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Becky Chapin 🐉 Once-upon-an-Artist
@beckychapin.bsky.social
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🎨 Illustrator 💻 Designer
📚 Reader 🧶 Spinner 🕸️ Weaver
🎲 DnD Nerd - Currently: Cassie, the Kalashtar Echo Knight 🛡️⚔️
🌈 LGTBQ+ 🧠 Bipolar 💭 AuDHD

https://www.beckyschapin.com
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It's after Halloween, but let's continue the Spooky-thread!
November 3, 2025 at 2:19 AM
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IF YOU SEE THIS, SHOW OFF YOUR #ART STYLE!

I recently discovered that I DO have an art style! It was a pleasant surprise. 😮 I just had to step away from my art for 5+ years to be able to see it, lol.

#artstyle #artist #artistvoice #penandink #blackandwhite #tentacles
It's a profile view of a heron, drawn in ink - so it's just black and white. The word that prompted this illustration was "Elegant." This is an ink drawing, so it's in black and white. It shows a shelf at eye-level filled with potion bottles of varying shapes and sizes. 1. The first tall and bulbous bottle is full of what is likely water since there is a flower coming out of it like a vase. 2. The next one is short and squat with a large label written in an arcane language that we can't read. It has a cork stopper and twine wrapped around it's neck and tied in a bow. 3. The third item is actually a twisty candlestick holder, but instead of a candlestick there is a small, scaley orb-like creature that appears to consist of an eyeball, some scales, and two tiny wings. 4. Next is a larger bottle similar to a cider jug, with a cork stopper. Inside the unknown liquid there are eyeball tadpoles swimming around: eyeballs with small octopus-like tentacles for tails. 5. This looks like a perfume bottle with a spherical cap and another arcane label. 6. This bottle looks to have a grown-up version of the eyeball tadpoles since it has pushed off it's cork and the octopus-tentacle is reaching out of the bottle. The eye is looking up where the scaley-winged eyeball is looking. 7. This diamond shaped bottle has a small cork and the hint of a face inside the liquid, at the bottom. 8. The last bottle matches the side of the diamond bottle and has another tentacle-creature, but this one doesn't have either suckers or an eyeball, just a pair of wings and it's ends seem to like to curl into spirals. The large eyeballs are looking up at a small dragon flying above everything, with a long skinny body and thin wings. Upon a final look, you think there may be an eye watching you from inside the woodgrain. The word that inspired this is "Mysterious." A black and white drawing in ink of a pufferfish. This fish is mostly inflated with it's spikes protruding. The word that inspired this is "Surprise." A black and white drawing in ink that shows a very small silhouetted figure at the bottom of the page. Above it is a cthulian horror which begins with the shape of a human skull, but instead of continuing into teeth - there are octopus-like tentacles writhing below the skull. The eye sockets are dark and hollow. The word that inspired this is "Run."
February 28, 2025 at 9:18 PM
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February 11, 2025 at 5:06 AM
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Congratulations on 2k! That's fantastic!!! 😃
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🫎🪻🧦🐉
A sketch of a blue moose in a simplistic style. A symbol on the left has the word "Roams" under it. A pink watercolor clover flower with a brown, yellow, and blue watercolor background. It's waiting to dry before being framed so it's overpainted in a square on an otherwise white background. The brush is at the bottom of the image. A single black crew sock with white toes and heel is in the center of the watercolor area. There is also a white elephant on the upper-side of the sock as decoration. The background is black, blue, green, purple, and res watercolor. It's waiting to dry before being framed so it's overpainted in a rectangle on an otherwise white background. The brush and some tissues are at the top of the image. This is a mixed media illustration: watercolor, colored pencil, and ink. It shows a serpent style pink dragon with two swept back horns and a spine-ridge made of fur. The tail is a large tuft of fur. There are four songbirds carrying the dragon by its fur to keep it in the air. The ground is rolling green hills with small stylized trees. The sky is a bright, clear blue. The overall style is light and playful.
January 23, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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Without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
January 23, 2025 at 8:31 PM
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😂🤣😂 You inspired a doodle.
A GLP-1 molecule with an angry cartoon face and stick-arms crossed in front "harumphing" because it's an "Agonist."
January 23, 2025 at 4:04 AM
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Inspired by @aimeecozza.com, here is a flower for the day.

Watercolor and ink - done a couple years ago.
A blue and purple iris in full bloom with a smaller bud as well. Two larger green leaves bent from it. Painted in watercolor with inl.
January 22, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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With that, I hit Bad Habit Artist BINGO.

Which... I only JUST realized said Habit rather than "Bad Artist." I suppose that's right there with "Too hard on self." 🎨🙄😂
January 22, 2025 at 5:15 AM
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I had an interview today (in person) that I think went really well!
Before I even got home they'd sent me an assessment to complete for the next part of the process. I hope it goes well - I like them.

Dogs because they also make me happy.
January 22, 2025 at 5:04 AM
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Time to put on our boots.

Remember to stay hydrated, friends.
Tank Girl pulling on her boot in a dry, post-apocalyptic desert landscape saying, "I can't let things be this way. We can be wonderful. We can be magnificent. We can turn this shit around."
January 21, 2025 at 10:26 PM