I really haven't drawn Vespera as much as I want to. I like her design (she is kind of a cutie), but she's still quite difficult to draw - a sure sign that I need to draw her more to get more comfortable. After all, my new fursona is about a month old and I'm already WAY more comfortable drawing him.





I decided to take the opportunity to tweak her design, too. The body markings felt a little generic, so I expanded on an idea I'd already had, which was to give her a heart motif. The biggest change was to split the pink parts on her face and torso into two, which was an interesting look. Then I could make them have heart-shaped parts quite nicely. Her nose, already heart-shaped, stayed the same, and I had another go at giving her an inverted heart on her back. I'd already tried it before with Don't Break the Chain 20:

...But I was never quite happy with that. It was way too low, and I imagined the pink belly going under and reaching the butt, but if it extended that far up the back as well it would just look weeeeeird. So I put the heart on her upper back instead. Also, I had to consider what I was going to do for her feet since there were some full-body pictures here. Previously, I've just fudged it and done paws with slightly skinny and pointy toes. But for this I actually looked at bat feet to get more of an idea of what they're supposed to look like, and good grief are bat feet nightmarish. I dialled them back significantly for this, and might do so even more in future. But the pink gradient (the same colour as her nose) works fairly well.







And yes, having an anthro bat with a heart motif obviously made me think of a certain other bat from pop culture, so I had to reference that in one of the sketches. I like how these doodles show Vespera at 4 different levels of cartooniness - the big portrait on the right is the most "realistic", i.e. how I'd draw her if I was being serious; the one on the far left is a more chibi-esque version that I drew a few times in Don't Break the Chain; the one to the lower right of that is slightly further along the scale (funnily enough, I drew her like that once or twice for DBTC too); and the one at far top right is just taking the mickey.



