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The Patrons Zine Machine

Wonderful Patrons, 

Thank you to all of you who sent sent contributions to our Zine Machine. The end result is a wonderful group portrait that I loved putting together and I wanted to...

Patrons Only Comic: The Metrics Matrix

Lovely Patrons,

It is a strange thing as a creative to think about productivity. I do a lot of things to try to keep my little ecosystem as happy and healthy as possible so that I can put as much creative, joyful energy into the world. 

The support you all offer as Patrons is a HUGE part of that wellbeing. For all my to do lists and all my tasks and all my equal parts hard work...

A Diamond Doodle Queue

PATRONS WE DID IT. We had a stream with a special Patrons request queue. We opened a separate queue and had access for patrons to request drawings AND THERE WERE A FEW. Was it an absolute gong show? PERHAPS. Will I do this again? DEFINITELY.

Thank you all from the bottom of my heart, for supporting so many wild and varied artsy endeavours. You are all making so much more art and making ha...

A Diamond Studded Doodle Queue

Magical Patrons!

I'm live this eve over on my Twitch channel at 5pm est this eve and our stream tonight celebrates YOU and your incredible support. 

As many of you know, I do doodle demands during the stream and the Doodle Queue can get a WEE bit hectic SO tonight's doodle queue is a diamond studded affair ...

Meet the June Bug Band

Happy June sweet Patrons!

Was anyone else obsessed with the miniature as a kid? I loved the fiction and toys that had tiny creatures making instruments out of acorns and furniture from thimbles and spools. Something about shrinking the world down felt deeply magical and still does.

The June Bug band was one of those design sets that emerged fully formed straight from childhood and I...

Sketching with friends is very good magic.

Wonderful Patrons,

Thank you so much to everyone who came to the Sketching Simplified workshop on discord. I loved drawing with you all so very much and your sketches make me so dang happy. 

If you missed the workshop, never fear! The recording will eventually be turned into a Skillshare class and I'll share links on here to give the Patreon fam free access to try it.

Tha...

Patrons only Workshop TUESDAY May 30th 6pm est!

Our Sketching Simplified workshop is coming up on TUESDAY and I can't wait to scribble with you all. 

A couple bits about this hangout: I'll be recording the session so I can use the footage to make a Skillshare class. The recording is just of my footage and audio so don't feel any pressure to be camera ready! I'll als...

The Patrons Sketchbook Tour Series - Tour 13

Wonderful Patrons,

This is the first ever TWO STREAM TOUR because it was such a gong show that we didn't get through this lil' sketchbook in one stream. I do love a good travel sketchbook and this is one of my favourites. Shout out to Viviva who gifted me this travel watercolour kit that I use the heck out of.

YOU make art happen.

Patrons YOU have single handedly made so much more space for artsy antics in this world. You have turned the studio into a 2023-05-21 12:51:49 +0000 UTC View Post

The Zine Machine

Magical Patrons,

Some of you may remember back in September of 2020 we did a Patrons Group Shelf Portrait  comprised of some of our favourite books. There's something magical about...

Patrons Only Comic: The multitudes

Beautiful Patrons,

BEHOLD one of my many contradictions. If it's morning, I am so capable of making healthy measured choices. My appetite isn't great in the am so it's easy to decide with my rational mind what food makes sense and calmly prepare it. 

JUMP CUT to night time Snack Shark who will literally tear into a package of oreos and decimate the entire thing in one sitting B...

Meeting of the Diamonds

Hello you magical gems,

There's a Patrons-only hangout before stream next Wednesday May 17th at 4pm est. I'll have gone to a couple of Patreon Ambassador info sessions so obviously I need to gossip with you all about it AND we'll be chatting about some merch just for patrons and choos...

*shoooooof*

Good morning magical Patrons,

I came across this comic from ages ago and it's just still...soooo.... ACCURATE.

The Patrons-Only monthly comics are usually a little longer form and story based but I still get a kick out of these old four panel snippets.

What's the task you avoid at all costs? Emails definitely make me wanna shoooooffff right under my desk like a kid escaping th...

Is there a word bigger than Thank You?

Wild wonderful Patrons,

I am head-to-toe-shrieking-level-excited to share that I have officially been accepted into the Patreon Ambassador program.

This is an opportunity offered to creators after hitting a bunch of milestones and it might be one of the most meaningful things that you've ever helped m...

Have you ever met a mayflower? May wallpapers are here!

Magical Patrons,

It is really starting to look like spring in earnest in my city. Ottawa is a place that has a lot of extreme cold and extreme warm but May is this glorious sunshiny time when people are popping out of their winter hidey-holes and getting some sun like the little depleted plants we are. It got me thinking about the idea of May flowers and the fact that we just group them a...

