Wow did I struggle with this one. It ended up taking way longer than originally intended and over a couple days, but the bulk of it was still done within a day so...I guess that's fine enough. And sleeping on it (almost literally! My iPad sits next to my bed for sleepy sounds) helped me figure out what was actually wrong so I could fix it quickly the next day.
Just goes to show how important it is to get a new perspective, zoom out, or even just take a break entirely to clearly see the ...
2025-05-22 20:16:24 +0000 UTC
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None of these are actually going to be in the order that I did them in LOL. So we'll just say that the counting is for the order they're posted 🙃
Anyhoo, this one started off with just an idea and a palette...but quickly turned not that way. I think I was just too eager to finish it to really get into it, and gradually lost more and more interest. So I'm deeming it a 'failed' painting, but I'm trying to think of it like a sketch. I can always come back to it and redo it, and maybe th...
2025-05-21 14:09:58 +0000 UTC
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Okay this one ACTUALLY was a relatively fast painting. I was stuck for ideas so like I usually do when I don't know what to draw digitally, just started doing a bunch of clouds and went from there.
I think it's my subconscious telling me to be more like a cloud -- ever flowing and changing. 🙃
P.S. This was actually done before the parrot one. I was sitting on this one and debating when...
2025-05-19 09:00:08 +0000 UTC
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Wot's this, an actual finished piece?! And of course ironically not any one of numerous WIPs I've got going... 🫠 Ain't it just the way.
It feels like I haven't been doing enough actual paintings (mostly just studies or something) so I've scheduled myself for daily painting for the past week or so. It's not meant to be anything crazy or wild, but just whatever I can get down on paper (iPad) and at least have something to put into a potential portfolio...maybe.
ANYWAY GU...
2025-05-15 13:27:38 +0000 UTC
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Reminder that after this issue, these will be published roughly on a fortnightly schedule. This will exclude any weeks where it happens to overlap with the monthly forecast, as it'd be somewhat redundant at that point. But perhaps I might scrap those in favour of this and stick to just the sticker previews at the beginning of each month. Let me know in the comments what you'd prefer!
2025-05-11 15:04:48 +0000 UTC
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This issue will be one of the last of the weekly publications. Whilst the support for this 'newsletter' has been truly astounding, it really does take quite a lot of time to put them together. I also don't reckon that it necessarily needs to be on a weekly cadence purely for the sake of being 'consistent' (future topic for another video), and as long as I'm still sharing and opening up the conversations wi...
2025-05-04 17:07:58 +0000 UTC
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This is a lot later than I'd hoped, but, well...life does its own thing. 🙃 At any rate, I'm not LATE-late, so I'm calling it a win!
You asked, I answered! Or rather, I asked and you answered lol. Huge thank you once again to all the RGB Buddies, Shiny Sticker Squad, CMYK Chums, Prism Pals, and Spectral Stars who helped me decide what sticker themes to do in the coming months by voting in the exclusive poll a few weeks ago! It was a landslide, and you all chose...
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2025-05-01 16:18:37 +0000 UTC
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This issue is actually on-schedule! Considering how much I tend to jam into these posts, I might pull back to a fortnightly schedule, but we shall see how it goes. Regardless, thank you so much for all the wonderful feedback and dialogue on the inaugural issue.
My goal with this really is to give you all a peek into my regular ongoings, but also to get a peek into YOURS. This is meant to start conversations,...
2025-04-27 16:46:24 +0000 UTC
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Welcome, dear readers, to the first issue of The Total Tangent Times!
'What the heck is this?!' you are probably asking. It's a fair question, but I'm afraid that I actually don't know myself. What was supposed to be just a weekly "What I've Been Up To" has turned into a newsletter of sorts. Because as always, I can never be just chill with my ideas and have to make them ridiculous. (See: header image.)
This will ideally be on a weekly cadence, so that I can bo...
2025-04-20 19:32:30 +0000 UTC
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Magnanimous friends. Howwwwwwwww is it already second quarter?! And end of the tax year here...among many other things. Seriously, time makes no sense. And at the speed it's going, it almost makes me feel more nostalgic...which is a not-so-subtle segue to introducing this month's sticker theme!
If this looks familiar to you, I'm sorry-not-sorry for banking on the nostalgic factor! But in all seriousn...
