Nate! 🌈🦔✏️🌱☀️

Hello there! 👋 My name is Nate, I'm a freelance illustrator who loves to draw animals! My favorite being European Hedgehogs 🦔 I use my work to represent themes of: self-acceptance, joy, universal peace, love, kindness, and childlike joy

Artists, the pressure to 'find your style' is a product derived from capitalism. As you continue to create, you will keep finding new things in your style. Your style will keep changing and evolving. It is not a finite finishing line. It is something that you are constantly always learning.

Re-posting all my friends teddies cause you should go buy a new Halloween friend 🎃

I made 'bats' for Halloween as well... (Anurognathus) Though I'll probably stock these at other times as well haha. Silly little things! www.thylacinestoyshop.com/store/p/anur...

Three different spooky-flavoured Sinosauropteryx are ready to adopt from my shop! www.thylacinestoyshop.com/store/p/sino... (I also added a waitlist option to notify you when I stock any colour of sinosauropteryx! Should've had that already...)

Pumpkin Carnotaurus are also available! www.thylacinestoyshop.com/store/p/carn... I realised my regular orange carnos already looked rather like pumpkin-like, with the zigzag mouths I give them! Only needed triangle eyes and green stalk arms to complete the look.

DJ Catnip and Mercat are sharing a cupcake together! Crayola crayon

It's fall, which means it's squirrel time 🐿️ Ink

It's fall, which means it's squirrel time 🐿️ Ink

My Wolfstory self-insert, if you made one too show me!

It's really quite easy to help artists feel encouraged to show you more of the things that're sitting in their heads :D

My Wolfstory self-insert, if you made one too show me!

My 2 favorite catties, DJ Catnip & Pandy Paws Ballpoint pen, Crayola marker

Was thinking about this guy while falling asleep one night so drew him the next day Crayola twistable crayons, Crayola crayons

Found one of those rainbow pencils so wanted to try it out!

New sona which is at a perfect time cause he's been helping me cope with some things : ) Sheep baaaa Ballpoint pen & digital color ontop

Didn't know what was coming

Try to like it

Remembering

Full illustration commission, thankyou so much for the support! I had a very lovely time working on this piece, especially because it was the largest I've ever done! It was a challenge working with my limitation of only 7 layers 😅 What's your favorite way to play? I love coloring & wooden toys!

Sketch as a thankyou for a donation : ) Really big fan of this character and how elegant they are, had a lot of fun with their shapes! What's your favorite Pokemon? Mine is Butterfree! 🦋

Thankyou sketch for a donation : ) Not sure why but I've always enjoyed drawing characters with wings!

Thankyou sketch for a donation <3

Patreon reward, thankyou so much for the support! Had a good time playing around with the colors on this one, tried just letting myself have fun instead of sticking to "realistic" depictions : P

Kittyfairy ✨ Paint from the page beside this one gave it a fun rainbow effect hehe Ballpoint pen

Ballpoint pen, with some marker in bleedthrough from the page before

Ballpoint pen, with some marker in bleedthrough from the page before

Kittyfairy ✨ Paint from the page beside this one gave it a fun rainbow effect hehe Ballpoint pen

I haven’t done a TMI Tuesday in a bit, art related, not art related, feel free to ask! 🦔💕

Patreon reward, thankyou so much for the support! Had a good time playing around with the colors on this one, tried just letting myself have fun instead of sticking to "realistic" depictions : P

Thankyou sketch for a donation <3

Thankyou sketch for a donation : ) Not sure why but I've always enjoyed drawing characters with wings!

Sketch as a thankyou for a donation : ) Really big fan of this character and how elegant they are, had a lot of fun with their shapes! What's your favorite Pokemon? Mine is Butterfree! 🦋

Full illustration commission, thankyou so much for the support! I had a very lovely time working on this piece, especially because it was the largest I've ever done! It was a challenge working with my limitation of only 7 layers 😅 What's your favorite way to play? I love coloring & wooden toys!

Remembering

Try to like it

Didn't know what was coming

New sona which is at a perfect time cause he's been helping me cope with some things : ) Sheep baaaa Ballpoint pen & digital color ontop

Found one of those rainbow pencils so wanted to try it out!

Use reference. I’m serious. I get it that somehow you or someone convinced you that using reference is “cheating.” It’s not. You are just hindering yourself.

Feels SO GOOD to work again, it's like my brain has reset & is actually at peace. I'm not even stressed about my giant to-do list I'm just so grateful I can even work in the first place 🙏