january’s zine club: PILGRIMAGE

a zine about walking, chronic pain, and slowness 💌

i’m starting a zine mail club! get a lil zine in the mail from me every month when you subscribe 🌟

more info in my bio, but i’ll post my monthly zines here as well if you’d like to follow along!

also sneak peek of rebranding stuff 🫣

tag urself i’m goose with teeth

my sketchbooks are never aesthetically pleasing and i think we need to start normalizing that

grateful for all of the opportunities i had this year to draw! especially for one of my favorite nyc bookstores and several amazing musicians 🌷 #artvsartist2024

taking a crochet break from drawing lately 🧶

lil cat portrait commission 🌟

#commissionsopen #illustration #art

drew up our holiday card this year ❄️⛄️

#art #illustration

COVER: In the foreground, a black person busses dishes while giving side-eye to two white adults talking as one of their kids sneezes. We see the air flow out and billow around them, splashing on a listening face and forming a miasma that fills the rest of the background. The busser has a button that says “service with a smile” even as their mouth is covered by a k100 mask. In large hand drawn lettering at the top of the page, the words “WHY WE MASK: IT’S NOT” sit on a black background. And then out in the miasma and in quote marks it says “JUST A COLD”. In the bottom right, it says “Laurel Lynn Leake” above a large “2024”.

Surrounded by drawings of COVID-19 particles of various sizes, it says “THE BASICS: COVID-19 is a viral illness caused by SARS-CoV-2, and primarily spreads through the air.” The first endnote appears, signified here as e1. It continues “A single infection - even a “mild” one - can severely damage nearly every organ system in your body. Each additional infection risks further harm to your immune system, lungs, heart, brain, guts, and reproductive organs, and can result in permanent disability or death. e2 About 75% of all adults e3 (and at least 30% of children e4) are at a high risk of developing severe SARS-COV-2. If you’ve ever had COVID-19, EVEN ONCE, you are now high risk.” It then says “THE VIRUS:” and shows “SARS- COV- 2” separated into it’s three parts. A bubble connected to SARS says “Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome”. A bubble connected to COV says “Corona Virus (crown-shaped, round with spikes)”. And the bubble connected to 2 says “similar to 2002-2003 SARS-CoV outbreak”.

Large hand-drawn text reads “COVID-19 is an AIRBORNE ILLNESS e5” over that same curly haired character from the last page sneezing with a big “KACHOO!” We see a large billow of mist and droplets. A measurement in meters is below, showing larger droplets dropping in the first couple meters and the more misty particles continuing to 6 meters. In a box below, text reads “It spreads when infected people exhale, cough, or sneeze plumes of tiny RESPIRATORY PARTICLES. You can shed hundreds of viruses in a single minute, just by breathing. e6 And sneezing can send viral gunk flying up to 6m (20ft)! Once they’re in the air, the tiniest RPs can linger in poorly ventilated spaces for HOURS...invisible to the naked eye. e7,e8”

A bubble points at a big blob in a loose ring of different sized circular drops: “DROPLETS...are barely visible globs of fluid that drift to the ground.” A smaller circle is labled: “AEROSOLS...are microscopic blobs, so light they float.” Large text reads “What’s inside a respiratory particle?” next to a cute Laurel looking through a magnifying glass. Arrows point out a small “SARS-COV-2” & little squiggles of “mucus”. The particle grows even larger to show the spiked SARS-COV-2, as well as dots of “dust” & translucent blobs of “lung fluid”. Text to the side reads “RPs are made up of lung fluids, mucus, & saliva, as well as contaminants like dust, bacteria, & viruses. e9 When a COVID-19 contagious person exhales, they send out lungfuls of SARS-CoV-2, hidden inside aerosols & droplets. e10 Aerodynamic aerosols carry the highest dose of viruses and are the most dangerous to inhale. e11 The particles protect their passengers as they fly through the air, ready to be inhaled by someone new.

hi hi it's me Laurel - Have a free printable science zine! WHY WE MASK: IT'S NOT JUST A COLD, aka A Handy Scientific Guide To Surviving COVID-19 Together. Feel free to spread it far - wide hit me up if you're interested in printing &/or distributing free copies :D Links below! #CovidIsntOver

you would think with all the hype ai has these days that adobe illustrator would be able to vectorize something well ……

welcome captain 🫡🫡

🎊✨ Surprise! 😈 I made this card for @magic.wizards.com new Secret Lair Commander Deck: 20 ways to win! 🦝✨

Fun fact: I had to finish this card while visiting Tokyo and made most of the illustration in the hotel lobby lmao 🫡 worth it! Love how it came out 🌝🖤

i will not be making comments on my spotify wrapped this year for personal embarrassment reasons

caroline 🗡️

#carolinepolachek #art #illustration

drawing i did of my tav!!

#bg3 #baldursgate #art

just me ……?

any one else been doing commissions since middle school and is now an adult who has to relearn running a small business bc any framework you have of freelance is based off boyband fandom vibes …..?

working on cool stained glass merch commission :>

#art #illustration

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hi i’m declan! i’m a librarian who draws at night 💗🌷

Digital illustration of a very round blueish-black baby bunny with its eye closed. Behind its circular body is the glowing yellow and pink corona of the sun against a black background, creating a scene reminiscent of a total solar eclipse.

Total eclipse of the Bun 🌑✨

thank you!! 😊♥️

welcome to my new followers! my name is declan and i’m a librarian who draws at night. i’m available for commission and working on a zine mail subscription for 2025 🌷✨ you can follow me here for updates!

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Stay safe out there! 💙

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who else agrees

dedication to my favorite bell hooks quote 🌷

#art #illustration #bellhooks #lgbtartists #trans #queer

pattern practice 🎭

#art #procreate #illustration

WE NEED A PANSY EMOJI

looking to start a monthly zine mail project! i have so many on the back burner that i want to share with others. does anyone have recommendations for keeping track of subscribers? patreon? ko-fi?

#art #zine #illustration