with different techniques.

I guess let me know if you all would mind me yapping a bit about the individual pieces? I usually ramble a lot on my posts, but I’ve tried to hold back for these since they’re a bit more public than most of my work. Week 1 got a lot of traction—-

Anyway, Happy Juesday, hope everyone has a good rest of your day!!

Prompt list by @moonyistired!

[melonsalts]

[Starting off this week by settling the score with Battat’s owed piece! I got all the angst for this month out of my system with Mute last week, so just fun stuff this week! Battat is very excited about making a Mike snowman :) ]

[Featuring my friend Door’s Cat Mike design! Simply use a giant kitty to help decompress after a long Mike shift! You may get absorbed by the fluff, but it’s worth it—-]

[By Friday I realized that I actually hurt my arm back on Wednesday ^^; It’s been a bit sore since, and it’s still bugging me nearly a week later, so unfortunately there’s less fully rendered pieces this week. Had to skip this prompt because this is the day I felt it the most.]

[Dialogue is hard sometimes. Don’t know if this makes sense but I couldn’t think of anything to really draw for. An accent???]

[Had a bit of time between classes, so I did my best to do one more rendered piece this week. The shading is very quick, but I like the colors at least—-]

[Back to simple drawings, my original idea for these two prompts would’ve been far too intensive and time consuming, so just some silly interactions instead!]

[And finally, a softly singing cowboy—- Nice and chill :) ]

Happy Juesday yet again, everyone!! This week has beeeeen. A lot, honestly. So many things due for college. And my arm is sore, which makes it hard to draw :’) I can see the finish line now, and I’m a honestly bit excited to have one less thing I need to do every day. It feels like I’m running on fumes, now, finishing some of these prompts at almost midnight ^^; I’m also excited for this to be the first drawing challenge I’ve ever finished, though!

Hope you enjoy this week’s drawings regardless, have a lovely rest of your Juesday!!

[melonsalts]

Posting Day 10’s Jongler Jonuary prompt a couple days before Juesday because I want to yap about it a bit separately—- I’ve had the idea for this prompt since I first found this prompt list, since it’s a scene from my fic! I wrote it back in October, but I feel like this is a good time to show it off again to all the new people following since last week (thank you by the way!!)

An Archive of Our Own, a project of the Organization for Transformative Works

It’s a short Jongler “origin” fic, I’m still really proud of it. Take a look if you’re at all interested, I’ll be adding this piece to Chapter 1! :)

and here’s the prompt list of course