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The Latest Chapter of "Just Cause" is Out!

30/5/2021

It was strange, how quickly the atmosphere could change.

One moment, they were leaving a cute, cheery town, whose colorful peace was a dizzying contrast to the swirl of information that was rushing through their head.

The next, they were blinded by fog, and the ominous haze felt all too fitting.

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What's this? A new chapter of my Undertale fanfic, Just Cause, after all this time? It's more likely than you think!

You can read the latest chapter on my website here.

Read it on Archive of Our Own here.

If you haven't read the previous chapters yet, you can read the whole story from the beginning here.

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Veil of Butterflies, Pride Flag Series

26/5/2021

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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!

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Veil of Butterflies

20/5/2021

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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

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Abstract Art: Sparkling Mother of Pearl

12/5/2021

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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".

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Sea of Violet Snowflakes Speedpaint

9/5/2021

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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".

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Psychedelic Sunset Silhouette

5/5/2021

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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

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The Latest Chapter of "Just Cause" is Out!

Veil of Butterflies, Pride Flag Series

Veil of Butterflies

Abstract Art: Sparkling Mother of Pearl

Sea of Violet Snowflakes Speedpaint

Psychedelic Sunset Silhouette

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