Stephanie O'Brien's Blog

Undertale Wallpaper: Tentacles of the Time Tyrant

1/9/2021

It's been a while since I turned a panel of Just Cause into a wallpaper, and this one seemed especially conducive to it. In this panel, Frisk is wondering if Flowey can wrest control of the timeline from them, and make them relive their most painful moments over and over again.

I'm not entirely happy with it; I feel like the scenes from Frisk's past don't quite mesh with the rest of the picture. They feel slapped-on to me. If you have any suggestions for making them feel more integrated, I'd love to hear them!

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Page 59 of My "Undertale" Comic, "Just Cause", is Ready!

1/8/2021

In this chapter, we see the conclusion of Frisk's painful battle with the woman who wished to be their mother.

If you haven't read the previous pages, you can read the comic from the beginning here.

Frisk has a LOT of insecurities, and that fight and its aftermath touched on far too many of them, like fingers in an open wound. They desperately need a grownup who will love them and refuse to hurt them unconditionally, but in a place like this, those are in short supply.

But hey, there's no situation so bad that a talking flower can't make it worse!

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Two New Patterns: "Stormy Swirls" and "Shower of Sapphire Snowflakes"

20/7/2021

Time for another snowflake series, this time in my favorite color. :)

It took me several tries to get a background that both complemented this pattern, and would look good when tiled.

Below, you can see one of my earlier attempts; the contrast was so high that it distracted from the snowflakes, but it looked so good on its own that I decided to use it as a standalone art piece.

If you want to get a closer look at the snowflakes, here they are! This is one of the first backgrounds I tried; I like the way it looks with the full-size snowflakes, but it doesn't work as well with the smaller ones, and it doesn't tile nicely, so it had to be replaced in the print version.

You can click each snowflake to see it at full size.

If you'd like to get this artwork on physical items like clothes, accessories and home decor, here are a few of your options:

Here are the links to the items in the collage:

Face Masks
Stickers
Floor Pillows
Throw Blankets
Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Covers
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Duffel Bags
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here:

Stormy Swirls
Shower of Sapphire Snowflakes

To see more products with these pictures on Society6, check out these art prints, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Stormy Swirls
Shower of Sapphire Snowflakes

Rainbow Snowfall

3/6/2021

I don't quite remember who, but one of the people who was looking at my snowflake patterns had a great suggestion: take a bunch of the snowflakes I've already drawn, and combine them into one pattern.

It took me a while to get around to doing it - too busy making new snowflakes and other art, haha - but I finally did it, and I'm glad I did!

If you'd like to get this artwork on physical items like clothes, accessories and home decor, here are a few of your options:

Here are the links to the items in the collage:

Face Masks
Stickers
Floor Pillows
Throw Blankets
Dresses
Skirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Duffel Bags
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see more products with this picture on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Veil of Butterflies, Pride Flag Series

26/5/2021

It's about darn time I made another pride flag art series, and Veil of Butterflies was perfect for it.

I like using butterflies for LGBTQIA+ patterns, because of the way these beautiful creatures symbolize evolving into your fullest, most vibrant and visible self.

By adding the extra layer of butterflies in the background, I made sure that each color on each flag would be amply displayed, so I wouldn't end up with stripes or rings that had too few parts of them visible, which is an issue I ran into with some of my earlier pride flag series.

I hope you enjoy it!

If you want to get this artwork on items like masks, stickers, clothing, accessories or home decor, here are a few of the items you can get:

Here are the links to the items in the collage:

Face Masks
Stickers
Throw Pillows
Comforters
Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Bath Mats
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with these patterns at the links below:

Agender
Androgyne
Aromantic
Asexual
Bisexual
Demiboy
Demigirl
Demiromantic
Demisexual
Genderfluid
Genderqueer
Intersex
Lesbian
LGBTQ
Neutrois
Nonbinary
Pansexual
Polysexual
Transgender

To see more products with this pattern on Society6, check out these art prints, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Agender
Androgyne
Aromantic
Asexual
Bisexual
Demiboy
Demigirl
Demiromantic
Demisexual
Genderfluid
Genderqueer
Intersex
Lesbian
LGBTQ
Neutrois
Nonbinary
Pansexual
Polysexual
Transgender

I hope you see something you like!

Veil of Butterflies

20/5/2021

I recently saw a simple but striking pattern consisting of a light blue background, a slightly darker pattern of leaves on top of it, and a second, even darker pattern of leaves on top of that.

I wanted to try something similar, so I pulled out my trusty butterfly shape and started filling the canvas with wings. I started with a blue version, then tinkered with the coloring to create green, red, purple, monochromatic, and rainbow versions.

I'm working on publishing a pride flag series with this pattern; it's been a while since I did one of those, and this artwork is turning out to be very conducive to it. Also, I like the symbolism of mixing butterflies with LGBTQIA+ flags, given the connotations of metamorphosing from what the world tells you you should be into who you truly are.

