this is so sweet!! I love how the gold-toned background recedes behind the characters so clearly, that is such a neat touch.

Hello, this is lovely!! Thank you! I'm a transmasc picture book illustrator and I have a lil shop with prints and stickers and a book!

julianplumart.etsy.com

The shapes that these lil guys make with their bodies, my goodness. I love them so much. Thank you!

Thank you!! wow my goodness that is so neat, I'm always trying to keep my work dynamic. I wonder if I could figure out how to animate it though.....

They're so cute 😭 it's too much!!

Thank you! It's cool to hear that because I look at a lot of cut paper artists for inspiration—the clean sharp lines really do it for me.

!! you can always rehydrate them with a lil water, and a tip I learned from another illustrator is that mixing a bit of honey can get them back to that lovely creamy consistency! good luck!

Ahh congrats!! This is going to be such a cool book! about one of my fave topics too :)

Mine too!! they're so cute when they flit around, I love to see them when hiking! the little crest!

Now! I cannot actually show:

-my favorite piece from this year, OR
-the most recent piece, so you'll all just have to see those when they are out in the world 👀

these are pretty close contenders, though!

I sure have—even with that our meds together are just over $200 a month. Which is about what we're paying now for insurance, only that would be without also having insurance which is so cool and good (it is not). Thanks for sharing this, though, for folks who might not know about it!

I'm an independently-employed artist and my spouse is in grad school for social work, so we have literally no other healthcare option. So cool for us!!

Ours went from $213 a month to $460 a month, and after six months the subsidies go away entirely and it'll be $2000 a month. No idea what we're gonna do! Me & my spouse both have necessary monthly medication! 🫠

-> www.rileysdesk.com/links Riley is also an illustrator who makes cute clay cat calendars & stationery

-> campmustelid.shop and an apparel & art shop I adore (featuring the best top surgery joke I've ever seen: campmustelid.shop/products/tit...)

Not a ceramicist but I am an illustrator! My shop is -> julianplumart.etsy.com & I sell prints & stickers & gouache paintings

BUT! I have pottery recs!!

-> julianmiholics.com another Julian, whose shop is closed rn but will reopen!

-> shop.madsed.com tiny lil critters from a really cool person

I've been meaning to paint a fall version to see what the vibe shift would be!! Just as warm but a different sort of warmth