Welcome to my page on Fur Affinity! I am a furry artist that has been directly involved in the furry fandom since about 2001 or so, selling my artwork either under my artist alias and convention badge name of "Hoagiebot" or under my business name of Project Destiny Studios™. I have sold my artwork in nearly 75-furry, anime, and Science Fiction convention art shows, including those of Further Confusion, DucKon, Anthrocon, Midwest Furfest, and Windycon, amongst others. I have had my artwork published over 100-times in print publications, including newspapers, comic book annuals such as the Gold Digger Annual, the Gold Digger Swimsuit Special, the Ninja High School Yearbook, the Extinctioners Annual, and the Purrsia Press Swimsuit Annual, and the conbooks of several furry conventions such as All Fur Fun, Anthrocon, Califur, Eurofurence, Furry Weekend Atlanta, Further Confusion, IndyFurCon, Megaplex, Mephit FurMeet, Midwest Furfest, Morphicon, Oklacon, and Rocket City FurMeet. I had a comic strip called Tiggerman™ that was about the mis-adventures of a hapless cartoon house cat that ran twice-a-week for 2-years in the Illinois State University Daily Vidette newspaper, and an editorial comic strip called Horsefeathers!™ that ran for 4-months in the Bloomington-Normal Indy newspaper. My artwork has also won various contests, awards at art shows (including the award for the art piece that best captured the convention's theme at the Maneki Neko Con anime convention for 3-years in a row), and was once included in an art exhibition that was juried by the curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. Lastly, I have also done talks as a panelist at various conventions, including a panel about adding animatronics to fursuits at Midwest Furfest 2005, and being the sole presenter on a panel about how to draw anthropomorphic artwork at the DucKon 22 and DucKon 23 Science Fiction conventons. Because of all of this, I often like to joke that I am the most accomplished furry artist that you've probably never heard of! :D

My path to the furry fandom started when I was growing up during the 80's and 90's. There were a lot of cute female anthropomorphic cartoon characters on TV during that time, and I found myself liking some of them probably a little too much-- especially "Duchess" from The Aristocats, "Cleo" from The Catillac Cats, and "Felicia the Catwoman" from the Capcom fighting game Darkstalkers! I wanted to learn how to draw these beautiful and dynamic characters and create new female anthro heartthrobs of my own, and that lead me to teach myself how to draw and remains my primary source of inspiration to this day. I love to draw sexy and alluring pin-up artwork featuring female characters whose designs can be anywhere from across the anthropomorphic spectrum, from cute cartoon talking-animals (a.k.a. "ferals") to furries to anime-style kemonomimi animal-girls. I largely draw my characters in two different art "styles," the first being a very 1970's/80's "Disneyesque" style and the second being a manga style that is influenced to various degrees by the works of such manga artists as Ben Dunn, Rumiko Takahashi, and Yoshimasa Watanabe. The influence of one of these styles often bleeds over into the other in my artwork, and because of that it's common for me to mix both Western comic conventions and manga comic conventions in the same art piece. I also enjoy experimenting with other studios' and artists' art styles when I can, and in the past few years I have also drawn a lot of pony characters in the style of animated television series My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic, of which I am a huge fan.


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Please note: Until I get my Fur Affinity gallery populated with my artwork
you can see the vast majority of my general audience artwork on my website at:

www.hoagiebot.com

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