A piece from last year!

I wanted to make something specifically for Halloween, and I’ve been playing around with the idea of a Jack and Sally holiday card for a while. This was a lot of fun, and I got way more in-depth with the background than I anticipated. I like to imagine that they swap cards with Santa every year now.

I have been drawing Rowan for ten years now, which feels so weird. I've always had a lot of fun with her, though, and I honestly would love to keep redoing some of my early art of her.

Rowan is oversized sweaters, freckles, dreamy vibes. Creating and working on her brought me such comfort ten years ago and still does now.

The original 2013 drawing is the last slide. I was a bit more ambitious this time around. The windows are at a different angle and a bit more complicated, and I did more with the light coming from the windows. I also think her pose lends itself a little better to actually working on something than it did in my original drawing.

To go along with the Halloween card that I made! I like some parts of this more than the Halloween version, and some parts of the Halloween version more than this one, but they were both fun.

I went through the trouble of making a skeleton reindeer design for their sweaters and in the end you couldn't even really see them.

I couldn't help myself, I had to make a third version of my Jack Frost portrait. This is, of course, how he appears in the opening scene in the film. It's been a fun process coming up with a strategy for how I add the frost to his clothes.

I've been in need of a new avatar. It’s always kind of weird to be like, “hi, internet, here’s a drawing of me.”

As always, I cheated a lot with my dear dog Mabel, as it is quite difficult to capture her beauty, but this may be my best Mabel in a self portrait.

This year I’ll be using my character, Nicolette, as my subject for Outfit August.
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1 - Base
2 - Winter
3 - Spring
4 - Summer
5 - Autumn

I forgot to post this here yesterday. Last painting of 2022!

My goal was to kind of redo one of the drawings I had done of her out at night in the snow before, but beyond that basic concept they don’t have a lot else in common. I love snow at night in street lights, though, so maybe this will just be an excuse to do yet another one.

This is my first full-body drawing in a minute, and I had to do a ton of adjustments with my sketch, lots of obsessive proportion checking. I also had a version with two less street lights because they felt a bit close together, but the composition looked better with four, so here we are.

16 - Cozy
17 - Spa Day
18 - Fitness
19 - School
20 - Work

>_came a time
>when every star fall brought you to tears again_

Helena has always been my favorite My Chemical Romance music video. In fact, it’s my favorite music video of all time. No one will ever convince me that a better music video exists. I have drawn Helena a number of times since I first saw the video in 2005, and she remains one of my favorite subjects. So, of course I was thrilled when they released their "A Summoning" tour announcement video and Helena was one of many cameos.

One thing I noticed immediately, having obsessively watched the original video so many times, is that the bouquet in A Summoning was slightly different from the original. In the original, Helena holds a bouquet of red roses with a few baby’s breath. In A Summoning, lilies of the valley have been added.

Lilies of the valley represent a return to happiness. They are also called Our Lady’s Tears, which of course made me think of the My Chemical Romance song, Our Lady of Sorrows.

This led me here, depicting Helena as a nod to all those pretty depictions of Our Lady of Sorrows.

> “Have you ever seen a more adorable lateral incisor in all of your life?! Look how she flossed!”

Rise of the Guardians fan art! The Tooth Fairy. The feathers will haunt my nightmares.

I thought I was done with my Jack Frost portrait edits until someone on instagram asked me where Dark Jack was. I haven't drawn Dark Jack in _years_ and couldn't help myself.

He was a ton of fun, it really indulged the part of me that's still like "but what if dark hair and heavy eye makeup?" every time I design a character.

I had to redraw some of the mouth because I wanted him to have some little fangs. I also put his eyebrows in a slightly more evil position, very important.

And of course, the hoodie. I was still very proud of the ribcage frost design I gave him on my old drawing, so I had to bring it back for this one. At some point I will have to do a proper full-body drawing of Dark Jack.

21 - Cosplay
22 - Pride
23 - Fable
24 - Pirate
25 - Hellish