Original Characters
love day
I knew I wanted to make a Valentine’s Day picture. It finally occurred to me reading someone’s post on Instagram that I hate Valentine’s Day as a corporate greed and performative holiday that make coupled people feel pressure and single people feel miserable, but it’s always so tempting because I love pink, hearts, and kisses. […]
i’ll never go
New Fall Out Boy! Got the vision of Andrew being a nerdy shut-in hanging out with his cat. I feel like he had a black cat a million years ago too. But this is Arwen. The manuscripts were super fun to throw in there. And yes, trying to get his tum right required some interesting […]
lots of color and line art
After spending a few months doing soft airbrush lines that I would generally cover up, I switched things up when I made a Micah character sheet. I’m teaching Super Stories again this summer and I wanted to give the kids a bit more they could do with their character development. I made them a pencil […]
ensembles
daydreaming
I had a random impulse to redraw Daydreaming from 2013. Oh shit. That’s because it’s been ten years. Well, it turns out replicating so many traditional tools is a bit tricky, but I think it worked out! I’m obviously much happier with how Micah looks.
honing skills
but also i don’t know how he can be so delicate, so yesterday i spent the day studying him and actuallly ducking traced him like i’m a fucking 10 year old to try to understand his weird wonderful anatomy better.
Heartwood portraits
I’m meeting with a local vanity press tomorrow to explore how they could help take The Heartwood Trilogy to the next level. I wanted to include some interior illustrations but I was stressing how I could ever set up a proper scene illustration. But I just finished this portrait of Andrew and it occurred to […]
Happy Holidays 2022
Good morning and happy holidays! It’s been a vast and varied holiday season in my house, so it should come as no surprise that I ended up with several drafted Christmas illustrations before ending up with one I was happy with. So that means you get lots of bonuses – the finished one I’m very […]
2022 wrapped
Mint-haired magical girl makes her return!