The Patrons Sketchbook Tour Series - Tour 12

Ohhh wonderful Patrons. What a STRANGE thing it is to tour a sketchbook I've just finished. Thanks to YOUR support, we have the utterly wild task of taking a sketchbook tour every month. We do these monthly tours live on stream, but the videos are available exclusively to you magical patrons through our 2023-04-27 18:01:32 +0000 UTC View Post

Drawing the Invisible

Magical Patrons,

This page rolled by during out most recent Sketchbook Tour on stream and I wanted to share it with you beautiful diamonds. I recently took a comics class with Shay Mirk all about drawing an aspect of ourselves that's invisible. The first task was to write a few unseen things - my list is in the top right - and then choose one to focus on.

I picked the fact that I am...

Sketching. Simplified Session on Tues May 30th!

"Sketching. Simplified." will be live on Discord on May 30th at 6pm EST.

Hello lovely Patrons! I'm doing another session of this workshop! 

A couple bits about this hangout: I'll be recording the session so I can use the footage to make a Skillshare c...

From the haze.

Hello lovely Patrons,

I hope you dig the Patrons-only comic this month! Waking from dreams is a very strange process for me. It feels a little like coming up from REALLY deep water and just sloooowwwly adding a layer of reality one at a time. I definitely take a minute or six to fully return to reality.

As a vivid, frequent and strange dreamer I love the odd turns my brain can take ...

Pre-Stream Hangout for Patrons!

Beautiful Patrons,

I have been so lucky to be supported by this community and the experience I've had live streaming as a creative has been absolutely incredible. Thanks to that immense support, we've been able to build the Crayon Fund, which donates a portion of the profits from the stream to a different charitable partner every two months.

I wanted to do something to celebrate the...

Welcome to my Capybara Era.

BEHOLD. The first of April and THE CAPYBARA ERA HAS BEGUN. Sweet Patrons, I don't know if you know this but I adore Capybaras and tiktok has just recently caught on and started serving me all the most glorious footage of the sweet lil fluffy tanks.

Capybaras posses an unbotheredness that I ASPIRE to and so to celebrate the onset of spring I've been doodling these delightful creatures ince...

Patrons Only Workshop: Sketching. Simplified.

"Sketching. Simplified." will be live on Discord on TONIGHT, March 30th at 6pm EDT.

I can't wait to see you this eve! A couple bits about this hangout: I'll be recording the session so I can use the footage to make a 2023-03-30 16:29:28 +0000 UTC View Post

The Patreon Sketchbook Tours - Tour 11

Lovely Patrons,

Thanks to YOUR support, we have the utterly wild task of taking a sketchbook tour every month. We do these monthly tours live on stream, but the videos are available exclusively to you magical patrons through our SEKRIT PLAYLIST.

This most recent tour features a sketchbook from 2018 where I was REALLY into illustration markers, Rainbow Brite, and... godzilla?  2023-03-23 15:00:02 +0000 UTC View Post

Patrons Only Comic: Tempestuous

Wonderful Patrons,

I've reconciled myself. Where I live, March is one of those months where you just have to keep every conceivable footwear out for all possible weather. Despite my desperate need for sunshine and milder temperatures, there's also something kind of cool about Mother Nature just FLEXING on my for putting my boots away.

Enjoy the Patrons-only comic you magical friends...

Friday night comic workshop

Magical Patrons,

I recently started attending some of the Sequential Artist Workshop Friday night sessions. They're free, virtual, and open to anyone. The purpose shifts but the format is always a comic artist sharing some specific element of their storytelling with some comic-maki...

Hello March (Hares that is)

Beautiful Patrons!

March is here and it is full of small springtime signs that are making me a little more Mad Hatter than March Hare. I wanted to do something with illustration ink for this month's designs and it was such a joy to sketch these sprinting buns for you. 

I hope you enjoy the desktop and wallpaper backgrounds, and as always if you need them sized for a different d...

The Patrons Only Sketchbook Tour series - Tour 10

Beautiful Patrons,

WOW Ten whole sketchbook tours? What even is time. Did you know that because of YOUR support, we have monthly sketchbook tours on stream? What a wild way to time travel. 

These tours are also available after the fact just for you Patrons. If you didn't catch this tour when we streamed it, it's now available in your private playlist. 2023-02-22 15:50:44 +0000 UTC View Post

Pre-Stream Patrons Only Hangout March 1st

Magical Patrons!

It's the FIRST STREAM of March which means sneaky Patrons only pre-stream schemes. Extra behind the scenes peeks for the Sketchbook tour and some exciting Crayon Fund updates. I'll be live on the Patrons-Only section of discord Wednesday March 1sr at 4pm EST if you'd ...

Patrons Only Comic: The Days.

Beautiful Patrons,

It is one of my greatest joys to find reasons and people to celebrate. I hope that you're all taking a moment to celebrate yourselves, and that you get to express or receive love in ways that feel authentic to you. I promise you there is no heart shaped box of chocolates that matters more than you. 

Enjoy the Patrons-Only comic you magical friends, and all of...

Patrons Only Workshop: Sketching. Simplified.

"Sketching. Simplified." will be live on Discord on Thursday, March 30th at 6pm EDT. 

A couple bits about this hangout: I'll be recording the session so I can use the footage to make a Skillshare class...