I wanted to show some new options and more examples on my rate sheet. So now it's more of a rate brochure! lol

Please take a look, and share with anyone who might be in the market for some art! My commissions are open!

Thank you!

Shay

#bookart #commissions #ratesheet

Project Hail Mary fanart featuring Ryan Gosling and Rocky

#projecthailmary was so good! I had to do some fan art. ❤️

Happy Valentine’s Day! ❤️💋

It's my birthday! 🎉

Kiddo and I watched The Fifth Element last night, so I did a little fan art while we watched. #thefifthelement

Spent way too long today working on some different techniques, playing with brushes, etc. I’ve gotten some interest, so if you’d like to commission something like this, please let me know. ❤️

#bookart #commissions #monsterromance #fantasyart #bookartist

My son and I were goofing around earlier and thought this up in a fit of giggles, and I just had to doodle it. 🤭

One for the perimenopause girlies!✊🙃

#perimenopause #menopause #comic #phineasandferb #perrytheplatypus

Some face structure studies.

Something silly for your Friday night. 🤭🤪

#orc #monsterromance #comic

Happy first day of 2026!
I spent my NYE bingeing The Mighty Nein and doodling characters from it. Hope you guys have a great new year! ❤️

#criticalrole #fjordandjester #mightynein #mollymauk

Ending the year with a #dtiys from @velnna.bsky.social

I’m always here for moth folk. ❤️
#maf2k25

Are you guys watching #heatedrivalry ? I'm loving it.

Another of my “Devastated Orcs” is here. He’s lamenting his lost love. 💔😭
This piece is available as a premade for authors if he speaks to you! $225 with commercial license. Commissions are also open. Check my profile!

#orc #characterart #premadebookart

#artvsartist for 2025!
Thank you all for being here this year and geeking out with me about books and monsters! I appreciate you all way more than you know. ❤️
#artvsartist2025

WIP - Another of my “Devastated Orcs” is on the way. I haven’t drawn a sad boy in a while, and this one is feeding my soul. 😭❤️

#orc #devastatedorcs #characterart

Check out @booksnacks on IG to learn more about this seggsy boy, and the book he appears in! ❤️

#commission #thepastrypredicament #carenee

Happiest of Happy Holidays, you guys! Gryg has something for you! Posting early in the month, so you can look your fill before the big day! 👀 I hope you guys love this as much as I do! I think I’m going to do more in this style in 2026. ❤️💋 #orc #orcromance

Y’all. I just realized, my OC, Gryg is a year old! 🎉

I’ll let you go back and look for those first posts. 🫣 Our boy has had a major glow-up since then! 🤭💋

#orc #orcromance #orcoc

A photo of a display tablet screen (lol) with a drawing of a screaming unicorn, throwing back its head and baring its teeth, mane flying, with a human skull pierced on its horn

make unicorns scary again!!! a wip

Sale is now live! I super appreciate any support :)

Fanart Friday 🎉 The Gargoyle and the Maiden by Sara Ivy Hill

If you are looking for a romance that drags you through the trenches before you get to that sweet sweet happily ever after, this is your story!

#fanartfriday #thegargoyleandthemaiden #saraivyhill #bookart #fanart

A quick little Frankenstein painting/study. Such a gorgeous movie.
Posing is referenced from the painting "The Death of Procris" by Benjamin West

#frankenstein #fanart #guillermodeltoro

Fanart Friday 🎉 A Light So Blinding by Emma Hamm

See my IG for full review. @morallyshay

Coming out November 14th!

#alightsoblinding #emmahamm #fanart #bookart #fanartfriday

Happy Halloween, Samhain, Dia de los Muertos, etc. you guys!

Orctober has come to an end, but you know that don’t mean a thing over here! It’s Orctober erry day! 🤭

Anyway, enjoy this *cheeky* little orc.

#orc #orctober #halloween #pinup

A TikTok caused this. Enjoy.

The 15th-century guide for witch hunters, the Malleus Maleficarum, seriously claimed that witches could steal men's penises and keep them as pets, storing them in a nest or a box and feeding them oats and corn.

#witches #tiktok #happyhalloween

Felt like it was time for a new profile pic. 🤷‍♀️

I definitely feel like I see some progress (even if it’s just a little) after grinding all month.
One thing I’ll always say: if you want to get better at something, do it every day. I definitely try.

#profilepic #bookart #commissionsopen

commission announcement banner consisting of eight half-body artworks of mine, arranged around a ninth white square with 'commissions open!' written over it.

commissions open! i offer painting your little guys for personal use, as well as turning not purple characters purple /j

💜 info and contacts: zmeess.carrd.co/#commissioninfo2025
#Art #ArtCommissions

This is my official "giving up on Inktober" post. 🤷‍♀️🤪

I’m done. I’ve done these challenges every year for ages, & I’m gonna do something different next year.

Anyway, I hope you enjoyed the posts I did, & hope you’ll stay for my regularly scheduled nonsense.

#redsrefernces #bookart #fantasyart