Archive for the ‘Whimsical and Strange’ Category
July 2024 Patreon Sketches
Friday, September 13th, 2024
Happy Friday the 13th! Please enjoy this last set of sketch cards I did for my darling supporters at Patreon.
- Amy B wanted a capybara and it’s very chill (sold)
- Kelly wanted foxes and got one smirky boy (sold)
- SaraBeth wanted something with cats and boy she got it (sold)
- Molly asked for otters playing by a lighthouse (sold)
- Eric wanted Ruby Sunday from Doctor Who (sold)
- Rey only sort of asked for “this configuration of existential challenges sucks” (sold)
- Jefferson absolutely asked for “oyster mosh pit” and this is entirely his fault (sold)
Categories: Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: amy b, black paper, capybara, cat, colored pencil, copic marker, doctor who, eric, fox, jefferson, kelly, molly, patreon, pen and ink, rey, ruby sunday, sarabeth, sketch
June 2024 Patron Sketches
Tuesday, July 30th, 2024
There was a bat in our basement! It appears to have left on its own, but man, what a random ending to the week. Before all that, I spent the day on sketch cards! Everything is watercolor this time around because reasons.
From the top left:
- Kelly asked for a rainbow kitty
- Amy B prompted “our big, loud pride in [their] shameful times”
- SaraBeth prompted “quiet pride”
- Eric asked for Gonzo
- Jeff asked for Fozzie Ramone
- Amber prompted “sidekick wanted!”
- Andria wanted a subtle bi owl
- Corinne referred to Goomy day by asking for “slime and rainbows”
- and Nick asked for a Mandragora from Final Fantasy
There’s actually a 10th card, but it’s a spoiler for the cover of A Flutter of Fae, which is now with my beta readers, with its plot all fixed and some fresh typos for their pleasure of discovery.
Categories: 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, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: am, amy b, andria, cat, corinne, eric, final fantasy, jeff, kelly, muppets, nick, owl, patreon, pen and ink, pokemon, pride, sarabeth, watercolor
May 2024 Sketch Cards
Monday, July 1st, 2024
Another month, another set of sketches for my darling patrons!
Nine this time, though 3 of them were done for whimsy rather than requests.
- Jefferson asked for a BAGELPOCALYPSE (sold)
- Nick wanted something from Dead Boy Detectives (great show!)
- Kelly asked for Bagpuss which I had never heard of! (sold)
- I did another little galaxy for no real reason (sold)
- Nope kitty is Posca marker practice
- This weird sun/moon thing is badly inspired by Shayla Maddox’s wonderful work
- Amy B wanted a squid (sold)
- SaraBeth said, “Pollen is evil but flowers are beautiful.” (sold)
- Rebecca S asked for a sea monster
Categories: Abstract and Just Plain Weird, Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Completed Commissions, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Series and Books, Tentacles, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: amy b, black paper, cat, copic marker, jefferson, kelly, nick, patreon, pen and ink, rebecca s, sarabeth, squid, watercolor, yupo
February 2024 Sketch Cards
Thursday, April 11th, 2024
New month, new sketch cards! I’m mostly busy writing the 4th Consulting Magic book this month, but the blog won’t go totally neglected again. There’s at least these, after all.
I want to say I’m feeling messier than usual but let’s be real, these are pretty average. But hey, they’re on time!
- Amber asked for Sportsball and I did this motley thing (sold)
- Kelly wanted a dragon and got a tiny one with a tiny hoard (sold)
- Jeff asked for ghost stories and got gossiping ghosts (sold)
- Eric asked for and got beets (sold)
- Amy B wanted cheese and got a bonus cheese-hoarding dragon (sold)
- SaraBeth wanted something silly and Trotsky volunteered to be blobbed (sold)
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Whimsical and Strange, Zombies, Skulls, and Other Morbid Things
Tags: amber, amy b, brush and ink, cat, copic marker, dragon, eric, ghost, jefferson, kelly, patreon, pen and ink, sarabeth
Tea
Saturday, April 6th, 2024
Tea, 6″x6″ watercolor and tea on paper, $250.
Do you love tea? Because I love tea so much I made a zine about it.
These illustrations made up the bulk of the zine’s pictures, rendered in soft watercolor on a tea-dyed background. There’s green tea and black, loose tea and bags, in a simple celebration of the drink.
Tea, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Card Design, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: sold, tea, watercolor, zine
Crack of Dawn
Wednesday, April 3rd, 2024
Crack of Dawn, 6″x12″ watercolor on paper, $350.
Yeah, the title is a joke, but I also really love the egg-like glow around our shining light here. Is it the moon? Is it the sun? Who knows! That’s up to you, what you want to see floating up in that deep blue-violet sky among the stars.
This unusually sized painting will be perfect to fill that odd spot on your wall that needs a splash of color.
Crack of Dawn, detail, by Amy Crook
Categories: Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, Series and Books, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: iridescent watercolor, moon, sold, sun, watercolor
January 2024 Patreon Sketches
Monday, March 25th, 2024
And now we are caught up! Though of course we’ll have February’s Patreon sketches done in a few days, and then it’ll truly all be done and dusted, and in April you’ll get some actual full art pieces.
Only a 2-day delay due to illness, whew!
From the top left:
- Rey asked for “have some fucking grace” (sold)
- Jefferson asked for some office crows (sold)
- Purple Space Kitty is just because reasons
- Amy B wanted some kind of monkey and I painted this little babe (sold)
- Eric asked for the 15th Doctor and gets chibi ball-playing 15 (sold)
- SaraBeth asked for “sometimes hope is just spite rebranded” (sold)
- Nick wanted Mona from Nanalan’
Categories: Angels, Cthulhu, and Other Myths, Flowers, Trees and Landscapes, People, Figures and Faces, Pretty Words, Sea Creatures and Other Animals, Things I'm a Fan Of, Whimsical and Strange
Tags: amy b, cat, copic marker, crow, doctor who, eric, jefferson, nick, patreon, pen and ink, rey, sarabeth, sketch, watercolor
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