Tag: Creature

Busy

I’m rather pleased with this one. It also helped me realize that I don’t always explain what I’m working with. This time it was Sharpies (one fine point), a Crayola marker, and a white pen for the shine in the eyes, on a 3×5 index card. I have some nicer materials, but I also want to use up the old ones, and sometimes I just use what’s on hand like the last two. So, because the quality of your materials can effect how the quality of your work is perceived, I will try to let you know what I was working with at the time from now on.

Now for the update on stuff and things

Classes: still have not signed up for. (I’ll get there… eventually)

Social: still no link for it, and it may be a while before I do link one, as I want to figure out some things first. I will say that I don’t think short form videos (and maybe even long form with how I’m set up right now) are the thing for me right now, even though they are very popular, as editing takes me forever and thinking about how it looks on camera interrupts my flow state.

Painting: finished two more, meant to post one today, however the options to do so were either a picture from my phone or going and getting it to scan and then taking it back (I do not have a good storage space for them here at the moment). The first one requires a cord or doing this from my phone, both of which I do not want to figure out today. The other requires a vehicle, which is hard enough on the regular, however we are now down a vehicle as of last night (which seems to happen every winter… at least we’re not down to one… yet). So little drawing it was!

YouTube: I feel like what I’m going to say is going to make me seem a bit all over the place (which is not an unfair assessment), so please bear with me. I’m going to try streaming, not my art (at least at first), but video games. Reasons being: It won’t leave my head, I don’t have to edit it, it’s a bit more interactive, if I get a laptop I can do it while pet sitting sometimes… there’s a lot of reasons why I think it is the path for me right now. If it’s not your thing, don’t worry, I’m still going to be working on my art and posting here. I’m just trying to figure out the best way for me to put myself out there.

Other than all that… I’m going to try to update somethings with the website, hopefully I don’t mess everything up.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Glasses!

Couldn’t find my index cards, so I cut some cardstock to the same size, hence the pink color (and what ever colors may show up in future).

This one is a little rougher than usual due to a variety of factors. It’s been a little bit since I’ve drawn like this, I did not have a very stable surface, and I very VERY recently got glasses and they make everything go a bit like this \ /. So that’s going to take some getting used to.

As for the percolating idea for putting myself out there that I mentioned last time… I’m gonna try to do more with social media. I’m also looking into local art classes after a talk with my dad (for a longtime any I saw were for a different age group or the timing didn’t work, so I had stopped even considering the possibility of one), so we’ll see how that goes.

Anyway. Hope you all have a wonderful week!

Happy New Year! (2026)

Wasn’t sure how the gold glitter pen would turn out when scanned. I’m glad you can kinda see it, however it does look better in person.

As for the New Year… I hope it is a good one. I know many people have their resolutions and whatnot, but I haven’t really thought about it this time. I have things I’m working on, like my art, and sewing, and myself. I haven’t really written down any goals for them though, so I’ll see what I come up with this week.

Hope you have a wonderful week, and a happy new year!!!!

Decoy

Hope you all had happy holidays!

The season tends to be pretty hectic, with set up, various celebrations and get togethers, present getting/making, on top of the regular day to day things… it can be a bit overwhelming, so I also hope you were at least able to find some times to take a breath and settle yourself so thing were a little easier.

Hope you all have a wonderful week, and a Happy New Year! (it’s already been that long???)

Bird snake?

Not a quality image. Neither was the last one, as I took them with my phone. Because my computer and scanner are not at the little office, I didn’t think to bring them home, and I haven’t really had the ability to go get them since I made them, which was the 28th…

Which also means I haven’t really been able to make more, as most of my materials are down there now.

Thankfully I did find some index cards that were hiding, and there is no shortage of random pens and mechanical pencils here. So when life gets a little too busy for me to get to the office to make something, I will just have to return to the early days of black, white, and whatever colored materials I happen to find.

Hope you all have a wonderful week!

A Moment of Peace

My scanner and I had some disagreements about colors again.

This piece was inspired by my backyard, the growing season coming up, a call to artists at my local art center, and my own wishes for a moment of peace.

In other news: I finally have some author copies on their way, should be here next week. My vinyl cutter is set up and I’ve been having some fun designing things, and now have some fun little sticker things to play with and figure out what to do with. I now have cards with my website and YouTube on them. And my garlic is sprouting!

Here’s the link if you want to watch me make it https://youtu.be/ku1i0_trsQE

Hope you all are well, and can find your own moments of peace!

It’s a bed!… right?

Do you think a monster would survive under this ‘bed’?

This one was inspired by my bed eating my phone, and it was quite a pain to get it back. I had to take it apart a little, which is not something you want to be doing when you were about to go to sleep. That being said, I’m really happy with how this turned out! Especially considering I didn’t have a reference in front of me, or get up to go look at it!

Hope you all have a wonderful weekend, and sleep well!

If it looks, acts, and sounds like one… is it?

My scanner evidently hates colored pencils, because the horns and eyes turned out pretty good, and the sky and grass lost some color and coverage.

On another note. A few weeks ago one of my aunts asked how much I make on Redbubble, and since I’ve only had one sale during covid to one of my brothers, I didn’t know. Since then, I have looked at it, and I figured I’d share my answer here. Everything I have on Redbubble is currently at a 20% markup/artists margin, and the prices you see on there are the base+20%, so I would make .45 on a 2.69 sticker and 57.49 on a 344.96 metal print. I even went and made myself a spread sheet with a lot of the numbers and if it rounded up or down by less than a cent.

I think I was pushing myself a little to hard when I started Redbubble, so it’s kinda on a back burner right now. However, if I make something and you would like to see or have it on something, let me know and you might see it there!

Hope you are all having a wonderful time, and stay safe out there!