Little Nuns / Nuns And Ducks

About

Little Nuns, unofficially referred to as Nuns And Ducks, is a series of story art by Twitter and Instagram artist Diva featuring a group of nuns and the plump ducks they tend to. Launched in mid-2020, the series has a massive fan following online and has resulted in numerous works of fan art.

Origin

On May 12th and May 16th, 2020, artist Diva (@hyxpk) posted two sketches of nuns.^[1][2] The series officially started on July 22nd, 2020, when Diva posted an artwork of a bored nun lying on the floor that received over 550 retweets and 5,700 likes in three years (shown below).

Spread

The series quickly rose to virality, with several artworks posted by Diva in late July 2022 gaining over 10,000 likes in roughly a year. For example, on July 26th, 2020, Diva tweeted^[3] a drawing that received over 1,200 retweets and 11,700 likes in three years (shown below, left). On July 27th, 2020, the artist posted^[4] an artwork that garnered over 1,100 retweets and 10,500 likes in the same period (shown below, right).

On August 9th, 2020, the ducks made their first appearance in the series (shown below, left).^[5]
As the series progressed, the ducks' forms became much shorter and rounder and became a major component of the series. For example, on November 21st, 2020, Diva posted^[6] an artwork that received over 22,500 retweets and 125,700 likes in roughly two years (shown below, right).

On December 19th, 2020, Diva launched^[7] a Kickstarter campaign to publish the art book of the drawings 1-100 of the series. On April 28th, 2022, artbooks containing comics 1-100 and 101-200 were released,^[8] also giving official nicknames to the nuns.

On June 8th, 2022, an Instagram^[9] account for the webcomic was launched. As of May 2023, Diva had over 293,000 followers on Twitter^[10] and over 13,400 followers on Instagram.

On March 18th, 2023, @hyxpk tweeted^[11] out a chart with all characters' names and their relationships with each other (shown below).

Hidden chicken

On August 3, 2020,^[12] Diva uploaded an image showing the escape of some of the chickens of the convent (Shown, below).

After this update, every single image of the main series portrays a hidden chicken in it. Finding the hidden chicken is a popular activity of the fans of the series, some examples are shown below.

Various Examples

Search Interest

External References