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The Kiss 🦭✨

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Really happy that everyone enjoyed my last illustration, here's a little process video of it being made ☘️

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Bug Crossing 🐛

I got the idea for this piece on a sunny day a while ago after seeing a beetle in the park struggle to get across the hot tarmac path, just a silly visual to explore the question of how much we should be mindful of the wildlife we share a habitat with - they live here too!

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Work in progress 🐛

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The first two illustrations for my little character design project! 🌱

I wanted to make something for my portfolio that combines my love of gardening and robots, each one will have a different gardening purpose with somewhat theoretically functional parts. I also thought it would be cute to make fictional magazine ads for each robot to present them~

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Working on a bunch of thumbnails for an upcoming set of "Botany Bot" illustrations - let me know which one you want to see turned into a finished design the most! 🌱

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Some tests making a faux risograph effect, I had to approach these very differently than I usually do for digital art so it was a fun experiment! ✨

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I just added this new gold foil washi tape design to my shop - plus restocks of all the others!🌙

I'm still designing new merch for my next big shop update, so I figured since they've arrived I should release them into the world rather than having them sit here in a box in my studio :)

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Here's the process behind my last illustration! This was a very self-indulgent piece because I got to draw seals and pretty water refraction both at the same time 🦭

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The Kiss 🦭✨

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I'm a little late to the party, but here's my version of the artist starter pack trend! ✨

For anyone not up to speed, recently there's been a trend of people using AI to create personalised action figures of themselves - and artists have started fighting back by making their own hand-drawn versions, so I'm joining in with my own (featuring my artist mascot!)

I think most people are aware by now of the many current ethical issues with AI image generation, and how much of a threat to the creative industry it is that corporations are increasingly eager to cut creatives out of the equation at every opportunity to improve their bottom line.

But without getting too much into all of that, I just wanted to say that if you're a beginner to drawing, or maybe you've never even picked up a pencil before, and you're considering using AI - I promise that if you put your time and energy into learning something creative, it will be 100x more fulfilling and rewarding than mindlessly consuming whatever tech companies are throwing your way every waking moment. I really do think that finding something you're passionate about is what life is all about, so I can't think of anything worse than having that one quintessentially human part of myself relegated to typing out prompts over and over purely for the sake of profit.

The fantastic thing about art is that it's like a fingerprint of the person making it, no two prints are exactly alike. The countless different aspects of what makes someone an individual all culminates into their work. You could pick up a random book off a shelf, get into a certain type of music, or see some graffiti on a wall in a street you happened to walk down, and it could completely change the trajectory of your art. Add all of those creative minds together and you get all of the wonderful work that we've all watched, read, played, and listened to throughout our lives - without that ability to explore ideas and innovate, there wouldn't have even been anything for AI to copy from to begin with.

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Here's the process behind the last drawing I posted! Often I put a lot of planning into the composition and colour scheme for the average artwork, but this one was a spontaneous sketch that just fell into place, which was nice ✨

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Born under the Orionids ✧

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Just Another Seedling II 🐞

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Work in progress 🐞

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Some of you who have been following me for longer might have noticed, but this is actually a redraw of one of my favourite artworks that I made back in 2017!

I initially started doing a redraw of it sometime around 2021, then my tablet broke and the file got lost, so it took until now for me to be able to face drawing alllll of those details again for a third time - I'm glad I did, I think this is going to make a very nice print! ✨

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