finished this back in march but have forgotten to post it. if you follow me on my main you know ive been a tad bit obsessed with stained glass lately (one artist in particular...) so i wanted to draw cal, adrienne, and yves in a stained glass sorta style...with a month's worth of obsession i can look back and say i should have done more interesting things with the leading and the colors but it's fine. i still like how it looks. (click for full quality!)

finished this back in march but have forgotten to post it. if you follow me on my main you know ive been a tad bit obsessed with stained glass lately (one artist in particular...) so i wanted to draw cal, adrienne, and yves in a stained glass sorta style...with a month's worth of obsession i can look back and say i should have done more interesting things with the leading and the colors but it's fine. i still like how it looks. (click for full quality!)

in ireland for the semester & i have been doing SOO much more observational drawing than usual!! still not as much as i'd been hoping to do, but...here are some of my favs. all the paint was added long after the drawings themselves

my family visited the first week of break and we drove around a bit..this is the view from our hotel room in drogheda! which i thought was a very cute town, but when i told my mom's friend this she laughed like the concept of drogheda being cute was absolute nonsense. whatever i like towns that are so grey they blend into the sky when it's cloudy. i like towns with a little river. etc.

went to denmark with the history society last week!! soo so fun. didn't draw nearly as much as i wanted to but i did do a little bit from this tower we climbed to get a view of copenhagen

mom and son i saw from the bus window while waiting for it to get going

said bus was a tour bus to giant's causeway..we stopped at a couple other places on the way and these houses by old bushmill's distillery were cute. to me

didnt plan our trip to galway very well and our train back to dublin was too early to do anything for real, so we got on the bus to kinvara (which i spelled wrong) and wandered there for the morning. there isnt much to do there on a bank holiday monday in february!

one of the big common areas at the school i'm at for the semester

in ireland for the semester & i have been doing SOO much more observational drawing than usual!! still not as much as i'd been hoping to do, but...here are some of my favs. all the paint was added long after the drawings themselves

my family visited the first week of break and we drove around a bit..this is the view from our hotel room in drogheda! which i thought was a very cute town, but when i told my mom's friend this she laughed like the concept of drogheda being cute was absolute nonsense. whatever i like towns that are so grey they blend into the sky when it's cloudy. i like towns with a little river. etc.

went to denmark with the history society last week!! soo so fun. didn't draw nearly as much as i wanted to but i did do a little bit from this tower we climbed to get a view of copenhagen

mom and son i saw from the bus window while waiting for it to get going

said bus was a tour bus to giant's causeway..we stopped at a couple other places on the way and these houses by old bushmill's distillery were cute. to me

didnt plan our trip to galway very well and our train back to dublin was too early to do anything for real, so we got on the bus to kinvara (which i spelled wrong) and wandered there for the morning. there isnt much to do there on a bank holiday monday in february!

one of the big common areas at the school i'm at for the semester

been doing some thinking on what it means to be an internet artist in 2024 and it kind of sucks tbh. there's so much focus on numbers, but numbers aren't fulfilling. what really matters to me is community engagement, or the actual response i get from my audience. a number (be it a like or reblog) doesn't tell me anything. but tags do, postulating about the meaning of my drawings in the tags or my inbox or replies means something. but you can't get those kind of thoughtful comments without reblogs. and then, those thoughtful comments are SO few and far in between, it's genuinely kind of depressing. like, let's say you post a drawing and it gets 100 notes. great! 90 of them are likes and 10 of them are reblogs. MAYBE one person will tag it with any of their personal thoughts. and that's a big maybe. even small comments like "cute!" or "i love this so much omg" are worth more than silence. idk. i've been on the internet for a really long time and this new wave of reclusiveness from audiences just kind of sucks. it's demotivating and isolating and it takes a lot of the joy out of creating. when you think to yourself, "man, i bet they'll love this drawing!" only to have like, two people tops say as much... when u post ur art online for free like i do, that engagement is literally The Only Thing u get out of it. so it's sad to watch in real time as it becomes sparser and sparser. whatever. who cares (i do.)

i've been reworking this map for nearly 4 years but i was recently inspired to make a new Fancy version of it so here that is!! along w the biomes and the ocean currents (which came before plate tectonics bc i dont like plate tectonics). if anyone can correct my biomes a bit PLEASE please do so!! i'd like to think they aren't glaringly horrible (tried to put the deserts all around 30 degrees n/s, tried to give the mountains rain shadows, etc) but the more accurate the better!

id in alt - and also if anyone is using a screen reader and it has troubles with the made-up country names in the descriptions, let me know and i'll take them out!

i've been reworking this map for nearly 4 years but i was recently inspired to make a new Fancy version of it so here that is!! along w the biomes and the ocean currents (which came before plate tectonics bc i dont like plate tectonics). if anyone can correct my biomes a bit PLEASE please do so!! i'd like to think they aren't glaringly horrible (tried to put the deserts all around 30 degrees n/s, tried to give the mountains rain shadows, etc) but the more accurate the better!

id in alt - and also if anyone is using a screen reader and it has troubles with the made-up country names in the descriptions, let me know and i'll take them out!

got some gouache for christmas so i've been messing around with it a lot lately! here is my oc gracie in front of a little bread shop (id in alt)

got some gouache for christmas so i've been messing around with it a lot lately! here is my oc gracie in front of a little bread shop (id in alt)

these are older (all from 2022) but i wanted to repost them all together all in one place!

these are older (all from 2022) but i wanted to repost them all together all in one place!

there was a castle at the end of kate's street. it had stood there for eight hundred years at least, home to everyone from royalty to soldiers to mice to mischevious children. kate and her friends played every game they could in it, becoming witches and spies and nobles and thieves. until the day the evil wizard moved in...

a picture book idea i got over the summer that i expanded on for my illustration class! we had to make two spreads, and i started with pages 6-7 and 8-9 just because they were more fun than the first five pages..also an experiment in making cohesive color palettes traditionally. i'm not sure if i just made it too brown or the scanner wrecked it but oh well. i might finish painting the rest of the pages someday and i might not

there was a castle at the end of kate's street. it had stood there for eight hundred years at least, home to everyone from royalty to soldiers to mice to mischevious children. kate and her friends played every game they could in it, becoming witches and spies and nobles and thieves. until the day the evil wizard moved in...

a picture book idea i got over the summer that i expanded on for my illustration class! we had to make two spreads, and i started with pages 6-7 and 8-9 just because they were more fun than the first five pages..also an experiment in making cohesive color palettes traditionally. i'm not sure if i just made it too brown or the scanner wrecked it but oh well. i might finish painting the rest of the pages someday and i might not

woodblock part 2! i kinda like this one better than part 1...but only kinda. and only sometimes. i don't know i love them both!!!

woodblock part 2! i kinda like this one better than part 1...but only kinda. and only sometimes. i don't know i love them both!!!

woodblocks part 1 from printmaking class! this was super fun -- i love how they came out!

woodblocks part 1 from printmaking class! this was super fun -- i love how they came out!