Turn up for turnip night!

My colored pencil graphic novel about flying rabbits, fire, and emotional repression is available now! [Check out Bunnybirds] wherever books are sold!

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Hello, all! My name's Natalie (you can call me Rab) and I eat colored pencils like celery sticks.

29 // RISD IL '19 // Autistic // Asexual // Tired

Hobbies include — overanalyzing direct-to-DVD Disney sequels and color-coordinating character playlists on Spotify

Proship — I think people should be able to ship whichever fictional characters they like, and consume/create whatever fictional content they please. The rise of moral conservatism within fandom spaces compels me to make this position very clear. To learn more about the fandom moral panic (and its consequences for marginalized creatives), please visit Sam Aberime's fantastic "anti" archive.

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Had my first real day off in a while and took the opportunity to indulge in some Warriors OC shenanigans…fingers crossed I get the chance to finish this sometime soon

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The latest “Well There’s Your Problem” episode added a new phrase to my daily lexicon (socket shenanigans begin at this timestamp)

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Listening to my elementary/middle school nostalgia playlist to get myself in the recess mood lol. What're the first couple songs that pop into your head when you think about being like 12?

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More "Meredith the Horse Girl" recess adventures 🐎

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Revisited Bunnybirds today while grabbing links and rediscovered this panel...It makes me so happy seeing Midge and Morris twirling in the middle <3

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Recess! It was fun getting to draw my old Missoula elementary school. I'm still mad they tore down the big swings >_<

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Revisited my thumbnails from 2020-2021 tonight. I totally forgot how many doodles I left in the margins!

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Pages 153, 156, and 161.

I honestly don't know what possessed me to do this, but for whatever reason I didn't convert my pages to CMYK mode after scanning them into Photoshop—so I only "found out" what the printed colors looked like once I got my preview copy lmao. That's all to say the purples are a lot brighter in my personal digital version! My bad OTL

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The two-page spread that killed three of my light aqua pencils. My children are but tiny stubs:

I was feeling frisky, so I based some of these bunny designs on pride flags!

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Oh.

It has occurred to me that I may be a bit of an idiot

The other day I was like, "MANNN it would be so nice to be able to just upload Bunnybirds II one page at a time whenever I have some free time (instead of having to wait to raise a ton of money however-many years down the line)...but alas..."

And then I went. Like.

"Well. Hold on. Why...not? Do that??"

It somehow never occurred to me that I could just release the sequel one page at a time between full-time work. There's nothing in my contract saying I can't do that. Copyright stuff would be a concern except that my publisher doesn't care about me or what I do. In the sense that like. They've been very kind to me! They found me a different gig when I couldn't afford to make Bunnybirds II on their offered salary (the first book was made on about $3 an hour). But they also don't care about what I do with myself and they don't care about Bunnybirds. I mean, every time I needed an answer from them about stuff like...what size of paper I should use...I wouldn't hear back for months no matter how much I pestered them. I pitched the book as "Bunnybird" (I never once referred to it as "Bunnybirds") but the people at my publisher always called it "Bunnybirds" and finally after years of working with them I gave up trying to correct them lmao. They sent me to a book conference which was awesome! But they don't market their books aside from paid reviews and some social media posts that get maybe five likes. I just cannot imagine them caring whether I post some Bunnybirds stuff on my own time. Genuinely. And if they DO somehow care (again, I'd be shocked) then I can always just...stop posting pages.

I've been mulling it over and I just really like this plan! I won't be able to get started right away because I still need to wrap up this second smaller project for my publisher (I've finished drawing the pages for "Meredith the Horse Girl" but need to line and color 'em). I'm not sure how long that'll take me, but I'll try to keep y'all updated on progress for Meredith so you'll know when I'm getting close to being able to launch back into Bunnybirds.

Cheers m'dears!! See you sooner rather than later, I hope!

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"Aren't you joyful here? At peace, as bunnybirds are meant to be?" "At peace? No. This isn't peace or joy. This is just...absence. If I'm honest with myself...I think that's all it's been for a long time."

BUNNYBIRDS // 2024

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"All right. Big kiss on the forehead and then walking away." // [Widomauk playlist]

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hello!! i just finished bunnybirds after hoarding it from my local library for months hehe...i wanted to come and say it really resonated with me, and the art is especially adorable, and it just fills such a perfect niche for me, i love it so much. thank you for making it, im so glad its part of my library's collection!

THIS MEANS SO MUCH OH MY GOSH?!!?!? ;W; Thank you SO much. I'm really glad Bunnybirds resonated with you like that afdsafdasa I'm gonna go flee into the trees AAAAAAA

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Sometimes you wake up and your daughter is a horse

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Progress pics for my Jayvik "lofi girl" playlist!

My process goes, sketch ➛ line art ➛ scan 1 ➛ color ➛ scan 2 ➛ final touches. I use a light box to trace the line art on top of my sketch. Then I scan my line art, adjust the colors, and print it to use like a coloring book page (feel free to use that second pic the same way!). The colored pencil wax tends to obscure the line art, so once I'm done coloring, I scan the page again and align the earlier line art scan on top of the color scan.

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Shark Awareness Day, you say? Time to post 🎀 Dunky-chan 🎀 (aka Dunkleosteus) from the Devonian Period! This piece was commissioned by New Mexico Arts for an upcoming (free!) DCA activity book.