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hursday Sketches from 05/15/25 Every now and then I enter this weird art slump. I dunno if it's me being tired of my style or frustrated with my current skill level. I feel like my art is fine but I want MORE! Anyway, here are a few sketches from last month

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Some bookish art I've worked on

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Thursday sketches from 05/08/25

only a couple of sketches, was a super unproductive week

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Girl Dinner

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There are no new Thursday sketches from this time last month. I've been in an uncreative headspace due to some personal stuff, so instead here are some of my favorite sketches from 2024

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Modern little mermaid AU What if Eric was in a band and he had to get the princess to fall in love with him?

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Thursday Sketches from last month

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Thursday Sketches from 04/17/25

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Thursday Sketches from 04/10/25

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Thursday Sketches from 04/03/25

A little light on the sketches. I was really buy that week

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not sure if this was your intention so i'm only telling you to let you know but your censor isn't quite opaque and you can see your purple demon's head in that photo set you just posted. but if this was the goal then be free haha i just know that usually you put your more explicit stuff behind a paywall. feel free to ignore and have a good day 🩷

Oh dang! no that wasn't my intention but it was only meant to make the image more shareable. I personally hate paywalls so I post all my explicit artwork on bluesky for free! I do have a patreon where members get early access to all my work but I will always make my finished artwork publicly accessible for free even the dirty stuff. 😁

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Thursday Sketches from 03/27/25

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Hi Maya! 💕

I hope you're doing well. I just needed to tell you that being exposed to your art has helped show me how truly beautiful and sexy and desirable I am as a big girl. The different body shapes you include, each different in the ways they carry their softness, I'm just so in awe of the work you do. I hope you know how important what you're doing is. You've certainly changed my life forever, and I want to thank you from the bottom of my heart for helping me finally see my true self ❤️

I'm in TEARS!! OMG! This is the sweetest thing anyone has said to me about my art! Being a freelancer in a small niche, occasionally things get difficult and I sometimes consider going back to a 9-5 where income is steady. But I genuinely love what I do now, I wake up happy to get to work. Messages like this encourage me to continue when times get rough because you remind me that representation is so, so important. Thank you so much for your kindness. ❤️❤️❤️

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Thursday Sketches from 03/20/25

My "art style" is all over the place.

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Oh hey look! I made a thing with some info about my commission process!

Artwork used for this example was character art commissioned by Kat Fallons for her book "Love in the mix"

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I'm opening up very, very limited slots for traditional sketch or ink commissions for heroes con this year. It's one of the only chances to get something hand drawn by me. If you can't make it out to the con to pick up your art in person I will mail it to you. Shoot me an email if interested. Sketches start at $180 Inks start at $250

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Hi, do you mind sharing where you get your references from? The characters you draw have such a wide range of body types

Real talk, it's been getting harder and harder to find good references. I used to use Pinterest a lot but now its overrun with yucky looking ai garbage. The same for DeviantArt. I have also had some luck here on Tumblr and I can sometimes find a gem in Twitter but overall it's getting hard out here.

At any given time there is an 80% chance that I have straight up porn on at least one of my monitors bc I've been using Fet more recently as a source for reference.