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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 2h

Getting mighty crafty lately! Excited to share these hand-painted character cutouts when they’re all finished!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 16d

I'm sorry, I don't understand?

Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 16d

What working on a custom font for hours (and hours and hours) feels like...

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 26d

Anyone have recommendations for places to stay in Palm Springs? The more colorful/retrotastic/mid-century, the better! 🌴☀️

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 27d

I'll be keeping Instagram... for now... only because I'd like to have some public depository for my work outside of my website? But FB and X especially are just vitriolic, nonsense hellscapes anymore. I need to do what you did and extract the valuable connections/info from them and then DELETE!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 27d

And maybe I just need to take the jump to find that out for myself, and hope that the work I've done so far and the clients I have would be enough to get by.

Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 27d

I feel like that's where I'm at, and where I've been at for a hot minute - that the absolute mental anguish it gives me far outweighs any professional benefit! I *do* get business and sales through FB and X, so I'd definitely feel the loss... but man, at what cost?

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 27d

That part! I'm ngl there's a part of me that really yearns for that level of meaningful connection with friends. I miss that, and I need that back. It really is just the thought of losing future opportunities/not having eyes on my work that's holding me back, but it's just all so exhaustive anymore.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · 27d

I'd love to hear people's experiences in deleting social media, specifically Facebook and/or Twitter. I'd do it in a heartbeat if I wasn't worried about the professional consequences (missing out on clients/connections). I'd greatly appreciate any insights!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Sep 5

There is life before Cook Out (if you can even call it living) and there is life after Cook Out. I’m a changed man. An enlightened man.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Aug 9

Truly friends, even a $5 donation would go sooooooooo far. Thank you in advance for any donation you can make; let’s make hearse-tory together!!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Aug 9

Hi all! I’m raising funds for my Pink Hearse’s repairs!

We’re doing so much more than fixing a car here… we're gifting this hearse the second chapter it was once doomed to never experience. We are quite literally raising the dead and bringing it back to LIFE! www.gofundme.com/f/raising-ha...

Hayden sitting inside the back of his 1968 Pink Cadillac Hearse. He is smiling and holding his hands up in a peace sign. He is asking for donations to aid in the hearse’s repairs.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Aug 5

Look alive, ya swabs! 🏴‍☠️🐊⏰✨ It is my great pleasure to share with you the Captain Hook design I drew up for RSVLTS's “Rotten Apples” Disney Villains Collection - available now!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 28

Remember when I shared my Halloween-ified 25th Anniversary Cinderella Castle Cake illustration, and then a few days later
@anakbeltran.bsky.social shared her masterful 3D model of it??? A gesture sweet enough to rival this 189-foot-tall candy-coated monstrosity!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 18

No, but man - it sure could have been! (I’m now worried that when I share what I had initially posted about, it’ll be underwhelming for everyone, hahaha!)

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 17

Happy 70th Anniversary, Disneyland! ✨

Julie Andrews once said that Disneyland was "Walt's gift to a weary world," and I believe that is more true now than ever. The world changes - even Walt's small park has and will continue to change - yet Disneyland remains a stalwart beacon of joy and optimism.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 16

I didn’t realize the William Temple Franklin Museum had a social media presence!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 16

I’m just trying to keep up with YOU, friend!! 🥰

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 15

In a span of less than 24 hours the WDF Museum has liked my art, shared said art on their IG story, and started following me. So I’m doing GREAT.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 15

You're laughing. Mike Wazowski is being hung by a (Henry J. Water)noose and you're laughing.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 15

How VERY DARE YOU Sulley my original post with this nonsense?

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 15

Likely unable to make personal art celebrating Disneyland's 70th anniversary because I've been *checks notes* too busy making professional art for Disneyland.

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 14

The art is owned by Disney, created solely for its decorative purpose as part of this window display; I don't know of or foresee any chance of the art becoming a merchandise item!

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 13

I was deeply honored to contribute the “painting in progress” of Main Street’s Fire Station for this balcony/window display honoring Lillian Disney (debuting in time to commemorate Walt and Lillian’s 100th anniversary) at Disneyland Park. 💐✨

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Hayden Evans @haydenevansart.bsky.social · Jul 10

God bless the Opera House CMs used to the most chill operation in the entire park/resort/maybe even throughout all of Disney Parks that now have to deal with a virtual queue of all things! 😂

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