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This year's pride piece is a little pared down from previous years, because I haven't been doing as much art lately and the idea of going all out how I usually do felt a little daunting.

So! Just six queer characters in a rainbow sketchbook spread, because even when I haven't been drawing doing this piece every year is important to me. They each represent a different work, and they are all very special to me <3

Every year, sitting down to work on the pride project is an opportunity to sit with my own queerness in a way I sometimes avoid. It's a chance to look at who I am, and what I reach for in the stories I tell. And it's an opportunity to see that as I grow and change, my queerness and the stories I want to tell about queer characters grow too <3

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FINALLY finished my last sketchbook 😅

Last spread was this year’s pride art, so keep your eyes peeled! I decided that this sketchbook should start with the MAC kids in the hope that I’ll get a lot done on their story in the next few months 💚💙

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I’m confident I haven’t picked up my sketchbook in like. Two months. So I sketched a quick Alex as I try to get ready to jump into this year’s pride project, which I have barely even started planning yet 😅😅

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2022 -> 2025

I still really really love the original version of this piece, which if I remember correctly was actually the VERY FIRST TIME that I ever drew the five Nowak kids together. But a lot of time has passed since then, and I figured it was time for an update! I even remembered Felicity's glasses this time!

Some little details I added this time: Fliss's glasses are red for her pyrokinesis, Leah's earrings are the color of her eventual supersuit, and Sawyer's earrings have their two best friends' super logos on them suuuuuper teeny tiny, and the background colors are from their parents' super suit colors <3

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A Maddie I drew a few weeks ago, because it felt like I hadn’t drawn her in too long. I really like how she turned out!

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and goodness knows, the wicked's lives are lonely.

Okay last Wicked fanart... for now.

A revisit of these pieces I did right after the very first images of movie!Glinda's bubble dress were released. I really, really loved Ariana's performance in No One Mourns the Wicked, so this was probably inevitable.

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please enjoy this year's christmas card art of my dog Melanie <3

Usually (for the last seven years!) I draw the whole card, but my husband and I took an extremely adorable holiday photo together at an event in November this year so that's going to be the front and I drew this little Mel to go on the back with the text :)

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and the strange thing: your life could end up changing while you're dancing through...

or, alternatively: what is this feeling, so sudden and new?

I have always loved this moment in Dancing through Life, and I think it's one of the beats that the film absolutely 100% nailed. I had tears in my eyes. I had to try to capture it at least a little bit - their costumes are both more complex than I was really up to getting super detailed with but I think I've at least got the vibe down.

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i hope you're happy.

We saw Wicked last night. It was actually good, which is SO exciting and definitely was not a given, so i'm definitely excited for act 2 next year. Defying Gravity was actually my least favorite part, but for some reason is the first thing I was itching to draw. Feeling the urge to do the Galinda/Elphaba dance from DTL though so maybe that'll happen tomorrow :)

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"I hear there's been some speculation about my identity in the press, and I just want to say - I thought it was obvious."

I've been having trouble forcing myself to sit with the heartache of the Mediocre Artists Club this week, but I had to capture this moment from late in the story while the image of it was fresh in my mind. I tried to give her appropriately 2010 vibes and I do think that I succeeded lol!

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Happy Halloween!!

This year, naturally, Jay & DJ are dressing up as Glinda and Elphaba from Wicked. I think it turned out pretty cute <3

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Had a huge breakthrough on the Mediocre Artists Club this week!!! I am so so pumped to have a direction and some motivation about this story, so I had to draw my beloved super villains 💙💚

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2014 -> 2024

I was thinking about doing a 30th birthday self portrait, which I still may do, but I also thought I'd revisit this self portrait I did when I was 20! It took ages for me to dig out the original reference photo, but it was worth it.

This is based on a screenshot from a short film I appeared in in my sophomore year of college, which was a play on silent films and had some really creative captioning throughout (including, at this moment, SHE WAS CONFUSED floating next to my face - hence the caption on the revisit)!

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"You love me?"

In 2020, before I'd written I'll Be Home With You but as the concept was starting to form, I drew Jay and DJ. I redrew that piece the following year, but it was built on the same sketch, which doesn't quite reflect the scene I associate it with. Today, the day after I'll Be Home With You's first anniversary, I decided to revisit the concept.

I love I'll Be Home With You. Writing it was so special for me, and holding my copy in my hands is so special to me, and this moment is very near and dear to my heart. I had to give it another go.

Find I'll Be Home With You here!

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Teenage Jay & DJ for 1 whole year of I’ll Be Home With You!!

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I was a bit distracted during Little Fall of Rain watching the silent standoff that was splitting center with it. Also, the Gavroche we saw was absolutely INCREDIBLE, even in scenes like this where most of his acting had to be super subtle.

Our seats on Wednesday were in the second row, which was SUCH a treat! I know I’m definitely going to be thinking abt this show for a while though…

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Saw Les Misérables again last night and I’m not going to be able to stop thinking about it for DAYS.

I’m itching to draw a little more of the show but for now have Marius, Éponine, and Cosette because they were all excellent and I was highly amused by how much Marius towered over the girls.