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i’m chris!🌻 i’m an illustrator/character designer based in the US! full time freelance, livin the dream (someone please hire me)

i’ve worked with Tor Teen, Peachtree, Holiday House, and Page Street publishing <3

✉️ christine.sack.a@gmail.com
🖼️ arcanegoldart.com/portfolio

#portfolioday

"Actually, burning people's passions away and replacing them with bright-eyed youngsters full of hope who shall then also be burned out in an endless hellish cycle of destroying the human soul is quite profitable for me."

Excerpt from Wikipedia reads: "Fight against merchandising his characters For years, Watterson battled against pressure from publishers to merchandise his work, something that he felt would cheapen his comic through compromising the act of creation or reading.[21][22] He refused to merchandise his creations on the grounds that displaying Calvin and Hobbes images on commercially sold mugs, stickers, and T-shirts would devalue the characters and their personalities. Watterson said that Universal kept putting pressure on him and that he had signed his contract without fully perusing it because, as a new artist, he was happy just to find a syndicate willing to give him a chance (two other syndicates had previously turned him down). He added that the contract was so one-sided that, if Universal really wanted to, they could license his characters against his will, and could even fire him and continue Calvin and Hobbes with a new artist. Watterson's position eventually won out, and he was able to renegotiate his contract so that he would receive all rights to his work. Later he said that the licensing fight exhausted him and contributed to the need for a nine-month sabbatical in 1991.[23]"

Bill Watterson is my favorite cartoonist. I adored the relationship btw Calvin and Hobbes as a child. But as I've gotten older, these strips feel even more tender and insightful. My respect for him grew when I learned of his stance against merchandising. Such principles are almost unheard of today.

[art] the king's court HATES to see them coming!! #oc

FFXIV Reddit

"Search for best strat board is over" by UnspiredName
http://redd.it/1qc24bd

WOAH!!! she painted this!!!!!!!!!

colored digital sketch of artist's wol dressed in calista's (the last story) wedding dress and also holding an oddly shaped golden blade

#wol

The Crystal Exarch's arm was held together by force of will-- painfully shattering it to increase flexibility and then holding the pieces together with magic. While similar to that of animated stonekin, it worked even while he slept

ok now that i have your attention heres my fanfiction (flashbangs you)

throwback to when someone put me on an ai blocklist because of wuksphene pygmalion yuri

I’m finally free to draw my WoL

bunny man came to me in a dream, i don't think I'll do anything with him, but I wanted to draw to get the colors down since I may recycle these hues and values into a different design

i made a guide on how to write, draw, and print a doujinshi/fanzine/whatever you want to call it.

this is a crash course on literally everything i know about making doujinshi. it's over 40 pages long. i hope you like it.

docs.google.com/document/d/1...

悲しい顔をしないでっていってそうな。

Space dementia in my eyes

Postando meu desenho favorito desse ano, Lyre (oc) e seu furão milord #BRart #myart (infelizmente não consigo postar a versão animada no bluesky :(

Ermmm #hades2 #hypzag #myart

for butter

#orginalcharacter
#taur
#art

Posting a little early this week.
Today's blog entry is about how I plan out my comics. So there's a step by step explaining each stage 📔🖋️
breezebl.wordpress.com/2026/01/05/m...

Hawtpixel Font Bundle by Hawtpixel - Darrell Flood 650 Fonts Full Commercial Use

I just extended the Bundle Sale out for 24 more hours! (Seeing an uptick of buys here right near the very end and don't want anyone to miss out!) If you're in need of fonts (at 99% off!) get them while it's still live! :) #fonts #gamedev #indiedev #TTRPG #design hawtpixel.itch.io/hawtpixel-fo...

Warrior of Light (Meteor) & Crystal Exarch fanart.

doodling

living in the 2020’s

a beautiful palette of 4 watercolor paint hues , 2 teals and 2 golds

A reminder to any canadian (or any) #watercolor artists. Beam Paints is an Indigenous owned company with beautiful plastic-free hues. Their sparkly metallics are to die for

www.beampaints.com

digital artwork of halmarut and calyx in his plushie form in front of a green background. halmarut is nuzzling their faces together with a weary expression, saying, "oh, calyx, we're *really* in it now..." calyx clearly is not pleased with being cuddled. "halmarut can you lock the fuck in"

oh they're going to be the *worst* (/affectionate) #ffxiv #finalfantasyxiv #ffxivspoilers

i'll lock in if you lock in? 🥹

10 mins until 2026 🍾🎉🎉🥳

Imagine you get sent a strategy board and you open it thinking it's friendly advice from a raider comrade and it's just a rick roll instead

digital drawing of a cat. the way it’s drawn makes it look very distorted. one of the legs is huge and the head is very small

distorted photo of a cat. the way the photo is taken makes it look very distorted. one of the legs is huge and the head is very small