Veronica Kosowski

By the power of Grayskull, the first episode of Masters of the Universe: Tales From Eternia is out today on Youtube!! 💀🗡️

It’s been such an honor working as lead background artist on this show alongside the incredibly talented Snipple Animation team! Many thanks to my supervisors, teammates and the wonderful folks at Mattel for the chance to work together on this very special (and very fun!!) project ✨

I’ve had a blast getting to visit Eternia every day this past year. It’s been an absolute dream drawing and painting new takes on all the classic environments of He-Man’s world!

Continuing with my mouse portrait series, here comes Pim! 🐭

Pim is the confident leader of the group. She’s looked after the others from day one, and when I’m spot-cleaning or making any updates to their home, you bet she’ll be there asserting herself and letting me know who’s boss. She’s also a very loving and sweet mouse though, and will always come out for pets.

Another mousey portrait 🐭

Sunbear is my little climber and adventurer! She loves nothing more than to climb hoodies and perch on shoulders. She'll also do anything for a piece of Rice Krispies cereal (no marshmallows of course!)

Sometimes your muses live only a living room away!

My mouse Kret was the perfect little model for this painting study. She and her sisters Pim and Sunbear love nothing more than to spend their days snuggled up in this mushroom hide.

Sometimes the best way to remember a place is to paint it!

This study is based on a photo I took just outside of Ferndale while exploring Humboldt County last July. I love using studies like this to sit in a memory and recapture the feeling of a place.

Had a wonderful time plein air painting at Almaden Lake with a friend! It was a lovely overcast afternoon, and it was so peaceful watching the birds fly back and forth to roost on the island.

It was also the perfect chance to try out my new pochade box I made with the help of James Gurney's blog! I'm happy to say that in this case, the budget option really does work, and very well at that!

A recent plein air painting done traditionally in gouache!

Something I love about plein air painting is the potential for unexpected surprises.

I stumbled upon this black cat while deciding on a place to paint along one of my favorite neighborhood trails.

A mother’s love you remember forever.

"Have you seen any others like my friend?" the little quoll asked the birds. The clearing filled with concerned chatter and sideways glances. They had not.

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As a child, I used to regularly check out a VHS from the library called "Wild Australia" which featured archival footage of the now extinct thylacine (commonly known as the Tasmanian tiger or Tasmanian wolf). I was moved by the loneliness of a pacing striped creature with sorrowful eyes, the last known member of its kind, preserved in the zoo with no hope of its species' survival.

No one can wrangle an outlaw as well as Coyote Kay!  A well-known bounty hunter, you can spot her running down the biggest and baddest bandits of the West in her white coyote mech.  

Kay's story takes place in a cross-genre world combining the Western and Mecha genres.  

I had a lot of fun thinking about what kinds of characters would populate such a world, and how the mythical and epic qualities of both genres would influence the world's mech designs.

See the full painting in high-res at my website: https://veronicakosowski.com/

Exciting news my friends! A beautiful, newly-printed edition of my comic 'As Death Embraces' is now available in my Etsy shop for anyone who would like to add a copy to their bookshelf!

@nuclearjackal and I are so grateful for all your support throughout the making of this comic. Know that your purchase directly contributes to our ability to create more great stories like this one for you to read.  😊❤️