Rita LaShette

This is why I regularly let people know how awesome I think they are.

We often think that awesome people must naturally know they’re awesome, but they don’t. And letting them know could be the little push that they really needed that day.

November 1, 2025. It's been a very sleepy day today, but have some sketches I did at a friend's house before a Halloween party yesterday.

I'm getting seasonally appropriate kitty snuggles 🎃🦇

Heck yeah! We need more retro crap!

No Halloween drawing this year, so you get a picture of my spicy pumpkin baby.

Happy Halloween!

The Rite Aid logo got resurrected as a zombie as well.

(I struggled more than I should have to type "rite" and not "Rita")

The Mitten

I am in the market for a job right now... 👀

I bought myself some art books for Christmas/Yule*, and I have to say that the colors in this one are SO GOOD that I had to take a moment to collect myself.

*Yes, it's early, but I'm the only one I get gifts from so 🤷‍♀️

Art does not get easier the better you get at it.

Making art is hard. Making art is fun. Making art frustrating. Making art is passion. Making art is a lot of blood sweat and tears.

And I love every moment of the process.

What if I put together a little self-published art book full of fashion drawings? A collection of little guys in fun clothes?

A thought I had while falling asleep last night that won't leave me alone.

Just making an art post to pin, because I really did intend for this account to be an art one...

Nameless cat girl (this was the end result of the sketch I uploaded as "nameless fox girl" a few weeks ago). This took far longer than it should have to color, mostly because my brain took me out for 24 hours. All good now though! #furry #art #catgirl

YouTube video by Rita LaShette Art Book Collection Tour (and accidental book ASMR)

Yapping about my art book collection!

youtu.be/xSIeJggWVGI

Hey artists

Just keep posting.
Last post didn’t get many likes? Keep posting.
Not 100% happy with what you made? Post it.
Feel like you aren’t getting anywhere? Keep posting.

You never know who will find you and when.

I feel like this is a result of growing up on the cartoons of the 80's. 😀

Nameless cat girl (this was the end result of the sketch I uploaded as "nameless fox girl" a few weeks ago). This took far longer than it should have to color, mostly because my brain took me out for 24 hours. All good now though! #furry #art #catgirl

Worked a bit more on some of the action studies of Rita. They're all colored with marker, but the top left one has colored pencil layered on top for shading instead of marker shading. #furry #art

a pink and blue menu for Roxy's Diner

a red and cream menu for Lenny's Diner and Pissery

a red-toned menu for Six Kitties Cafeteria

a green and purple menu for Lucky's Cat Food Cafeteria

hi! maybe you remember me from the menu i made for my cat, which hit surprisingly big a little while ago. i made some menus for other people's pets in exchange for donations to pro-trans organisations. now i'm doing it again, but for food banks.

please share! more info downthread!

Wandering around in the woods for three hours sounds like a typical Friday night.

Enjoy! Personally I'm a peppermint mocha basic white girl XD But the PSL is clearly a winner.

My stupid purchase of 2025 is a cheap juicer. I'm now playing a game called "will it juice?" The answer is "yes". Does it taste good? More often than you'd think given my gremlin tendencies.

Thank you!! <3

Rita is supposed to be super active, so it's kind of a crime that I tend to draw her in basic poses 98% of the time.

Worked a bit more on some of the action studies of Rita. They're all colored with marker, but the top left one has colored pencil layered on top for shading instead of marker shading. #furry #art

Sketches of Rita in some action poses. I've always intended her to be a very competent hand-to-hand fighter. Like, martial arts is her thing (secondary to being a pilot even).

I've never been very satisfied with action poses I've drawn, so I'm going to work on that. #furry #art

Sketches of Rita in some action poses. I've always intended her to be a very competent hand-to-hand fighter. Like, martial arts is her thing (secondary to being a pilot even).

I've never been very satisfied with action poses I've drawn, so I'm going to work on that. #furry #art

New Work by Gary Larson | TheFarSide.com Get an exclusive look at brand new cartoons and artwork from cartoonist Gary Larson, creator of the iconic comic strip The Far Side®.

It's kinda cool that Gary Larson is doing new cartoons because he picked up a digital tablet, taught himself how to use it, and it made him love drawing again.

www.thefarside.com/new-stuff/

Keep a notebook to write this stuff down in. Even if you don't use it, it could re-inspire you later!

YouTube video by Rita LaShette Giving up and Starting Over

Made another video. This time flipping through a sketchbook while talking about giving up and starting over.

youtu.be/Z-D6Yc9Ewn8