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The Artwork Portfolio of Allison (aka. AlleyBetwixt)

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Bluemin  colored pencil on acrylic wash reference photo: @ILIKEIT_JM 181019 in Paris

The only ‘real’ drawing I’ve done recently was for /r/Bangtan’s Secret Santa at the end of 2018. Did a couple little sketches of BTS’s Jimin since my giftee marked him as her bias. This is one of them.

My fingers really do not hold up to this anymore. I had to rest it for a few weeks afterward despite the work being so simple. It had also been so long since I drew like this I could tell the dexterity and strength in my hand had declined significantly. Depressing.

Luckily, Jimin is pretty enough to compensate for my artistic failings.

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Moderating the K-Pop subreddit has taken up a huge amount of my life over the last year. Hopefully will be better at regulating that going forward. Eek. I’ve been steadily working on a full new set of Snoos, thumbnails, flairs, and all that jazz. Fun stuff.

This is our main Snoo logo currently. Still tinkering with it. Getting the finger-heart in there was the critical element for me. Turned out pretty cute. Aegyo Snoo? Heh.

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I was away from tumblr for so long my old theme totally broke. A little refreshment is in order.

Haven’t done much involved art stuff. My hand is a mess. But I have a few little things I could post.

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Thought Spirals #3 Inspired by John Green’s Turtles All The Way Down.

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Thought Spirals #2 Inspired by John Green’s Turtles All The Way Down.

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Thought Spirals series #1

Whenever I’m a bit anxious I’ve been doodling these stylized thought spirals. Inspired by John Green’s Turtles All The Way Down. As someone with a similar brand of OCD to the main character, it was extremely challenging to read, but also very important.

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Been a long time since I posted anything. Going to get back to it. New art will be coming. 2017 was pretty miserable, politically and personally. My hometown and surrounding counties being partly destroyed by wildfires was a special kind of terrible.

Sorted through a bunch of local newspapers I collected over the months post-fire. Gave me chills all over again.The memory is still vivid of sitting on my porch in the middle of the night with half the sky glowing orange, raining down ash. Propane tanks, ammunition, and power transformers exploding everywhere. Neighborhoods evacuating en masse. Every parking lot packed with RVs and horse trailers at 2AM.

It was a hell of a thing.

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The Wimbly Womblys AFC Wimbledon crest

8x10 acrylic paint, colored pencil donated to the Con4Awesome

The Con4Awesome is today in London! For the Nerdfighters celebrating the lovely mutual relationship with AFC Wimbledon, have a wonderful con!

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Lungs that Suck at Being Lungs (inspired by The Fault In Our Stars)

8x10 silkscreen, acrylic paint, white pen donated to the Con4Awesome

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Immortal Coil (embellished)

8x10 silkscreen, marker, colored pencil, white pen donated to the Con4Awesome

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Space Pizza John

8x10 acrylic on paper, white pen donated to the Con4Awesome

Congrats to John Green for his forthcoming book, Turtles All The Way Down! Looking forward to reading it.

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Imagine Others Complexly 8x10 silkscreen and acrylic paint donated to the Con4Awesome

It’s the 4th of July here in the US. A good day to remember that people, conflict, tyranny, revolution, and politics are complex. Solutions and understanding won’t be achieved without being thoughtful of that. Have a beautiful day!

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Donating five pieces to the Con for Awesome event in London. Hopefully shipping goes smoothly!

8 x 10 in. on paper. A combination of silkscreen, acrylic paint, and pen. A splashy rainbow Pizza John. In space. With pizza slices. Just because. An AFC Wimbledon crest with colors. Some advice to imagine others complexly. My Immortal Coil ode to science piece, which I decorated much more heavily than the original print, and a version of my Lungs That Suck at Being Lungs piece inspired by The Fault In Our Stars.

I’ll post them individually over the next couple weeks. Also doing a bunch of the Complexly ones in different colors for the P4A art perk.

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More painting work in progress jewel-tone rainbow-y hues. I love seeing rainbows everywhere through Pride Month. So beautiful! We had a freak hail/rain/thunderstorm here in Northern California, which was interesting. Mainly it turned my internet to sludge. So I built a new IKEA desk area and made a ton more progress on P4A art.

Con4Awesome pieces for donation coming soon!

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Trixie Mattel’s ‘Two Birds’ is still on heavy rotation after three weeks. Nice to have some country/folk mixed in with my usual Kpop. Lol.

Pulled the motifs from Trixie’s Gibson guitars and mashed ‘em up together as a little congratulations to Brian for the great album. It’s seriously lovely. ‘I Know You All Over Again’ still makes me bawl. Cheers for that, Tallulah Mandolin!

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Some art-ing is happening. Working on perks for P4A 2017. Backgrounds in progress.

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100 days... Staying focused on the positive.