Stephen.Willis.Art 🍉
stephen-willis-art.bsky.social
Stephen.Willis.Art 🍉
@stephen-willis-art.bsky.social
Gay Autistic Welsh Artist who helps people learn about Makerspace Equipment. 🍉
(He/Him They/Them)
More the aesthetic.
November 12, 2025 at 8:04 PM
If you see this, post your birb art 🐧
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Finished a personal best for digital painting portrait. Finished it despite being interrupted several times on previous days - I kept the cinder of creativity alive!
October 29, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Finished a digital painting of a necromancer.

They're a academic of magic, and lacking in a moral code.

This piece I explored using barely any layers and only relying on an undersketch, to recreate my process with traditional oil paint. I had fun playing with the aggressive shadows that eat away.
October 28, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Could be fun?
October 28, 2025 at 11:20 AM
Baked some Panellets!

They're a Catalan biscuit made with sugar and ground almonds with potato (ideally sweet potato).

They're baked for Castanyada (Oct 31st), and I enjoy that eating them reminds me of the fun I had with my Catalan friends, a decade ago now.
October 26, 2025 at 5:26 PM
Finished my Illustration Assignment for my own comic.

It presents the werewolf transformation through the lense of Magic Girl Transformation. It's a playful joke of smashing two opposing themes together whilst finding their overlap. It's been very fascinating to work on it.

#Werewolf #ShowYourWork
October 7, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Joys of being an artist.

Drawing a werewolf in a cute pose whilst looking confused.

#Werewolf #MagicalGirl #Illustration #ShowYourWork #WIPArt
September 30, 2025 at 3:17 PM
I find their effect very satisfying on my brain. Attrition on my opponent's creatures. Spawn slug friends if they die. Stacks with creatures that have extra slime counter conditions.

Otherwise I love Breach the Multiverse. We all mill and I get to rob everyone's graveyard. I love any theft cards.
September 25, 2025 at 5:58 PM
In one of my old jobs, HR thought it would be fun to have a plant-growing contest between all the departments.

Alas, the Managers' plant died from neglect.
September 22, 2025 at 5:51 PM
Varnishing done!

Time to make the hanging hoop!

Then complete!!!

#DBCraftAlong #DB2025 #DesertBusForHope #FF14 #FFXIV #HearFeelThink #FinalFantasy14 #FinalFantasyXIV
August 22, 2025 at 10:40 AM
To me it is.
August 18, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Desert Bus for Hope 2025 Craftalong update!

Working on layering the white.
Need to tidy blue edges and give a critical eye and last touches.
Then varnish, sand yet again if needed, and decide on how to make the Macramé hanging hoop.

#DesertBusForHope #ShowYourWork #DBFH #DesertBusForHopeCraftAlong
August 13, 2025 at 3:39 PM
#DesertBusForHope Craftalong update!

Sanded. Blued. Dark details added.

Next step: add white to bits with white.

#ShowYourWork #DBFH #DB2025 #Plywood #WelshArtist
August 11, 2025 at 7:43 PM
I'm very happy with my cosmetic setup for my Gunbreaker in Final Fantasy 14.
August 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
I am leading an all-age workshop on Wednesday with "Make Your Own Stickers" and this evening I was frantically finding out if you could design by hand - so people had more autonomy in the design process.

Thankfully you can! And I feel relief exhaustion because it was looking very pessimistic.
August 4, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Today I've been optimising my Procreate project archiving. The process to "destack" work is so clunky I've put it off until today.

I then went to make backups of finished works on my desktop. There I found this forgotten cat painting!

It was part of a Daily Cat challenge to help me art more often.
July 30, 2025 at 4:56 PM
#DesertBusForHope Craftalong update!

It's been cut out and engraved.

Next stage is sanding!

#ShowYourWork #Lasercutter #FF14 #FFXIV #FinalFantasy #FinalFantasy14 #FinalFantasyXIV
July 28, 2025 at 2:58 PM
Today's Sublimation Dye Mug workshop at Partneriaeth Ogwen, Bethesda, Gwynedd, Cymru, was so popular, all the sublimation blanks got used! It's wonderful to see such community interest.

Sublimation dyes are a fun alternative to sublimation because you paint on paper to make the transfer.
July 23, 2025 at 12:45 PM
Steve has wares if you have coin!

Test Trading in Bangor, Gwynedd, at MSParc ArYLon. It's across the highstreet from Bangor Cathedral.

Cash & PayPal payments accepted.

Pop on by!

(there's a Makerspace there too.)

#TestTrading #ShowYourWork #Bangor #BangorArtist #WelshArtist #NorthWales
July 21, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Current process on my Desert Bus for Hope 2025 Craft-a-long.

Will aim to cut and engrave it on Monday.

Will start designing the "satellite" crystal keyrings too.

#DB2025 #DBCraftalong #FF14 #HearFeelThink #FinalFantasy14 #FinalFantasyXIV #FFXIV #FinalFantasy
July 17, 2025 at 4:55 PM
Human Artists!

Use one piece to convince people to follow you!
June 19, 2025 at 6:30 PM
A non-current update of my gremliny Craftalong #DB2025
#DBCraftalong #FF14 #HearFeelThink
June 10, 2025 at 6:07 PM
I really need to share my projects more here.

I work with a local community group, helping to run their Makerspace. A recent workshop I lead was using heat transfer dyes to paint a painting to sublimate onto a water bottle.

It's a fun activity that introduces children to colour theory and tech.
May 31, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Visited a National Trust Garden property to see the flowering archway.
May 26, 2025 at 7:59 PM