Abi Stevens🔜MCM Ldn

The Kickstarter for We've Always Been Here is live!!
Back for the merch pack and you'll get 3 stickers I've drawn for the project! 😁

I hope so! 🤞

A graphic with a large yellow banner in the middle announcing "Live on Kickstarter! We've Always Been Here: A queer historical zine." The bottom text is in a rainbow gradient with little rainbows framing the box. Above this is a mockup of the book's cover alongside some page mockups, and the bottom half features three other illustration previews.

🎉 Live on Kickstarter! 🎉

We've Always Been Here: A multicultural art book celebrating queerness throughout history, with illustrations from over 50 incredible artists! 🌈

Get the book and limited edition merch here: www.kickstarter.com/projects/tap...

#ZineSky #Zines #LGBTQ #LGBTQArt #QueerArt

Filters already exist specifically for this and the AI is learning to get aorund it.
We shouldn't have to run in circles trying to do this to protect our works copyright when it should remain enshrined in law. The law should be expanded to protect us not rolled back for the benefit of tech bros.

Holy shit AK 😂

Examples of my illustration work

Second example of my illustration work, a custom tarot card

Third example of my illustration work, another custom tarot card

Example of my illustration work, a personal piece

Still open for new work!
Non-commercial use fullbody pieces start at 350€
For commercial work contact me for a quote.

📧 rune.hrafnagaldur@gmail.com

Feel free to contact me if you're interested or have any questions

I know what you mean! I keep thinking 'this is the time they say no' lol. The number of apps now is massive.

Thanks! 😊❤️ I'm excited to see how they turn out, and how good a start the Kickstarter has going! 💪

Thank you! 🥰

One of my favorite artists, who just finished an amazing piece for my business, is out there doing the art thing!

Thanks, you too! 😁💕 Are you gonna be in AA too?

requiem for vanished birdsong

Four gold-plated enamel pins featuring my illustrations of the Four Horses of the Apoclypse: the white horse; conquest, the red horse; war, the black horse; famine and the 'pale' horse (green); death.

A digital illustration of a purple, blue and red patterned lobster covered in red-rimmed stylised eyes, plucking a green-rimmed eye from a purple border full of them, framed by three circular vignettes featuring purple coral, tentacles covered with eyes, and a blue brain coral covered in eyes.

A digital illustration of a family of pokemon: luxray, luxio and two shinx (one shiny yellow and blacl, the others the regular blue and black). The blue shinx is jumping on the back of the shiny shinx and using lightning which crackles across the family and background with colourful sparkles. The luxray is yawning and the luxio running. They are framed by a border of rainbow hued squares with gold and white pokeballs in them, and corner squares featuring four different fruits.

Two enamel pins featuring my creepy furbtaur design inspired by furby but with a gangly foals body. One is black, white and green with gold plating and the other is purple and pink with rainbow plating.

I'll be in Artist Alley at MCM London again in May! 🥳
I should have lots of new stuff in hand: the Apocalypse collection, Warped Ocean collection, new fanart, and more!
#artistAlley #MCMComicCon #illustration #artShop

I will be attending MCM London again in May! I hope to have some fresh new art and to meet some of you there!

Artists! I am looking for a Jewish illustrator for a middle-grade project focusing on Jewish history, practice, and culture. If your style feels fun, MG-appropriate, and both editorial & narrative, please drop a link or DM! (And editor & agent friends, if you have someone to rec, it's appreciated!)

The Kickstarter for We've Always Been Here is live!!
Back for the merch pack and you'll get 3 stickers I've drawn for the project! 😁

A list of our incredible artists here on Bluesky (see Kickstarter page for the full list):

@abistevensart.bsky.social @aediondraws.bsky.social @artiodaktyl.bsky.social @bunbuncita.bsky.social @carminedeville.bsky.social @chubby-shark.bsky.social @claremccanna.bsky.social @dellaactually.bsky.social

The Conservatives are, after all, well placed to know a lot about this morass, since they introduced it. In 2012, the coalition government launched the Plan 2 system of student loans and raised university fees across Britain to £9,000 per annum. To put Plan 2 in simple terms, loan repayments were laid out via a seemingly innocuous series of calculations. The first to consider is the threshold at which repayments begin. If you left education with, say, £27,000 worth of debt, you would only start paying it back once you met a predetermined salary. On its face, this might not seem like a particularly onerous demand. “Low-earning” graduates would avoid being saddled with repayments before they were financially able to begin making them, while their “high earning” peers could start chipping away at their debt, and provide an income stream for the state.

