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The sun sets on this side of my mind
I just finished watching the new season of Link Click and my heart is broken 😭So here is the obligatory fanart of these tortured souls. Now excuse me while I go cry in a corner...SketchesDownload the attachment for the timelapse~I was also working on a planetarium dress painting when my computer ...
Year of the Snake
Chinese New Year is coming up soon! To celebrate the year of the snake, I wanted to combine the snake with my other favorite scaled animal, the goldfish! Growing up as little kid in China, I was always fascinated by the goldfish and koi ponds that are scattered in every park and apartment complex. I...
All Seeing Axolotl
Remember when I said I wouldn't draw anymore blursed beings? . . . I lied.Download the attachment for a short timelapse of how I painted this~Sketches:
Aquarium Dress
Finally finished this one~I ended up removing the foamy wave frills from her dress, the clear sheen between just the water and the sand has an iridescence to it that I liked more. Download the attachment for a time-lapse of how I painted it :DThe full hours long video recording, HD Image, and PSD fi...
Biblically Accurate Axolotl
Be not afraid! So almost a week ago, I sprained my ankle and couldn't walk for 3 days. I'm used to hiking at least an hour a day with my huskies so not being able to walk at all was driving me crazy. And in my jittery sedimentary state, I kept getting visions of this blursed being: a biblica...
Work in Progress
Painting an aquarium dress to go with the terrarium dress~Also been working on a new type of paper mushrooms. My dream is to make a whole collection :Dthe other paper shrooms I've made so far
Happy New Year!
I hope you all have a wonderful New Year full of art and creativity!!! <3I finally got to draw again after a week of hand pain ;_; I managed to finish this little doodle of my husky, Luna, getting a belly rub based on this photo. (download the attachment for a 30 sec timelapse of how I painted this ...
Snow Globe Dress
Happy Holidays! My thoughts wandered from terrarium to snow globes and naturally this was born lol There is no snow in California, but at least the leaves have finally turned red hahaha This painting took way too long to finish because my repetitive strain injury flared up and made me unable to draw...
Salad Dressing
My discord friends said my last painting of a Terrarium Dress looked like a bowl of salad with saran wrap around it 😂 so of course I had to paint the joke, and now we have Salad Dressing (ba dum tss)sketch below, download the attachment for a 30 sec timelapse. The full hours long video, HD image ...
Terrarium Dress
I've been having mushrooms on my mind for the past weeks! So much so that I designed some mushroom lanterns! And then I still couldn't stop thinking about mushrooms so now I've painted a terrarium dress with moss and mushrooms too lolLike my koi lanterns, these mushrooms are made complet...
Cloud Blanket
One of my patrons requested that I do more landscape proportioned paintings so I decided to do a study of a Swiss town I visited this summer.It was raining that day, and at first I was disappointed by the weather because we couldn't go hiking in the rain, but the low hanging rain clouds were so ...
A Thousand Spying Eyes
I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!A while back I mentioned working on a novel about artists in the 19th century. I'm a noob when it comes to writing prose so it has taken a very long time to write just one chapter. In the mean time, I've started illustrating some scenes, mostly to...
Qifrey Fanart
My friend told me yesterday that today is Qifrey's birthday, so I had to doodle something last minute to celebrate lol I've been testing out my new impressionist brushes some more. I originally made these for painting backgrounds so it's been a challenge to adapt them to painting people ...
Starry Night Hat
On my last Witch Hat Atelier fanart, someone commented saying the swirling design reminded them of Van Gogh's Starry Night, so I thought, why not go all out for the look?I spent some time updating my Paint Tool SAI to the latest version and created some new Impressionist brushes. I'm super h...
