Sara🎨

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illustration of a cute brown bear in yellow wizards clothing holding its arms out over a bubbling black cauldron filled with soup. around the bear and cauldron float pieces of corn, broccoli, mushrooms, carrots, tomato, peas, pepper, and spinach. magical sparkles are also around the floating food, so you know it's magical. under the cauldron are the words "cooking is magic"

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Text: Vegetable Thieves Image: two goblins astride a doe who is leaping a barbed wire fence. One goblin has a sack of vegetables over its shoulder, spilling produce behind them as they flee.

𝔙𝔢𝔤𝔢𝔱𝔞𝔟𝔩𝔢 𝔗𝔥𝔦𝔢𝔳𝔢𝔰 🧅🥕🥬

Prairie goblins will often recruit locals for their schemes, leading to hijinks that often plague rural Midwestern farmers.

From an Almanac of Midwestern Prairie Spirits.

Illustration by KitsuneArt, limited colour palette (blue and yellow/gold). Frodo and Sam from the Lord of the Rings movie (the Two Towers) standing in the ruins of Osgiliath, holding hands. On top of their heads Sam's words, handwritten by KitsuneArt: "There is some good in this world and it's worth fighting for".

"But in the end, it’s only a passing thing, this shadow. Even darkness must pass. A new day will come. And when the sun shines it will shine out the clearer. [...]"

"...There’s some good in this world, Mr. Frodo. And it’s worth fighting for."

Some Princess Mononoke fanart featuring well... a large portion of the cast. Just for fun and because it's one of my favorite movies.

Princess Mononoke 🐺🌳

Just learned that Nightshade is now free! Gonna try it and see how it goes. 🙏

The Strength
Tarot commission

Now more than ever, it's important for creative folks to build in guardrails and protections for their work.

I've been considering Glaze and Nightshade. Do any of y'all have experience using them? And how do you feel about it?

After a very long and restful hiatus from posting art on the internet, I'm in the process of thinking about sharing my art again. I also can't help but harbor some level distrust now. It feels like everything is being scraped and stolen for nefarious purposes!

Text: Hearth Spirit Image: a small figure made of flame leaps from a gas stove burner heating a steaming coffee pot.

ℌ𝔢𝔞𝔯𝔱𝔥 𝔖𝔭𝔦𝔯𝔦𝔱 🔥

Once native to fireplaces and hearths, now hearth spirits live on in stoves and furnaces, bringing sustenance, warmth, light, and protection in the deep Midwestern winters.

An illustration of a young women yanking a weed out of a bed of marigolds. The primary colours of the piece are deep green and a saffron yellow, with some brown and moss green tones as well. The camera is looking up at the young girl with a forced perspective, as she pulls out the weed while leaning back. The text reads: PULL FASCISM UP BY THE ROOT.

👩‍🌾 Grab your tools

illustration of nausicaa standing by an ohmu

Nausicaa of the Valley of the Wind

Badgers! 🦡

Day five of 31 Days of Fungi !
This is Chicken of the Woods 🌲

Ladybird metamorphosis illustration with the quote ‘to grow is to change’

To grow is to change

Text: The Midwest vast and vaster. Image: an abstract truncated view of the American Midwest as seen from above; centering around the Great Lakes in shades of evening blue and gold. In glowing white text is the names of the many native tribes alongside bright flowing dotted lines indicating perhaps ley lines or other flowing unearthly forces. The sky curves in perspective with the earth and dark clouds part to reveal constellations unknown.

𝔗𝔥𝔢 𝔐𝔦𝔡𝔴𝔢𝔰𝔱

vast & vaster

2023 limited tone ttrpg fantasy commission in a fey forest, a fox adorned in gold offers you a white rabbit at its feet. a text box behind it repeats the question "Do you accept the pact?" elements of the forest appear similar to graphical glitches.

Do you accept the T̵͓̻̀h̷̳̙̔e̶̤̾ ̴̼̘̓͒P̸̫͑̂a̴͙̐c̶̰̿̍ţ̵͍̓̆? (2023)

I love YOUR colors!!! 🤌🔥✨️

2020 full color fantasy pet portrait a cat sits in a pink robe on a throne of a tree, holding a feather toy like a scepter. your audience with her is framed by two pillar like trees.

Queens Grove (2020)

Illustration of about five or six tomatoes that are piled together. Some are whole, some are sliced up and drip a little. There are tomato plant leaves behind them as well flowers. The background is pink

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what is your favorite warbler species???

Yes I'm the same way! I went to New Zealand for 2 weeks in December and it took me a while to resync back to my own reality when I got home.

A blue, purple, and yellow illustration of plants and insects. A glass globe in the middle has a small pink person looking at a waterfall.

A purple, orange, and blue illustration of a small anthropomorphic cat walking through a field of mushrooms and pumpkins.

A green and blue illustration of a forest with giant mushrooms. A feminine figure stands on a ledge holding a lantern with a dog sitting close by.

An illustration of browser windows as a dungeon; 4 silhouetted adventurers peer into the dungeon where an orange dragon sleeps while holding a warning symbol.

Hi #PortfolioDay!
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I’m Sara; an illustrator and designer with a love for color, nature, and fantasy.

I do lots of editorial illos, branding, and spot illos for my day job. I love doing whimsical illos in my free time.

a howl's moving castle mock poster. Howl is mid-transformation with sophie hanging on behind him. The stars are dancing around them. Fangs border the poster

one of my favorite studio ghibli pieces that i made with my two hands

Sunlight shining through the foliage of a tree silhouetted by a waterfall in the background

Waterfall

illustration of a japanese emperor caterpillar on a yellow daffodil with dew drops

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A warm painting of a fluffy raccoon holding a knife. It looks like it’s smiling and has little sinister eyebrows.

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My painting WISCONSIN FARM

Photo of a blue transparent PlayStation 2 controller

Petition to bring back semi-transparent branded controllers

Thank you 🥹