The Toonocosm

✦ OC askblog ✦ General OC shenanigans ✦ Comic & Toonocosm development ✦ Hello! I am a hobbyist, sharing my passion online. Please, be nice. Come watch me draw my weird looking OCs. The Toonocosm is my head world that a big portion of my OCs inhabits, and I use this blog to share art and thoughts about it. I used to have an OC ask blog many years ago, and I miss it. So I made a new one! Use the ask box if you want to interact. If you want to ask a character something make it clear which one you're asking.

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This blog is a side blog, my main is @rubalotl

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A clown fish toono! Inspired by my friend, who's all about the clown and jester aesthetic. It's not an actual new character, just a quick design idea that I wanted to get out of my head.

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I guess I can post this here, catfish are part of the Toonocosm! I got a new kitty on May 1st, so I drew her as a catfish.

Her name is Mitzi! She's a blue mitted Ragdoll. And a fun fact about her is that her birthday is January 22nd, the same as Api! Really cool coincidence, I obviously had no idea when I saw the ad for her.

Some picture of her:

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Mermay 2026!

Maybe I'll do some more of these next year :)

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I think it would be fun to see any of the fish characters as mermaids, but also seriously wondering how Oroya could be translated into a mermaid. Incorporating kelp or seagrass maybe? Or pufferfish?

I was gonna go with Ravi, but I ended up choosing adult Sasha instead!

While drawing these merm requests I quickly discovered that I don't really want to tack on another "thing" to their designs. Like, Oroya is already a humanoid stickman-like cactus, tacking on pufferfish on top of that would make her a humanoid stickman-like pufferfish mermaid cactus... Idk, it just becomes too many random ideas mashed into one design, if that makes sense?

So I just stuck to their current designs and mermified them, but pufferfish for Oroya was my first thought as well! :'p

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Api or Cress. I don't think I've seen a "mermaid" design for those two yet.

This was a good opportunity to show Cress' fun colors! Instead of the common countershading I often give my toono characters, Cress' whole body is quite pale except for her limbs and the top of her head, which gradually become a darker green.

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It's almost time for Art Fight!

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Do Oroya plsss

Cactus mermaid :)c

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Api!

I think a robotic mermaid would look cool

Despite being a merm enthusiast, I've never drawn Api (my main blorbo) as one because I always thought it would look dumb. But I don't dislike this! He looks pretty cool!!

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Virus, cause it would be funny

Since his design is based on a dragonfly, I decided that his merm form should be some kind of crustacean. Because crustaceans are just wet bugs.

It looks like I painted him with a maraquan paintbrush :'p

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Art Fight added a new feature, you can describe the connections between characters now. Which I didn't care about at first, but I've had a lot of fun with it actually.

It's been a good way to get into the heads of all my characters and try to imagine what their perspective is of each other, because I did all the descriptions in-character. Each character is describing each other.

So far I'm only done with Api and Lotl.

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Guess who have existed for 15 years today! :)

I haven't drawn his new design a lot since last year, I still don't have a set leg/feet design.

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First traditional sketches of 2026.

Just some Lotl expressions :)

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I've been making a lot of snart (snail art) recently, so I drew a Snotl (snail Lotl).

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Trying.......to.....draw.......!

I have so many excuses to game, but I still choose to draw. Surely, I won't keep this up. Anyway, does this composition look nice? I want Lotl to be the focus.

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I'm very happy to have finally managed to get that vent piece in my previous post out of my head. I've wanted to draw it for YEARS!! But I've not been okay and/or burnt out.

It's technically a vent piece, but it's a vent for a VERY BAD anxiety attack I had years ago. Which fucked up my system and mental for months, if not years. Tbh, I think I'm still trying to recover from it.

The ONLY help I've been able to find that gave any comfort was this article.

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I have a nervous system made up of electric wire, electrocuting me from the inside out.