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I think everyone's gotten theirs by now, so please enjoy the linocut I designed, carved, printed on cards and sent out for February's International Correspondence Writing Month :)

[Image Description 1: A black linocut print featuring a moth with sparkling star eye patterns on its six wings and surrounded by a starburst of lines and small stars. End description.]

Some process and more details under the cut - including the other stamps I carved to go on the envelopes and inside the cards!

Please enjoy my chaotic printing station and my beautiful stack of shelves, baskets, and my baking racks being used as a place for all the prints to dry (well, most of them)

I also carved individual stamps of the starry eyeballs based off the eye shapes in the moth's wings. I love love love love how they came out, and also had a lot of fun with the variety of little star stamps I made to embellish things with.

[Image ID 2: A photo of my kitchen table overtaken by a precarious stack of wire shelves and racks that are covered in drying prints. In front of the drying prints is my printing surface where the ink, roller, and the linocut are visible. Image ID 3-4: Photos of the envelopes used to send the cards, they've got stars stamped on the front and a large starry eye stamped on the flap. The eyes are two different variations of a similar design and match the eye pattern on the moth's wings. End Description.]

For funsies, please also enjoy how gorgeous this design came out on brown paper

[Image Description 5: Another image of the same print, this time on brown paper intead of white]

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spanish moon moth (graellsia isabellae) | source

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I love birb characters! All my homies love birb characters!!!

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Converted mine and my gf's character art into pixel art. It's very fun

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Belion and Mags - Portrait Commissions

Some portrait commissions I did for a friend in one of my dnd groups!! Left is Belion (Belly button to his friends) and Maggs the Bunny from our Humblewood campaign!

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Pigeon attempts to court falcon

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Inspiration boards for my OC, Fanny Merifeather.

Name: Fanny Merrifeather

Maiden name: Fanny Lovett

1st husband: Archie Fairfax. Fanny was young, impressionable, and was caught in an arranged marriage with an older bird. His death was a complete accident when Fanny was defending herself from him. But this taught Fanny that she wasn't as helpless as she previously thought.

2nd husband: Professor Gideon Forrest. He was a science professor who specialized in chemistry concoctions. Fanny fell for him when she had decided to attend a class of his. Through his library, Fanny learned about poisons. After catching him with another woman, Fanny used his own knowledge against him and framed it to look as though he had perished by accident when experimenting with his potions.

3rd husband: Richard Farrington the 4th. Fanny was starting to run low on funds, so she married this rich a-hole. He was super into Spiritualism, which Fanny did find intriguing. He was very pretty, but also full of himself. Must have come as a surprise to him when he died. Found drowned, poor thing.

4th husband: Cecil Merrifeather. He was actually a good guy and Fanny legit loved him. He was rich, but kind and very charitable. His death wasn't caused by Fanny, but she was suspected after he was found mauled to death by a wildcat, simply because she had a not so good track record of husbands. She was found not guilty, but there may be some inlaws who hold grudges against her for false beliefs they have as to the circumstances surrounding Cecil's death. (he may have also sacrified himself to save her, which lives rent free in her head)

Fifth husband: Sir Edwin Maplewood the second. An elderly gentleman with lots of money. Fanny only married him in hopes that he would die of old age soon, as his health wasn't the best. Offing him would look suspicious after the other 4 husbands, after all. He perished, however, when their house was caught in the fire. Fanny immediately went back to using her previous name.