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Doodles of myself I left in the back offices while doing inventory

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Read Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand and realized I don’t have any just girl squads, and I wanted to remedy that!

So I decided to focus on how a teenaged Anna is faring with Abbott’s disappearance (poorly) and how she handles a befriending (and being a bit overprotective of) a new witch in town.

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It’s you.

Despite everything it’s still you!

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Quick silly lil comic that summarizes the start of their relationship

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Here’s the original story

Just realized I never posted my Anna art! She’s the viewpoint character of a short story about Abbott that I wrote for my children’s lit class. A childhood friend of sorts

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Just realized I never posted my Anna art! She’s the viewpoint character of a short story about Abbott that I wrote for my children’s lit class. A childhood friend of sorts

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And here’s the og conceptualized in highschool squad!!!! I spend significantly less time thinking about them bc I never had much of an image of plotting for them, but they’re still near and dear to me!

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Finally finished the last few references I started last year for artfight, and slightly touched up a few. I’m already finding a million problems with how they look lol.

But oh well! Here’s the main squad as of late compiled!! My favs ever! The guyyyysss

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Guess who finally graduated college!!!! But anyways it’s my lil guys birthday today so that takes precident lol

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“See you later” I said.

But I would not.

Our paths were only meant to cross for a brief time, and now the lines of our lives were passing like ships in the harbor.

My knees creaked as I stood up to leave.

I was supposed to say ‘goodbye.’

I’m gone now, a ghost in their narrative.

My markers left in his trunk, the traditions carried on in my stead, I am nothing but the pieces of me they carry with them.

This was where we split. The day came to an end. A home, a home, a home.

“See you later.” I said.

But I wouldn’t.

I was supposed to say ‘goodbye.’

And here’s my Senior Project!! This was a mess because I had one advisor that supported me but wasn’t present and one advisor that was present but didn’t support me lol.

My topic was a bit all over the place but was primarily how art—because it is a form of expression—causes connection and can form community, and how fandom is accessible community for those that may not be getting it elsewhere. And with that I emphasized the merit of unfinished or underskilled art in how it can inspire the mind (sometimes more than really good art even). I don’t know about you, but I find I spend more time thinking about things that have blanks to be filled than I do about things that are perfectly well rounded.

Inspiration isn’t linear from one person to the next, it is a branching amalgamation, an ever-expanding scrapbook of all of us. So for the project I wrote a brief excerpt from a fake book and then created five pieces of art illustrating the writing and its themes. Each of the five pieces also take influence from at least two other pieces in no particular order, with each of them in varying levels of style, skill, and effort, in order to emulate different artists getting inspired by both each other and the source. The writing itself conveys themes of isolation, memory, and disconnects, in direct contrast with my general topic of connection.

Ghost and Fade both utilize the passage of time, from the shadows cast in sunset and the figures enclosed in the demons’s head as if a memory in Ghost, to the life cycle of a plucked dandelion and the parking meter in Fade. Fade, Finale, and Contact all utilize flower language. From the stubborn existence of the dandelion, to the association of death that follows lilies, forget-me-nots, and spider lilies in Finale, while the yellow chrysanthemums of Contact are both mourning and friendship, new beginnings. Finale is split down the middle with a black void in the face, as is Barriers. Barriers has fog or smoke that evokes a sort of haunting mystery, while Fade uses fog to convey more of an intangibility. Barriers separates the demon and her friends with a thick line down the middle and a disparity of size and distance, Ghost separates her by placing her friends into the enclosed space that is her head, while Contact has the friend's hand and the flowers in it breach the barrier of the sketch half of the painting. I could go on.

Every piece has the face of the protagonist obscured or completely missing in some way as a way of depicting the experience of never truly being seen in life. There are invisible barriers in place for whatever reason it may be, so the demon is untethered in each and every piece, turning to fog in Fade, transparent in Ghost, partially only a sketch in Contact. It is however, the touch of another in Contact that solidifies the demon and makes her more than a sketch, makes her seen. It is still a goodbye, but the connection shared between people is what keeps us alive, both in reality and in memory.

Rant about my advisor under the cut lol:

My whole thing was literally centered around the merit of unfinished/under-skilled art, but “all real artists paint in detailed strokes even if what they’re painting is the lack of something” I literally went home and cried after she made me mask the sketch half of the painting. I don’t want to paint the impression of a sketch on canvas!!! I want a sketch on canvas!! Texture and all! And it’s not me being lazy!!! God!!!!! How the hell am I supposed to spend hours scumbling in pure white on 50% of the canvas when every time I see you, you tell me I’m behind and I’m going to crash and burn??

Anyways the next time I went to work on it I brought my roommates nail polish remover and a bunch of cotton swabs and got to work undoing it. Which is why the finished product looks the way it does. It’s not what I was going for but it works. The chrysanthemums especially look great. The shreds of cotton swabs I stuck to it were an extra fuck you, just for myself. I even signed it using acetate on a cotton swab. Oh and the kicker was the next time I saw her she was like “see doesn’t this look so much better when you put in the time and the work? AND THEN PROCEEDED TO ASK ME WHAT THE WHITE PART COULD BE, “like clouds or whipped cream?” ARE YOU FUCKINH KIDDING ME!??!??!!?? “You could add a light amount of color to give it depth like blue in the eye—“ “I’m not doing that.” The amount of venom in my voice that day good lord, the first time I actually stood my ground to her.

This was a year ago but you can tell I still got feelings about it haha. I like have a physical fear response every time I see her in public it’s hilarious.

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I totally forgot to post my art class stuff from last year! Here it all is!

That self portrait is literally so hard to photograph 😭 it’s too shiny cus I used too much of the whatsit stuff

The fur was the best part in both the painting experience and appearance, and the blood came out great too (so zoom in on that)—I’m just mad I didn’t spend more time on the hand in the charcoal stage.

Also this lil pillar from a local landmarks art history class! By giving myself hard outlines in pen I felt more comfortable to shade the thing aggressively—it was a fun experiment

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Uniforms from the different jobs I’ve had — for funzies

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Got back into Danganronpa for a brief moment there! (around October). Cue me struggling to draw them in a way I like

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Haven’t been posting as much lately, mostly bc I haven’t been drawing much aside from my ocs

Here’s some backstage and church doodles of them

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Sports!

When Medusa's promising basketball career was cut short due to injury, she swore that her child would do what she couldn't. Everything was going smoothly, until the DWMA's finest got on the court. CroMa Basketball AU.

Happy resbang season folks!! It was fun to work alongside my two partners for this project, make sure to check out wonderfulkeep1’s fic and the other artist amberlehcar’s adorable plushies when they finish them!

https://archiveofourown.org/works/63014998

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Finished that first pic!!

More misc doodles of the them!!

I love designing them at different age ranges! I have no clue how I want Lilith to look as a teen tho, I’m torn between long hair and buzzcut or just a completely buzzed head

It’s not every day you get swept off your feet by a big beautiful wolf girlfriend

Dominic’s last relationship was with a vampire and it did not go well. Aadiya is not particularly sensitive to that.

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These two really have solidified as comfort characters for me, they’re like my go to when I don’t know what to draw