December sketchbook highlights 🐠

Wandering back into bluesky 🙂‍↕️🙂‍↕️

Challenging myself to draw compositions I like instead of taking a picture

Spent my day making art and feeling a sense of whimsy and joy that an ai ‘artist’ will never experience

I can post on image based socials all the time no problem but it’s struggle with Twitters/blueskys/threads. I simply don’t know what to say!!

Happy #kidlitartpostcardday !! I feel like im still finding my groove after completing my first graphic novel, but I always love to hear about exciting new projects :-) ✨ gabbiebenda.art 🐰 Repped by the lovely @ladygoofus.bsky.social

Playing totk again and I think I might never get over this Zelda character design 🥲

How do I celebrate finishing my first graphic novel? Wrong answers only please 💖

DragonForged: Sword of the Champion is out today!!!

I can’t believe this is my last week working on my graphic novel 😭 I’ve never been more proud and more afraid to let go of a project!!!

Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!! I think I’m ready for some sunny weather 🌻😭 ✨ gabbiebenda.art 🐰 represented by @ladygoofus.bsky.social

Actually criminal that I can’t spend my whole day playing kcd2 😔😔😔

Making the most diabolical synth pop playlist to listen to while I work on my book because I know my main character would have it on repeat 😌😌

Some of my recent sketchbook spreads ✨

This time of year has me dreaming of summer produce 🥲

Do you ever get hit with crazy decision fatigue and wander around your house like a sim who keeps getting their actions canceled 🥲

My first bluesky #kidlitartpostcard day!! ✨ I thought it’d be fun to share my first postcard I ever actually printed and sent out! I’m currently working a couple really exciting projects but always looking to connect with kidlit people :) Repped by @ladygoofus.bsky.social 🐰 gabbiebenda.art 🪱

Fun fact: if you make a scene of your graphic novel in a library, you then have to actually draw a library and every book on every shelf 🥰🥰

I’ve been really down lately due to well, everything, but DRAGONFORGED comes out next month!! March 11th! I hope it can make people smile in these uncertain times.

I know there is still kindness in this world because I feel it

Paintings from France 🌻

I’m usually so hard on myself with coloring, but I’m really happy with the pages I’ve done this week. Watching my debut come together has been so 🥺🥺😭

You’re a good man, Arthur Morgan 😔😔😔 #rdr2

Someone should sit down every person who wants to be a full time artist and tell them how swiftly sitting like a shrimp will catch up with them 😭😭

I’ve been taking a break from posting on ig and TikTok for obvious reasons, but the emails and push notifications they send me to try and convince me to post more are interesting for sure lol

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Just warning yall I’m doing a relisten of the lotr audiobooks so just be ready for me to be super annoying about it 😌😌😌

Some of my favorite sketchbook spreads from last year 🙂‍↕️

Don't give up. Don't you ever give up.

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We're going to make it through this 🩷💙 Let's turn our fear and rage into community action.

Breath of the wild ➡️ tears of the kingdom

A comic I originally made for Cleveland Scene last year, but it seems to get more and more relevant as time goes on ❤️‍🩹

First Bluesky post!! I’m Gabbie, an illustrator, sketchbooker, printmaker, and lover of making art 💗 some of my favorites lately: