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Izzi Ward
@izziward.bsky.social
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Illustrator/writer hybrid, bookbinder. One of them queers ✨ probably a wizard. they/them
Shop at etsy.com/shop/izziillustrates
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I'm halfway through the day at The Festive Flea at Bristol Folk House! If you're in Bristol come by say hi and get some gorgeous gifts 😊📚✨
A photograph of a table at a craft fair, laid out with many handmade sketchbooks.
December 7, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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I'll be at Bristol Folk House for their Christmas Craft and Flea this Sunday (7th Dec) from 11am to 4pm with my sketchbooks! Please come by say hi and get some gorgeous presents this gift-giving season 😊✨
December 2, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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It's gift giving season and I'm having a sale this week! There's 25% off everything until 3rd December, so please check out my shop and consider shopping small this Black Friday 😊🏳️‍🌈
November 24, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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So I loved del Toro's Frankenstein
A screenshot of Oscar Isaac from Frankenstein 2025 sitting on a moss covered bench and frowning deeply. He is wearing an open silk dressing gown, slippers, and velvet plaid trousers. Over the middle of the image is the text "oh sure blame the guy whose fault it is 🙄"
November 23, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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painting a dragon for a commission and having too much fun putting them in as much gold jewellery as possible
a WIP crop from a painting of a dragon on a bed of gold, showing the head, neck and claws, and the overarch of a wing. The dragon is red with bone white claws and horns, and has gold eyes. The horns and claws are covered in gold jewellery and the dragon has a smug, conniving expression.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
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My gorgeous new totes are now on sale on my Etsy!!! 🏳️‍⚧️🏳️‍🌈
www.etsy.com/uk/listing/4...
A square photo of a man's torso dressed in a big colourful jumper. He is holding a black tote bag against his side. The tote has a white illustration on it of the Venus Di Milo with top surgery scars, surrounded by a banner that reads "there has never been a world without trans people" A photograph of a black tote in a yellow chair. The tote has a white illustration on it of the Venus Di Milo with top surgery scars, surrounded by a banner that reads "there has never been a world without trans people"
November 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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Just in time for @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social : new totes are in!
A photograph of a black tote bag on a yellow chair. Screen printed in white on the tote is an illustration of the Venus Di Milo with top surgery scars, surrounded by a banner that reads "there has never been a world without trans people"
November 12, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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I'll be at @thoughtbubbleuk.bsky.social November 15th/16th in Redshirt Hall, at table D3b! I'm right by the front entrance this year :D
an illustrated map of table layout at thought bubble comic art convention in redshirt hall. The tables are numbered green rectangles. A green bar across the top bears the text "Redshirt Hall." over the map there is a bright pink circle around table D3, with an arrow pointing to it and lines radiating from it. There is a pink circle with an illustrated pink haired face in it, next to text that reads "FIND ME @ D3b IN REDSHIRT HALL!"
October 26, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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Some sketchbooks that are currently half price on my etsy 😊
www.etsy.com/shop/dustedsunshine
a photograph of a small, landscape format brown sketchbook with a blue spine held up by a white hand in front of a white paper background. The sketchbook is patterned with bronze coloured bicycle silhouettes. a photograph of a yellow and white coptic bound sketchbook, standing up slightly open on a white background. a photograph of a cream coloured sketchbook with a light purple spine, lay down on a white paper background. It is patterned with illustrated bees. a photograph of a white sketchbook with a dark green spine, standing up against a white paper background. The cover is patterned with illustrated cacti, succulents and other house plants in brightly coloured pots.
October 26, 2025 at 2:17 PM
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I've been making some big gorgeous watercolour sketchbooks lately, and these are two of my favourites :)
available at www.etsy.com/shop/dustedsunshine
a photograph of a landscape format, blue and gold sketchbook with a dark blue and gold cover patterned with illustrated ginko leaves, with a lighter blue spine. The book is standing up against a white background. a photograph of a landscape format, red, green and cream sketchbook with a cream cover patterned with illustrated Chinese style dragons, with a red spine. The book is standing up against a white background.
October 12, 2025 at 5:08 PM
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The Abhorsen and the King (and as many undead hands as I can cram into the canvas)
a square illustration centred on two people standing back to back ready to fight. They are surrounded by reaching, grey-green, undead hands in silhouette. The person in the foreground (Sabriel) is shorter, dressed in blue, and has very pale skin and bobbed black hair. She is holding a sword in her right hand and a glowing bell in her left. Her surcoat is patterned with tiny keys and on her forehead there is a glowing rune. She is looking out at the viewer with a surprised but determined expression. The person in the background (Touchstone) has his back mostly to the viewer; his face can be seen in profile. He has warm brown curly hair and warm mid-tone brown skin, and is wielding two swords. He is wearing a sleeveless red waistcoat and a matching red kilt, and has two gold hoops in one ear. He is looking out toward the hands, his expression determined rage.
October 6, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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OK, sorted: I am once again shipping to the USA!
A white text box against a photograph of blue witch-hat shaped keychains. The text reads: Shipping update: I can once again ship to the USA! Royal Mail have updated their services to include a Postal Deliveries Duties Paid (PDDP) option, and I've updated my prices and postage costs to accomodate these costs. So if you're in the states, you can once again get your queer pins, stickers, comics and more from me.
August 30, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Portrait practice with Malta, Queen of the Elderlings, from Robin Hobb's Rain Wild Chronicles.
an illustration of a young woman in portrait, facing left. She is light-skinned with a distinctive pattern of red scales on her cheeks, forehead and neck. She has a red ridge, like a rooster's comb, starting on her forehead and reaching back across the top of her head. She is wearing an off-the-shoulder dark blue robe, with a gold chain and gold earrings. Her hair is golden, and has a metallic sheen.
