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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳

@creekkidart.bsky.social

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I draw books about weird creatures. Illustrator, author, and comics creator, plant enjoyer, cat haver. WELCOME TO THE FOREST out August 5 2025🎃 pre orders now ✨

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 15d

Brought to u by the recap im watching right meow

Me watching the undertale 10th anniversary:
(Comic of person on couch thinking): I can’t wait to watch 25 recap videos about this next week

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 13h

do i know anyone at ny comic con this weekend

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 2d

never in my wildest dreams did i imagine this scenario im literally gobsmacked

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 2d

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 6d

i know it's cuz ppl have more familiarity with jewelry. but they also perceive it to be more lucrative. but it's the assuming my work is frivolous and i should just put my creative skills to his passion instead that really makes me feel small

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 6d

my partner is a jeweler, and i'm really proud that he is craftsman. however it annoys me that family are alwasy 1) more interested in his work than mine and 2) always seem to think that I should use my skills to help him in a jewelry business rather than him helping in my already existing business..

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 8d

In the studioed. straight up “painting it”. And by “it” haha, well, let’s just say
My book

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 8d

dear all graphics programs,

if a layer is set to invisible, it should NOT be selectable

sincerely,
why would i be clicking on something i can't see

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 8d

i don wanna do my emails :(

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 8d

very pleased to get a lovely starred review from Kirkus! It's nice to have my artistic efforts appreciated:

"Depicting a panoply of unique beasts, the art, rendered in gouache and colored pencil, is the star of the book."

aw shucks

WELCOME TO THE FOREST | Kirkus Reviews

Preparations for a shindig spark several new friendships.

www.kirkusreviews.com

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 8d

i got told i had "an ego" for turning down a project that was too low budget and too quick of a turn around. he also didn't think pre-production and character design phases were necessary. wish i still had those screen shots lol.

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 9d

Soon book crunch will be over and I can draw fnaf

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LEE GATLIN @neilaglet.bsky.social · 9d

hup

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 9d

ARTISTS AND DESIGNERS - what are yalls most used keyboard short cuts? (other than undo)

mine are:
L
B
ctrl+d
ctlr+x, ctrl+v
ctrl+shift+drag

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Katie Slivensky @kslivensky.bsky.social · 13d

This is a really important question. Publishing has broadly missed these kids. It's not a surprise they gravitate toward online zones for humor and entertainment as their book options dwindle. And we know where that can go.

Boni Ashburn @boniashburn.bsky.social · 14d

Serious question: Where in the YA section do we send these millions of boys who loved reading (or at least grudgingly read) Diary of a Wimpy Kid in middle school?? They want humor, and their sense of humor is still largely juvenile, but they are now in high school.

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 13d

Yeah 😪 it’s hard I always thought I’d go back eventually, but now it doesn’t seem likely. I don’t want to raise kids there

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 13d

Me for the next months and half while I paint the last 25 pages of this book :D

Alzamon || アルサもン || Comics & Character Design @alzamon.bsky.social · 14d

An untold rule of pitch assembly must be one saying something like "everything is going to take at least 300% more time than what you think" 🥲

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 13d

The stuff going on in Texas right now is so disheartening. But this is the state that added “one state under God” to the Texas pledge in the mid 2000s so I guess shouldn’t be that surprised

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 14d

Hey do u guys think my grandma told me frogs would give me warts cuz she really believed that or cuz she thought it was unladylike to catch frogs 🤔

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 14d

I just found out that Forest is getting a Kirkus star!!

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Carey Pietsch @careydraws.bsky.social · 14d

If you're trying to get an old wacom to work w newer mac OS, I can't recommend the "Connect my tablet" app highly enough!! they're not paying me to say this lol. got my 2013 cintiq working 6 years ago AND got the same model cintiq AND a ~2011? intuos working on a much newer OS today. lifesavers!!!

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 14d

Love how posting a cute lil comic that I really like gets 10 likes but a selfie with a pandering caption gets 100 on insta 😪

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 15d

*takes long drag of joint* Norman Rockwell had two assistants and a cook

taylor robin @taylor-robin.bsky.social · 16d

reading about the careers of 20th century illustrators and what they were able to afford will make you go insane. we used to get paid. we used to get paid!!!!

Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 15d

So if I take more Tylenol will I get more autism? Cuz I’d really like to get better at rhythm games

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T.S. Mitchell (EpcotServo) @epcotservo.bsky.social · 16d

Happy Little Shop of Horrors week to all who celebrate!

Seymour (Rick Moranis) and Audrey (Ellen Greene) standing between some flowers in a scene from Little Shop of Horrors

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Katie Risor ✨WELCOME TO THE FOREST 🌳 @creekkidart.bsky.social · 15d

Super cool that my nice lettuce green scans in as beige