Finished A Painting I Sketched Out A While Ago. Tried To Paint Much Looser Than I Usually Do So I Didnt

Finished a painting I sketched out a while ago. Tried to paint much looser than I usually do so I didn’t sketch out exactly. Instead I sketched out in paint as I went along, pretty nice to just paint something random for a bit.

Ace Wolf for all the Asexuals, Demisexuals, and Graysexuals.

This wolf is a little bit of a hybrid themselves so be careful around their sharp teeth. Still great to be around so don’t worry if they breath some fire.

Such a simple colour scheme I had to add in some black to vary them a bit.

Congrats if you got it right, one of my favs coming tomorrow

✨Everything Pride✨  -  Masterpost ｜Aspec｜Aro｜AroAce｜Agen｜Fray｜Flux｜Litho｜Recipro｜Full

Prints Available on my store if you’re so inclined, check the masterpost!

Flux wolf for the Aroflux and Aceflux.

Holding a scythe for Aceflux and a pick for Aroflux. How does a wolf use both a scythe and pick when fighting? No idea, just know you don’t want to find out ;)

One of the hardest wolves to balance the colours for, you fluxes don’t even have consistency in your pinks in the flags, came out nice though.

Be sure to check out the other aspec wolves~

✨Everything Pride✨  -  Masterpost ｜Aspec｜Aro｜Ace｜AroAce｜Agen｜Fray｜Litho｜Recipro｜Full

Prints Available on my store if you’re so inclined, check the masterpost!

Just finished my grad show (only a year late) having everything laid out looks so good!

I’m very proud of all the progress I was able to make over three years while at HCA. Way back in 2017 I was totally different in my illustrations and attitude, hopefully I keep improving in the future as much.

I had the largest spread in in the illustration room which I find pretty funny. I’d blame all my big ass prints. I wasn’t able to hang my banner over my work but it looks good enough ;)

Transcript of my show’s blurb under the cut if you want to read it.

Firbetmakes

Bethany Bronwyn Curtis

“Madeleines and Latte’s Sweet Adventure” - Children's Non-Fiction Book Proposal

For this project I created a proposal for a children's non-fiction book centering around sweet foods from around the world. Each chapter would focus around a different country's food with illustrations of traditional holidays and cuisine.

To complete this project I created one sample chapter for the proposed book around Germany’s cuisine. These illustrations set up the general flow and presentation I would imagine for the rest of the book. I also designed two characters to explore the world and give context and immersion into the scenes.

I wanted to create a non-fiction book which I would be interested in as a child. For this book I looked at how to present this information in an interesting and immersive way so that the reader would be better able to engage in foreign cultures.

Throughout the process of designing aspects of the book I determined to break from stereotypes and conventions which I found to be unnecessarily restricting. A couple of examples were overly gender coding characters and presenting intrestets in sweets as a negative thing.

While stereotypes and conventions can be very useful when constructing a story (especially for younger audiences) I feel that leaning too far into these stifles some artists' abilities and can negatively affect a child's view of the world. Allowing more variety in the presentation of characters or viewpoints of the world would only benefit a child’s development even in media which does not focus around these breaks from convention.

With this book I would hope to create stronger bonds with other cultures through food and genuine interest in each other's cultures. This first book is focused on sweet food however if I were given the opportunity to make more I would look at savoury meals, celebratory meals, or drinks.

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Here’s all my Aspec pride prints together. Took so much jigging to get all of it to match up but I think it came out looking amazing.

I wanted to do something really special for pride this year that I would be really proud of, so I hope you all like them as much as me!

✨Everything Pride✨  -  Masterpost ｜Aspec｜Aro｜Ace｜AroAce｜Agen｜Fray｜Flux｜Litho｜Recipro

Prints Available on my store if you’re so inclined, check the masterpost!

Here’s Ref Sheets for all the wolves in my prints. I spent a bunch of time on getting the fur patterns right for these guys but it made making everything much easier when drawing.

I had so much fun designing these guys and it was great practice. Maybe I’ll do more wolves in the future. Probably not for a little while tho.

I included the CMYK colours I used  as many of the flags colours aren’t in the CMYK range. When paired with shadows and highlights you can make it look a lot closer to the intended colours.

If you want to use these designs for anything then go ahead!, they’re all free to use if you want to. Credit or reblogs are always appreciated.

✨Everything Pride✨  -  Wolf Masterpost

A few more character sheets under the cut

Here’s some extra character sheets for Aceflux, Aroflux, Recipromantic, and Reciprosexual. As they had different flags I thought it would be good to include them in case I needed them separate.

Here’s a plain ref sheet if you can use if you want to.