An illustration of a fabulous witch and a werewolf floating in front of a pink moon. The text reads "The Queer World of Ms. Cupcake" with the author's name "A.J. O'Callaghan" and "Illustrated by Shelby Pearson" below.

I'm overjoyed to announce that the children's book @ms-cupcake-drag.bsky.social and I made is available for preorder! It's work of love and I couldn't be more proud to have been a part of a project so special and dear to my heart.

Check out The Queer World of Ms. Cupcake!
tinyurl.com/y49ekjxx

Illustration of platanthera praeclara and prosartes trachycarpa.

Illustration of prostrates trachycarpa.

Illustration of drosera anglica and allium schoenoprasum.

Illustration of arisaema dracontium.

Here are some designs created for Radiant Lit’s June 2025 edition! 🌱The illustrations were all inspired by threatened, endangered, and special concern plants in Minnesota. Special thanks to the information provided by MN Wild Flowers and the MN DNR.

Left the salon crying but I took a shower and now things are fine. I can work with this ✂️

A snuggly black cat sitting in my lap, hugging my arm.

how am i expected to animate weaving loops in these conditions?

The indie animator cycle is like this: don't animate anything for a while, start to think i should do something else with my life (like find financial stability), animate again, get incredible euphoria

I will literally never stop because the last step goes too hard

Windy Day [John & Faith Hubley, 1967] (subtitulado) YouTube video by Francisco Quezada

i’ve been feeling so inspired as of late. i want to document and share the things i like and am interested it. anyways. here’s Windy Day. #hubleys4life

i’ve been plugging away on an animation project I was initially scared to start. (i chose a tedious animation process and have since learned my lesson 😮‍💨)

but! i took a day off of work to focus on a nice project that makes me relaxed and happy. the repetitive animation process can be so meditative.

yea.

TRACK ATTACK YouTube video by Hellavision Television Network

WATCH TRACK ATTACK!
It's 2 hours worth of mini shorts!

My World of Love!! YouTube video by Kyra Suder

Here's our submission for Hellavision's Track Attack. Matthew, Alex, and I made it in 48 hours with a pegboard made from cardboard and broken pencils. Enjoy.

Howdy folks, I now have a Ko-fi settup for folks to support me and view content ahead of public release!
Feel free to check it out or share, both help a ton in supporting my projects like COYO!
#artist #kofi #support #project #comic #zine #illustration #animation

From: All Nothing (1978), dir. Frédéric Back, Radio-Canada

🐤🧠

A bald eagle catching a fish in the Mississippi river seen on my walk yesterday.

A unicorn the color of the trans flag rearing up in power, standing against a field of stars. The word POWER is in trans flag colors, and the trans flag stretches across the bottom of the frame.

I'd planned on waiting til June to do more pride unicorns, but I'm done waiting. I will stand with you, I will fight for you. The world is better with you in it, your joy, your magic. Trans rights, power, love, and joy forever.

If you have a problem with my queer family you can fuck RIGHT off.

Some process pics for what’s cooking for hellavision’s track attack. Markers, newsprint, and a makeshift peg bar out of an old pencil and cardboard.

Lavina Yelb - El con fuego YouTube video by Anibal Bley

Current obsession, the animations created by Aníbal Bley. The set designs, the motion complimenting the music, the use of framing, the fractured narrative. It’s all too good!

A hardhat wearing caterpillar holds a clipboard and a shovel digging into dirt, and a hardhat wearing bumblebee carries a traffic cone. Text reads, "Future Pollinator Garden!"

This is the sign I made while I was working on one of the gardens that was funded by Lawns to Legumes!

Minnesotans, please call your legislators about protecting the Lawns to Legumes funding! More info below!
docs.google.com/document/d/1...

A watercolor/digital painting of a mushroom woman sitting in a field of moss, surrounded by spores.

I'm still quite fond of this one. This piece marks when I started doing a mix of traditional and digital in my art.

ohhhh my goodness. i love this so much ❤️❤️

Baby snapping turtle on a little stroll.
🦋🐢🦋

For a gif show in 2024. #watercolor #animation #turtle

Thumbnail sketch of a bridge over a river, framing the Minneapolis city line, with the graffiti “wack world” displayed on its center arc.

A thumbnail sketch of a person by a tree overlooking the river as a murder of crows settle in the trees on the opposite bank.

A thumbnail sketch of a tree trunk with its broken branches scattered around it. Framed by trees in the foreground with the crows flying over the river in the background.

All thumbnail sketches together with the title Minneapolis Murder Migration. The text next to it reads: The winter can be beautiful. The landscape is bare with space that can only be filled with reflective thought. This place is keeping me sane as I watch the rat race under the wack world bridge. Like a portal or an animal in a zoo, I’m on the outside looking in. This is what is real. The river. The birds. The trees.

It’s been unseasonably warm and I’ve been taking any chance I can to walk in my favorite park and do quick thumbnail sketches and write. The crows were migrating and the sound was striking. This is the part of my routine that I most look forward to.

check this sick ass pot-holder I made as a gift for my sister

hello Bluesky. this has been a hard week. take a deep breath with me and listen to the sounds of a cool spring evening.