Commissioned from Snackish (https://www.weasyl.com/~snackish)

A crossbreed of a wallaby and chameleon, Sebastian is one of my characters who has existed mostly in concept to the present day. I guess it’s hardly surprising given that my innate skills fall toward creative writing, leaving me with very little actual talent for drawing. He is however a character who is very important to me, and indeed it’s his name by which I’m known to the friends I have in the Australian furry community. Sebastian is my 2nd fursona after Michael Sauerpüss the foxaroo, and the third in my trio of primary characters along with Patrick Digby the hog. He is a character that I have many, many story ideas worked around, however the way my work life is going I’ll probably not have any opportunity to work them into a graphic novel before I reach retirement age (assuming I’m not completely senile by then).

Physically Sebastian’s agile body is a mixture of scales and fur, the colours of which alter according to his emotions. Though at first glance he appears psychologically unstable, he is deceptively capable of manipulating this to his own ends. Where it suits him, Sebastian can camouflage fully into his surroundings, though he cannot hide his eyes without closing his eyelids. Personality-wise Sebastian is hyperactive, explosively expressive, impulsive, shameless, devious, lustful and lives entirely in the present.

As with my previous commissioning of Sebastian, this was requested to use as a badge for an upcoming furry convention (in this case FurDu 2015). I approached Snackish for her extraordinary knack with fur textures. Take a browse through her gallery and you’ll quickly see this. I already knew that she would produce an impressive illustration of Sebastian, but what she achieved blew my mind. Starting nothing more than my own pathetic sketch and a worded description, she launched by casting him in the especially lively pose you see here, perfectly apt for his usual mode of behavior. Moving then onto colour she offered two samples, one highly akin to the patterns normally seen on real chameleons, the other the blotchy fluorescence which I feel best matches his personality. Following this she worked tirelessly to wrought astonishing detail for his mixture of scales and fur, yielding something that not even my wildest dreams could have made manifest. I’m very grateful to Snackish, for her skill, her time spent and her patience in making possible the opportunity to share a figment of my imagination with the world at large.