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A badge created for @jrain.bsky.social of his dragon in leviathan form, surrounded by sea life. Watercolor and colored pencil on mixed media paper.

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To break my silence (and because dammit, I'm proud of these lol) here's some schmoopsy Baldur's Gate stuff. Went into the game entirely blind back in October; the blue fella was thought up as my tav's partner who had passed away prior to the events of the game, and I made him the guardian character. I sure didn't dodge the wrench the game threw at me later on. :']

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Please enjoy some oddly cropped scans of recent pyrography projects. 👀

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Box turtle and yellow-shafted flicker!

These pins weren't finalized due to manufacturing errors, but I'm very proud of the designs themselves and wanted to share before the year is up. 😄 Perhaps more interesting to me is the turtle's design revision (2nd image here). Something was bugging me about it all these years, so I narrowed it down and tried to make it read as a box turtle proper. The beak was such a simple change, but I think it fixed so much!

Bonus absolute napkin-quality concepts included since the image formatting on tumbles was driving me batty, lol

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There wasn’t a ton of downtime at the con table this past weekend, but I tried to make the most of it! With little dudes!

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A reblog of a ‘17 thing, since I was cruising down memory lane. :’]

ORCS. FISHIN!!  …sure, yeah, okay

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I'm pretty stoked to share these. Last month I brought home a pyrography machine, and I've been quite infatuated. These four are burned on sassafras wood and finished with polyurethane.

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Had the great pleasure of visiting the Dinosaur Resource Center- the perfect place to mess with watercolor pencils.

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"Bundles"

A small celebration of dried grasses and seedpods, finished late last year. :] MEDIA: Colored pencil and watercolor on hotpress watercolor paper. The uppermost is 8x10" and the lowermost is 5x7"

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shrew-mole-creatures from late 2021, fiddling with ink. Used Deleter 3 Ink (so, so wonderful 💚), a Brause 361 nib, a small brush to fill in the chunks of black, and I think a crappy gel pen for the touches of white in the shrew’s fur. If I try for that effect again, I’ll look into white ink, gouache, or acrylic paint instead, I think... ᴼᵇˡᶦᵍᵃᵗᵒʳʸ ᵗʳᵘᶠᶠᵏᵉ ˢʰᵒᵘᵗᵒᵘᵗ ˡᵒˡ

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knocks over a bunch of pokemon Now with bonus scorbunny cinderace I didn’t include in the twitter post due to formatting!  Pushing shapes around on the page is fun. Edited to fix a name, I’m a gen 1 dweeb and all of these guys’re new to me oTL

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-peeks in-

...hi, folks-of-Tumblr!  It’s been a minute.  I’ve been doing loads better on the brain end of things lately, so I’ll try to give this place a good dusting off and get things up to speed over the next few weeks. Art highlights as of late, which I’ll upload over time:

Created some interior artwork for the game Wanderhome by Possum Creek Games.  This one was all me, and this one was a collaboration between guldentusks and I. :D

“Bundle”, good ol’ mouse art, and probably my favorite thing I’ve created in the last few years.

This off-the-cuff pokemon fanart from last week went legitimately viral, which was an experience.

Life gobbledygook under the cut below, if that’s of interest.

Thanks, as always! - Jo / Rowkey

It looks like my last post was in May 2020, when I’d been living in Kansas.  Covid lockdowns had begun, and art shows abruptly stopped; I found work at big box retail for a number of months. 

I started going by the name Jo more often, and quietly using they/their pronouns in more spaces; it’s been nice.

A very recent development: an official ADHD diagnosis at age 30, and first attempts at medication to help with it.  Ups and downs abound with this sort of thing, as expected, but hey...here I am, typing up a post for you all.  Incredible.

About six months ago I relocated to live with my partners of a few years. :)  I’m an honorary Yooper these days, weathering my first winter with 125+ inches of snowfall, and they’re telling me this is a light year!  Definitely an experience, and I’m so, so looking forward to spring so I can explore with a clearer head screwed on.

Last september I sold art at my first ever general audience (as in, not-a-furry-or-fantasy-convention, I s’pose) event, and it went swimmingly.  MFF in Chicago shortly after was also a huge success.  As ever, my art points in a thousand directions at once...but god people are kind, supportive, and enthusiastic, and it means so much that I can make a small living trying to do whatever it is I’m doing.  

I’m leaving out the garbage that happened to occur during all of this; things are never all roses. Just seriously hoping that I can use this newfound mental clarity to reconnect with others (and myself, honestly), focus...not be afraid again.  It’s been a wacky couple of years; thank you for sticking with me. 💚

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These just looked super funny next to one-another in my art folder

recent portrait commissions. Nearly always open for these and other comms, forms available here 

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“Cameraderie”, a big ol piece commissioned by the wonderful DeoTasDevil. Easily the most complex piece I’ve done in a long while- felt good to bring it from start to finish.

Bison!!

10x16" colored pencil, watercolor, and ink on hotpress watercolor paper

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Two little dragons with zygodactyl feets, looking all picturesque next to some fungi. Making this felt peaceful. Zygo, 11x14" graphite on smooth bristol

🔸 Prints and original available here 🔸 Patreon & Ko-fi

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Just wrapped up a move across town; hello from Kansas! This is what I’ve got on the drawing board (er...clipboard) to break in the new workspace. :]

media: graphite Patreon

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two little 5x7" illustrations I made for some friends as christmas presents: centiskorch and cursola! Completely forgot to post 'em

media: colored pencil and watercolor on hotpress watercolor paper