Stephanie Cost

Signed up. Artist newsletters are my new favorite thing, makes me actually curious to open my inbox every day instead of just Existentially Anxious.

In solidarity with today's ICE OUT OF MINNESOTA blackout, MinnMax is donating $1 to the Immigrant Law Center of Minnesota for every share of this Bluesky post for the next hour.

Stand With Minnesota Donation Directory Stand With Minnesota is a hub for supporting, learning, and taking action to support Minnesotans impacted by ICE and federal enforcement.

Good morning to everyone but especially our friends in Minnesota bravely organizing a general strike & protest in -20F weather.

In their honor, no wishlist posting today. Please check out standwithminnesota.com for ways to help them! 💕

Birds and References Happy mid-January everyone! This is typically the start of The Difficulties for me; the holidays are over and the new car smell of January i...

New blog post is up about artsy resources, for those needing to interrupt a doomscrolling spiral right now.

My thoughts are returning again and again to Minnesota. If you live there and have links for aid organizations, feel free to share them below.

fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/bird...

Do people still say "this is dope"? I'm in love with this.

Awesome!!

Just before Christmas, I got a puppy. Her name is Minerva, and we call her *Minnie. I'm still learning how to understand her. Me: Do you need to go outside? Do you need to go outside, little baby? Do you need to do a poo? Do you need to do a widdle piddle? Minnie: Arf! *I just call her "little baby" most of the time. I'm also realizing I can't turn off the baby talk now. Nobody tells you about that.

I got so lucky with my first puppy. Her wonderful foster parents had her completely house-trained by the time we adopted her, so taking her outside for potty time has been pretty easy. I've got the puppy poopy routine pretty much down, now. Me, putting on my coat: Let's see... I got the little poopy bags, puppy treats for bribes, jacket, scarf, phone… I think that's everything… Oh yes! And my passport.

I had been carrying around my passport for a while, but I knew it didn't matter. This is wrong. Nobody is required to carry around their papers. I became a US citizen when I was seven. Since I was born in a refugee camp, I was stateless. The US is the only nation where I've ever held citizenship. It's the only passport I've ever had, and it still felt important. Protective. I would hold it in my pocket like a talisman, like it might ward off ghosts or something. But I realized I was holding onto it basically out of superstition. ICE will pick up anybody. I know that. So I tucked my passport away. And I largely avoid leaving my house.

I live a few blocks just South of George Floyd Square. I was in the neighborhood for that, too. And all the neighbors came together to protect each other. We're already organized. We'll do our best to get through this. Me, to my dog: I hope I can take you for a walk someday soon. Won't that be nice, little baby?

Abolish ICE. A little journal comic from South Minneapolis.

#iceoutmpls #iceoutcomics #iceoutofmpls

I'm so sorry, this is heartbreaking. Mocha looks to have been an angel. 💔

Ahh, thank you! 🥹

These are beautiful, I love the colors you use 🥰

FLUFFCAT immortalized! Rune gave me this for Secret Santa and I was blown away. My perfect precious baby 🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

A crow on a mossy stump in a pine forest

A horse diving through some seaweed underwater

A fox crawling through colourful foliage

A path with stone steps through a sun lit forest

Hello #portfolioday

I'm a Welsh UK based freelance illustrator currently available for commercial work!

www.aledthompson.com

You know what? 2026 is the year I'm not playing nice anymore.

If copyright means so little to use A / I for playing around, here's one of his book for free:

Color and Light James Gurney [English] : Free Download, Internet Archive share.google/qjDjFS6QhhZJ...

Comic artist LeBeau Underwood’s daughter has been missing in Chicago since yesterday morning. Please share in the hopes we can bring the family a happy conclusion to this.

Ha ha aaaaaa *internal screaming*

Things can be whatever color you want. People will critique your realistic shading or perspective or anatomy but no one cares if your grass is green.

Artistic interpretation of the three of swords tarot card. A golden warrior wielding one of the swords is bursting out from a heart, red clouds rain drops of blood at the top, and there are eyes lurking in a crowd of ominous people in the background.

✨Three of swords✨

If you use Discord and want to tell them how you feel about them adding AI tools, here's a link to the survey. Share it far & wide. Let them know we don't want it. discord.sjc1.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Thank you so much!

yeah why have some measles when you can have no measles, same logic as ICE.

You all make beautiful work. All the art on my feed makes me chortle like a happy little dragon coveting its treasures.

This is horrific. It would drive me straight off the platform for good to have this pushed into my face 😣

It's a new year, time to raise those commission prices if you haven't in a while! At very least factor in inflation into the increase.

Oh thank you! I ran into this before but had lost track of it!

Running a 20% storewide sale for some bills! 💖
earthlydice.etsy.com

[ #Dnd #dice #ttrpg ]

HEY FRIENDS. I made a new blog post on Five Hour Art School (my blog about five artsy resources a week)

Drop me cool resources you think I might like here in the comments, if you feel generous. 🩷

fivehourartschool.blogspot.com/2026/01/2025...

This is kicking ass!

That is an absolutely awesome outfit.

Some people act like Twitter is their hometown or something. Like I get that people's careers might be affected by leaving, but "they'll never drive us away" isn't language I associate with a website. It's a hollowed out carcass.

Having a cat is so cool. There is a little creature in my bed who loves me and vibrates like a tiny motorcycle and is so fuzzy and wants to snuggle. How could I want anything else