Making this post to be pinned. I will probably make a more detailed post at a later time!
My name is Hayley (she/her), otherwise known as lodger-art, and i’d like to announce that my commissions are open! I’m in need of money to hopefully move out with my friend and every little bit helps!
icon - $10 bust - $15 half body - $20 full body - $25 +5 for each additional character +5 for complicated props/backgrounds
What i do: human characters, fan art, ocs, some anthro What i don’t do: animals, mechs, explicit nsfw. will turn down request if it makes me uncomfortable
Transactions through ko-fi (preferred) but can be worked around
Hey friends! Just a heads up that Redbubble is having a site wide sale on pretty much every item! So if you’re planning to grab something from my shop, be sure to use the code SPOOKY20 at the checkout for an awesome 20% off! You can visit my store at: www.redbubble.com/people/littlebeanmakes
A cropped photo of a painting I want to remake, and in the meantime…
Would anyone be interested in buying my art? I’m thinking of opening a redbubble account and shop, but I wanted to gauge interest before I go in and set up payment information, looks too scary :/
Most likely, I’d be posting art for art prints and stickers, mainly stickers…
Just added these designs to my redbubble store! You can get them on tees, mugs, bags, notebooks, prints, etc. There’s also a sticker sheet which has each silhouette as an individual sticker! (the black silhouette one is also available as a whole sticker, but the white one isn’t as it adds a white border so the silhouette shape gets lost!)
Something like this has been on my mind for a while, and those space brushes gave my just the right boost of inspiration and motivation to make it happen!
Constellations are Capricorn and Aries, my headcanon sun and moon for this pragmatic, stubborn, impatient boy. To explain in brief, one of my favorites things about Keith is how his personality is made up of two seemingly opposite concepts – He processes things in a grounded, down-to-earth way that contrasts with his fiery, passionate bursts of emotion. It’s something that so many people seem to have a hard time striking a balance with in characterizing him that nothing but (what I affectionately call) The Cardinal Earth/Fire Struggle seemed to suit him more perfectly. For this reason, both this boy and these signs are very, very close to my heart.
I’d love to do a series of the Paladins like this (since I have zodiac thoughts for them too!), but honestly I have no idea if any other constellation is going to look that good as a crown like dang.
Creatives talk about the “journey”, and “creative processes” and techniques. We also have the tendency to stress over details and, unless one is particulary well-conditioned to leave well enough alone, we can be prone to over-work our pieces. We freely express what we’re not particular well-practiced in (“Oh, I’m just HORRIBLE at drawing HANDS!”).
Despite the fact that we have it drilled into our heads, “Don’t compare your work to others’!”, we still do it despite ourselves. We get swept up in realistic approaches to art, just as quickly as we get swept up into graphic, bold “styles.”
We have occasional accidents where we may spill in onto a piece that we have come SO FAR to finishing, only to end up trashing it because it’s beyond salvaging.
Hours and hours of digital work can be lost in a sudden program freeze, computer crash, or power outage, unless we have conditioned ourselves to compulsively hit the keyboard shortcuts to “Save” our work every two minutes. We lose sleep trying to better ourselves, to meet deadlines, and make everyone happy. We feel guilty when we take five minutes to NOT draw something. Sometimes we feel like we’ve reached a plateau of skill–a lack of improvement. Everything looks awful We come upon “art blocks”, and suffer from burnout. Art Stops Being Fun.
But one day, a few months ago, my sister texted me while we both were at work with an image, and a simple caption, “I did the thing.” I flipped out. I showed it to everyone around me–whether they cared or not–this magnanimous highlighter doodle of a triceratops that she did. …And, knowing the way she is, she probably did it in less than two minutes.
My sister isn’t much of an illustrator, or visual artist, despite having a very strong interest in fashion design for many, many years when she was younger. So, when she decides to draw ANYTHING, the WHOLE WORLD comes to a halt. For me, at least.
I told her, “You better bring this home, cuz it’s GOING ON THE FRIDGE.” And it’s been displayed there ever since, and probably will be forever.
I’ve kept all the art she’s done over the years.
Earlier this week, I scanned this gem, and I gave it a once over:
Torn upper edges where she ripped it out of the notepad…of ruled paper, of course…which scanned crooked, despite my efforts… A few splattered coffee stains. Lots of wrinkles.
I just sat there and smiled. I told myself, “No. No, there’s nothing wrong with this. It’s perfect.”
And thus, the piece had a name: “I Love You Just The Way You Are.”
“UNLESS someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It’s not.” “The Lorax”, by Dr. Seuss
I’ve been going through some sort of weird internal transformation this year. This hommage piece is definitely a hint as to what has been eating at me.
Seriously, this cat is turning more and more alien the more I work with them as a “conceptual” messenger…
Okay turning this into a series! Which you can find on my redbubble over in my important links. (They make the cutest little fridge magnets).
The aim here is to try and capture different periods/decades ect through watercolour portraits featuring only the head and shoulders of the character. Right now I’ve done the 20′s, 40′s and 80′s. I have plans for designs going as far back as medieval periods.
Let me know if you like the set so far and if you’d like me to try a particular decade/period!
