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A couple Christmas designs I've got up in my shop 🎄🧡

I'd really appreciate any and all support, even if that's just reblogging this post 🥰 thank you!

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Progress is progress no matter how small

And small steps are actually a lot bigger when you have a brain or body making life more difficult

We have to remember that

I can't measure my progress against anybody else's because everybody else isn't me

No matter the mental struggles, the chronic health issues, the debilitating trauma, the grief or pain you're going through...

Whatever you do today, no matter how small

It is enough

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Sneak peekkkk 🎄

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New design available in my shop 💜

I thought there should be more merch for original character creators, so I'm starting to make some 🥰

This design is also available with white font (on a black background).

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College aged doodles of a couple of my boys I've never posted anywhere 💜

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These are some of the text based designs I've made this year using commercial free font! The first and last one are my faves ~

I need that "Fatigued Beauty" design on a mug and a shirt and well, everything eventually lol

If you like any of these and want them on a sticker or a shirt, head over hereeee :)

Or you can just hit that reblog button 💜

Thank you for your support!

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Goldie appreciation post 💛

I need to draw my golden girl again soon :')) she's definitely one of my favorite girls to draw. I've got a whole list of ideas for her that I'll get around to some day, once my art routine gets a little more regular. We're getting there 👏

If you like her too, I've got some designs of her available in my shop ~

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This is Oreo btw! Aka Theo and Orly 💕

Their story idea was actually born out of frustration. (Not the first of my ideas to come out of anger either XD Skyglass started in a similar way, but I'll get into that some other day). But anyway -- I was so sick and tired of the message that keeps showing up in modern media about being independent and not needing other people. A lot of love stories are getting twisted or changed to elevate and praise independence. Which sure, independence has its place, but we shouldn't have to knock other people down to get there. And male characters especially keep getting shoved out of the way and stripped of important roles in stories! It REALLY bothers me. Especially as someone who has always liked and related to male characters more, regardless of my gender. It makes me mad and hurts my heart.

So, Oreo's main theme is going to be how needing someone is a strength - NOT a weakness. That being vulnerable and loving someone else doesn't make you any less of a person. That even with a partner, you can do great things. And how both people in a partnership can play an important role without stepping on the other person.

It's also going to be an enemies to lovers story, because I love the trope and wanted my side project to have it since my main project moreso focuses on found family. So yeah!! I'm really looking forward to developing their story more and drawing them outside of this meme doodle lol

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Here's another cute, inspirational hand drawn design in my shop 💜

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Another character highlight✨

This time with my angsty Southern boy Cash 🖤

Honestly, I have a lot more art of him I've drawn over the years, but most of his art makes me cringe now lol. I need to draw him again soon. It's been too long :'))

Instagram // My shop Project Burley Stories: Season 1 // Season 2 // Season 3 // Season 4 (Cash was a main character in Season 1 if you're interested in reading his stories)

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Sunflower boy 🌻

This curly haired cutie is available as a design in my shop 💛

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I also have inspirational designs in my shop <3

This was the first hand drawn inspirational design I made last year. After this, I began to incorporate ones with commercial free font as well (which you'll see mixed in). But I really do enjoy playing around with my handwriting from time to time :)

If you love inspirational, encouraging designs and/or original character work, I'd love it if you checked out my Redbubble! Any and all support (including reblogs) is very much appreciated 🙏

I am but a smol artist

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I can't believe it's that time of year again 🎄

The holiday season is actually hard on me. It always brings up a lot of past trauma and feelings of deep sadness so my mental health always dips sob. But I try to fight it with creativity best I can to get myself into the spirit and focus on what's good.

I've got some new, cute Christmas-y art in development too. But for now I'll share this one from a couple years ago with Taren (my Christmas boy).

If you like this piece, it's available in my shop 🧡💚

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Here are some of my favorite drawings I've done of my son, Jacob Anderson ✌

He was/is one of my main kiddos in the collab project (Project Burley) I started on Instagram forever ago. At the moment the project is on hiatus, but I've been slowly making progress on some of the arcs I still wanted to write. And this kid is near and dear to my heart so I'd love to get more of his story down. I sort of left him in a not so great place with Maple.

The blonde girl, Maple, also belongs to me 💜

The other boy is JD and he belongs to @janiceamoh :)) He's one of Jacob's closest friends 💞

I'll probably do more character highlights like this here for my favorite kiddos (in & outside of the collab project).

Instagram // My shop Project Burley Stories: Season 1 // Season 2 // Season 3 // Season 4

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This is my character Brexley from the series I'm currently writing 🥰

The bottom one is my art, and the top was created by the lovely @sakuraartist (on Instagram).

Since I decided to start another blog primarily for reblogs, I'm using Sakura's art as my icon over there so it connects to this one with the same character. Which made me want to share the full thing - because she did such an amazing, beautiful job on my girl!

Brexley is a bit of a brat and starts out as an antagonist in my series. But honestly, characters like that are my favorite to write, so it's been a lot of fun developing her.

If you write, what type of characters are your favorite to develop?

Oh, and if you want to follow my side blog (where I'll be reblogging things) it's @heartsintent 💜

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Michael was gifted a power where whatever he draws comes to life for a limited amount of time. And it just so happens he enjoys drawing fantastical creatures ✨

One of these days I'd love to write his and his friend's story <3 it's always been somewhere on my to do list

Michael design is available in my shop ~~

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Baby Jacob beaaan

When he was smol and his mama was alive and he still had all his limbs ...

Anyway! Drawing is available as a design in my shop if you like it and/or want to support an original character creator <3