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Week #13 Sketchbook Prompt

Prompt: "Expressions"

Draw, paint, or create something inspired by the prompt "expressions"! Whether it be how you're feeling right now, studying facial expressions of your favorite character, or personify emotions, feel big and be yourself. Maybe do a crazy expression or something more subtle, this can be a facial expressions, body language, or symbols. Get creative!

I'm gonna take this as an opportunity to explore some expressions of my oc's and practice some ...

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holiday card painting but make it chaotic + video plans!

steven and I's first holiday card together! I figured since we moved in this year and got settled, it would be a perfect time to make our first greeting card to send out to friends and family, so here is the illustration that will be featured on the front and a mini illustration for the inside <3

A silly scenario of adding a little too much spice to a batch of jumbo gingerbread men. Definitely inspired by Shrek 2 (i <3 mongo), J.C. Leyendecker, and the book A Wizard's Guide to Def...

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Week #12 Sketchbook Club Prompt

Prompt: "🍁Fall Festival🍁"

"Every leaf speaks bliss to me, fluttering from the autumn tree" – Emily Brontë

Draw, paint, or create something inspired by the season of fall festivities! As we quickly head into winter, take some time to make tea, grab a comfy blanket, and doodle some of your favorite fall memories, fall food, color palettes, or scenes with your characters.

This year is going by so fast! With only a few weeks ...

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December Sticker of the Month ! (yes, it's another cowboy one)

IT'S TIMMMMMMEEEE for another sticker! Here is next month's sticker design for December 2024.

Here are my cowboy oc's Bill and Saul in a winter theme for the month of December! It was so much fun painting this sticker and giving myself a headache with figuring out horse anatomy but I still think it turned out really cute hehe.

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wolf painting!!! <333

hi everyone! I just wanted to share this painting I made for steven for our 2 year anniversary earlier this week. I don't want to get too mushy but I love him and he is one of my biggest inspirations!! I love him <333

I also don't draw animals too often but I always forget how much fun they are to draw and paint! I used to draw animals (warrior cats) more than humans as a kid,,, maybe it's time to revert.  this also makes me want to finally play wolf quest, so I am adding "...

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big sketchbook dump nov 12-21

hey y'all!! here's what I've been scribblin lately:

1) pen doodles of some random outfits for fiona! (oc) (inspired by a mix of different Pinterest poses and outfits )

2) steven life drawings :33

3) cute idea of fiona and paulo going out to a market for some street food !

4) another fiona fashion exploration

5) idea of fiona and paulo's first date + funny idea of their world having a soft drink called Pixie instead of Pepsi, so it reminded me of that famous Britn...

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[VOD] Art Study Stream: Figure Drawing Nov 15, 2024

Hey guys! Here is the full recording of the Art Study Stream from last Friday! It was a blast getting to figure draw with you guys and I definitely want to do something similar again. (Skip to the Drawing Session at 14:16)

In just 2 hours I already felt like I loosened up my figure skills and built more confidence in my drawing in general so I definitely recommend following along and seeing ...

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Week #11 Sketchbook Club Prompt

Prompt: "Character Design Challenge"

“Plot is no more than footprints left in the snow after your characters have run by on their way to incredible destinations.”- Ray Bradbury

Draw, paint, or create a character inspired by one of these Pinterest Boards! (or all of them if you're feeling ambitious!)

Board #1 Apocalyptic Poetry

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Week #10 Sketchbook Prompt

Hey guys! It looks like I forgot to post the Week #10 Prompt here, whoops! Steven took over the club prompt this past week so here's his prompt:

(also the art above is his!!! amazing work !!)

Prompt: "Art History"

Steven here with the "I minored in Art History" special for you this week.

"Art is for everybody." - Keith Haring

After doing further research on a historical artwork of your choosing, create some...

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Y2K Witch Stickers are here! and super cute!!

I absolutely loveeee how these stickers turned out! It was my first time designing a colored border over a typical white outline and I really like it,, planning to do more stickers like this in the future!

These were manufactured from Vograce, and is so far the cheapest manufacturer we've tried and the stickers arrive pretty close to the estimated delivery date. All in all a good and easy experience, but we still want to try more companies so we'll see!

we still have about 70...

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welcome to my patreon + FAQ: Discord, Sticker Help, and more (start here)

hello everyone! I am so happy that you are here, thank you so much for supporting my work ! 💓

here you will find behind the scenes of my art, upcoming comic projects, videos, and more, along with exclusive access to a supportive online art community, aka the Shay's Kitchen Discord Server! with the Sketchbook Club, Critique Corner, livestream events, and more.


FAQ (Please read these over before asking through ...

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