If you want to get this artwork on items like clothing, accessories or home decor, here are a few of the things you can get:

Here are the links to the items in the collage:

Face Masks
Stickers
Throw Pillows
Comforters
Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Bath Mats
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here:

Rainbow
Blue
Green
Red
Purple
Black on white
White on black

To see more products with this picture on Society6, check out these art prints, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Rainbow
Blue
Green
Red
Purple
Black on white
White on black

Abstract Art: Sparkling Mother of Pearl

12/5/2021

A few days ago, I was in the process of putting Sea of Violet Snowflakes on RedBubble when Mom came up to me with a picture on her phone and asked, "Can you make something kind of like this, but with lots of sparkles, and put it on a phone case?"

If Mom wants me to make some art for her on Mother's Day, then heck yeah, I'm gonna drop the other art thing I'm doing and make her some special art for Mother's Day.

So I put spots and streaks of the colors she'd requested on a blue-grey canvas, and started tinkering with the liquefier tool, occasionally making adjustments at her request.

Then I chose my favorite sparkly brush and started coating the image with stars. (One of the star layers was actually called "BLING OUT THE WAZOO" - if you've watched Over the Hedge, you'll get the reference.

I thought of calling this image "Sparkling Angel Mist", but given its connection to mothers and Mother's Day, I wanted to have "mother" in the title.

If you, too, would like this on a phone case or other physical items, here are some of your options:

Here are the links to the items in the collage:

Face Masks
Stickers
Throw Pillows
Comforters
Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Duffel Bags
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Bath Mats
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see more products with this picture on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Sea of Violet Snowflakes Speedpaint

9/5/2021

I decided to do something a bit different with this one; while my previous videos were pretty much all done in real time, the snowflake-drawing part of this video is double speed, and the background-drawing part is even faster.

Otherwise it would've been over 20 minutes long; I lost track of time while drawing snowflakes, haha.

I'd love to get some feedback: do you like it when the video is sped up like this, or would you prefer that I go back to the original speed? You can send the feedback via my contact page, or as a comment on this blog post.

After the video was made, I decided to make the background a bit darker, so the snowflakes would stand out more. So if the finished product looks different from the one in the video, that's why.

To get early access to future videos, join my inner circle on Patreon.

To learn how to draw symmetrical artwork like this, watch my art tutorial on SkillShare.

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see the products with this pattern on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Music credits:

Flickering
By VYEN (YouTube Audio Library)

Pixelated Autumn Leaves
By Jeremy Blake (YouTube Audio Library)

Indigo
By Eveningland (YouTube Audio Library)

Dreaming in 432Hz
By Unicorn Heads (YouTube Audio Library)

You can see all the individual snowflakes with the darkened, wavy background by clicking "read more".

Psychedelic Sunset Silhouette

5/5/2021

I recently saw an interesting piece of art on Twitter (which, for some reason, I sadly can't find anymore), and it made me want to try drawing a wavy pink tree in front of an ominous red sunset.

I thought about shading the trees, but I kind of like the otherworldly look their near lack of shading gives, like they aren't quite part of the same reality as the clouds.

After I made the initial version, I played around with the colors a bit, and got this version:

Here's what the sunset looks like without the branches:

If you want to get this artwork on items like clothing, accessories or home decor, here are a few of the things you can get:

Here are the links to the items in the collage:

Face Masks
Stickers
Throw Pillows
Comforters
Dresses
Shirts
Phone Cases & Skins
Towels
Tapestries
Shower Curtains
Coffee Mugs
Bath Mats
Apple Watch Bands

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here:

Pink branches
Blue branches
Sunset only

To see more products with this picture on Society6, check out these art prints, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Pink branches
Blue branches
Sunset only

Burst of Burgundy Blossoms: 10 Minutes of Drawing Symmetrical Art While Dramatic and Peaceful Music Plays

23/4/2021

It’s about time I made another symmetrical pattern-drawing video. This time I wanted to try a more floral twist on my usual snowflake patterns.

If you want to see how Burst of Burgundy Blossoms was drawn, or if you just want to watch something pretty and relax, then sit back and enjoy 11 minutes of soothing symmetrical artwork set to slow, dramatic music.

To get early access to future videos, join my inner circle on Patreon.

To learn how to draw symmetrical artwork like this, watch my art tutorial on SkillShare.

You can see all the RedBubble items with this artwork here.

To see the products with this pattern on Society6, check out this art print, then scroll down to where it says "More featuring this artwork".

Music credits:

It Happens
By Doug Maxwell/Media Right Productions (YouTube Audio Library)

Turning Slowly
By Ugonna Onyekwe (YouTube Audio Library)

Lonely Troutman II
By William Rosati (YouTube Audio Library)

True Art Real Affection
By Noir Et Blanc Vie (YouTube Audio Library)

Flickering
By VYEN (YouTube Audio Library)