Critterwings Illustration

Artwork of a man dressed as a court jester, hanging upside down in a stone arch doorway from red cloth band wound around his limbs, smiling and reaching out one hand. A lush green garden is behind him.

This was definitely one of my favorites from 2025! It's "Take the Fool's View" and was for 78Tarot.

Details of the hero/villain design contest - including a link to a pack of free character reference photos!

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Pencil sketch of a smiling horned man in a strong crouch looking upward, standing on a small platform, wearing a close-fitting bodysuit with a flowing jacket.

My pencil sketch for the prompt “sci-fi” based on a free ref photo from @grafitstudio.bsky.social - I may keep developing it to enter their contest this month, check their feed for details. 🦸

Prompt list from @hubbardart.bsky.social

#artchallenge #sketchboook #scifiillustration #workinprogress

Watercolor sketch of a pale female figure with green vine like hair and a haunted expression wearing a rumpled tunic, lying on thickly mossed ground

A list of 31 different words for use as “January prompts”

New Year’s resolution 2026: Post More Art! Even if it’s just sketches 😁 This month I’m using a prompt list posted by @hubbardart.bsky.social (when I have time from client work)

This watercolor sketch is for “moss” based on a ref from @Graphitstudio.bsky.social
#sketchboook #fantasyillustration

I am having a very similar experience embracing being a full time artist after being laid off earlier this year ❤️ stay well!

(apologies that RedBubble doesn't offer the glitter, but there are other options including a shimmery hologram background!)

Closeup photo of a sticker of a drawing of a longhaired calico cat with rainbow-colored feathery bird wings. Other cat stickers are barely visible in the background

Photo of a group of stickers of various flying cat drawings, including a tan tabby, brown, white, and black cat with bat-like wings, a gray and orange cat with bird-like wings, and a calico cat with rainbow-colored bird wings.

New! My flying cat stickers are now in my RedBubble store! Check out all the different kitties from the new Collection. They are also available on phone cases, shirts, and a few other fun things. 😸

Just in time, since there's a flash sale on stickers today!

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(throwing open my window) you there, boy, what day is this?

Photo of the artist standing in front of her booth, with prints, cards, and stickers visible. Text reads: Visit Critterwings at Baltimore Faerie Faire and Fairy Scary Ball, Friday-Sunday Nov 14-16 Towson, MD

Photo of a variety of prints, cards and stickers with various fantasy and nature subjects, including dragons, unicorns, and animals

Photo of stickers with artwork of tabby cats

Photo of a notecard with a drawing of a pink lily and the letter “L”

This weekend I’m at the Faerie Faire / Fairy Scary Ball with other artists and workshops and dancing and music all day and night!

Bringing my flower cards too, specially for the fae 💐🧚

Get tickets and schedule info at baltimorefaeriefaire.weebly.com

#fantasyart #cosplay #fairyfair

Artwork of a jester hanging upside down from a red ribbon, in an arched stone doorway looking into a sunny garden, reaching out to the viewer with a big smile. Text reads “IX Arts: Imagine This, October 22-26, Reading, PA. See me along with over 200 other artists!

Excited to join the Showcase at @ixarts.bsky.social again - stop by at the Reading Doubletree if you can and see ALL the amazing fantasy artists Fri-Sat evening Oct 24-25 8-midnight.

My Hanged Man is also appearing in the Infected by Art annual, I can’t saint to pick up my copy!

Photo of a cream-colored notecard with a drawing of a pink lily and a letter "L", propped up with an envelope behind it.

Closeup photo of a drawing of a pink orchid with a letter "O" in front of it.

Photo of a cream colored notecard with a drawing of a red rose and a letter "R" in front of it. Behind it is the back of the card which reads "The Flower Alphabet, "R" is for Rose" and the Critterwings logo

Poster for the Lord Baltimore Steampunk Soiree, Sept. 6th, with the logo for Baltimore Steampunk and a photo of a woman wearing a fancy dress and hat with goggles.

I'm happy to join @baltimoresteampunk.bsky.social at the Steampunk Soiree at the Lord Baltimore Hotel this Saturday night! Say hi if you're there!

In addition to my usual astrological and critter stickers, and dragony and tarot prints, I'll be bringing my Floral Alphabet notecards and prints.

Artwork of a green, feathery dragon. Text reads “DEXLITE 2025 July 3-6 Morristown, NJ. Visit Critterwings in Artists’ Alley.”

Photo of a variety of fantasy-themed small prints, cards, and stickers including unicorns, dragons, tarot themes, and more.

This weekend I’ll be set up in the artists alley at #DEXLITE IN Morristown, NJ - July 3-6, 4 full days of tabletop, card games, and RPGs.

Stop on by and say hi! I may be taking on-site commissions, first come, first serve! #artistsalley #fantasyartist

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Rough color thumbnail sketch of a confused dragon flying through a city

Photo of people posing dramatically in front of a green screen

Detailed digital sketch of a confused dragon flying through Times Square, as a crowd reacts

Final pencil sketch of a confused dragon flying through Times Square as a crowd reacts below

At last month’s workshop I started a new drawing, inspired by the homework prompt (and all the isekai I’ve been watching 😅) It went through a LOT of sketching & development - inc. ref. photos with the help of fellow attendees.

