Visible skill: writing good dialogue for a comic Invisible skill: writing good dialogue that’s 1) succinct & uses words short enough to fit inside speech bubbles, 2) in few enough bubbles that won’t cover up the art too much, 3) leads the eye thru the art and 4) still makes complete narrative sense

Barn owl & white tailed kite sketches

WITCH HAT BRUSHBUDDY NECK PILLOWS ARE HERE!!! Gonna take better pictures today and prepare everything for preorders!

logos are fun

⚠️🚨 your annual friendly PSA that theres artists in 2026 that STILL try to bypass fees by telling clients to pay through "gifting friends and family" DONT DO THIS - YOU WILL LOSE ALL YOUR PROTECTIONS and your MONEY if things go sideways because your refund is NOT PROTECTED! ALWAYS GET AN INVOICE!

Fern 🌿

Begging my fellow artists to PLEASE put your username/handle somewhere on your artwork when posting it online It won't stop all cases of art theft (such as tracing), but it can absolutely help if someone reuploads without crediting you

I've created a mailing list for doujinshi fans in North America. I'll be using it to spread information about new & future doujin events across the US and Canada. If you're interested in participating or attending more doujin events around your local area, please sign up! faiell.kit.com/doujin

Testing things 🗨️🦈

Fun fact: The asymmetrical vanes on primary feathers (the wingtip ones) are essential to generating forward thrust. In the fossil record asymmetrical feathers are one of the factors that show if a fossilized creature was flight-capable or not.

I threw this together for a friend real quick, but I'm sure others will find it helpful :> Behold, a very unscientific tutorial on how I draw bird wings

I painted the lesbian sea!

annual reminder #pride

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Ok Imma write a thread 🧵 But in summary: You'll be able to have a shop without setting up a website while swapping out payment processors if you're banned or barred from one service without losing your entire shop/crowd source structure/account identity.

guiding star, bring us home #lunya #lulunart

Time lapse vid (and rendering the codpiece did make me giggle a little bit)

On the eve of our submission window opening, we felt we should add an AI policy

IMPORTANT: For any artists/writers/etc etc, using Linktree to point people to their work, from 5 July, they'll be feeding all imagery you use on your landing page into DALL-E by OpenAI. I deleted my account this morning.

Please check your videos and bulk edit them all. This is so so very horrible!

Remember to write just "Illustration" and not "Commission" in your invoices. Cheeky Euphimisims aren't enough. Self policing language sucks but, for now, you're a speakeasy.

where i create from

Coco & Agott .ᐟ #Δ帽子 #arkco

Qifrey and The Atelier #witchhatatelier

new moon #witchhatatelier #Δ帽子

I had the pleasure of illustrating @postmortemtsarina.bsky.social's fic "Heretic Love Songs"! This was done for the xiv NPC minibang @xivnpcbang.bsky.social You can read the fic here: archiveofourown.org/collections/...

Haru - A Frieren & Yorushika Tribute (1/4) #frieren #フリーレン

This is... the process (Not fishing, but if you're in any kind of field where you always want to be doing 'better,' then you probably understand the mindset.)

it do be like this sometimes

WIP update! Just finished inking all the pages for my project. Now I get to coloring soon. Here's just Frieren staring at you.

Finished the cover for my new comic project, Haru! #frieren

i made a guide on how to write, draw, and print a doujinshi/fanzine/whatever you want to call it. this is a crash course on literally everything i know about making doujinshi. it's over 40 pages long. i hope you like it. docs.google.com/document/d/1...

#ffxiv #ffxivart #リーン #ガイア #Ryne #Gaia “Wake up. Breakfast and flowers are here… and happy Valentione's Day. Quit hiding in bed, lazy.”

こっちでも配布しておくか そのまま使っても参考に描き直してもらってもいいんで #アルカディアレッドカーペット 描きませんか

#アルカディアレッドカーペット a themed set by @Extraoo14 on twitter that they shared the backdrop of for everyone else to draw their wols/ships on!! links in reply if you wanna make your own 🖼️

Most Scions and some FF14 characters of note!

Thinking about these two Yorushika songs about my OCs, Suong and Akari being thought as different flavors of "inhumane". #ocs

avoid self loathing ✅ your art is special because YOU made it ✅ literally anything you create is better than AI✅

"Raising the stakes, are we, Counselor?" #ofthedevil ...Happy Morgan Monday!

One more illustration for the amazing writer that is my friend, @margdaemonelix.bsky.social ! Thank you and I really tested myself on this one. 27 hours on this!! #FFXIVArt #FF14 #rynegaia

HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN TRAPPED IN OBTAIN DISPLAY COLOR

Drew @grymnoire.bsky.social's Perfect Alexander in a maid outfit for a pencil test in 2024. Was not expecting to post this until now. It's... ahahahahaha, amazing. I have no idea what I was thinking and not sure where to find it now. I wonder if the original version of this exists.

Welcome to our new FFXIV blue birds seeking a new place to roost! If you’re looking for a creative challenge to make some new friends this year, sign up for Side Quest: A FFXIV NPC Mini Bang! Get matched with an artist/author partner and work as a team to bring a story to life! ✏️🎨

Did a color study on my cousin's cat, Pickles! Took me 75 mins. ;-;

Back on my bullshit. Drew some more scenes for "this is our eden-in-flames" for @margdaemonelix.bsky.social !

The cream stew scene from "this is our eden-in-flames" by my friend @margdaemonelix.bsky.social! #ffxivart #rynegaia #ffxiv

Bride's Wish (1/9)! #oc

Deeply recommend getting absolutely brainrotted about a pairing/oc/concept that no one else is making food for so you have to cook for yourself. Not only is making what you want to see deeply rewarding, you will improve and it will not even be on purpose it will just be the inevitable byproduct.

Drew Nightcord with An & Kohane following afterwards further down! The hearts and text aren't mine, but I find this adorable! This was fun considering I don't actually do much pixel art. ^^