Simon Rickson – 2026 Reference

Reference sheet for a red anthropomorphic hedgehog and vampire bat, Simon Rickson, who is also a vampire.

AKA v2.1 :B

The ears were a key reason I needed to update the ref, what with the bat-like ears now being on the hedgehog. But also, obviously, a tweak to the colours, pulling some of that bright saturation Simon had out of it (or I guess you could say “Simon’s mortal colours are fading after almost three years of being a walking corpse”)

Though this was in part from talking to another vampire about things and kind of getting their input on things because really everyone will set out their own path on these things but external input is useful. However it’s also from IRL I’m kind of going greyer, even if I’m not happy about that, so figured I’d update Simon’s ref too.

It also meant I could fix up the colours on the old reference. The 2024 one didn’t have the pawpad colours on the colour pickers, and also the shoe sole colour was completely wrong.

That’s the claw colour!

I also adjusted a couple of the annotations too, mostly for clarity, but not much as the rest of the sheet I felt was pretty correct.

Thankfully as this was just an update to the existing sheet and not a COMPLETELY new thing it didn’t take too long to sort out. Tbh most the time was figuring the colours, drawing in the new ears for the hedgehog and watching my PC scream as the ref file happily takes up 17GB of RAM when I had the final reference image (with the text etc.) open (I promise next ref sheet I do I won’t be that dumb and have a 18,788 x 14,350 canvas that I’m just going to shrink down to 15% >_>;;;)

Fun Fact: I was tempted to let Simon now summon wings in its hedgehog form and to be fair I might still do that but I didn’t wanna make the ref even busier lol. But it DOES look cool

A red anthropomorphic hedgehog and vampire bat, Simon Rickson, who is also a vampire. But with wings on its back

This was just an accident from leaving the bar form on behind the hedgehog when I was doing layer stuff lol

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🔞 NSFW Alts 🔞

18+ AKA there’s a dick.

NSFW Reference sheet for a red anthropomorphic hedgehog and vampire bat, Simon Rickson, who is also a vampire.

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Toys in Town

A pool scene involving two inflatable dragon toys The red western dragon toy, DarkOverord, looks excited while pointing to the pool in the background. It has a navy blue shirt on while carrying a pink inflatable ring while saying "It's summer!! It's pool time!!!" An off screen voice responds "Oh wow that blue toy sure is... a lot.", talking about the long blue eastern dragon toy floating on the pool, looking cockily as he leans on his left arm and is gesturing to at himself while being partially obscured by DarkOverord. In the lower right is a smaller panel where the off screen voice continues "I didn't realise it was that kind of pool!" as DarkOveord looks surprised saying "...ah!" A pool scene involving two inflatable dragon toys The red western dragon toy, DarkOverord, looks excited while pointing to the pool in the background. It has a navy blue shirt on while carrying a pink inflatable ring Floating on the pool is long blue eastern dragon toy, looking cockily as he leans on his left arm and is gesturing to at himself while being partially obscured by DarkOverord.

Time for the yearly summer pic of DO! And I’ve not drawn Rigel in a while so wanted to throw him in the background too. For reasons 🙂

This took longer than I expected. I started it before the heatwave, and other than streaming I was kind of 100% on it almost all waking hours >_> I know the inking took me about 7 hours, and I got through about 3 albums worth of music finishing today so. Yeah. I wish I put an actual timer on this >_>

Well time blindness is an ADHD trait…

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I apologise for the near radio silence for the past couple months. It’s, a bit shit honestly! I’ve been struggling to really sit down and actually do art for the past couple months. I don’t think I could give a concrete reason, like for a small period I absolutely was hiding in minecraft, but it doesn’t really explain, the rest. I’ve honestly struggled to keep up with a lot of stuff in general, lil daily things, etc.

My only assumption has been a reluctance to both accept I’ve had burnout but also for the past few months I’ve finally been titrating on ADHD meds and I think I finally hit a dosage that works well for me. Of course my current prescription ran out and I’ve been struggling again so who knows maybe they’re related.

Well whatever, no-one likes to listen to someone whine that they finished at the last moment and offered excuses. I’m busy tomorrow but I’ll try and actually get things properly archived etc. to you by Thursday evening (BST) and start working on a plan on getting my owed stuff done finally.

Thanks for sticking around, especially given the whole Event in late 2025, I know it’s not been, easy.

2026 Badge

DarkOverord's badge for cons etc featuring its vampire hedgehog.

The badge I’ll be wearing to Confuzzled, done very quickly (or as quick as I can) so I have a new badge but unthemed because A: , B: , C:

  1. I’ve been struggling actually drawing the past month
  2. I’m like, so un-musical cultured
  3. I did need a new generic badge to be fair, I’ve not had a generic one since uh… …2017

If you see this vampire about, say hi maybe!

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A shiny red rubber bat standing on top of a pole with it's wings almost completely outstretched, looking hungrily at the viwer

Shiny Bat

A shiny red rubber bat standing on top of a pole with it's wings almost completely outstretched, looking hungrily at the viwer

I’ve never done art based on my shiny bat VRChat avatar so I figured to do it for once, and maybe some of these changes will transfer to the regular bat too like wow maybe I’ll finally include the propatagium, the membrane between the hand and body on the top side of the arm, on the regular bat ‘cus that looks REALLY cool and cape-like. (Technically I should be drawing it on any creature that flies, even DO, but it’s an extra detail that can make things a little messier to work with etc. and is also kind of easy to forget lol)

The propatagium is also kind of based on how Morghus has it on his wyvern and bat with it connecting more along the chest than completely running along the top and hooking over a bit.

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🔞 NSFW Alts 🔞

Same bat as the SFW one, but with one extra :3c

On this alt ver I had the realisation that the shiny bat is just 90% the rubber fetish pride flag so why not lol

A shiny red rubber bat standing on top of a pole with it's wings almost completely outstretched, looking hungrily at the viwer Also there's a sheath and the background has the rubber pride flag

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ObstaDO

It’s Pokémon Day and I wanted to do something I guess! It’s also the first test of “Am I back to speed doing art on my PC since the whole technically homeless escapade?” which I think the answer is yes.

The other reason is that ObstaDO (this is a much better name why did I keep calling it ObstaDOon other than an obsessive attempt to try and match the full name? :V) hasn’t been the face of my AD accounts despite being the username (GoopGoonThing) so I’m fixing this.

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