Luna Sea Studios

The Tumblr for illustrator Rebecca Hicks. She/Her

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Let your night person flag fly, 'cause we've made new magnets for Bat Appreciation Day! This special sale ends Tuesday so be sure and order yours today! https://lunaseastudios.storenvy.com/products

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The Snow Queen has been busy. 

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The Luna Sea Studios holiday weekend sale has begun! Shop safely for fun gifts, save money, save a small business, and taste the victory! Because victory tastes so much better than leftover turkey.

Get your shopping on with this tasty link: https://lunaseastudios.storenvy.com

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Happy Thanksgiving! I am so grateful to have all you weird monsters in my life.  

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Because it unfortunately needs repeating, wear a mask, wear a mask, wear a mask. 

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I recently learned that the Irish have Halloween bread, and it’s a bread that can see into the future! Why didn’t my Irish immigrant grandparents tell their weirdo-spooky-kooky granddaughter about this?   It’s called Barmbrack, or brack for short. Various inedible objects were traditionally baked into a brack for Halloween. Getting one of these objects in your slice would foretell if you were going to get married, have good or bad luck, or be poor or rich. Some of the more traditional objects included an uncooked pea, a coin, a ring . . . and a stick. My ancestors put sticks in their bread. Finding a stick meant your future was going to be full of conflict, or full of choking, I'm not sure which. Probably both. This is not not what you should get an unlimited amount of at Olive Garden, my people. I decided I needed to honor my ancestors and their fondness for choking by finding a recipe and making myself a Halloween barmbrack. But I wasn’t putting anything inedible in my brack. I would decide my own future, and it wouldn’t involve death-by-stick. The result was the most delicious thing I’ve ever baked. I’m not the biggest fan of raisins, but I am a fan of raisins soaked overnight in black tea, orange and lemon zest, and brown sugar. Adding this mix to flour spiced with cinnamon, nutmeg, and ginger resulted in a gorgeous cake-like bread that is an amazing celebration of Fall flavors. Well done, my people. All that stuff about Irish food being bland and boring is as wrong as putting sticks in your bread. Sláinte, everyone! 

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Trick-or-treat safely with Frank and his monster friends! Download, cut out, insert their removable treats, and trick-or-treat at home. 

Download here! https://www.dropbox.com/sh/u9o1rcj4pmyl6op/AABArZJwKuYiU9C_bVuoZzUAa?dl=0 

If you enjoy these monsters then please donate to my Ko-fi. https://ko-fi.com/lunaseastudios

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Working on a thing to encourage safe trick-or-treating. 

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Just four of the many things I love about Fall. 

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Thanks to everyone that has already backed and promoted the Kickstarter for The Faithful Sidekick's new album! Your support means we're that much closer to filling the world with songs about found family, coffee, and lutefisk. LUTEFISK!

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thefaithfulsidekicks/our-kind-of-strange-new-album-by-the-faithful-sidekicks

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The Kickstarter for the awesome new album Our Kind of Strange has launched! Be one of the first to back this great geeky music project from The Faithful Sidekicks, and you can get art and a t-shirt designed by yours truly!

 https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/thefaithfulsidekicks/our-kind-of-strange-new-album-by-the-faithful-sidekicks

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It’s national coffee day! Get caffeinated and make sure you have a plan to vote! https://www.rockthevote.org

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The Faithful Sidekicks will be launching the Kickstarter for their new album on the 29th. I wonder who drew their cover art. ;) I can't wait for you to back it and hear this awesome music! 

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Like I'm waiting until September 22. It's Fall now, dammit. 

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I'm designing album art for the The Faithful Sidekicks! Here's one last sneak peek into the creation of the cover art for their upcoming release, Our Kind of Strange. The first piece shows the flat colors, which helps me finalize my choices of color palette. The second piece shows all the shading and details that help bring this undead couple to life. The Kickstarter for Our Kind of Strange launches at the end of September!   

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I'm designing album art for the awesomely geeky The Faithful Sidekicks! Here's the second part of the sneak peek into my commission process for their upcoming album, Our Kind of Strange. This sketch is of the zombie dad and mummy mom rocking some classic 70's clothes. I changed "Mum's" hair to give it a more Farrah Fawcett feel in the inking stage.

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Secret-monster-music-project-reveal times! For the past few weeks I've been designing an album cover and promotional art for the awesomely geeky Jen and Eric Distad, aka The Faithful Sidekicks. So here's a sneak peek into my commission process for their upcoming album, Our Kind of Strange. The cover will feature a family of monsters in an awkward family photo. I started the process by giving Jen and Eric several "zombie dad" styles to choose from. The first group has hairstyles from the 1970's, and the second from the 1980's. They choose 1970's zombie #2, so that became the model for the all the art to follow.