Gabbie Benda✨✏️✨
@patchysourkids.bsky.social
Professional graphic novelist&illustrator, amateur worm enthusiast 🪱
🍀 SERENDIPITY Spring 2026
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🍀 SERENDIPITY Spring 2026
🎨 gabbiebenda.art
✨ linktr.ee/patchysourkids
The exclusive preorder stickers for my book arrived!!🥹✨🍀🩷
Serendipity publishes THIS Jan 27th! If you’d like to get your hands on this sticker and a signed copy, you can preorder through my favorite local bookstore bbgb books! I’d love to make you a little custom doodle :)
#graphicnovel #kidlitart
Serendipity publishes THIS Jan 27th! If you’d like to get your hands on this sticker and a signed copy, you can preorder through my favorite local bookstore bbgb books! I’d love to make you a little custom doodle :)
#graphicnovel #kidlitart
January 5, 2026 at 5:23 PM
The exclusive preorder stickers for my book arrived!!🥹✨🍀🩷
Serendipity publishes THIS Jan 27th! If you’d like to get your hands on this sticker and a signed copy, you can preorder through my favorite local bookstore bbgb books! I’d love to make you a little custom doodle :)
#graphicnovel #kidlitart
Serendipity publishes THIS Jan 27th! If you’d like to get your hands on this sticker and a signed copy, you can preorder through my favorite local bookstore bbgb books! I’d love to make you a little custom doodle :)
#graphicnovel #kidlitart
December sketchbook highlights 🐠
December 22, 2025 at 10:01 PM
December sketchbook highlights 🐠
Wandering back into bluesky 🙂↕️🙂↕️
December 21, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Wandering back into bluesky 🙂↕️🙂↕️
Challenging myself to draw compositions I like instead of taking a picture
April 14, 2025 at 1:11 PM
Challenging myself to draw compositions I like instead of taking a picture
Spent my day making art and feeling a sense of whimsy and joy that an ai ‘artist’ will never experience
April 12, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Spent my day making art and feeling a sense of whimsy and joy that an ai ‘artist’ will never experience
I can post on image based socials all the time no problem but it’s struggle with Twitters/blueskys/threads. I simply don’t know what to say!!
April 11, 2025 at 8:37 PM
I can post on image based socials all the time no problem but it’s struggle with Twitters/blueskys/threads. I simply don’t know what to say!!
Happy #kidlitartpostcardday !! I feel like im still finding my groove after completing my first graphic novel, but I always love to hear about exciting new projects :-)
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🐰 Repped by the lovely @ladygoofus.bsky.social
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 Repped by the lovely @ladygoofus.bsky.social
April 3, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Happy #kidlitartpostcardday !! I feel like im still finding my groove after completing my first graphic novel, but I always love to hear about exciting new projects :-)
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 Repped by the lovely @ladygoofus.bsky.social
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 Repped by the lovely @ladygoofus.bsky.social
Playing totk again and I think I might never get over this Zelda character design 🥲
March 30, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Playing totk again and I think I might never get over this Zelda character design 🥲
How do I celebrate finishing my first graphic novel? Wrong answers only please 💖
March 14, 2025 at 6:40 PM
How do I celebrate finishing my first graphic novel? Wrong answers only please 💖
Reposted by Gabbie Benda✨✏️✨
DragonForged: Sword of the Champion is out today!!!
March 11, 2025 at 4:43 PM
DragonForged: Sword of the Champion is out today!!!
I can’t believe this is my last week working on my graphic novel 😭 I’ve never been more proud and more afraid to let go of a project!!!
March 8, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I can’t believe this is my last week working on my graphic novel 😭 I’ve never been more proud and more afraid to let go of a project!!!
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!! I think I’m ready for some sunny weather 🌻😭
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 represented by @ladygoofus.bsky.social
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 represented by @ladygoofus.bsky.social
March 6, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Happy #kidlitartpostcard day!! I think I’m ready for some sunny weather 🌻😭
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 represented by @ladygoofus.bsky.social
✨ gabbiebenda.art
🐰 represented by @ladygoofus.bsky.social
Actually criminal that I can’t spend my whole day playing kcd2 😔😔😔
February 17, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Actually criminal that I can’t spend my whole day playing kcd2 😔😔😔
Making the most diabolical synth pop playlist to listen to while I work on my book because I know my main character would have it on repeat 😌😌
February 10, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Making the most diabolical synth pop playlist to listen to while I work on my book because I know my main character would have it on repeat 😌😌
Some of my recent sketchbook spreads ✨
February 10, 2025 at 4:26 PM
Some of my recent sketchbook spreads ✨
This time of year has me dreaming of summer produce 🥲
February 7, 2025 at 4:13 PM
This time of year has me dreaming of summer produce 🥲
Do you ever get hit with crazy decision fatigue and wander around your house like a sim who keeps getting their actions canceled 🥲
February 7, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Do you ever get hit with crazy decision fatigue and wander around your house like a sim who keeps getting their actions canceled 🥲
My first bluesky #kidlitartpostcard day!! ✨
I thought it’d be fun to share my first postcard I ever actually printed and sent out! I’m currently working a couple really exciting projects but always looking to connect with kidlit people :)
Repped by @ladygoofus.bsky.social 🐰
gabbiebenda.art 🪱
I thought it’d be fun to share my first postcard I ever actually printed and sent out! I’m currently working a couple really exciting projects but always looking to connect with kidlit people :)
Repped by @ladygoofus.bsky.social 🐰
gabbiebenda.art 🪱
February 6, 2025 at 2:17 PM
My first bluesky #kidlitartpostcard day!! ✨
I thought it’d be fun to share my first postcard I ever actually printed and sent out! I’m currently working a couple really exciting projects but always looking to connect with kidlit people :)
Repped by @ladygoofus.bsky.social 🐰
gabbiebenda.art 🪱
I thought it’d be fun to share my first postcard I ever actually printed and sent out! I’m currently working a couple really exciting projects but always looking to connect with kidlit people :)
Repped by @ladygoofus.bsky.social 🐰
gabbiebenda.art 🪱
Fun fact: if you make a scene of your graphic novel in a library, you then have to actually draw a library and every book on every shelf 🥰🥰
February 5, 2025 at 8:34 PM
Fun fact: if you make a scene of your graphic novel in a library, you then have to actually draw a library and every book on every shelf 🥰🥰
Reposted by Gabbie Benda✨✏️✨
I’ve been really down lately due to well, everything, but DRAGONFORGED comes out next month!! March 11th! I hope it can make people smile in these uncertain times.
February 4, 2025 at 8:05 AM
I’ve been really down lately due to well, everything, but DRAGONFORGED comes out next month!! March 11th! I hope it can make people smile in these uncertain times.
I know there is still kindness in this world because I feel it
February 3, 2025 at 4:34 PM
I know there is still kindness in this world because I feel it
Paintings from France 🌻
January 30, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Paintings from France 🌻
I’m usually so hard on myself with coloring, but I’m really happy with the pages I’ve done this week. Watching my debut come together has been so 🥺🥺😭
January 29, 2025 at 7:05 PM
I’m usually so hard on myself with coloring, but I’m really happy with the pages I’ve done this week. Watching my debut come together has been so 🥺🥺😭
Someone should sit down every person who wants to be a full time artist and tell them how swiftly sitting like a shrimp will catch up with them 😭😭
January 27, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Someone should sit down every person who wants to be a full time artist and tell them how swiftly sitting like a shrimp will catch up with them 😭😭