2025-04-01 09:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Helloooooo wondrous Patrons. I was gonna share this sooner, but... I got all up in my head about it and started second-guessing and self-doubting the moment I uploaded it. 🫠 Me, overthink things?! Why I never.........would deny such a truth.
Anyway, even though it still feels...weird in a way that I'm still not quite sure how to express, I figure it's better to just put it out there and see what happens instead of trying to foresee everything that could possibl...
2025-03-28 15:29:40 +0000 UTC
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Fab Friends! It's already nearing spring, and I seriously cannot wait. Wherever you are, I hope that you are taking care of yourselves. I've been...well, I'll get into that later, but first, MARCH STICKERS!! And this month's theme deserves a little bit more introduction than usual because they're extra-special!
Those of you who've been around for a while (you know who you are, and I know who y...
2025-02-28 17:17:44 +0000 UTC
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That's not actually the title but it's what it's catalogued as in my files so that's what I'm calling it here lol. I always struggle with titles and seriously if I could just get away with leaving everything as "Untitled" or some variation of "zxdfksjldfkjglaej", you know I would. But alas, that's not very conducive to search and stuff.
Anyhoo, how are you all doing? Hopefully not too terrible, and even if it is (especially if it is), know that you are not alone. I'm telling myself thi...
2025-02-09 15:44:07 +0000 UTC
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Ahoy, you glorious beans! I'm technically not late! I was just waylaid by the fact that this month absolutely snuck up on me. I swear I did actually start working on this a while ago but only just managed to finish now...
Anyway, I present to you February's stickers: BunBun Hearts! 💕 If you'd like to get the sticker sheet and postcard, OR the individual sticker, please adjust to the appropriate tier at ANY time this month (because it's a shorter month anyway)! And d...
2025-02-01 21:19:59 +0000 UTC
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Wonderful Shining Stars!
It feels like it's been a month, but really it's only been a couple of weeks, technically?! I guess it just goes to show how busy I've been in a way lol. Whether it's the new year effect or not, I'm trying to ride this wave of motivation and do ALL THE THINGS. I've even been making a weekly schedule of things I need to do on a daily basis, a...
2025-01-17 17:24:42 +0000 UTC
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I know this is a few days late, but IN MY DEFENSE... It's still technically the previous year by the lunar calendar. Which brings me to the first stickers of 2025: Year of the Snake! 🐍 If you'd like to get the sticker sheet and postcard, OR the individual sticker, please adjust to the appropriate tier by 20th January! And don't forget, you can now also gift memberships!
D...
2025-01-05 22:54:33 +0000 UTC
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Dear friends.
This post is coming way later than I intended, and on top of that I am nowhere even near ready with a sticker preview and forecast for January... What a way to start the year, eh? If I tell myself I'm just doing a reverse-psychology kinda thing and that if I start the year off not-great, it'll end up great... Or am I just kidding myself? 😅 I PROMISE I AM WORKING ON THE STICKER PREVIEWS THOUGH!
At any rate, it is the new year, and may 2025 treat us more kindly than...
2024-12-31 20:00:00 +0000 UTC
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It's the FINAL COUNTDO--no wait. It's the final HANGOUT of 2024!! 😱
I know it's been a long while since we've had a Discord hangout, but I figure with the year wrapping up and all, it's about damn time!
It'll also be just before my LAST Twitch stream of 2024, and I have an announcement that I want to share with you lovely folks first, so save the date!
🗓️ Sunday 29 Dec 5PM UK / 12PM Eastern / 9AM Pacific
2024-12-19 17:24:26 +0000 UTC
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Whew. We're almost at the end of the year already?! How and when the hell did that happen?!
Apologies as well for this being slightly late (although in my defence, it's still technically the 1st where I am looool). Time seriously got away from me while I've been away, and even though I technically had all this prepared beforehand, I was waiting to get a better sense of what is going to happen in December... But alas. Things are just as clear as before, which is to say, not at all lol.
2024-12-02 05:38:49 +0000 UTC
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Oh, friends. At this point, it's probably overdone and way too late to whinge about where the year has gone, because holy crap we are coming up to the end of it?! I don't know about you, but I for one and ready for this year to end.
Speaking of ends, it's almost fitting I suppose that I'm bringing an end to this mini-series with this month's stickers: Terrific Travels! The generic version lol. If you'd like to get either the individual sticker OR the sticker sheet + pos...
