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

"You know, the video where the gay guy fights an oni inside a calendar." -Me spending like eight minutes trying to remember what Erasure was called

So one time I was getting frustrated by mermaid tail anatomy for a design I was working on and the internet hole that led me down eventually brought me to dolphin evolution and I found out they used to be pig-dogs that evolved to go back into the water and learning that has pretty soundly fucked me up for life.

Well, goodnight.

I've had this OBS layout set up for a couple weeks and I've never had the guts to pull the trigger

Finally some skin care in my Ipsy package. I really did not need another tiny mascara or eyeshadow brush.

Now that's a brilliant cross-promotion

Someone come drag me home

(Alternatively if the week continues on its current exhaustion-inducing trajectory Saturday may become a 24-hour nap day and I'll stream on Monday)

Oh actually related to that I'm probably going to try and do a long illustration stream on Sat since I haven't done one of those yet so feel free to check in on that. I have some technique stuff I want to experiment with but haven't picked a subject yet.

You can support me on Patreon, 'swhat I'm sayin'. https://www.patreon.com/tashepard

While cleaning departments at work sometimes I just leave something wrong to see if anyone besides me will fix it. It usually sits there for two-three weeks.

Never underestimate
a girl who
Eats bread heels
and was born in
September

This account is

*:･ﾟ✧pro-bread heels*:･ﾟ✧

I'm not up on all the New Zealand slang, does "censure" mean "give award to" down there

Today's art stream is live: the waitoreke https://www.twitch.tv/tashepard

A) This looks like an interesting game streamlining how fascism can creep into legislation in real-world situations
B) I could not have been more wrong about who was on which team
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9Wb0sc5Ft8

Today was basically a complete wash. I got some bites taken off the to-do list but I could have gotten way more actual work done. And even failing that I feel like I couldn't even slack off properly.
I'm physically and mentally falling apart a little after a particularly rough few days and instead of being restful this was just one of those every-little-thing-goes-slightly-wrong days leaving me even more stressed out.