Stephanie Cost

"I go to join The Thousand"

I fear I’ve cooked

New painting! 💖✨ This one will be part of the mailclub over on my Patreon this September so make sure you are signed up if you want her!

💛 Yellow Ochre 💛

Tim Curry's reading of the Sabriel series is probably my favorite audiobook? Most libraries will have it available, I think! He had wonderful material to work with (I really like this series), and his reading really transported me.

I drew this new goblin who is a knight

When I first started drawing I just took chunks of printer paper and put them on a clipboard.

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Does anyone have a good resource for watercolor texture packs? I'm looking for basically just pretty watercolor washes that are an abstract background kind of thing. I had a pack years ago and lost it. ☹️

It's Stretch Goal Announcement Time! Tucked into our pockets we've got an art upgrade, with more environmental art and vignettes to make Fairham come alive, a SPECIAL witch subclass, and a mini setting guide to drop players into the world of Dominion. Two weeks to go! witchstarter.co.uk

WITCH CLASS WITCH CLASS 🤩

I'm fully In It, learning how to make patterns for wallpapers. This is the spiritual successor to my beetle and cicada that gave me pattern brain fever. Really inspired by artists like Morris, Dearle and Voysey lately. Help me name it please! "Beetle2" doesn't seem very.. poetic.

Matt, Cory and Robin are some of my favorite creators! 🩷🩷

Behold: my most complex illustration to date! This is the cover for Thistlemarsh by @mooreacorrrigan.bsky.social as part of its @illumicrate.bsky.social special edition, and it's full of tiny details, symbolism and references to the story! I'll add close-ups below because clearly it deserves it ^^

Coming Soon: A DnD Folk Horror Supplement. Brave Witch Hunters and nightmares in a rural village, become a Witch, and hatch your own Chicken-Legged Cottage. 🐣 Follow and be the first to nab early bird benefits on launch! www.kickstarter.com/projects/144... Photography by @paulscottcanavan.com 🌟

Wild Tulips: my new seamless repeating pattern. Inspired by some wild tulips I saw on my walk to work one day. They're dramatic, beautiful flowers. I'm studying Arts and Crafts style pattern structures and I'm in love. #patterndesign

A pair of recently fledged Red-tailed Hawks. These two were flapping and exploring the branches around the nest. The day after these photos were taken, the nest was empty. Now they are off exploring the woods, still being fed by their parents while they learn to hunt.

Gorgeousness 🐥

Falling Light 2026 Procreate I can never manage to match these up with the current season! Enjoy this reminder of the color and atmosphere of an Autumn day as we head into June!

I know it's not good to post new art so late at night but I just want to share something (at least not previously shared in full) - so here's "Hidden Shore". I referenced a photo I captured off Lighthouse Point Trail just north of Deception Pass, Washington state. #watercolor #gouache #dragons

A young male (I believe) Baltimore Oriole bopping around in a Crabapple tree. This could be a female, but the amount of black is making me think is a young male that hatched last year.

Because I've been embracing drawing a little more I waffled over doing #MerMay and decided I will do it until I get busy, or forget, or don't feel like it. So here's a mermaid, will there be one tomorrow? Tune in to find out, even I don't know!

Well my P@tre0n peeps got their 24 hour head start, so if any of you want a pet portrait I have a limited number of slots available. These will be in oils similar to the piece below. This will help with Baku-Noodles biopsy procedure he needs ❤

Mouse Monday 🐭🐭🐭🐭

This Anna’s Hummingbird picked a beautiful spot to raise a family! #BirdOfTheDay #BestOfTheMonth #birds #nature #wildlife #photography

Our most liked photo from yesterday.

Baba Jaga that I painted for @veronicarothbooks.com , from her 'Curse Bearer' book series (When Among Crows and To Clutch A Razor) 2024

"It's just a bad period." A personal piece about Endometriosis.

I wrote about Kat.

1000% badass. POISONs are you kidding me?!

After two years of solo development, my game is finally live on Steam, with a planned release in late 2026. #whenimnotdrawing If you enjoy cozy life sim RPGs with rich storytelling and dating elements, check it out!🎁 Wishlist here: store.steampowered.com/app/4381390/... #cozygames #gamedev

Tonight's "zen tangles" as @jooblee.bsky.social coined them. Don't call the art police on me, but I'm having a lot of fun with this project.

Very unpolished, but wanted to share my sketch of the night. I'm learning more about design.

This fancy boy is Tobin✨🩵✨ . . #beetle #bugs #insect #fiberart #softsculpture 

A commission related to Kieth Parkinson's work, this one for a bookcover for the game Everquest. Kieth was the originating artist executing the first 5 advertising and cover paintings for the game. What a shadow to work under! EverQuest 10th Anniversary 25" x 40" Oil on Panel 2008 Collection of Sony

augghh I love birds so much

You asked for it! The long-awaited sequel to You Are Jeff Bezos is finally here: YOU ARE ELON MUSK 200+ passages. 7 endings. Secrets. In-jokes. Giant robots. All with the purpose of doing one thing: SPENDING ALL OF ELON MUSK'S FUCKING MONEY direkris.itch.io/elon

Don't let yourself sink into the despair of comparison with younger people- that's all this is. As we get older we become better at letting go of things our younger selves only thought was cool, paring down our life's work to what we truly love. Don't give up before you see what that is for you.

Burn it down.

Midnight Outing 🪽 ✨ a piece in my ongoing series of paintings of spaces meaningful and nostalgic to me called “A Starry Place”!

Just obsessed with this art style 🤯