August 25, 2025 at 5:00 PM
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I'm making new bigger watercolour sketchbooks! A5, 300gsm, some in cold press and some in hot press watercolour paper. Three up on my Etsy already and more to come 😌
A photograph of a sketchbook and an open watercolour paint palette side by side, with two paintbrushes. The sketchbook is dark blue and patterned with white stars. The paint palette is messy and vivid, spattered with paint. A photograph of three landscape format sketchbooks against a white background, spines towards the camera, two with open Coptic-sewn spines, one with a hard spine. One is blue with white stars, one is pink and floral with a red spine, and one with a blue and gold marbled cover.
August 24, 2025 at 8:30 PM
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a quick n scruffy Hap Gladheart from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings, because he deserves some love (and some anacronistic pink nails)
a coloured illustration of a light-skinned brown man with long, curly, dark brown hair and a neatly trimmed beard, sitting on a pink cushion playing a harp. He is wearing a white shirt with rolled back sleeves, high waisted brown trousers, a red scarf and dark brown, high-heeled boots. He has several silver earrings and rings, pink nails, and a slight smile.
August 19, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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I finished it! By far my most insane fan project: A (hopefully) complete Farseer Family Tree from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings.
I can sleep now.
an illustrated family tree of the Farseer royal family from Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings books. There are approximately 5 generations of Farseers from King Bounty Farseer, down to Princess Bee Farseer, his great-great-granddaughter. Lines connect characters, varying from "legitimate" parentage, to bastards, to adoption/fostering. The Royal line is picked out in gold, from King Bounty down to his great-great-grandson, King Dutiful Farseer.
August 2, 2025 at 4:42 PM
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I'll be at Alright? Illustration Fair in Chepstow on August 16th! Come by and say hi yeah? x
a bright pink border around an image. The text on the border reads "August 16th, 10am - 4pm, St Mary's Priory Church NP16 5HA. I'm trading at ALRIGHT? Illustration Fair." The image inside the pink border shows a black fabric patch with a white design of a statue torso with top surgery scars, and a banner with the text "There has never been a world without trans people" around it.
July 26, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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I can't even remember how this joke started but my D&D party collectively lost our minds about it in a game recently, so obviously I had to draw it.
It's Britney, Lich! ✨
a portrait of a skeleton with glowing blue eyes wearing a blond wig and dressed like Britney Spears. The background is bright pink and the text reads "IT'S BRITNEY, LICH!" in a medieval style typeface.
July 24, 2025 at 10:28 AM
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an important addendum (65% because I wanted to draw Weyoun)
a diagram featuring Kai Winn, Gul Dukat, and Weyoun from Deep Space 9. The title reads "These Bitches Wish They Were in the Polycule" and the lines include relationships like "obsessed with Sisko", "enemies" and "mutual gaslighting".
July 13, 2025 at 3:38 PM
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A deeply unserious fan project that I haven't been able to get out of my head since I finished watching Deep Space 9:
an illustrated diagram of 13 characters from Star Trek: Deep Space 9 arranged to show their complicated relationships. Relationship lines vary from "married" to "frenemies" to "each other's dads." The diagram is titled "Deep Space 9 is about a polycule."
July 12, 2025 at 1:36 PM
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working on something fun and silly
dark blue text on a white background reads "Deep Space 9 is about a polycule" in a font evocative of the font used on Star Trek shows. There are hand drawn yellow stars around the text.
July 10, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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My favourite thing I've made this year 🧙‍♀️✨
www.etsy.com/uk/shop/izzi...
a photograph of several key rings against a white background. The keyrings are shaped like witch hats and have purple crystals on them. There is yellow-gold text on the witch hat that reads GAY WIZARD. a photograph of several key rings against a white background. The keyrings are shaped like witch hats and have skulls and roses on them. There is yellow-gold text on it that reads NONBINARY NECROMANCER. a photograph of several key rings against a white background. The keyrings are shaped like witch hats and have purple violet flowers on them. There is yellow-gold text on it that reads QUEER WITCH. a photograph of several key rings against a white background. The keyrings are shaped like witch hats and have monstera leaves on them. There is yellow-gold text on it that reads TRANSGENDER DRUID.
July 3, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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The Duke and Duchess of Ankh, Sir Samuel Vimes and Lady Sybil Ramkin, live forever in my heart and mind
an illustration based on a leyendecker study of a couple dancing, but the gendered roles have been swapped; the woman here is the taller partner, and is leading. The woman is white, with curled red hair in a knot behind her head, and she is fat. She is dressed in a glittery blue dress with a gauzy shawl/cape, and her expression is serene. The man is nearly a head shorter than her, and slight. He is wearing a black tuxedo with tails, a pale stripe down the trousers, with pale blue gloves. His hair is brown, with grey at the temples and in his eyebrows, and he is stubbly around the chin. His expression is one of concentration, his teeth bared. They both look to be in their mid forties.
June 15, 2025 at 5:57 PM
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It's been a tiny sketchbooks kind of day 📚✨
A close up photograph of a stack of small sketchbooks against a white background.
June 12, 2025 at 7:20 PM
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Queer art sale 🏳️‍🌈✨
www.etsy.com/shop/izziillustrates
Sketchbooks sale 📚✨
www.etsy.com/shop/dustedsunshine
June 12, 2025 at 12:25 PM