
2026 sketch gallery of BLUE HORIZON characters by naila moonsi.
IT'S THE NEW YEAR OF 2026... I'm more likely to fill up the sketch gallery quickly if last year was any indication! I'll keep the current tradition of having a few of last years' latest artwork in this gallery, BUT...
We're starting with a little bit of an awkward situation for 2026. On December 31st, 2025, I dropped the last sketch of the year, which capped off the '2005 or 2025?' storyline in Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's Secret Tumblr Blog.
THIS GALLERY BEGINS WITH FERNANDO'S FIRST POST OF 2026 on 01/01/2026, which truly completes the '2005 or 2025?' Blue Horizon character blogs' storyline of 2025.
![fernando-chan-riv-fav-bands on his secret Tumblr character blog speaks at the beginning of our new year 2026 on 01/01.
The photo he describes in this way: My brother [ERROR]. He's under a nighttime sky-scape--was it in the Boundless or not? The Boundless can be strange. Well, he's lit a bit starkly nighttime blue beneath these apparent stars, but usually he has brown skin. His red eyes are glowing. His dark hair falls around him. He's smiling a bit sadly, in my opinion. I wonder what's wrong? His pupils aren't how they typically are--they're often glowing red or fuchsia. This seems both fuchsia and gold to me, in the midst of night, with an odd ancient camera...
His blog post says: This photo... It's bothering me. I've been looking through the photo gallery on this thing, and I remember my brother Antonio showing this off to us a while ago now. I swear the memory stayed fuzzy for the longest time–was it within our domains? At the beach, maybe.
I saw him recently. Something off about his eyes. Something off about those pupils. Did he do something to his magic? Or was it me? He was so depressed. I don't know what to do.
I remember what Alejandro said happened that day they got separated on the anomalous floating isle. They were together but afraid. When I think about it now, I'm glad Alejandro was there...
Antonio didn't tell me anything when we met up later. He still brought me fruit with tajín seasoning. He was too stressed out. I finally know why.
I need to become stronger. That's all.
Tumblr tags: #kitty... are you there? #/ᐠ - ˕ -マ Ⳋ [alt text: calm kitty kaomoji] i am! can you tell it's me fernando? #i can. i am powerful. #i agree #character blog #blue horizon verse by naila moonsi](/antoniochandranisdreamblog/fernandochanrivfavbands25to26neocities.png)


![[Direct description of selfie from Antonio Chandrani-Rivera's Secret Dream Blog on Tumblr.] It's my selfie! I look cool AF and tried smiling. I have dark falling hair around my face and dark tone to my skin; there's light blue/aquamarine lighting from our atmosphere in the lower horizon, but there's countless stars in the dark skies behind me.
My Red eyes are glowing more than usual, hmm. The pupils look odder than usual. Usually there isn't any gold to the glowing fuchsia of my pupils. How odd. [End description.]](/antoniochandranisdreamblog/nighttimetonoforneocitiesbbz.png)
((( Artist's notes regarding Antonio and Fernando Chandrani-Rivera's and the year 2025 story arc's end:
I tried doing a '90's anime-styled skintone lighting with aquamarines amid the darker colors. Wound up altering it due to wanting a different aesthetic and color tone. (You all did not see the /gen aquamarine version.)
Then I adjusted it again on New Years Day because I realized the previous quick undershirt layer wasn't working for me. 🫠 Came off greener than I intended? And a blue that matches Antonio's Chandrani family uniform fits works better for the storyline referenced by Fernando, i.e. one in The Protector and the Annihilation. )))
Aside from the above reasoning, adjusted the sketch on 01/01/2026 due to wanting to make sure the official character blog looks the way I want it to.
wintertides or something...!!! in canon??? we'll see.
diego working v hard to give fernando chandrani-rivera a new quantum physics book for christmas!!!
fernando is already reading the quantum physics book volume ii…!?
(Small Christmas offering that's a spinoff from the February 2024 Valentines edit found WAY below [may stop being lazy and link it with an a-name later] and easiest on Tumblr. Will this be the last thing here before I switch to the 2026 gallery and make going between the pages more dynamic. I hope not hahaha.)
Sketch dump between December 11 to December 22 below. Became increasingly thematic (kitty).


Retro Fernando Chandrani-Rivera and Diego Garza on a desktop wallpaper; just had a vision for it. Of course it wound up an "eye catch image" for the upcoming visual novel, as can be seen here.
The main focus initially was chibi kitty Antonio; I realized late that I based the chibi style on 2000's shimeji art styles! Due to realizing my subconscious inspo, I looked up shimeji and again and discovered they recently came back into vogue!!! Party like it's 2008!!! B)
Saw it via its active Reddit @ shimeji BTW and an active Bluesky tag. Very happy to learn it, though I highly recommend avoiding getting any 2000's era shimeji, since they're ancient and probably mess up modern computers.

Kitty. These two are already in the short story section (Here at "Blue Horizon: what he sees at your side.") and while I orignally drew them for fun, somehow they became part of a prelude short story to the upcoming visual novel! Essentially I stared at chibi nekomimi ! Antonio and had an Experience of writing caliber.

I dropped these comics here because I feel like the 2025 sketch gallery has way more context you can gain about Antonio and possibly Fernando. Will drop with an actual side comic batch in the side comics section later.
First time I drew on an Android tablet and on Ibis Paint! Happened December 11. I used to be stressed about sharing my art process since it starts off very rough, but wound up liking the art process vid enough to show it off here and elsewhere. Really enjoy Ibis Paint and am excited to have a particularly portable thing to draw on, especially by spring and summer. :D