This piece is called The Farmer and the Fox. It’s based on the fable by Aesop.

The story goes like this: A farmer decides to tie an oil-soaked rope around the tail of a fox as revenge for it breaking into his chicken coop. He lights it on fire, and the fox runs into his fields, lighting them on fire.

The farmer gets no harvest that year.

This story could have many morals, but the one I’m interested in is the idea of pointless revenge and ruthlessness. When one becomes self-righteous in their vindictiveness, things can often turn around to devastating effect. So don’t be a dick.

And I think that’s a lesson a LOT of us—especially in the US on the right—have forgotten. It has been said that “the cruelty is the point”, and I believe that’s true. I just hope karma strikes back soon.

This is available as a greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/the-farmer-and-the-fox-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

I don’t use any sort of generative image assistance to help me make these. They’re all done slowly in Procreate, and printed, packaged, and posted from my own home. I don’t do print-on-demand drop shipping.

Here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/j7SZxpYAikRgMCWHyeVhMc

You can watch the livestream recordings of its creation here:
Pt 1— https://makertube.net/w/uHfmYYM3845ZAMYhGxr3T7
Pt 2— https://makertube.net/w/sjTUJDBhgLdj6C4ahVUfFp
Pt 3— https://makertube.net/w/5SigxX96osnhDyjoSFjZBt


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The Wolf and the Lamb.

An interesting fable about how tyranny will make up any justifications to do what they want. I think that’s important to remember nowadays…

The wolf in this piece was one I’d made for another piece, and thanks to the magic of digital art, I was able to import it into this canvas, tweak it around, and come up with something I was very happy with it. My art idol, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, and her peers in the Glasgow Four often used recurring motifs in their work and strongly similar figures from one piece to another.

This piece is a greeting card, and can be found here: https://goimagine.com/the-wolf-and-the-lamb-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

I do all my work in Procreate without the “assistance” of any sort of generative image making tools. It’s all #Humanmade, and here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/sZrQ9Yj4w8hu1YtFkyjGLc



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This piece is inspired by the fable, The Tortoise and the Hare, by Aesop.

I did it entirely in Procreate without the help of any generative AI “assistance”. It’s kind of my take on a mashup of Art Nouveau, Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, digital art, and storytelling.

I’m really happy with how this piece turned out. I especially love the rich browns and oranges of the canvas textures, as well as the teals and greens. I think this color palette is one that I’m comfortable with, and I seem to fall into using it quite a bit.

It’s available as a greeting card here:
https://goimagine.com/the-tortoise-the-hare-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

And as part of a varitety pack boxed set here: https://goimagine.com/art-nouveau-fairytale-boxed-variety-pack-greeting-cards-2-5x7-with-envelopes/

AND as a limited edition, signed and numbered print here: https://goimagine.com/the-tortoise-and-the-hare-11x17-limited-edition-print/

You can watch the speedpaint of its creation here: https://makertube.net/w/hLKS2mwuudyauS23upVmpo

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The Three Little Pigs.

This image is the next in my series of Fairy Tale homages. It’s available as a greeting card here:
https://goimagine.com/the-three-little-pigs-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

I did this all on my livestream using Procreate. You can see the recordings here:
Pt 1 https://makertube.net/w/tvqe7ySHWFrWtDYdd7vksW
Pt 2 https://makertube.net/w/5ap4y8nW6VH7bG1haRTpb4

And here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/4BghDwdQZ6iwEueod56J8Y

This image is entirely Human-Made. No generative artificial “assistance” to “save time”. It was done stroke by stroke, one at a time, carefully thought out and chosen each step of the way. I used Procreate on my iPad Pro, and I print and package and post each greeting card from my own studio myself—no manufacturing middle-men or drop shipping.

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The Frog Prince.

This is one of my very favorite pieces. I love it so much that I started to sell it as my very very first print ever. It was because of this image that I took the plunge and started offering limited edition, numbered and signed prints of some of my pieces.

I think this one looks great in a large scale and nicely framed, and because I print it at home on my high-end printer, and don’t offer a myriad of different sizes and ratios, I know exactly what it looks like. I can control it. And this piece looks AWEsome in a Tabloid size/11x17” scale. So much glorious detail!