It still needs a few more tweaks before it’s ready to start inking.

Photo of a large group of people standing in front of the Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design

Selfie of Stephanie Smith (Critterwings) and Lauren Brown

Photo of an art studio with several painters at work on humorous portraits, while others watch

Photo of an art studio where several people are working at tables in a variety of media

Had an awesome time last month at the Fantasy Art Illustration Intensive - such a vibe with so many amazing artists! Big thanks to @jeffmiracola.com for organizing and the incredible instructors for their insight and energy.

(And 😘 ever-sparkly @labillustration.bluesky.social for the selfie!)

See a Fox 🦊
Post a Fox 🦊

#Art #Fox

(This fox has a friend, may also be considered a fox? 😏)

Drawing of various zoo animals running from a zoo gate in the night; a pair of children ride a unicorn running in front of them.

The stillness of the night was broken by chaos from the zoo…

It’s #Junicorn and I’m playing along with @ecraster combining as many of the #advancedjunicorn week 1 prompts into 1 image as I can 😁 Just a rough sketch so far - What do you think, should I finish it up?

#sketchbook #fantasyart

Looks like I’ll be busy this June… 😉🦄 #fantasyillustration #fantasyartist #junicorn

I’m in! How much remains to be seen, lol, but it’ll be at least one 😉, gotta get some unicorn love (or terror, depending on how this goes…😉) 🦄

Seven colorful watercolor painting portraits of different medieval people posed with small dragons.

A gallery wall with a variety of fantasy drawings and paintings, several featuring small dragons.

A booth stocked with colorful stickers and prints!

I’m all set up for the weekend at @balticon.bsky.social - come find me in Artists Alley, where I may be scribbling away in my sketchbook. I have some pieces in the art show as well, including a few older drawings and my recent Smaugust watercolors. #balticon #fantasyartist

Photo of several different colorful prints and stickers, with various fantasy themes including unicorns, dragons, and people in colorful costumes.

If you're heading to #Balticon this weekend, stop by the artists alley to say Hi!

I'll have my prints, cards, stickers, and few other fun things for sale. I'm also bringing a couple of my older pieces and a few recent paintings along for the art show, www.balticon.org

poster artwork of a paper collage of a yellow cow running on a purple background. text reads: For the Love of Animals, May 2-31, 2025. Hive artspace, York PA. This exhibit helps animals! Special Event! First Friday 5-9 pm Veg party with Animal Advocates of So Central! Firefly Market, Food, Fun, and Prizes!

Print of an ink and watercolor painting of five different, realistic ants wearing colorful paint, ribbons and feathers, waving sticks in their mandibles.

Pile of colorful prints of ink and watercolor drawings of the chinese zodiac animals posing with red stones with their names written in chinese script, and also spelled out in english.

Six different die-cut stickers of realistic ink drawings of a tabby cat in various poses.

I'm so happy to be returning to the HIVE artspace gallery in York PA! I have several paintings, prints, cards, and stickers in their "For the Love of Animals" May show. 20% of all my sales go to charity. ❤️😸

Opening event is May 2, 5-9pm during the King St. Night Market www.hiveartspace.com

Painting of a woman in a long orange ang green dress, and a wreath on her head, twirling, smiling, and raising her arms in a swirl of green leaves, on top of a mosaic floor in a compass pattern.

Here is the final art for #theWorld card I created for the upcoming #78Tarot Medieval deck. It’s not strictly #EarthDay themed, but it makes me think hopefully for the future.

#fantasyillustrator

Have spent way too much of my life sketching horses, my mind horse is a bit too sassy for her own good.

Also had to play on “hard mode” by drawing on paper instead of digital and now am haunted by how small her face is oops 😅 #mindhorse #sketchbook

Velocipedia - Gimini

Oh, mine too! I ned a running start with anything mechanical 😅

I found it! www.gianlucagimini.it/portfolio-it... - so many of the “built” ones look almost-functional until you look closely LOL

I’d expect no less from you! ❤️

I recall an amazing project where someone asked random people to draw a bicycle from memory and then tried to “build” the results. They were… oddly unsettling.

Never enough art references!

Gotta love an animal-themed art share! I was just revisiting these ink and watercolor sketches of my elderly cat Tinkerbell from “Tinktober” a few years ago, some of which are now stickers.

She is sleeping in most of them because she hated being photographed SO much 😹 (and she was at least 18)

Congratulations! It’s been awhile since I drew some owls, but I was just going through my files of animal art today so this was good timing! 😸

The time lapse for my Unicorn of Earth showing many of false starts ... drawn in #procreate and sped up by a LOT.

#wip #artistProcess #TimeLapse

Drawing of a unicorn sitting in front of a rocky cave, with yellow flowers in its mane, with one hoof resting on a human skull

Montage of four images on unicorns, each posed behind a different setting: a dark purple silhouetted unicorn in a glowing space-like setting, a young colt flying though swirling clouds, a serene, long-maned unicorn standing in front of an icy waterfall, and an angry unicorn charging in front of a raging forest fire

For #NationalUnicornDay here’s my Elemental #Unicorns series, one for all 5 elements - Earth, Water, Air, Fire, and Aether/Void.

You can also find them in my shop
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#fantasyillustrator #fantasyart