2024-11-02 19:12:41 +0000 UTC
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Dear friends. It really is well and truly autumn here...as I sit here shivering in several layers and still refusing to turn on the heating because I SHOULDN'T NEED IT YET (and also energy costs are supposed to go up...again...) and I'm a stubborn idjit. :D BUT AH WELL.
The keen-eyed (?) will have noticed that I changed the sticker preview for this month. Honestly I wasn't even intending to make this, but my neurospicy brain decided that it wanted to procrastinate all the other things t...
2024-10-01 09:00:10 +0000 UTC
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Wonderful friends. I've been humming and hawing on this one for a while now, ever since I started including the individual physical sticker with the rest of the CMYK Chums rewards. It seems almost a waste to not have the option to have people get just the stickers without necessarily having to get all the rest of the monthly goodies (although of course, I would absolutely love it if you did!!).
SO. I was thinking about adding a Sticker Club tier at the same price as the RGB Buddies, bu...
2024-09-29 18:17:38 +0000 UTC
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Spectacular Shining Stars!
As I (and my assistant Office Cat) are getting ready to pack this month's goodies for y'all, I just wanted to drop you a quick reminder to please:
Check your payment method and ensure that it's not declined!
Since Patreon changed their payment system a while back, I know several people have been having issues with it, so please make sure that yours went through properly! 2024-09-17 13:46:34 +0000 UTC
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I may not be a physicist, but surely this year has been absolute nonsense?! Is somebody messing with the dials or something?? HOW IS IT ALREADY SEPTEMBER.
Honestly, it feels like every month, I go in full steam ahead, but then even in just a couple weeks something knocks the wind out of me and my sails. I don't know about y'all, but it feels like there is just...A LOT going on?! So as always, I'm trying to tell myself, what I would tell you all: take it easy and be gentle with yourself....
2024-09-01 15:33:43 +0000 UTC
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Save the date, friends! I know that the poll was tied for Thursday and Saturday, but I figured that Saturday would actually work for most of us better anyway with it being a weekend and all. Plus it's the last day of the month which seems kind of fitting!
🗓️ Saturday 31 August 6PM UK / 1PM Eastern / 10AM Pacific
2024-08-24 19:08:16 +0000 UTC
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Wonderful friends.
I have been absolutely all over the place lately so I apologize that this poll is coming so late! But I swear I have been very hard at work and also having to deal with physiotherapy appointments and whatnot... Anyway we can talk about all that when we hang out on the Discord!
Oh and in case you were wondering, I was indeed thinking of doing another one of the mockshop-ish things for this hangout as well... 👀 So bring your pencils if you'd like to join! <...
2024-08-18 16:55:16 +0000 UTC
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Spectacular friends.
This is the the most difficult post I've had to make to date, and I seriously hope that I won't have to do another one like it ever again. But if there is one thing that is certain, is that life is uncertain. Regardless, I appreciate you all for being here, whether from the start of this Patreon journey two years ago or more recently. Through all the uncertainty of being a self-employed artist, you are the certainty that keeps me grounded, and gives me the motivati...
2024-08-04 20:55:30 +0000 UTC
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How in the ever-lovin' 'eck is it AUGUST?! I swear, I was JUST posting the July forecast?? WHERE HAS THE MONTH GONE I WANT IT BACK PLEASE.
I apologize again that this post is a liiiiiiiiittle late...but a lot has been going on for me the past couple weeks. I'll save the rambling for another time, but basically it feels like the universe is going final-boss and throwing everything at me at the same time. In the past I know I would have probably been prone to spiralling, but I think I am...
2024-08-01 20:19:26 +0000 UTC
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Fantastic friends, you spoke in the poll so of course I listen! It's been a while but finally we will be having yet another ✨ Shining Stars Special Hangout ✨ on the Discord!
And along with the sneaky sketchbook tours and such, I'll also be attempting (keyword here...) to record an online workshop, so I would love to have YOU there to be the first to try it out! No supplies necessary other than a drawing instrument and material to draw on!
With that said, if you are not in th...
2024-07-20 14:58:26 +0000 UTC
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HEYO friends! I swear I'm not late -- I'm just catching up juuuuuust at the last minute...
Seriously though, where has June gone?! I swear I had these sketched out all the way back in the beginning of May before my trip, and yet here I am, scrambling to finish... I may have also bitten off a little more than I could chew because I did two designs this time. That's right, TWO. May I present to you, July's stickers: The Bun of the Pings!
Typically I tr...
2024-07-01 21:58:01 +0000 UTC
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