Category Archives: Personal Art

Zad And Lazlo Asleep By The Fire

I started this traditional pen-and-ink drawing of Zad and Lazlo quite a few years ago. The sketch was done a whole TEN years ago! Only now, having closed commissions, was I able to finish it. The sketch being so old, and this being my first time using my spoon dip pen in so long, it’s definitely a little rusty, but it was good practice to get back in the saddle!

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Pip’s Rainy Stroll ๐ŸŒง๏ธ๐ŸŒ

Here’s the last drawing of Pip I made before completing the reference (hence the minor inaccuracies).

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Pip The Moth-Imp [Reference Sheet]

Pip’s reference sheet is done! Finally drew his wings properly.

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Pip’s Hot-Cross Bun ๐Ÿฅ๐Ÿ’•

Pip got a yummy bun! Just some concept art I did today. Digital pen and ink, screentone. Procreate on iPad Pro with post-processing in Adobe Photoshop.

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Chompin’ Pip [Mastodon Icon]

Icon of little Pip doing what Pip does best!

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Cheeky Horus [Mastodon Icon]

I finished the icon for the Tale Of Horus Mastodon account today! Just Horus being cheeky.

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Sequin By The Window ๐Ÿ•ฏ๏ธ๐Ÿ„

Here’s another piece that sat in my drafts for years. Believe it or not, while Master Sequin’s Assistants has been a work in progress for almost twelve years, this is only the second time I draw Sequin. I put so much time towards the fandom, and towards gifts and commissions, that stuff of this sort got pushed off this many years before I even realized. It’s a little heartbreaking, haha. This is also the first time Sequin is inked and colored.

Though not very visible here, Sequin is tall for a gnome. His home and atelier takes two thirds of the base of a large tree. After Christmastime, Sequin tends to get more forlorn than usual, but not for the reasons you might expectโ€ฆ

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Grumpy Gideon [Mastodon Icon]

This grumpy Gideon is finished! Fun fact: about two years ago, while writing Meganeea, I hit a massive block at the point where Faahvrigรผo grows up. I could not move on at all. I decided to shake it up by reintroducing a child character’s point of view. It helped a lot, even though I’m already at the writing stage where Gideon, himself, is a young adult. He turned out to be a pivotal (and very major) character in the first book –the story does not work without him at all.

Fun fact #2: Gideon’s necklace (only barely visible here) is based on a necklace my mom wore as a teenager, which she passed on to me, and then I wore as a teenager too. The only reason I retired from my daily wear it was fear of it breaking.

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Today’s WIPs: Horus Icon ๐ŸŽจ

For The Tale Of Horus account on my personal Mastodon server, it has to be the man (or rather, dragon) of the hour himself, of course! So there’s my little Horus, looking quite cocky:

…and here’s a timelapse:

It’s not finished yet. I’m hoping it’ll be all done by tomorrow.

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