There are many, many things I should be doing today,so I did thia instead

I used to be technically competent at photography. Admittedly in the rather limited field of “taking photographs of disarticulated bird skeletons”

I bought a wooden art panel and then decided to stretch vellum over it and then I decided I really needed a vaguely byzantine style picture of Astarion I have also worked out some of how to use manual mode on my camera Gold leaf and gouache on vellum #bg3 #astarion

This is Tybalt, the Prince of Cats made as a technique test of needle felted bases with stretch fabric over them before embarking on a more complex project using the technique

Finished my massive painting gouache and coloured pencil

Very slowly painting

Getting back into illustration. Royally screwed up stretching my watercolour paper via lumpy bits of glue I left on the board and also bleeding on it So today is a trip to get more paper and I want to work on hotpress amd only have cold press

I decided I would like a new silly goth jumper, because I fell in love with the green on the top of the jumper (acquired in a box of cone ends from rennies) Wider neckline than I usually do, absolute butts of sleeves, supersoft lambswool shetland in 4ply

I did not have enough green to be certain of being able to do am entire gotbic arch jumper so I mixed in a dark teal with a second pattern Anyway it looks even better

A speedy sketch from a film still, in sparkly silver pan pastel

And this, this is a horrible little puppet I made for a larp, in response to my character being given a beautiful gift.

I should probably actually post art more This is a 2" wide painting of my own eye.

I am so very excited to add these lovely ladies (originals not prints!!!) to the genre for trans auction. Pessimistic Orange Art is an absolute inspiration. www.32auctions.com/organization...

Finished, not super keen on my colouring (I really should consider switching to Corel) #bg3 #gale

Made a critter based on vibes and a desire not to sculpt feet Sculpey, felt and fake fur

Need to colour it now, and probably do something better for the text (if I want text) because orange scribble is not ideal tbh #bg3 #gale

A bit more of Gale #bg3 #gale

Maybe I will finish this painting of Art Nouveau Gale as Rodin’s the Thinker at some point…

Cathedral themed cardigan, for those times in lofe where bats or skulls feel like an inappropriate wardrobe choice

I was reorganising amd found my plushie Tylo I made years back #GhostofATale

Every so often I will pick up my coloured pencils and draw something, every time I do this I remember how long it takes.

Drew a rat king

Somewhat borrow idea, but... pig in a blanket

Gousche and ink He is absolutely a dnd wizard. He has a phoenix feather in his hat and a mug that came free in an order from Sorcerous Sundries. It is a mug of holding, if he knocked it over we would all be knee deep in coffee. He is Not Enjoying his long rest #dnd #bg3

40 WAYS TO DIE IN THE PREHISTORIC. Enjoy! These illustrations were made as scale drawing for a book about prehistoric creatures. Thought it would be fun to have a bit more interaction between the animals and human figures

Sewing up continues

Full photos of the Christmas jumper. I figured red and white and with bats was close enough to festive J.C. rennies superspft lambswool (4 ply) in winter white and tudor. Designed and made by me as a bit of a learning experience in single motif and garter bars.

Anyway because it is almost December I am already wearing said festive jumper.

"I machine knitting therefore it is basically required that I knit myself a Christmas jumper" "But if I am knitting it I want it to reflect my gothic style" "I am not actually sure how to do this maybe I will just knit a nordicish fairisle with bats on"

Edging ever closer, struck by the realisation that this is not a standard size piece of paper so I will need to get a mount for it cut specially and them have to get a bloody massive frame

I will finish this damn painting today…

This is the cuff of a jumper that is currently drying on the kitchen table. Note the red, note the white, note the absolute lack of colour bleed. I am somewhat amazed

When learning a new medium, painting number 4 is too soon to be doing larger than a3. He has a Sorcerous Sundries mug because clearly that is the DnD wizard equivalent of a sports direct mug

I continue with my trash wizard painting. This is maybe my third? Fourth? Go with gouache. So… y’know… trying to run before I walk a bit

It is the time of year when all is knitting…

the sketch for the wizard. The current colour version is at the awkward stage of painting where I sort of have to explain “it’ll be fine in a while! Honest!” Which probably doesn’t make me sound super convincing

I am also slowly and painfully painting a wizard in gouache. This is all the basic colours down, I now just need to do the details, which hopefully go faster

Decided to make myself a Christmas jumper. Well fairisle… it has bats on it and is slowly driving me mad

I took up machine knitting. I knitted this, broadly before anyone told me it was a bad idea and wouldn’t work.. Today the machine is dropping stitches at random. I have worked out why though I think. It’s a very rare event and is because I am messing up latching up my floats.

Throwback to the time I woke up one morning and went “I must make a mushroom hat but also make it fashion”. Not pictured; me stabbing myself really badly with a pair of brass skull shaped scissors in the process of cutting the holes

In lieu of “hello world” I present a tech priest with a Henry Hoover. Somewhat experimental using chunky posca pens and aerocolor ink in a very limited palette (aka what random candy colours I had…)