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A doodle for doemay on her birthday of her cutie fairy characters!  Happy Birthday!  You should all follow her, she’s very sweet and talented.

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The road to self esteem is pretty complicated and not as simple as changing your hair.

You are the blood flowing through my fingers.

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DOG PORTRAITS!  This is a present for my aunt and uncle for letting me stay with them.  I love these dogs.  Painted in gouache.

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I hope your day gets better Jillian.  It’s your character but I can’t remember her name and your other tumblr isn’t loading for me right now.  I think you’re one of the sweetest people I know on the internet and I’d say that I love your blog, but that’s reductive.  It’s not just your blog I like, it’s you.

My 5,000th Tweet.  You can follow me on Twitter here… but you probably shouldn’t.

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Sketching at work.

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Sketching monsters based on my best and worst personality traits (in my opinion).  I’ll let you infer what those are.

caught between the moon and magnolia porter: commission info! →

magnoliapearl:

Hey guys. Here’s the deal: I just found out that in two weeks, the family I work as a nanny for will no longer need a nanny due to schedule changes where the mom works. Which means I will be out of a job. It’s pretty sad news for me because, as you may know if you follow me on twitter or tumblr, I…

Commission her, look at how wonderful her drawings are!

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I always wanted a cartoon version of Veronica Mars in middle school with a snarky little Veronica solving kid crimes like bullying and a missing bicycle.  And of course, Logan Echolls gets conveniently stuck as her science fair partner once or twice.

(Relevant again thanks to Kickstarter!)

Life drawing at Dr. Sketchy’s in Cleveland, OH.

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This was my grandparent’s Christmas present.  I went to one of those “paint your own pottery” places.  The colors came out… strangely, which normally I’d find fun but I was aiming for something really traditional since it is my grandparents.  They liked it though!

Studies for a painting.  Trying to perfect the likeness of my Italian sister, Irene.

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A birthday present for Anna Lisa!  She draws cool skull girls all the time, rocks a mohawk, and taught me everything I know about beer.

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A commission for my good friend Brendan Adkins based on his microfiction story Shyler.  (Brendan has written 2,003 short stories for Ommatidia!)

Ink wash on Aquaboard.