As any of my fellow literature or history graduates will tell you, however, the devil is in the details. For one thing, the threshold at which someone becomes a high earner was never particularly high and, following years of inflation, is now preposterously low. Rachel Reeves’ announcement that the government are freezing the threshold at April 2026 levels (£29,385) for a further three years only makes this worse. The real living wage for London is currently calculated at £28,860, which means that any London-based graduate making just £40 more per month than the minimum needed to live there will automatically begin paying their debt. In real terms, this means practically any graduate in any form of full-time work will be paying as much as 9 per cent of their income to the state, and for a very, very long time. Worse still, the amount owed by those graduates below the threshold does not remain static – it accrues interest, year on year, whether you’re working for low wages, volunteering, taking a career break or on maternity leave, ensuring that if you do pass the threshold some time later, you will be returning to find your original £27,000 much enlarged.

If the state’s attitude to what constitutes “high earnings” makes you think it’s oblivious to the concept of inflation, let me put your mind at ease. When it comes to the calculation of student loan interest, they are very conscious of inflation indeed. Each year, the interest charged on student loans is calculated by two components. The first is the Retail Price Index (RPI), which generally records a higher number than the Consumer Price Index (CPI). Governments prefer the latter, lower figure for many of their other calculations, just not when it comes to adding extra debt to every graduate in the country. To this is added a second component, a percentage tied to each graduate’s earnings, meaning that as your salary increases so too does the interest you’re paying on the loan you took out. If you think this seems like a predatory and punitive way to bilk students for as much money, and over as long a period of time, as possible, then you’re just about up to speed on this scandal, which amounts to a regressive stealth tax on every graduate in the UK. One which, it’s calculated, you would need to be earning £66,000 per year to pay off in anything like a timely fashion.

The debt burden of UK students is one of those things where, the more you look into the details, the more insane and predatory it is. So I tried my best to explain the numbers involved without making my, or your, head explode.

Hi Mr MP. Me again, your local artist.

I know you haven’t listened to me before, but i’m clogging your inbox again anyway.

You really want to put money into the pyramid scheme which is losing money instead of investing in UK creative arts?

That’s so embarrassing.

Not yours,

Fiona.

A photo of a bunch of different pins organised in a playing card organiser box. There's a white frame around the image with some writing: super seconds festival, behind the scenes, 7th and 8th of march 2026.

I've been hard at work behind the scenes sorting, counting and drafting listings of all my seconds grade pins in preparation for tnis weekend! 😁
#SSFMarch2026 #SuperSecondsFestival #artShop

QRP with your skull art! 💀

Not easy to choose one, I love painting skulls. This piece is Rabbit Reaper - oil and 24 karat gold leaf on panel. Sold to private collection.

Artist qrp your range! 💕🎨
#illustration

A photo of a rainbow-plated enanel pin featuring my artwork of a furby-inspired creature with a gangly foals body, in pink and purple.

I'm sending one of these creepy cuties to a new home this week. 😁
Could you too help to rehome an innocent furbtaur? 💕
abistevens.etsy.com/listing/4460...
#CursedFurby #artShop #bsnm

Qrp ypur art + nationality!
#llustration

Thanks! 😁💕

A photo of a rainbow-plated enanel pin featuring my artwork of a furby-inspired creature with a gangly foals body, in pink and purple.

I'm sending one of these creepy cuties to a new home this week. 😁
Could you too help to rehome an innocent furbtaur? 💕
abistevens.etsy.com/listing/4460...
#CursedFurby #artShop #bsnm

Artist qrp your range! 💕🎨
#illustration

Thanks! 🥰 They really do!

Thank you so much! 😊 It's new actually. It's a commission I finished in January. 😄

Thanks! 😁