Jazz Lee Illustrates

linktr.ee/jazzleeillustrates Hi, I'm Jazz! I'm a Christian illustrator who loves making comics! PFP: @gollygeedash MLP sideblog: @chaotic-kindness Art tag: #jazzleeillustrates

[jazzleeillustrates]

WELCOME TO MY BLOG! (master post)

Hello, I wanted to write a new introduction to my Tumblr blog! To start off -- hi, my name is Jazz! I am a Christian artist and illustrator. I occasionally design and market art products (like stickers and keychains), and really love writing and making comics!

Art Tag: #jazzleeillustrates (use this to filter out everything that isn't art!)

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I have an online store, where I sell products like stickers, pins and keychains!

I also have a Discord server that is geared towards Christian artists and creatives! Everyone is welcome here, and it is a fun, wholesome community for sharing your talents!

COMMISSIONS: Closed for the most part! (Check out my examples here! I will still consider commissions and business ventures, so if you have any feel free contact me at [email protected]!)

ART TRADES: Closed for now! (If you are a mutual of mine, feel free to reach out about a future, possible art trade -- once I catch up with my current queue of artworks I may like to do one!)

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Current Project(s):

Slices of Gremlin (tagged #slicesofgremlin) - a weekly web comic that is based on reality. The main character is my persona -- the gremlin! She is a little purple gal who is a bit mischievous and likes to have fun. My friends/family members often show up as other fantasy creatures. Usually the comics are light-hearted and funny or wholesome, but sometimes they occasionally delve into some deeper topics!

Upcoming Project(s):

Wellwishers (tagged #wellwisherscomic) - I plan to release this project as a comic! Right now, I am doing heavy development work, and I hope to begin releasing it (hopefully) before the year is over! This comic focuses on Vincent Abernathy and Witherspoon (of the clan Everblood) -- it is the misadventures of two best buddies, and it features redemption, broken families, and magical disasters that may or may not threaten the world as everyone knows it. Set in the 90's/very early 2000's, or the equivalent of it in their world (it is not Earth). The cast of characters is quite large, so I am slowly beginning to introduce them to the world! This project has been in the works since 2015.

...And more future projects that are in development!

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Other Blogs:

Chaotic-Kindness - I have a blog for My Little Pony reblogs and content! Check it out here!

[inkskinned]

oh, i am finally old enough to know why my parents took so long to grab their coats. why they would ask us to get ready to go only to sit down for another round of coffee. what would i tell myself, at 10 years old? it’s okay. sit down with them too. take in the extra hour with your friend and her family. when you get home, write down every moment in your diary. one day you will be older and you will be waving goodbye to your best friend, and you will turn the key to start your beat up little car engine, and you will look back over your shoulder. her hair will be blowing in the wind and she will be beautiful and you will be, for a moment, struck by all of it. what you will feel is so wide and nameless that it will engulf you. and you will think of being 14 and kicking her under the table in math every time you wanted to whisper something behind the teacher’s back. you will think about how long the days felt, and how you could hold her hand whenever you wished, but you didn’t. and you will think about all of the people you could have lingered with. and you will wish, more than you have ever felt a wish, that the universe just gave you that - more time to linger. more time to say - i love you. i know i need to leave, but i don’t want to leave you. and when i go, i am leaving a piece of my heart that lingers too. 

one more round of coffee. the days are so short, and you are so lovely.

[bakwaaas]

“The number of hours we have together is actually not so large. Please linger near the door uncomfortably instead of just leaving. Please forget your scarf in my life and come back later for it.” (mikko harvey)

[jazzleeillustrates]

Micro dosing having an emotional support animal by secretly picking a plushie to take with me in my bag to work every day and then bringing him home again and putting him back with his friends at the end of the day...

[rylandgraces]

[the most low energy you have ever seen me] we’re about to go crazy mode

[damazcuz]

Squeezing oc like a stress ball. Throwing oc at the wall like a tennis ball. Dribbling oc on the ground like a basket ball. Whacking oc with a club like golf ball. AND OTHER SUCH ACTIVIES THAT YOU CAN IMAGINE.

[jazzleeillustrates]

A piece that I made for a trade with @gadzooksgalore / @toothpaste-dragon ! These are her characters Toko and Baz from her project Far From Home!

This illustration was made based on a meme-y picture that I found on the good old Pinterest.

[avichuella]

forgot to post this here

[jovuuu]

Little portable digital guy

(Old drawing that I forgot to post)

[depizan]

Woah. Timothy Zahn, are you me?

I often hear the argument that having major characters die is more realistic than having them always come through unscathed. Of course it is. But I personally don’t want my fiction to necessarily be “realistic” – I want my fiction to be entertaining. For me, that means watching engaging characters I care about get into and out of dangerous predicaments, working and thinking together in order to defeat the bad guys. While some authors (and readers) like the tension of wondering who will live and who will die, I prefer the tension of seeing how the heroes are going to think or work their ways out of each difficult or impossible situation they find themselves in. If I want realism and the deaths of people I care about, I can turn on the news.

–Timothy Zahn, interviewed by TheForce.Net, 2008

[velnna]

getting withdrawals im never leaving for three weeks again

[ostdrossel]

This is something you may see on hot days - this Blue Jay is not injured, it is taking a sunbath. It is done for skin care and grooming and helps with parasites. I always love seeing it because it feels like they have to feel perfectly safe when they do it.

[frailbug]

you think that you're so alone in the world then you read literature from hundreds of years ago and you realize that other people have always felt this way

[iggyfingarts]

first batch of comms done. @gadzooksgalore's ocs gerdie, auvellius, and vherris.

[girl-mercury]

'Do not let your happiness depend on something you may lose.' 'Don’t put your goods in a leaky vessel.' 'Don’t spend too much on a house you may be turned out of.' There is no man alive who responds more naturally than I to such canny maxims.

I am a safety-first creature. Of all arguments against love none makes so strong an appeal to my nature as “Careful! This might lead you to suffering”.

There is no safe investment. To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will certainly be wrung and possibly be broken. If you want to make sure of keeping it intact, you must give your heart to no one, not even to an animal. Wrap it carefully round with hobbies and little luxuries; avoid all entanglements; lock it up safe in the casket or coffin of your selfishness.

But in that casket — safe, dark, motionless, airless — it will change. It will not be broken; it will become unbreakable, impenetrable, irredeemable.

-CS Lewis, A Grief Observed

[eggdrawsthings]

The safest place I've ever known is in your arms

[jazzleeillustrates]

I'm so fun and wacky that I'm takin myself on TWO solo movie dates this week... #livinitup

[philcollinsenjoyer]

a lot of stories are about the fantasy of someone going to find you when u disappear from a group function