Traci Shepard @tashepard@witches.town

Hello Mastodon. I'm an illustrator with a focus on animals and monsters from folklore, and I just restarted my art blog on that same subject. Today was the first post in over a year but if you're new there's over 400 entries in the archive to check out.
https://arcanebeastsandcritters.tumblr.com/
My day job is killing me and living and transition expenses are piling up so I'm going to try and have a go at making a living off this art stuff, so have the standard Patreon link
https://www.patreon.com/tashepard and a Twitch stream for drawing (and some WoW) https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard/dashboard
#Mastoart #art #monsters

Oh heck, I didn't know Netflix was getting the FMA live-action movie, let alone that it's dropping in three days.

Knocked out or at least made progress on the better part of the to-do list but most amazingly I'm actually going to make myself go to sleep before 4 AM.

I think if I don't come up with anything else, this might be the name of the podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuzQ2HeUIHU
(Ideal as the intro to that could also provide a nice theme song, if I figure out music licensing/permissions)

Making blondies, listening to Blondie. #TraciIsInsufferable

I am mostly working on this podcast to talk about monsters with someone I look up to but also I am going to use it to as an opportunity to work on my female-presenting voice :v

Don't want to post the full commission but really like how this window came out

Nerds, help me out: fire magic in D&D, evocation or conjuration?

Work has been going to hell more than usual lately enough on its own, but the Barnes & Noble thing today really strengthens my resolve to get the fuck out of retail.

Between Twitch, Patreon and advertising I want to make a go out of it.

Threw on The Ritual while I'm trying to finish this piece because some people whose opinions I trust liked it and otherwise went in kind of blind. Solid, by-the-numbers horror flick bolstered by some cool set pieces and a gorgeous folklore-inspired monster design. Not my highest recommendation but definitely didn't disappoint.

Couldn't figure out where I knew the lead from but looking it up now he's been in all the Wright/Pegg productions so that's probably it.

"Since his death ten years ago, Kurt Vonnegut has granted precious few interviews."

Got a free kinder egg and surprised to find it is some kind of bizarre ovular Dunkaroo and not just a chocolate egg with a toy inside.

Clip Studio has developed a fun habit of crashing while saving so leaving me with a real moment of Schrodinger's Lost Progress

I mean, I could only Learn More from here, I'd be hard-pressed to Learn Less.

I have tomorrow off with no particular pressing concerns for once, so I am writing down a list of ten things I need to get done or at least knock a chunk out of and will aim to check at least five of them by the end of the night.

I did this entire D&D character commission and I didn't even sneak in a single The Adventure Zone reference :c

I could just call it The Cloverfield Index and launch it unannounced one night and get some traffic in before everyone realizes it's terrible :/

Okay, does this play: Clawbook.

Like a handbook, but for monsters. Because they have claws.

I love when anything with tiered speed controls uses the turtle-rabbit-cheetah iconography.

Stop glorifying abusive relationships. 😐

Managed to get my blood pressure down to "still bad but low enough that it's within the levels listed on the chart posted on the machine" levels so moving in the right direction, at least.