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December 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on April 20th, 2023

There are, of course, a couple of cats.

December 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

December 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Rey & Amber prompted 2023 (sold)
  • Eric asked for volcano and look it just happened, okay. Blame Raccoon (pose) and Lapis (stank). (sold)
  • Amy B asked for gingerbread and got a cat. This is not a surprise to anyone. (sold)
  • And Jefferson prompted “Screw that. This train is hitting the goddamn snooze button.” (sold)

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November 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on April 18th, 2023

It was a cat kind of month, I guess. Everyone needs some good good kitty love sometimes!

November 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

November 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Eric asked for cats (sold)
  • Nick requested cuddled
  • Jefferson wanted science fiction (sold)
  • Amy B wanted a hearth (sold)
  • and Shannon B wanted a bread-stealing raven to fly off with the squirrel who had been eating it still attached

 

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October 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on April 13th, 2023

We’re getting toward the present! Only a few more months to go — requests made in one month are then fulfilled by the end of the next, so these were done well after Drawtober was over, lol.

October 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

October 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Jefferson prompted “kobold turkey chef” so we get this elaborate but ill-advised attempt at deep fried turkey. I’m really not sure if this dungeon’s boiling oil vats are food-safe, guys. (sold)
  • Eric prompted “witchcraft” so I drew a tarot card, then drew a tarot card, as it were. And I remembered how to draw hands! Woo! (sold)
  • Andria asked for a wizard raven, and has received her wish.
  • Amy B prompted “spooky monkey” and idk, man, this is what came out of my brain. Trick or Banana, I guess? (sold)

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September & Drawtober 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on April 11th, 2023

And a lot of other sketch cards, plus a bookmark! Only the first set has any that were for prompts, but several/most are now sold.

September 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

September 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Rebecca S prompted “rainbow” and got an experimental birb
  • ink and powdered silver pigment makes a space thing
  • spooky owl ink experiment
  • black cat ink experiment (brother to the owl)
  • Amy B prompted “spooky” and gets a Cerberus kitty (sold)
  • Andria asked for a tree with purple leaves (sold)
  • I never did get the hang of Thursday(s)
  • bookmark with one of my cities of smoking ruins
Drawtober 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

Drawtober 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • a pair of ink wash kitties
  • two anatomical hearts and two faces hidden in a strange little abstract made of ink and paint
  • corvid!
  • phoenix! (sold)
  • a weird little abstract made of teal ink with sparklies in it, it reminds me of someone floating in the water, or splashing about mid-swim
  • spooky trees and a blood moon
  • a maiden on the shores of the wide sea
  • dragon! (sold)

Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, Daily Art, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
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August 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on April 6th, 2023

So many requests that month! I had a lot of fun with them, despite a head cold that took out our whole household (but wasn’t covid, whew).

August 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

August 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Max Silliness for Rey & Amber (sold)… who remembers Max Headroom?
  • Andria asked for “something steampunky” and gets zen circle gears
  • Nick asked for Constantine and gets a little sneaky King Shark bonus
August 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

August 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Eric asked for Blast! and gets red-pink fireworks (sold)
  • Rebecca S asked for watermelon and gets abstract watermelony goodness
  • Look, it’s just been a ‘shaking your fist at the sky’ kind of year, okay?
  • Some experimental birbs
  • Amy B only sort of asked for Smushmallow Mal but that’s what she got (sold)
  • Jefferson asked for Dude of the Endless, and I decided his domain was coincidence: the Dude really brings things together (sold)

Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Things I'm a Fan Of
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July 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on April 4th, 2023

Plus a bunch of bonus corvids! I wanted to do some gestural corvids, hilariously unrelated to the poll earlier, just to keep up my practice of loose, interesting birbs.

July 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

July 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

Only 2 people actually asked for things in July, so we have:

  • Jefferson, who asked for Iron Chef Klingon and gets deconstructed disgustingness (sold)
  • a purple crow giving some side-eye (sold)
  • a rainbow crow giving some serious side-eye (sold)
  • some crows flying through a gorgeous sunrise, inspired by Shayla Maddox’s current photo project (pretty sure this one’s been claimed too)
  • A bi pride sea turtle for Andria, the only piece to use an actual pen (for the purple bits) outside of the signature, heh (sold)
  • and a fluffed-up blue corvid having a bloody red treat (sold)

I actually used references for everything but the food, though I googled Klingon names to give our chef his moniker. I also mentally wrote some weird fanfic in my head about this dish while doodling, so, uh. Enjoy the grossness?

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June 2022 Patreon sketches

Posted on March 30th, 2023

Not a ton of requests from June, so there’s a wee trio of cards. These are all the size of a standard playing card, known as ATC or ACEO for Artist Trading Card (when traded) or Artist Card, Edition Original (when sold). The more you know.

June 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

June 2022 ACEO sketches by Amy Crook

  • Jefferson asked for “Cherry Festival”
  • Eric asked for “gloom”
  • R&A asked for “Do not sell the baby online!”

These were all claimed before they were even made, whee!

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