I’ve been told that it’s very “old school” to offer prints in only one size. Well, so be it. I print them on my own printer, and sign & number them so, yeah, I guess that’s the old-fashioned way of doing things. I’ll only ever print 30 of these, so I’m okay with that.

https://goimagine.com/the-frog-prince-11x17-limited-edition-print/

But it’s also available as a greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/the-frog-prince-11x17-limited-edition-print/

And as part of a Fairy Tale variety pack here: https://goimagine.com/art-nouveau-fairytale-variety-pack-greeting-cards-2-5x7-with-envelopes/

I made this using Procreate. I don’t use generative image “assistance” at all. Here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/tJQWn6b8gtHF8D3hphAK7W

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This piece is based on the fairy tale, Rapunzel. It is done in an Art Nouveau-inspired style.

It can be found as a greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/rapunzel-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

This piece is Human-Made, done stroke by stroke in Procreate. It took me 7hr 42min and 5925 strokes of my Apple Pencil stylus to complete the piece.

You can watch the livestream recordings of when I made it here:
Pt 1: https://makertube.net/w/nxxhS4JuUwBP86eSvCjz5f
Pt 2: https://makertube.net/w/3KsbJXf3rGL9zZHyP3Gdrt



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This piece was inspired by the fairy tale, The Ugly Duckling.

It was done entirely in Procreate, with no artificial generative assistance.

It is available as a greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/the-ugly-duckling-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

(FYI, when you purchase six greeting cards on my shop, you’ll get the price of one removed at checkout!)

This piece took 3242 strokes with my Apple Pencil to make, over the course of 4h 42min. Here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/qX4ZSB94GCxEY2f4LBHVeE

While I’ve been inspired by the work of Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and her particular take on the Art Nouveau style, I’m proud to say that with each piece I’ve started to step further away from trying to emulate her work and leaning more into my own preferences and skillset. Every new piece I’ve made has been more and more my own expression. And this piece, The Ugly Duckling, was no exception. I’m quite proud of it!

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This piece is my take on the fable, The Lion and the Mouse. it’s the first fable I’ve done, and I really enjoyed it! I particularly like the golden hues that were suggested with a lion character—I took those and ran with them!

This piece can be found as an individual greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/the-lion-and-the-mouse-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

Heres’ the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/ryJyzsGQpt4yPq33h8t98A

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This is my take on The Little Mermaid, a fairy tale by Hans Christian Andersen.

I really love all the blues and purples. I think the pop of gold in the top around the ship is sort of reminiscent of a sunset.

This piece is available as a greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/little-mermaid-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

And as part of a set of six fairy tale greeting card here: https://goimagine.com/little-mermaid-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

I don’t use artificial image generation to “assist” me on this. There is none of it in my process. All of my art is Human-made using Procreate on my iPad, stroke by stroke.

And here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/2aAsvstzyV9jcEJ36ZUPnZ

Here are the livestream recordings of when I made it:
Pt 1: https://makertube.net/w/hDHkDtGCbnXf5Q7eFkaMm2
Pt 2: https://makertube.net/w/2hKfgDLc9MFD9ze6Q4JHXF

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Can you tell I’ve been working my way through fairytales?

This one is inspired by Snow White and the Seven Dwarves, which has change a lot depending on what century and decade you’ve actually heard it… The version I had in my head wasn’t really informed by “authenticity” nor was it informed by Disney, but instead from my own childhood memories of the tale.

I like to pick a moment or a “feeling” from the stories I illustrate and kind of lean into them with a mind toward symbolism and simplification. Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh and her contemporaries in the Glasgow Four made a lot of work that alluded to poems, pieces of literature, stories, legends, myths, “feelings”. This is just another piece in that vein.

I started with a coffin shape, then moved on to symmetrical “portraits” of large-nosed men I made to allude to the dwarves in the tail. I also put in an apple to balance the two sides since there are only seven dwarves…

The textures and subtle hints at color are what I really love about this piece, though. I invented a Procreate brush for this piece that captured some canvas texture and made it into a stamp that I could make look like “built up paint”. I’ve used it over and over again on a lot of pieces since then!

Anyway, here’s the listing for the greeting card sold individually: https://goimagine.com/snow-white-single-illustrated-greeting-card-5x7-with-envelope/

And here it is as part of a six-card variety pack: https://goimagine.com/art-nouveau-fairytale-variety-pack-1-of-greeting-cards-5x7-with-envelopes/

And finally here’s the speedpaint: https://makertube.net/w/1ojvHNGq64fbCaRGy6TC8F

This image is Human-Made, without any “assistive generative nonsense”. I print each card at home on my own 8-color printer, pack it myself, and ship it out from my local post office—no drop-shipping or manufacturing.

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