tatterberry @tatterberry@mastodon.art

Now that I'm a bit more settled time for #introductions !

Hi there! I'm Jess.

- I pretty much seem to collect art supplies at this point, but my first love is watercolour
- my current main project is a webcomic (igmbdh.thewebcomic.com) which was meant to be a month long test and has so far taken the whole of this year and is STILL NOT DONE
- most of the rest of my free time is spent playing videogames, especially MMOs (GW2, Wildstar, ESO, SWL) and nintendo stuff

#creativetoots #mastoart https://mastodon.art/media/13L6mBrLwe_6AnOzDnw https://mastodon.art/media/7JmkXXI1LmNxsFbu1AE https://mastodon.art/media/f90XdbnY9SHKZ8AUyPY https://mastodon.art/media/hoQ-4XabvY8_cqh5CZw

Behold my Bumper Crop of radishes (i.e, more than one radish)

I've been doing some more ink and fountain pen stuff lately and having a lot of fun with it!

#mastoart #ink #traditionalart

Last week I was in St Ives in Cornwall and took the chance to do some landscapey things! Lots of attempts to paint the sea because the colours there are fantastic. also featuring some Actual Seaweed and Sand.

#mastoart #pleinair #watercolour

ANYWAY I am looking forward to being finished with this thing and eventually having enough distance to be able to look back on it and be like 'HELL YEAH look at this thing I made, I made a WHOLE THING'

I can definitely see how webcomic authors can get stuck in a constant cycle of re-doing pages. It's not something I want to do myself because I feel like the state of the art is sort of... indicative of where I was as an artist at the time and that's cool to have that lying around! But at the same time it's disheartening to know that the thing I am still working on now is attached to stuff I can't currently bear to look at 8,)

The cycle of looking at your own art where at first you like it, then it's meh, then you HATE IT and then after a few years you're like... detached enough to be able to like it again is so weird and brutal. The past couple of days I've been adding navigation links to my comic on tumblr, which means I have to LOOK AT ALL THOSE OLD PAGES and dear goodness I h a t e t h e m. I try to look back on the actual pages as little as possible purely because I know this will happen lmao

Pretty things!

Just ordered some Schminke watercolour half pans to try since they're on sale at Jacksons. Am excite, I've been wanting to try them for ages :D and now I can finally replace the two disappointingly hard to activate pans in the WN professional range set that I got for christmas...

I am in arachnophobe HELL I just saw a giant spider crawling on my bed and now I don't know where tf it went. Spider mating season is THE WORSTTT

Aaand last thing for now! I absolutely love the texture this rough cotton paper gives my watercolours. 😍

#mastoart #watercolour #traditionalart

Various practice pictures! I realised while drawing the crystal one that probably my favourite colour palette to use is basically 'bi pride flag colours', woops!

#mastoart #traditionalart

A couple of 'girls with horns' pictures I never got around to posting!

#mastoart #watercolour #traditionalart

I'm not overly surprised that Anthem looks... totally uninspiring but I still keep thinking back on specific things about the press conference and being like 'REALLY'. Mainly the part where they got a question about character customisation and were like 'you can make your mech different colours!!' I am 99.8% sure that that is not what the question meant and I am 99.9% certain that the presenter freakin' knew that, like what??