I Drew A Zevran.

Practicing putting down color/shadow before putting down line – which is the exact opposite of how I normally work.

Not the worst thing I’ve ever drawn.

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Freehand illustrations of French votive candelabras, done as Mother’s Day gifts.

Hand of Glory

bay laurel

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finally got around to finishing and scanning commissions

@redangusart‘s Ishmael, to accompany my earlier drawing of the Mick

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I’m one million years behind the times and only just started playing Dragon Age: Origins.

Here is my Dalish Grey Warden, Nissim.

I haven’t *seriously* used color pencils since about middle school, so this is an interesting learning curve.

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Little Box of Hate

cigar box, newspaper, magazine pages, nails, embroidery floss, varnish, zipper pull stolen almost 20 years ago from someone who abused me

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I am so pleased with Sasuke's facial expression in that first panel.

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"Alone and Forsaken" by 16 Horsepower

Scarf for my boyfriend.

I was posting art online back in the days of Elfwood, before Deviantart, so I’ve been around to watch the internet social rules of interacting with art posts shift over time.

Lemme tell you: Reblogs make me happy, but comments fill me with JOY. Whether it’s on the reblog or in the tags, even if it’s as simple as “I like this,” that means so much to me.

I can imagine there are a lot of artists in a position similar to mine: Working a full-time non-art job, with little time or opportunity to interact with IRL art communities. I was in art school for many many years, and I didn’t realize how important it was to receive feedback on my art until I wasn’t getting it anymore.

One of the things I’m trying to do, over on my bsky and my sideblog, is to leave a comment of some kind when I reblog another artist’s work. I know it means a lot to me, so I want to give that to artists whose work I enjoy.

To everyone who leaves comments on my art, even goofy stuff in their tags: I do see it, I do read it, and thank you so much!

To people who leave comments in the tags that say stuff like “this is so weird” or “why did they make the characters so ugly”: Please go look at more art and develop a broader palette. Maybe watch Simon Schama’s “The Power of Art” miniseries, as a fun way to learn some art history and theory.