The sooner you realise you dont know half the shit you thought you did the sooner you you'll improve. So many artists are making things harder on themselves because they think they cant get things from their head onto the page when in reality the stuff isnt even in your head in the first place

LaurenWalshArt@laurenwalshart.bsky.social · 5d ago

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

🧵 Attention, Fellow SFF Artists and Authors -- here is my response to Must Read Magazines, after they presented an Asimov's art contract expecting me to waive all Moral Rights and Copyright to my art. And, I would strongly advise the following to my fellow pros…. 1/

Redesign for LemonCasket! #dino #paleoart

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 73. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

Testing out some oils that were gifted to me by painting a small picture of a tern! I used a photo I took over a decade ago as reference. #birds #birdart 🪶

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 72. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

A patreon sketch for Almonihah of a very angry Ignis! I had a lot of fun with this piece!

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 71. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

A patreon sketch for Glacier their snolf!

RallyX event #2!!! I am really having a blast playing race car and sliding around in the dirt. 🥰

Daydreaming about a suspiciously wealthy furry finding and adopting me as their artist and just paying my bills and letting me draw w/e I want as long as I do one drawing for them every once in a while

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A pet portrait for a friend of mine, of her two aussies, Ephram and Hunter. #acrylic #petportrait #animalartist #dogs

Fireflies and Penstemon digitalis, 2026 This is a real photo taken in my yard, made with many stacked 4-second exposures. In all, this photo represents about 8-10 minutes worth of firefly flashes in a small area. Several species are represented here.

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Legit I thought this would be more popular. It gets a lot of laughs! Just not a lot of purchases lol whoops Oh well. Am I gonna stop making art that make me laugh? No of course not. But it will determine if they get made into Things or not.

Nicole Dornsife | Thornwolf@thornwolf.com · last yr.

Here's a sticker design I've had on my list for a LONG time. Whenever I see ospreys flying with their prey I get "A Whole New World" stuck in my head and it cracks me up every single time. Now you can get my dumb idea in sticker form! www.thornwolf.com/shop/p/ospre... #BSNM #Birdsky #SciArt

Stealing his look, Suchomimus edition! #PathOfTitans

October telling November off for something. Especially after his breakdown, he is obnoxious, weaselly & difficult, which October can't stand. Losing someone dependable & having them replaced with a very different version of themselves can't be fun. Redraw from 2011

Some awesome art of Gikata in Blizzard Beast form breaking into somewhere. I love how this feels like the moment in the horror movie you think you're safe, but then the monster tears right through everything you thought would keep it out... from @lvadams.bsky.social !

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 68. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

What a weird and uncomfortable scam letter to get. I do not recall ever querying this agent, and the email reads like it was written by a bot. Really scummy that they are trying to prey on querying writers. 😤 Please be careful writer friends! #amquerying

‘Ladyhawke’ was released on this day 41 years ago! (April 12, 1985) Directed by Richard Donner. Screenplay by Edward Khmara, Michael Thomas, Tom Mankiewicz, & David Peoples. Starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, Leo McKern, John Wood, Alfred Molina, & more. #OTD #OnThisDay

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 67. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

Chickens sure have a lot of judgement for freeloaders who don’t pay the bills.

I’ve been playing a lot of Path of Titans lately with friends, and made this comic after a silly in-game interaction we had.

I forgot to share here! I got pigeon inspired hair a few weeks ago and it’s been so much fun. :D Sent my stylist pics of my birds and this is what she came up with. 💜💚

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 66. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

Did you know that the bees that need saving are NOT honeybees? Honeybees are the dairy cows of bees. People brought them over from Europe to make us honey. The problem with honeybees, esp in resource-limited ecosystems (like hey! cities!) is that they compete with our native bees for food.

#OfAshesAndStarlight page 65. Comic updates weekly on mondays on FA, Bsky, Patreon, and the OAAS website https://www.oaascomic.com/.

Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue