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Some studies in between commission work! Experimented with new techniques too which is always fun ✍🏻

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Contrary to popular belief the biggest beginner's roadblock to art isn't even technical skill it's frustration tolerance, especially in the age of social media. It hurts and the frustration is endless but you must build the frustration tolerance equivalent to a roach's capacity to survive a nuclear explosion. That's how you build on the technical skill. Throw that "won't even start because I'm afraid it won't be perfect" shit out the window. Just do it. Just start. Good luck.

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Book cover illustration i did for "Nawlins" by Deric Augustine :)

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Want to read our first book, Fey?

It's about butch fairies, told in a mock field guide structure, with over 30 artists and 10 writers, its a really beautiful and cute book!

And now you can have it as an add on! We have enable a limited number of physical books to be added on. But we also have the digital pdf as an add-on too.

Help us reach 100% funded soon

Dark fairies Kickstarter is here.

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art will save you, being unreasonably passionate about something niche will save you, letting past sources of joy show you the way back to yourself will save you, earnestness over composure will save you, the natural world will save you, caring for something bigger than yourself will save you, daring to be seen will save you, kindness not as a whim but a principle will save you, appreciation as a practice will save you, daring to try something new will save you, grounding will save you, love will save you, one good nights sleep will save you

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Mean Girls (2004)

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a little sketch of my new d&d character Savina! i'm so happy to have gotten back into playing, it's so fuuuuun and it makes me happy

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a little sketch of my new d&d character Savina! i'm so happy to have gotten back into playing, it's so fuuuuun and it makes me happy

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black vampires + witches

akasha, queen of the damned (2002)

louis & claudia, interview with the vampire (2022-)

tara thorton, true blood (2008-2014)

blade, blade (1998)

marcel gerard, the originals (2013-2018)

sarah fox, my babysitter's a vampire (2011-2012)

alex & camryn, twitches (2005)

rochelle zimmerman, the craft (1996)

bonnie bennett, the vampire diaries (2009-2017)

vincent griffith, the originals (2013-2018)

marie laveau, american horror story (2011-)

macy vaughn, charmed (2018-2022)

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Flower child

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so many of the "i only use chat gpt for ___" excuses are concerning because people use it in place of learning basic, valuable skills.

you don't need chat gpt to write professional sounding emails for you, there are many many guides on the internet and with a bit of practise you can learn to write them yourself. a very important skill for a professional to have, and some of the basic rules will carry over into irl conversations!

you don't need chat gpt to be a "more detailed search engine", because you're robbing yourself of the chance to learn how to find and filter information on the internet and evaluate the credibility of sources. which is a VITAL skill. plus, chat gpt is notorious for being wrong?

if you use it to write essays, you're taking away your ability to hone your research skills, your writing skills, your critical thinking skills. your ability to create persuasive arguments!

and for most of the other reasons people use chat gpt, there are non-ai websites for that! for maths, wolfram alpha. for figuring out what you can cook with the ingredients you have there's supercook and the like. for creating routines, there's about a million apps!

whatever you "only" use chatgpt for i promise there are better websites out there that you don't have to worry will produce complete bullshit???? and destroy the environment???

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Carolein Smit - Rakker mit gouden trannen (Rascal with golden tears) (2009)

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finished 'the red queen' for the one week character challenge by paintable.cc! it has been so fun to do this for the past week it feels kinda empty to be done :'D i loved it so much and learned a lot!

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day 4 for one week character challenge by paintable.cc! almost there :)

click here to see previous days <3

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i'm joining paintable.cc's one week character challenge and here's where i'm at on day 3! the character i chose is called 'the red queen' and she's a dark witch who's rumored to have come in power by putting a love spell on the king.i'm having a lot of fun and this challenge is such a nice way to push me out of my comfort zone :)

day 1 was the pose, day 2 the outfit and today day 3 was color!

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i'm joining paintable.cc's one week character challenge and here's where i'm at on day 3! the character i chose is called 'the red queen' and she's a dark witch who's rumored to have come in power by putting a love spell on the king.i'm having a lot of fun and this challenge is such a nice way to push me out of my comfort zone :)

day 1 was the pose, day 2 the outfit and today day 3 was color!