"I don't want to let you fall away, but I've been left no choice... don't you see that?"
Mother of art, this took SO long to finish and went through an unhinged number of revisions before I landed on the final design and composition.
The outfit was, by far and large, the most time consuming part. I wanted it to be lavish and over the top, with influences ta...
2025-11-16 17:51:58 +0000 UTC View PostAlright, let’s try this again - now with 20% more feeling and 80% more coffee:
Welcome to November everyone!
After what has simultaneously felt like the shortest, yet most tightly packed year of my life, we’re nearly at the end line, where we’ll all huddle to either look on with blind optimism for a better 2026 or clench our cheeks and hobble forward pra...
2025-11-09 20:15:59 +0000 UTC View PostMerry November one and all! Hope you're all dealing with the realisation that the year is nearly over better than I am.
Like seriously, how did we get here...?
After a pretty chaotic October, which ended with my final appearance at MCM Comic Con and its parting gift of a gnarly stomach bug, I came back to pretty hefty backlog of urgent work and personal responsibilities. So...
2025-11-06 15:49:14 +0000 UTC View Post
So of course, with two days to go to setting up for MCM London, with -5 hours of sleep in my body and sciatica nerve so tweaked it feels like my bum wants to fall off, I had no better idea than to add a new print to the roster - which was initially a simple concept, as this was a piece I already made in 2019! Except... well maybe I could refresh it a little?
Like just touch up the anatomy...
2025-10-21 23:29:03 +0000 UTC View PostI really need to stop using that one Kate Bush track as a coping mechanism...
So I don’t think I’m being hyperbolic when I say that I’m quite confident I went through a wormhole at the end of MCM May, skipped past June, July, August and September and came out just in time to do the prep all over again for MCM October.
Aptly name after the fact that I finished this with a thermometer in my ear...
I had intended to keep this one quite minimal and flat and focus more on the outfit design, but somewhere between the delulu from the bright colors and the flu meds for my fourth bout of "whatever's going around" this year, I think I ended up hallucinating my way into a rainbow explosion.
Either ...
2025-09-20 23:13:39 +0000 UTC View Post
A cheeky kitty lass!
It actually shocked me to realise it's been ages since I last drew a miqo'te - given that they used to be about 80% of what I drew back in the day. If I look back on my recent FFXIV art, it's largely been Hyurs or god help me Au ra.
So between the fact that this was a lineart (which I managed to complete in a day, woo!) and that I didn't have to draw an...
2025-09-09 09:08:29 +0000 UTC View PostGiven that I already alluded to the state of things in my post earlier this month, I’m going to follow that up with a quick sketch to save us all some time:
I really, really need to learn to stay in my lane and stop tempting fate.
To summarise what I’ll elaborate on through...
2025-09-06 17:08:19 +0000 UTC View Post
Once again, with permission from SD simper - the author who I'm working with on a 6 book series - I am so happy to reveal the third finished cover!
You can check the previous two here and 2025-09-05 20:22:18 +0000 UTC View Post
A quick sketch to sum up the trajectory of my August.
As usual, the update for the month will be inbound later this week - along with all the relevant announcements regarding mentorship, art challenges and more, so keep your eyes peeled on that or the Discord or both. <3
2025-09-02 20:13:44 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi all - I've just found out that due to an Executive Order from the US government, the UK has temporarily suspended mail services between the UK and the US.
While it seems likely that they will resume under a new system according to information on the Royal Mail website, this will involve additional fees and processes that I'll need to A) get familiar with and B) figur...
Will you look at that, she still knows how to do lineart!
I didn't know how much I missed doing lineart, or drawing Emet for that matter, until I snuck a few hours into my NDA work to finish this couple's reward. Might have to do digging in my list for a few more lineart pieces I can knock out in a few hours and use my new pencil brush on... <.<
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This re...
Trying my hand at chiaroscuro paintings so that one day I may become a royal painter in a future Renaissance.
This is a Fanart Mystery box, featuring Sister Friede - or Elfriede - of Dark Souls 3 reknown. I was going for a mix of realism and painterly here and while I'm not sure I got it quite right (as this started VERY differently and the struggle to turn it around was real) I'...
2025-08-13 18:04:08 +0000 UTC View PostTidings, one and all. This month’s update comes slightly tardy courtesy of the half-week I took off to spend time with my siblings who, in full Hallmark movie fashion, I hadn’t been with in 35 years.
It was an all-around wholesome visit that I never thought I’d get to experience - just like I never thought I’d get to see a tourist be completely aghast at the idea that british shop...
2025-08-07 18:47:37 +0000 UTC View Post
It's rare that I manage to get the full timelapse of my work - as I usually bounce between Procreate and Photoshop (which doesn't record progress) - but as I committed to just letting this piece happen, as quickly and straightforward as possible, I was able to capture the whole process from start to finish.
I'm hoping (and going to try my best) to capture more of these going forward, as I...
