I get that - I often feel the same way. Life has been a bit hectic for me since the back end of last year and I’ve been feeling a bit invisible too.

For what it’s worth, I always love seeing your stuff.

I am seriously thinking of just retiring to a life of shelf-stacking.

I've slashed the prices on ALL listing's on my Etsy page by up to 50%.
This isn't a sale, this is the new prices.
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He is such a pathetic little man...

Imagine the multi-billion dollar company, Disney, needing to save money this badly.

Without these people, there’d be no MCU.

Pathetic.

The Adobe Acrobat ad currently running on Disney + is an affront to humanity.

That is all.

sepia watercolour portrait of a unicorn

forest scene in moonlight, one unicorn drinks from a dark pool beneath ancient trees while the other looks out for danger in the clearing behind.

A peaceful scene of a swamp, with greens, blues and purples, a tree in the foreground and the head of a huge dragon visible resting in the water. A white heron takes off next to the dragon and it's eye is open.

a huge black winged dragon flies out of a thundercloud surrounded with lightning, chasing a smaller red dragon over mountain peaks

Hey #portfolioday!
I'm Emily and I love everything to do with fantasy, folklore & fairytales. www.emilyhare.com

Concept sheet of early character development sketches for Amanda Ripley from Creative Assembly's ALIEN: Isolation (2011)

Some more early character development sketches for Amanda Ripley from Creative Assembly's ALIEN: Isolation (2011)

Also featuring a prequel to MASK #1 by @danpgwatters.bsky.social and me! Read the whole thing with the M M M MASK theme tune playing and it’s a bit like our version of the cartoon intro montage as a story

FFS - imagine living in a world where a life drawing study gets labelled as “sexually suggestive.”

Five minute life drawing. Lady from behind, hands on her hips/bum. Compressed charcoal stick. Okay, suppose.

Five minute life drawing. Lady on all fours, side view. Thick 6B pencil. Quite liked this pose - was sorry it was only five minutes.

15 minute life drawing. Lady with her back to me, sitting on the floor with her legs out. Resting her elbows on a chair that has a black sheet draped on it. Head resting on her hands. Thick 6B pencil - quite sketchy. Probably my favourite of the day.

40 minute life drawing. Lady sitting on a chair, facing me. Unfinished and overly rendered. Wanted to use charcoal, but the control freak in me switched to pencil. Nice shading, but crap proportions. Don’t like it.

Finally made it to life drawing. Mixed results. Taking paint and a big brush next time.

I’d like to say that’s weird - but I actually completely understand.

Thank you. I know I’m not the first person to lose a parent - it just feels like it’s “on the back of everything else” - and by that, I mean the state of… well… everything, really.

I’m sure you’re right (I hope you’re right!) - but I’m just not feeling it right now.

Rambling now… 🙄

I don’t know. Maybe I’ll feel different again tomorrow. 🤷🏻‍♂️

I remember meeting a painter and decorator a couple of years ago - and he’d previously been an illustrator. He switched careers when digital went mainstream because if he was going to retrain, he wanted to do something completely different. I didn’t understand that at the time, but I think I do now.

I think it’s just highlighted the idea that I’m drawing for all the wrong reasons. What’s the point? Who’s buying it? Who’d give a toss if I just stopped drawing?

Would I, in fact, be a lot happier if I just went and stacked shelves somewhere? Or pulled pints?

I think it has a lot to do with my dad. I had a fairly terrible relationship with him for most of my life - and then suddenly I didn’t - and I liked that. And now he’s gone again - and I just don’t feel like doing anything.

I basically haven’t drawn much of anything since around the 15th of March.

I just… don’t want to draw.

Going to a life drawing class today. Hoping it helps.

Yeah, probably. Sorry either way. Losers.

It amazes me they want to be seen as a serious business solution when they keep doing this sort of thing.

Part of me thinks it’s because you’re an art page and they’re quite happy to make life difficult for you now they’ve already scraped your work.

Technically, you’re just competition now.

And they still won’t tell you what you even did??

Even I wouldn’t eat that - and I’ll eat pretty much anything.

a furry orangey brown monster with a smile and an underbite.

a photo of a painting of a furry orangey brown monster with a smile and an underbite.

Edith. She'll be one of the 40 monsters you'll find in my new book launching on the 21st! You can get notified of the book launch he is part of here: buff.ly/AuT1vbh
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But, of course, it would be completely impossible to do something like this for, say… oh, I don’t know… voting? 🤷🏻‍♂️

Oh well - just something else I will never watch.

What an absolute PoS he is…

The Amazon listing for AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST, saying Only 1 Left In Stock

The listing for AMELIA SHADOWS AND THE NEW HEAD GHOST on Amazon, showing the cover.

1 copy left a day after release.

Once again Amazon underestimated how many copies of my books they should have ordered.

Oh, and that's the freaking hardcover edition. There's only 1 copy of the paperback edition left, too.

Asking for help is not a weakness. Knowing you have gaps in your knowledge, but blundering though to save face? That’s weakness.

Nobody knows everything - and that’s okay. You’re not supposed to. If you’re out of your depth - ask for help. I guarantee people will respect you more, not less.

I think you’re on the money. I also think Iran will have none of it. Hormuz is closed to the US for good.

Good lord, why will nobody remove this deranged, obnoxious shitgoblin? How much is too much, you absolute cowards?

REMOVE. HIM.