I had so much fun both reading & doing the art for romanticalgirl's Write What You Know. She's an amazing writer and I love her Pete and Gabe so, so much.

I painted Pete and Gabe at the fair with Jake after Gabe's performance.
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I did a mix for Need You Wild by fallintosilence and boweryd, which you can find here. The cover art is modified from an etching I did.

I also did art for two stories--elucreh's Waiting for an Indication and manipulant's Into the Woods.

Here's my art for Waiting for an Indication:
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I actually stalked collaborated with manipulant for Into the Woods. I wanted to do more than the three pieces I managed, but I was working in a new style and new-ish medium (again! I need to learn to avoid this for BBB) and didn't have the time.

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And then I have tons of in-progress shots for the Red Riding Hood illustration.

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I learned a lot about watercolor and the specific technique I was aiming for, and will probably revisit it in the future. I'm aiming for something like what Tir-ri does, and I owe most of what I know about using masking fluid to some of her comments. Definitely check her work out, it's amazing.

So, BBB has drawn to an end and I'm still working my way through all the stories. I plan to do rec posts once I've finished them all--we'll see, though, because at this rate school will have started again before I finish reading!

Here's all the stuff I made for BBB--links are provided for their respective stories, and I highly recommend you check them out!

I did all of the art in a similar style, but it's a style fairly new to me and so there's a lot of variation between each piece. I don't normally use crosshatching or textures to shade, but I'd been looking at art by giadrosich lately and wanted to try it out. I'm not sure if I'll continue using this style on a regular basis, but I'm really pleased with how it worked with some of the pieces, specifically "he looked at you and thought, wow, hot," "A Very Interesting Fire Hydrant," and "found again."

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I also made a fanmix, my first, which involved glee faces over the opportunity to use Carolina beach music and hunt up songs the author obviously loved but which I'd never heard of.

The mix, for Say You Will by witheveryspark, can be found here.

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