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My pride and joy! I am putting on a Kickstarter campaign for a deck of hand-illustrated playing cards, featuring my favorite little guy: the kobold. Shares and boosts are SO appreciated to help me bring this project to life.

[Kickstarter is LIVE NOW until June 2nd!]

The deck is standard poker sized, & fully custom front to back, with cavern-friendly pips and 55 cards (includes 2 jokers & an ID card).

You can also grab some special add-ons, including this goofy sticker sheet starring the jokers, aces & pips

And twelve 3D printable kobold models from my wondrous catalogue of little guys! (This is a digital reward).

4 HOURS LEFT!!!!

Happy Pride Month! I collaborated with the talented and beautiful @mollyjames to bring you GIRLS, GIRLS, GIRLS! (Fairy Tale cuties edition!) The characters are designed by Molly and sculpted by myself, themed around a storybook tale of curses, princesses and a very loyal knight.

Honestly, I'm not sure. What I would do is find artists you like and then follow their website links to THEIR etsy. I think surfing the site itself for new people is really difficult...

I suppose you could always find a shop and then verify their socmed and website? It involves a lot more steps than it used to but it makes a world of difference for small businesses/independent artists.

I’m on marmalade slinging my ttrpg minis. It’s a very new marketplace style artist discovery platform that is individually juried and AI and drop-shipped products are not allowed! It focuses on handmade goods and is small but powerful. For shop owners, the listings there link to your primary store so you can redirect traffic to your etsy, online store etc. Big recommend!

I created these pieces in 2014 as an assignment - I’m actually not sure what the original prompt was, but the second part of the assignment was to re-light the piece in two times of day. I wanted to imagine a Gravity Falls point-and-click adventure game where they visit the Oregon Coast and solve a mystery! The PNW coast is my all time favorite happy place.

Conceptually I wanted to put them into an environment that would allow for different items and clues to be retrieved during different parts of the game… So I went a bit farther and instead of just re-lighting, I played with what the twins might be up to as the game progresses. They’re exploring a sea cave, complete with a massive sea lion that obviously needs to be tickled into unblocking the path! I can just imagine the various puzzles in each image: retrieving Dipper’s hat from the Seagull nest, finding the anchor and rope for the sea lion scheme, and of course gearing up to explore under water. Putting visual clues to the cryptid such as big claw marks (and some Bill Cipher easter eggs!) in the composition was also great fun.

I still really like these pieces, all these years later. GF perfectly captures the mossy, earthy goodness of the PNW as well as the kitsch of the coast’s tourist traps (shout out to The Vortex Mystery House and Prehistoric Gardens).

WOOO!! The Kickstarter is FUNDED!

We're getting into stretch goals now! If you're a fan of cute, quirky D&D content, this is the project for you. I've got tons of models, VTT tokens, and even maps.

Please consider sharing (or pledging!) so that I can knock out the rest of my stretch goals and release more little guys into the world! Thank you! <3

My VERY FIRST Kickstarter!! I'm seriously so excited. I've whipped up over 80 models and you can get the 3D print files, physical printed minis, or tons and tons of VTT tokens and maps for online or in-person gaming.

And look at this freaking awesome guest model by @absolutecreaturevibes I cannot even. She's perfect.

All of my free Dimension 20 fan sculpts are painted!!!! doing a hairy baby dance about it

My mainline sculpts this month for Pride!

June's monthly release is Pride in Fantasy! This is a very special bundle to me as a queer creator. I can't possibly represent all symbols and identities of the deeply diverse LGBTQIA+ community, but we can start with four sculpts that I'm so excited to share.

This bundle includes four fantastical figures with symbols of pride.

Celestial Pride Knight: Staunch defender on a cloak of phoenix flames, showing strength resilience in the face of adversity.

Bicorn: Beautiful and fearsome, a classic mythical image of Pride that reminds its foes that there is power in protest and resistance.

Butterfly Ranger: A gynandromorph insectoid ranger with imagery representing the intersex and genderqueer nature of life itself and its many natural variations.

Witch of Aces: A tribute to my best friend and partner in life, a witch repping circular symbols of the ever-changing cycles of life and the aroace spectrum.

Did some sculpting while watching the Fantasy High season finale tonight! And finally sculpted my first player character. Thank you, Skip, for being perfect.