2025-08-05 10:42:18 +0000 UTC View Post
A few days ago I found this old WIP in the vault, which I remember sending DAYS on at the time. Having been feeling a little art-blocky recently, I decided to challenge myself to do a whole repaint over the old image in one sitting.
In total it took about 3-4 hours and the biggest hurdle was just letting it go once it was time for bed - not making it perfect, just wrapping it up, so, w...
Oh, to have your fate held gently by the chin...
Despite the lineart coming in quite easily, the process to finish this piece had me over a barrel and yearning for the sweet mercy of a lobotomy.
Initially I hadn't planned to render this as much as I did but as I got further in t...
2025-07-27 13:06:45 +0000 UTC View Post
It's been a while since I uploaded a WIP as I normally like to pretend I am just so magical art just manifests in its final form at the press of a button. That said, I almost literally left my wrist on the tablet with the hair and scales for this one and as I am planning to render it in my usual dark, moody tones I felt like the details deserved to be seen before they get obscured into oblivion...
2025-07-15 18:26:18 +0000 UTC View Post
With gracious permission from the author I am so pleased to show you all a private preview of the book cover I worked on for much of June.
This is the first of 6 covers redesigns for the series Fallen Gods, a lesbian fantasy-horror series by SD Simper, with the 4th cover having already been completed 2025-07-07 21:05:30 +0000 UTC
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Welcome all to the update in which, as per tradition, I remind you that we’re past the halfway point of the year so those of you who’ve somehow resisted evaporating in the recent heat waves can now pick a side: those who rejoice at the prospect of not marinating in their own bodily fluids and those who are already mourning because their emotional stability runs on solar power.
You can...
2025-07-05 14:43:03 +0000 UTC View Post
When you spend forever drawing hair just to go ahead and darken it into oblivion... ·_ ·
Quite pleased with how this one turned out! I think it's gonna make a banger of a print if I do say so myself.
This reward was an "Mystery Box", purchased with points through my patreon reward portal 2025-06-13 11:07:35 +0000 UTC View Post
There are certain patterns that emerge when you do something frequently enough - like casually checking social media for a laugh and walking away with three new existential crises or telling yourself you’re absolutely getting things done today, only to “rest your eyes for a moment” and waking up in a different season.
Over the last 7.5 years my patterns have woven themselves into a ...
2025-06-05 21:57:16 +0000 UTC View Post
"I'm gonna go for simpler pieces" she said.
After the convention (and inevitable round of post-con Covid I got dealt with) I'm back on track with work, starting with this piece which - I'll admit - came together without me fully knowing what I was doing most of the time.
Arguably one of the most challenging balancing acts between lighting and detail I've worked on yet, I w...
2025-06-04 22:01:25 +0000 UTC View Post
Now that the convention is over and I can finally stop hearing the whirring death rattle of my printer, I present you with my latest hyperfixation from a game I'll never admit I play.
I mean... white hair, black/red/white color scheme... it's like he was waiting for me to draw him.
As always, your thoughts are loved!
This reward was an "Fanart Mystery Box", purchased with...
You see those lovely trees and flowers growing and thriving outside? Please note that this is diametrically opposed to what’s happening to my hair as I prepare for my first convention in well over a year.
I could go into details here, but as this is a visually-oriented Patreon, let me explain it with a single image:
2025-05-05 12:13:03 +0000 UTC
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Recently I realised I had the lineart for this piece just sitting there, so I slapped some color on that bad boy to make sure Clive wasn't lonely.
I genuinely love Jill, though I have opinions about what they did with her character in the game. That said, I'd love to create a piece similar to The Vess...
2025-05-01 17:49:45 +0000 UTC View Post
"Come to me, Ifrit..."
I can't even begin to explain how involved this was, but damn if I'm not proud of how it turned out - particularly Ifrit. For someone who doesn't draw creatures very often, I may have found a new specialism...
As always your thoughts are ever so loved.
This reward was an "Fanart Mystery Box", purchased with points through my patreon reward ...
It’s finally spring, which means our innies can finally become our outies and we may all enjoy an ORTBO in the sun, frolicking like anemic tulips at a waffle party.
(If this intro makes no sense to you, then you’re absolutely sleeping on watching Severance. Seriously, do yourself a favour and thank me later.)
March has had a historical tendency to be my most chaotic mon...
2025-04-02 16:30:29 +0000 UTC View Post
This was a really fun piece to work on- featuring a Warforged who was left abandoned for a few hundred years before being found by divers.
I tried my hand at throwing in backgrounds, textures and rendering in a less careful style while focusing more on the storytelling aspects. I also approached it very differently, in that I drew this draft and instead of cleaning it up I painted o...
Remember gang: Ewe isn't pronounced "you", it's pronounced "EEEWEEE".
Also, the title is not at all reflective of the work that went into this piece. One day I'll mean it when I say "no more scales".
As always, your thoughts and comments are loved!
2025-03-21 16:40:40 +0000 UTC View Post