Elements Braid
Been pretty artblocked due to stress lately but I'm slowly getting back into it. Decided to paint something fun and whimsical to take my mind of things.sketchthe 30 sec timelapse is in the attachment. Full HD image, PSD file, and longer timelapse will be DMed on Dec 5th
More Witch Hat Atelier Fanart
I suddenly wanted to paint Coco's swirly hat as transparent, like water.Not sure if Brush Buddy is happy to be safe and dry inside the hat or trapped in a hat made of water lolSketch versionDownload the attachment for a quick timelapse (sorry the quality is low res still, I'm trying to figur...
Witch Hat Atelier Fanart
Spooky season is the perfect time for some Witch Hat Atelier appreciation! I'm so excited for the 2025 anime release of this amazing manga that I drew Coco in her brim hat outfit~Based on this panel in the mangaSketchesDownload the attachment for the 30 sec timelapse :)Full timelapse will be DMe...
Space painting Tutorial
One of my long time patrons requested a space painting tutorial with a focus on how to make the stars shine and the colors vibrant. So I recorded a speed paint I made under 10 minutes of how to paint the Milky Way. I hope it helps! You can find free downloads of the brushes I used in the link below....
Sky Whale v2
I wasn't really happy with the last painting I made in Procreate, so I went back and repainted it in SAI (my fav art program). I really wanted to show the stars shining through the belly which wasn't obvious in the older version. Sketchunrelated to painting but I was able to take some photos...
Sky Whale
Sorry for the long absence! I finally got my new laser cutter and have fallen down a paper lantern rabbit hole lol. My current goal is to finish designing the whale lantern and star projector that's been a work in progress for years now. So to get my creative juices going again, I've painted...
Autumn Cuddle
The leaves are changing and the days are getting chillier (except it somehow became 90f today, but it was chilly when I started painting this lol). The autumn vibes make me want to cuddle up with my huskies, so I drew San and her wolf siblings based on these photos of my babies.Sketch~ Download the ...
Yet My Nights Grow Darker
Glass and wingsStarlight bringsDreams that gleam sharperYet my nights grow darker
WIP
Stained glass wings, starry night edition.Ever since painting my first stained glass wings, I've been wanting do a another version with stars projected onto the ground. There's still lots of painting left to do, but it's coming along slowly.earlier sketchA continuation of this series
Kiki's Ice Cream Delivery
When I was in Italy, I saw the cutest little ice cream truck (or vespa?) I knew then and there that I had to draw it with Kiki delivering ice cream (made of fish) to the kitty cats~Look at it, it's perfect!!!WIP shots, download the attachment for timelapse!
House of Floof
My huskies were laying symmetrically around their donut bed so of course I had to turn that into my new family crest.I adopted Luna and Nova from the shelters 5 years ago and they've been the light of my life ever since. I love them more than anything and I've definitely become a crazy dog l...
Drowned Tower
Inspired by the drowned church tower I saw in Italy. The village of Curon was flooded to create a hydroelectric plant in the 1950's.The photo I took, it was raining that day and you can see the tip of my finger covering the camera lolClose ups of the cats~sketch version using a 3D model for the ...
Jiji's Family
I'm finally back from visiting the in-laws in Sweden! There were so many whimsical and unique buildings in Stockholm, I must have taken hundreds of photos. One in particular is of this historic little house at Terrassen 16, which used to be much longer but now only 1/5 of it remains, like a left...
Fantasyland
I’m honored to be the artist for Yupeng Chen’s new album cover, Fantasyland! This was a months-long project with a different attraction to match each song of his album. The goal was to take the listener through a variety of emotions as they travel through everything Fantasyland has to offer. Fro...
Reflections of Me
Finally finished this one. Painting all those eyes felt both meditating and drove me insane. TW: child abuse I included some of the comments my family has made about my appearance over the years, some of which are contradicting, just to show how impossible it was to please their toxic beauty standar...
Work in Progress: Reflections of Me
This one is a bit personal. It's about all the comments my family has made on my appearance while growing up, saying stuff like I'm not beautiful enough, that I need plastic surgery, and such.Being Chinese, my culture has some very toxic beauty standards. My parents would point out how my ey...
