Ashley B. Illustration

✨Ash // she/her // nature-loving illustrator & designer 🌷🐍 ★ - - - - - ★ - - - - - ★ Mostly an art blog with some personal stuff sprinkled in between. [art // blog // my pets] ... linktr.ee

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A lil' holiday-themed Reindeer~ Can't believe it's almost Christmas!!

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2022 is probably my favorite holiday card i've done to date. All I wanna do is draw birds for the holidays!!

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2020'S Holiday card features everyone's favorite black-nose reindeer, Jingle.

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More holiday Cards -> 2019 and 2020 I wanted to feature our pets, so I made a holiday card that was strictly the kitties, and the next was for the scale babies.

For the kitty-themed holiday card, I also included a little illustration of brumating sasha.

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I FINALLY finished my holiday card but I am on my knees begging my future self to not wait til the very last minute ever again.

I do this every year and every year it's agony x-x

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2018 was the year we bought our house, so I wanted to commemorate that with our holiday card that year. Kind of the same vibe as the previous year, especially with the colors. 🎄

[Alt Text: digital illustration of a holiday card featuring a stylized 2-story home in red on a green background, with holiday nature elements floating around it. The text on the bottom says Happy Holidays from our home to yours.]

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Speaking of holiday cards, working on finishing mine up!! one year (maybe, possibly) I won't wait til the last possible minute x-x

[Alt Text: ipad screenshot of procreate with a sketch/black and white image of waht looks like to be a crested gecko in …something lol.]

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Here is the Holiday card that I drew back in 2017! My third one, and my second one that I did digitally. I tried something different style wise, keeping it simple and I still really like it to be honest! I'd do it a bit differently now but overall I still like this.

[Alt Text: digital illustration of a holiday card that features a red reindeer in the middle with some christmas elements on the top and bottom of it. On the bottom of the page is the text 'season's greetings'. ]

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Continuing the holiday card train, here is the second one I ever made in 2016 - my first time going digital! It was definitely a learning experience. I did both outside and inside, which was a PAIN (especially when dealing with a general, big-name print store). It was an actual folding card too, and on thick glossy stock.

I love dala horses and the Scandinavian holiday theme. I def wanna do a newer version sometime in the future!

[Image Description: digital illustration of a christmas card featuring two red dala horses on a cream colored background with some holly and flowers decorating the edges. Gold text of Merry Christmas is on the bottom.]

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In May we adopted another little hoggie , Gwynnie! She's so cute - a toffee conda. We've had a rough start (mites, some eating issues) but she's a cutie!

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It's that time of the year! While I'm working on finishing up my holiday card, here's the first I ever made that started the annual tradition.

I remember working on these during my reception shift, 3 of them for the family. Crazy to see how far I've come.

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The end of August we were able to visit the Philly Lantern Show just before they finished for the year - it was so beautiful, we went just as it was getting dark so we could see the transition.

Absolutely gorgeous!

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After our trip to Boston we went to the Elmwood Park Zoo for the day! Lot's of fun, I especially loved the bats and the house house you could walk thru - and the cute little otters.

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At the end of July this year my spouse and I made the trip to Boston for a few days to visit friends! We had a great time visiting museums, shopping, HOT POT, and just walking through the beautiful city.

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Yesterday I saw a fly fall down into my Sarracenia - really cool to see! I'm hoping next year to set up a full-fledged bog garden in our yard 💜

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This week was the Gotcha-Day for my crestie, Rya!! We have had him for two years now 💜

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These are really old but I still think they are pretty nice - some spring flowers 💐 FINALLY the weather is getting warmer and everything is starting to bloom.