Smayday Draws

I'm always all ears for stupid ideas! shannonmay.co.uk
Commercial designer/illustrator of 10+ years and frequent watcher 👋

What's your weakness as an artist?

It was just a thought in my brain that I was mulling over. I think my biggest weakness is urban environments. Organics? sure. A thatched cottage? Sure. Robots even? Sure! But tell me to paint a skyscraper and I might cry 😂

QTP with women 💕💕💕

Happy international women’s day 💕
[ #artsky #ocsky #women ]

QRP with women!

Happy International Women's Day! 🌈

Quote post with more women!

Happy International Women's Day 💚 This is almost every female character I've played in TTRPGs - there have been a few more since I painted this so perhaps I should update it 😂

#artsky | #art | #women | #internationalwomensday | #ttrpg

an art layer folder in clip studio paint named 'troll' containing 2 layers named 'whites' and 'eytes'

No context art layer names

Sleeping wizards kickstarter at $11,111 with 11 days left

Make a wish!! 👀

🧙‍♂️ www.kickstarter.com/projects/iro...

I just want to tell you that if you can't see any faery creatures around you, it's because you are the faery creature.

I feel like learning ways to simplify trees because you do not want to paint a billion leaves is an artists right of passage

It's ever since my last Nvidia driver update 🥲

I'm getting green lines on every screenshot I take at the moment and like, it's a relatively minor problem compared to what some are having but it bothers me so much 🙃

It burns 😂

Redesigns are really cool to do when you know you've leveled up your art! Good luck 🎉

A pombon (fire puppy pokemon) on its back with its tongue sticking out looking for pets and probably snacks

I wasn't particularly inspired when I first saw the new pokemon starter lineup but this lil gremlin Pombon is growing on me 😂

#pombon | #pokemon | #pokemonart | #firepokemon

I love me some FF toons 💚

Become as gobs.

dice ice cube mould

Heck yeah, that does look useful. I think my fave kickstarter purchase was an ice dice mould. I have more practical purchases, but this makes me popular at parties 😂

I feel this, it's so often not about the money we just wanted the cool thing to be a thing 😂 (speaking of I've discovered Gobutiko through this post and its going straight on my wishlist 😲)

a large reference sheet of a blue merfolk called talasea (he/they). from left to right are: - a trident against the background of the sea and corals, which represent the colour scheme of talasea - fullbody of talasea, creating a star-like magic blub between their hands - three small squares, one has a pearl in an oyster, another a star, and the third a colourful dragon. text next to it says "pearl the dragon pet /she/her)" - below is talasea looking up at the viewer, the text says 153cm - next to that is his bardic instrument, the lyra - below is a crop of the sea painting by aivazovskiy - then a book that lists his favourite spells (sending, starry wave, little dream, siolvery barbs, find greater steed - dragonling, dramatic entrance, polymorph and read emotions - below are his stats 8, 16, 12, 14, 12, 18 - finally the text below reads "bard of creation, lvl 11, mermaid pirate"

reference sheet for talasea!!

#ocsky #dndoc #ocart #talasea

Portrait of a pathfinder character inspired by FFXIV Au'Ra race. They have red hair and black scales on their nose and neck. Big shiny black horns come out of the side of their head where the ears would be.

Commission for @aceykinkster.bsky.social !!
Was really really fun to work with colors and draw horns and scales hehehe 💖 And thank you so much for helping Mango!
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Check the reply to this post to get a character portrait AND help someone in need
#bskyart #pf2e #ffxiv #mutualhelp #fantasyart

🔴making more adopts on stream!🔴

www.twitch.tv/giznizzlegru...

My problem with TTRPGs that are crunchy as hell, is that if I wanted a rules heavy experience, I would play a tabletop game without the roleplay aspect.
I want to tell stories with the rules serving as a narrative pusher, not hindering it by stopping to check if Scrungus can jump to the other side.

a black cat looks at a lizard on a table with viralhog written on the bottom right Alt: a black cat looks at a lizard on a table curiously

One of the interesting quirks of creative freelancing is you get to navigate a vast array of communication styles - Will the next person I work with be very formal and require boardroom pitch presentations, or will they communicate primarily in lizard GIFs? OR BOTH?

A cat in the middle of the text 'what greater gift than the love of a cat?'

Just paid out hundreds of pounds at the vet to confirm my cat is a drama llama so heres some experimental old art of him being circular

A blue and green based colour pallette for a 'forest big'. What is the big forest? we may never know.

You ever put together colour palettes and then completely forget what they're actually for?

I even named this one and still don't know 😂What type of forest was I intending to paint? how big was it? What was past Smay thinking?!?

I remember having the same reaction, don't worry its a good thing 😂

True 🙃

Even if you take out the money and the environment (which either one on its own is a good enough reason to stop this absolute farce) I feel like cutting down on creating the devices that people would need to use the AI services is like... Eating their own face...?

an illustration of a pastel goblin bard singing on stage with pink roses strewn around her.

The whole world is a giant stage when you're just a little goblin!

Today's gob is my valor bard, Alla Gretto ^^

[ #Gobtober | #Art | #DnD | #TTRPG | #DungeonsandDragons | #Goblin | #Gobtober2024 ]

"Smayday, how can you be a dice goblin but you don't sell dice in your shop?"

If I sell you dice, I have to give you the dice, but I want the dice for me 🥺