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larajeandoodles · 2 days

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My new book is available for preorder now through April 17th 2024!

All preorders come signed with two coloring pages! It’s only available on Etsy, because I’ve self published. After preorders it’ll only be in stock occasionally, so don’t wait if you want a copy.

This was a big labor of love and I am so excited to share it with you!!!

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larajeandoodles · 3 days

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My April painting!

Four months into 2024, 4 new gouache illustrations! It feels good! This one was an absolute delight. It always goes so easy with a reference photo! There are 6 mushroom fellows hiding in this painting. And one pebble troll and one snail! Can you find them? 🐌

#gouache painting #frogcore #mushrooms #forestcore #larajeandoodles #art #artist #illustration #artists on tumblr #painting #gouache

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larajeandoodles · 4 days

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Hi!! Is your real name Lara Jean, or did you get it from Jenny's book?

My real name is Lara, and my mom’s name is Jeanette, goes by Jean. Lara Jean became my nickname in college in 2010 before the books/movies happened! When I was trying to name my business it just kinda seemed to fit.

So I had it first, but I don’t mind sharing 🥰

#thanks for asking!#I can only hope that I am at least half as cute as lara Jean covey

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larajeandoodles · 4 days

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Don’t forget there’s less than a week left to get a preorder copy of my book! Signed! With coloring pages! After preorders they’ll be very inconsistent in stock.

#wake up Herbert #Willa and Herbert #larajeandoodles #art #artist #illustration #artists on tumblr #cute bear #cute book #forestcore #dryad

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larajeandoodles · 12 days

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hot artists don't gatekeep

I've been resource gathering for YEARS so now I am going to share my dragons hoard

Floorplanner. Design and furnish a house for you to use for having a consistent background in your comic or anything! Free, you need an account, easy to use, and you can save multiple houses.

Comparing Heights. Input the heights of characters to see what the different is between them. Great for keeping consistency. Free.

Magma. Draw online with friends in real time. Great for practice or hanging out. Free, paid plan available, account preferred.

Smithsonian Open Access. Loads of free images. Free.

SketchDaily. Lots of pose references, massive library, is set on a timer so you can practice quick figure drawing. Free.

SculptGL. A sculpting tool which I am yet to master, but you should be able to make whatever 3d object you like with it. free.

Pexels. Free stock images. And the search engine is actually pretty good at pulling up what you want.

Figurosity. Great pose references, diverse body types, lots of "how to draw" videos directly on the site, the models are 3d and you can rotate the angle, but you can't make custom poses or edit body proportions. Free, account option, paid plans available.

Line of Action. More drawing references, this one also has a focus on expressions, hands/feet, animals, landscapes. Free.

Animal Photo. You pose a 3d skull model and select an animal species, and they give you a bunch of photo references for that animal at that angle. Super handy. Free.

Height Weight Chart. You ever see an OC listed as having a certain weight but then they look Wildly different than the number suggests? Well here's a site to avoid that! It shows real people at different weights and heights to give you a better idea of what these abstract numbers all look like. Free to use.

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larajeandoodles · 16 days

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My March painting! I know we’re all done with snow here in the northern hemisphere, but I wanted to do some winter scenes for my next calendar. And this is the cozy kind of snow.

#larajeandoodles #art #artist #illustration #artists on tumblr #painting #gouache #cottagecore #cozy burrow

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larajeandoodles · 20 days

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A book! A book!!!

#book release #cute book #dryad #cute bear #self published #larajeandoodles #Willa and Herbert #wake up Herbert #yes I changed it from Herbeart to Herbert

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larajeandoodles · 20 days

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My new book is available for preorder now through April 17th 2024!

All preorders come signed with two coloring pages! It’s only available on Etsy, because I’ve self published. After preorders it’ll only be in stock occasionally, so don’t wait if you want a copy.

This was a big labor of love and I am so excited to share it with you!!!

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larajeandoodles · 22 days

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My new book is available for preorder now through April 17th 2024!

All preorders come signed with two coloring pages! It’s only available on Etsy, because I’ve self published. After preorders it’ll only be in stock occasionally, so don’t wait if you want a copy.

This was a big labor of love and I am so excited to share it with you!!!

#wake up Herbert #illustrated book #kids book #children’s book #larajeandoodles #art #artist #illustration #dryad #bear #cute book

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larajeandoodles · 26 days

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My supplies!

#larajeandoodles #art #artist #art supplies #artist tips

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larajeandoodles · 1 month

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This is extra delightful because that art was literally the inspiration for this painting I did:

let’s see paul allen’s mall-based outfit

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larajeandoodles · 1 month

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Book preorders should open up in a couple weeks! I’m just waiting for the hardcover to arrive!!!

#larajeandoodles #art #artist #illustration #procreate #book release #kids book #children’s book #children’s books

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larajeandoodles · 1 month

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I hope every single person who puts nice comments in tags under reblogged art knows that you you guys are the backbone of society. Being an artist online sucks these days, but here on tumblr I still get compliments under artworks that I made years ago. I hope you know every WOW and heart emoji and heartfelt compliment and funny comment you left in the tags is part of the reason I kept drawing all these years, in spite of everything that was going on.

I've been screenshotting the nice tags I get for years, and at this point it would be literal thousands of lines if I still had my old files. I love u tumblr users <333333333