First thing I did. Sketching/cartooning warm-ups starring Rocket and a little bit of Groot...

And then I cleaned up and colored the one that I thought came out best.

And behold, the star of the show and reason it's taken me so long to make an art post. This is not my sketch, I did not sketch this sketch, this sketch belongs to

Okay, the idea here was a series of two-panel comics in which the Guardians cross over with the Netflix MCU characters. I have strips written in my head that pair off the six (official, surviving) Guardians with the four Defenders plus Frank and Claire for low-key jokes or character moments, but this is as far as I got actually drawing them. (The next one up includes Jessica and I'm having a wretched time with her face.)

Speaking of the four Defenders plus Frank and Claire (six is just such a convenient number to work with), here's a chart I made for Tumblr because I felt the need to comment on everyone's coffee preferences.
