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Candice Broersma
@candice-mantis.bsky.social
Book cover artist and currently developing the Shrumans card game.

https://www.candicebroersma.com
Prairie States Mushroom Club is an Iowa non-profit doing great work in fungi education. Look at the interview I did with them about my Shrumans card game!

www.candicebroersma.com/news/2026/1/...

Photo Credit: Prairie State Mushroom Club
iowamushroom.org

#forage #indiegames #mushrooms
January 6, 2026 at 2:53 AM
Map for Iowa City #holidaymarket THIS Saturday. Find me:

Robert A. Lee Recreation Center, #IowaCity
8am-1pm, Dec 6
🎨 Two floors of crafts
🌯 Breakfast nibbles
πŸͺ™ No cash? Buy with tokens!

Diversions Tabletop Game Lounge, #Coralville
3pm-7pm, Dec 6
β˜• Free Cocoa
🎁 Discounts
🎲 Gaming gifts

#noai
December 5, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!

My postcard features an interior illustration for the upper-middle grade sci fi series "Worlds Apart". I work with a line-based, graphic-novel-inspired illustration style for this book! Find more of my book illustration at candicebroersma.com.

#kidlit #noai
December 4, 2025 at 11:35 PM
Iowa City AND Coralville #holidaymarket events on Dec 6!

Robert A. Lee Recreation Center
8am-1pm
🎨 Two floors of hand-made goods
🌯 Breakfast nibbles
πŸͺ™ No cash? Buy with tokens!

Diversions Tabletop Game Lounge
3pm-7pm
β˜• Free Hot Cocoa
🎁 Discounts for purchasing from vendors
🎲 Gaming gifts
December 3, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Human or mushroom? The world may never know...

Pics from the Holiday Market in Iowa City. Fingers crossed that I will have a second show December 6! Freelance illustration is my main gig, but I would love to travel around to mushroom and art conventions one day.

#mushroom #mushroomart #iowacity
November 15, 2025 at 11:33 PM
See me and my mushroom artwork THIS Saturday at the Holiday Market in #IowaCity! Support human artists, small businesses, and find unique gifts!

Saturdays, November 15 & December 6
8 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Robert A. Lee Recreation Center

Image by freepik

#iowacityparksandrec #holidaymarket #holiday
November 12, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Skeletons are seriously amazing! I sketched these in Clip Studio in my quest to explore Photoshop alternatives.

Clip Studio wins at:
- Liquify ability in symmetry mode
- Using liquify directly on canvas
- Organic Vector line drawing and editing
- Perspective drawing guide
- Timelapse

#clipstudio
November 5, 2025 at 1:44 AM
Made my first card game box prototype! Stop by Game Store Day at Diversions Tabletop Game Lounge in Iowa City on November 1 (tomorrow) for free play testing of local-made games, including my Shrumans!

#gamestoreday #mushrooms #mushroomart #gameart #illustration #mushroomart
November 1, 2025 at 12:37 AM
Since my first public game testing of Shrumans at Diversions Tabletop Game Lounge, I have been honing my mushroom card game! The next one is happening Nov 1 on the inaugural Game Store Day. Prairie States Mushroom Club will be joining the fun!

www.diversionsic.com/events

#gamestoreday #mushrooms
October 26, 2025 at 1:00 AM
Are you in town for the Iowa City book festival? Stop by the vendor hall for a sci fi/fantasy convention at the Masonic Lodge called ICON. Open to the public from 11am-5pm.

#iowacity #iowaconvention #iowacitybookfestival #icbookfestival #icon49.5 #icon50 #iowacityevents #iowacityart #fantasyart
October 11, 2025 at 1:28 AM
Happy #kidlitart postcard day! I am a fantasy illustrator doing creative illustration in publishing, advertising, and gaming.

Stay weird and wonderful like a somewhat feline humanoid fairy queen with a thistle sword!

#illustration #fantasyart #kidlit #bookart #fairyart

www.candicebroersma.com
October 3, 2025 at 12:58 AM
Such a great integration of pattern and realism. πŸ¦‰
September 28, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Reposted by Candice Broersma
Surprise #lacomicon I’m doing a panel in about 20 minutes!

It’s gonna be a fantastic group discussing GenAi and its impacts on creatives!

Come on by if you’re around! It’s gonna be a blast!
September 27, 2025 at 5:41 PM
So much attitude! Also, I need try clip studio asap.
September 28, 2025 at 3:58 PM
I love the layout!
September 28, 2025 at 3:56 PM
My first tabling event for this fall! Come to a quaint sci-fi and fantasy con in Iowa City on October 10-11. Iowa City Book Festival is happening at the same time, so it's a 2-in-1 event weekend! Check out Iowa-icon.com for more information.

#iowa #conartist #iowacity #scifi #fantasy #fantasyart
September 28, 2025 at 2:52 AM
Did you know that you can paint with coffee? It works similarly to watercolor, but is more permanent once it's dried. Mix up cheap instant coffee with a little hot water and you're good to go!

#coffeeart #illustration #coffeepainting #animalart
September 24, 2025 at 6:05 PM
Here's a fancy witch for the fall season! I illustrated this for an article, trying out a simplified style (or, simple for me). Enjoy!

#witch #fallvibes #digitalart #illustration
September 22, 2025 at 2:02 PM
I started at Iowa City's Natural History Museum with a mountain lion and a bushy-tailed mouse. I finished at home with a cat and mouse theme. It made me wonder if people can tell right away if a drawing is from life or from a photograph/2d image. Can you tell the difference?

#procreate #digitalart
September 20, 2025 at 6:30 PM
I find many of my clients really do want to support human artists, but just don't know it. The same big tech fueling the gen ai craze makes "google" searches on the subject biased in support of gen ai. They are also good at burying the issues with it. Educating clients goes a long way!
September 18, 2025 at 8:18 PM
I use 3D models to help with lighting the scene and some of the tricky aspects of perspective. Here is a look at some of my 3D reference so you can get a sense for my process! Also, I NEED you to see my flapper-inspired caterpillar.

#digitalart #illustration #fantasyart #bookcover
September 14, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is an oldie, but goodie! I did this digital painting as part of a reimagined "virtues series" and was fortunate enough to receive an award in the Infected by Art annual. I love reinventing classic mythological creatures like unicorns and dragons!

#digitalart #fantasyart #characterart #unicorns
September 13, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Iowa City has an amazing Natural History Museum that is free of admission and I don't go enough! Here are some crazy animal sketches I made in #Procreate. @pentacrest.museums

#sketchbook #procreate #timelapse #sketch #digitalart
September 11, 2025 at 2:04 AM
I enjoy using Procreate the most for sketching this was my first try at drawing in Procreate. Somehow the execution is better than my more recent projects in Procreate which is confuzzling. Or maybe I just really like gargoyles!

#sketch #procreate #drawingstudy #gargoyles #gargoyleart
September 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
This is an interior illustration I made for "The Duchess and the Journey Under the Eternal Clouds" by Jeremiah Brennan. Airships for everyone!

#bookart #bookillustration #middlegrade #steampunk #digitalart #kidslit
September 6, 2025 at 6:30 PM