Elle Skinner's Art

I'm Elle Skinner and I draw the webcomic Missing Monday! This is an art only blog. For more interactivity you'll want to follow @elleskinner.

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Hi all! I'm Elle, I'm a comic artist and painter of tiny cute things. I'm a fandom dabbler and when not painting tiny watercolor paintings, you can find me making comics or painting sharks/mermaids/tea/girls smooching. If you like my stuff, I have links to where you can find more of it! Behold: READ MY COMICS: 📖 www.missingmondaycomic.com (F/F webcomic, completed!) 📖 erstwhile comics on webtoons (fairytale comics anthology created with @ginabiggs and @om-nom-berries) GOODS AND SERVICES I PROVIDE: 🎨 elleskinner.etsy.com (shop for physical things) 🎨 elleskinner.itch.io (shop for ebooks) 🎨 ko-fi.com/elleskinner/shop (shop for ebooks and tiny paintings) 🎨 patreon.com/elleskinner (monthly tip jar) ESCAPE THE CLUTCHES OF SOCIAL MEDIA TO SEE MY ART: 🎨 art.mysky.net (gallery)

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My movie painting for "Undertone"

Trying to illustrate something for this movie felt like a doomed endeavor since so much of the artistry of the movie is in the sound design and thus something impossible to draw.

But I love how it builds tension in such a compact and repeated set and I figured I could at least pay homage to that!

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Art Fight 8

Rocky and Beau for @technicalt, Cleo for @thisintermezzo, and Iris for @ocarinia!

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Possum in the lilacs!

Painted to accompany the floral cats for my patrons. We love a dainty trash animal in this house.

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Art Fight 7

Ellie rushing off to adventure for WhoathereSara!

I didn't intend to paint her in the softest pastels but I dig it here, it looks very anime artbook to my eyes :)

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A flamepoint cat with a floral wreath, a cute little painting amidst the series I painted for my patrons that made me smile.

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Art Fight 6:

Lee for Mylo! Lee is an old timey drifter with a magic murder fiddle inspired by the brown recluse spider and I love everything about that sentence.

I wanted to try my hand at drawing her playing her fiddle. Not attacking persay but watchful, wary, ready to take action if she's pushed to it.

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Uxie, Mesprit, and Azelf! I don't know why I love these little guys so much but I truly do, so I wanted to try my hand at their little bean bodies.

Painting them shiny because I would like to manifest some luck for Pokemon Go Fest this weekend!

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Art Fight 5:

Brightbreeze for LacyStudios, Itri Rein for @redwinderbelt, Clementine for White_Rose3519, and Bella for Kaichoukai

A mixture of revenge drawings and "oh that character speaks to me" drawings :)

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My movie sketch for "Leviticus." Ugh, I loved this movie and I'm bummed I almost missed seeing it in theaters! I feel like almost every movie I've watched in theaters this year is (a) horror (b) really interesting. I'm spoiled by the bounty.

There were some beautiful shots in this movie but this one is the most succinct. Reaching for each other while an arbitrary thing is forcing them apart. It's really sweet in the midst of a horrible scenario.

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Art Fight 4:

Neptune for @wouldntyoulichentoknow ! All of her Silver Millenium designs are strikingly alien but Neptune looked especially aloof and unreadable and therefore compelled me.

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Release from the Patreon vault: Myths/legends.

I am always a sucker for mythological creatures so forgive me as I indulge myself with a centaur and a satyr being cute together. Ultimate tall and ultimate smaaaall, my favorite.

I have no idea if I would do anything else with these two but I was starting to get a feel for what their personalities were like in the course of sketching and I feel like it would be fun to explore further.

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Art Fight Round 3:

Frong for @fluff-zzz, Lister & Flash for @mangoanimationsxd, Pocket for @galacticcandycanes, and Puf! for Ssaiko.

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"Send Help" was such a ride of a movie. It was exactly what it said on the tin and not at all what I expected to experience. We had a good time with it!

Everything that lodged in my brain was dialogue and not visual, but the more time passed after watching the more I found myself gravitating to the boar hunt. It's savage, it's triumphant, it's a huge moment for Linda and a huge point of contrast between the two main characters.

My little cartoon boar getting skewered is absolutely absurd looking but it also fits the vibe of a Raimi film so I leaned into it.

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Art Fight Batch #2

Characters from left to right: Lean for Leandapper, Shōu chéng for Pipsquawk, Sylvie for @bethartever, and Lucky Doll for @jeliwyre!

A mix of revenge attacks and some characters I found through the random search that sparked joy :)

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Blown away by the impact of seeing the Utena movie on the big screen where I could soak in all the visual details that were meant to be absorbed large.

I knew before even going in that I'd want my sketchbook drawing of this movie to be based on the dance in the rose garden but I was surprised by how captivated I was with the moment right before. Utena, on the ground, vulnerable, the stars and roses around her.

Damn but I'm proud of this! I often struggle to get watercolors to be as saturated as I want but I got the blues and the reds and the pinks to behave here just how I wanted.

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Draw Everything June 2026 Round-Up

First off, thank you to @adorkastock for hosting this challenge! I've participated twice now and both times have been a really great mix of poses and scenarios to draw :)

Recapping for the unfamiliar: Draw Everything June is a challenge where a reference photo is posted every weekday in June and you create a piece of art based on that photo. There were 22 weekdays in June this year so I ended up with 22 paintings!

I regretted not having much cohesion in what I made last year so this year I deliberately picked design elements that would unify everything I made (all handpainted, all inked with the same technique, all including a colorblock background, etc). I really, really like how the whole set turned out, so I'm really glad I made this choice.

Stats, for fun:

Critical Role fanart: 7/22

Sailor Moon fanart: 7/22

Pieces I had to scrap and redraw because I made mistakes inking: 3/22

Most challenging: Utena on that horse, oh my god

Most rewarding: Eternal Sailor Moon transformation

Sitting here at the finish line feeling super accomplished and happy I participated. Here's to next year!

(Last year's Draw Everything Round-Up)