Calico Cocoa 🐾

Fan Expo Toronto: August 21-24 with KrispyHu and CalicoCocoa.

A map of where KrispyHu and CalicoCocoa are located. You can find them at table U26, located on the right set of tables close to where the food court used to be in the south building. They are the fourth aisle from the bottom.

If you missed me today, I'll also be in the #ArtistAlley at FanExpo in just under two weeks(!!!) with the amazing @krispyhu.bsky.social

Look you just have to make the cool weird shit that excites you. You must. In this world besieged by bland, scrubbed boring, computer slop, you must. Make the thing you’re embarrassed to make, the thing that feels “too much” because otherwise we get drowned in a sea of cowardly work made by a button

Freya, a brown tabby cat munches on the corner of two cat bookmarks that are being held out towards her.

I just realized that my scheduled post indeed Did Not Get Posted. I'll be at Toronto's First Post Office today for a show! Come by and get some unbitten cat bookmarks.

#ArtistAlley

Digital illustration of an ‘alalā, also known as a Hawaiian crow. It has mostly black feathers with a beak that is slightly wider than an American crow's.

An ‘alalā for #AvianAugust !! Very much enjoyed drawing a crow again after not having done so in a while 💜
#art #birdart #AvianAugust2025

Thanks!! I'm hoping that I get some updated pics soon because 😩😩😩

Hello + Ita Bag Info Sign up now to receive updates directly from Calico Cocoa in your inbox.

Okay so I can't actually open pre-orders yet because I am in perpetual suffering with waiting for revisions before mass production can even start so I made a newsletter for my ita bag (and other store related stuff later down the line)
pencilbooth.com/takes/4ecb57...

To celebrate being Verified, I've decided to put several services on sale for the next FIVE DAYS ONLY!
✨ vgen.co/Breadsticc ✨

Yes, you still get the discounted price if you waitlist now! This batch will be started during September since August is full ❤️
#vgen #verified #artist #bsnm #commissions

Two photos of an Eastern Whip-poor-will, one by Laura Gooch showing the bird with mouth closed and its tink beak. The second by Aaron Bugdor showing the birds mouth oped with a wide gape and long rictal bristles. Text on the graphic says: Unsolicited Bird Fact: Whip-poor-wills, like other nightjars, are aerial insectivores, meaning they catch insects in the air in their mouths. They have tiny beaks, but their mouth opens very wide and is surrounded by long"rictal" bristles which guide insects INTO their mouths. Kind of like eyelashes in reverse. yum

Did you ask for a bird fact? No, but you're getting one whether you like it or not. 🪶

Also my takeway from this is not to stand near the back doors of an auto door opening bus if feeling Not Well or light headed 😂

A couple of the people from the bus were trying to get me back into said bus. Luckily I was wearing a thick coat and such because winter but I like to think back about it like "I probably could have passed away if I hit my head on the ground too hard huh" 🫣

So you know how there's two sets of doors on buses one at the back and one at the front? I was standing near the back doors since there weren't any seats. I guess the bus must have stopped at the same time I passed out because I was suddenly lying on the pavement instead of the bus and

US friends, please order from your favorite international shops asap. Tariffs are badly hurting our own small businesses, but it’s going to devastate our artist friends elsewhere too who rely on US shoppers.

This is all so frustrating. It’s getting harder and harder to sell goods as an artist. 😔

Six different designs of embroidered keychain cats. All of them look like they're sliding down and trying to claw their way back up. They include fur patterns for: black, seal point, striped orange tabby, grey and white, brown tabby with white and a black+orange+white calico.

They're falling (in love with your bags)! These guys I designed as little luggage tags since my bird versions were so beloved.

These will be available at FanExpo Toronto (post will be going up for that soon) and will be up on Etsy after FanExpo!

#CalicoCocoaMerch

Omg that's so scary that it happened while you were driving. Glad that you managed to pull over before it happened 😭

Last time that happened to me I fell out the back doors of a bus onto the pavement so I'm super glad you were already seated 💀

Omg I hope you're doing alright! Wishing you and your family member a quick recovery 🫶

Will do! Thank you ♥️

☀️A Quick Tutorial on Labelling/Flagging Your Work☀️

So, you've drawn something/taken a picture you want to share, but it's not appropriate for all audiences. How do you flag it? Luckily, BlueSky makes this process easy!
(1/7)

I can finally see ✨the ground✨ in my office unimpeded by boxes, bags or suitcases. Just in time for the ita bag preorder I'll be starting on Saturday 😂

I didn't expect GameStop to be how I found out Jungle Juice had an EN physical edition out in Canada

Same! It was so fun to walk through and they had little informational placards too 😭

There were so many fun exhibits but some of my faves that moved while I was in the area. Not sure who was sponsoring this but all the kids and adults were trying to get in on the pics and videos LOL

I saw the dinosaurs at a mall and I indeed did become the biggest tourist in existence 👁️👁️

Okay fr where is the ribbon art base meme from because my brain went roseate desire and I will not recover until I draw Hong Lu.

A sketch of the Mōlī with very messy colouring, drawn August 2 by Calico Cocoa.

Just the illust in case anyone wanted to see that without the ref in the corner of the timelapse LOL

Digital sketch for the Mōlī! Frantically tried to get it done before it hit midnight EST for day two of #AvianAugust 🙈

I do not BF6 but it is insanely cool how Godot went from "tee hee indie and smaller games" to "look a AAA studio is using it!" (Albeit for a level editor but my point still stands)

"The Portal editor will once again exist outside the Battlefield 6 client itself within a custom version of the Godot game engine."

WHAT

WHAT DO YOU MEAN

I just got messaged by this account too, stay safe out there nyall.

digital drawing of adult two female laysan albatrosses cuddling with a ridiculous grey baby poking out from between them

Laysan albatross couple & their muppet child for day 2 of #avianaugust!
Laysan albatrosses are monogamous and it was noted in a colony on Oahu that 31% were female-female pairings 👩‍❤️‍👩🏳️‍🌈 pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

These all look so good!!! But omg how in the world did you even draw that many is your wrist okay are YOU okay 🫣