The Art of Steph Potter

Proudly Canadian 🇨🇦 35, Illustrator, lover of history, Vampire. She/Her www.stephpotter.ca

[stephpotterart]

It's my Birthday Month! I've been asked if I have a wishlist or something available, so I'm going to make this a pinned post for June.

Of course there is never any pressure!!! But if you'd like to send me something, I've got both an Elfster and Amazon wishlist available!

Steph's Elfster Wishlist

Steph's Amazon Wishlist

If, instead, you'd like to help me celebrate and directly help me pay some bills, here are my

PayPal

Stripe

Buy me a coffee

Or, if you'd rather sign up for my

Patreon (where you're entitled to perks and benefits!)

Or purchase something from my Ko-fi Shop those are also available!

And, as always, I am open to any and all Commissions!

Again, no pressure! Thanks for reading!

[manuciruja]

awww the like button turns into a rainbow when you press it! that's so cute...hey staff what's with all the trans women you keep nuking?

[manuciruja]

i think we should be ridiculing them more for this. you don't get to try and go all "queer website" when your staff likes to go on nuking sprees targeting the trans fem users

[smadsel]

would be remiss not to mention that the rainbow notably straight up just removed the trans flag colors from it. like they’re gone. it’s the progress flag minus the trans flag colors.

[smadsel]

that’s not the whole flag, now is it

[manuciruja]

hey staff what the fuck

[villainessbian]

hey staff don't you think you're being too on-the-nose

[lesbian-trophy-wife]

hey staff, so why is this post labeled as mature just because the phrases "trans fem"/"trans woman" are in it

[fuckupwithashotgun]

New experiment!

Reblog if you platonically say I love you to ur friends, comment or like if you think that's weird!

[creatingblackcharacters]

Hello Mrs.Cbc I hope your day has been nice ^^ 🫶🏿

I was wondering if you had any knowledge on, or were willing to make a post asking about merch companies (think Vograce or Wooacry) that do well with printing deep skin tones? I've been wanting to print keychains of a character I like but I'm a bit worried about the color contrast not turning out right since printers can be finicky and not everyone rly knows how 2 adjust color balance for darker skin tones. Thank you in advance for your time and consideration !!

Looking for people who print keychains and merch!

[stephpotterart]

Hi! I've used both MelodyCharms and Vograce (Vograce had a better turn around time), and both seemed pretty good with colour reproduction!

Photos don't do them full justice (and I'm limited by tumblr with how many pics I can include lol), they are more saturated and lovely in person, but as far as I can tell the colour reproduction between my art and the charms is pretty close. I think you'll be fine with these and darker skintones! Just keep in mind that they'll likely be more saturated than your art, but this is (imo) good, that way you don't end up with colours that looked great on screen but turned out muddy once it got to the ink stage.

You could always order a sample for yourself - MelodyCharms allows you to buy a single charm at a time, and I think so does Vograce. I normally use Vograce but the lowest number of copies of one design I've purchased is 2, but that's still really cost effective if you're unsure!

TL;DR I've used Vograce and MelodyCharms, they had the same reproduction values, but I prefer Vograce just for their production times. 10/10 would recommend, and should be okay with reproducing dark skintones!

[damndorothea]

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

[stephpotterart]

Loustat at Pride - despite being co-ordinated, they seem to have gone in opposite directions with their outfits - and borrowed from each other’s closet lol.

These two were designed as stickers, so they should be hitting my shop early next week!

[stephpotterart]

Took a little longer than expected, but these boys are now available in my shop! They're glittery holographic so all the white bits are shiny af!

[stephpotterart]

Still have a few available in my shop!

[stephpotterart]

Can I just say how annoyed I am that the Lestat concert will not be broadcast or streamed anywhere when in the book his concert is televised everywhere?

Like between finances and needing to renew my passport (and truly being terrified of being detained for being a Canadian going to the States) I had absolutely no chance of getting tickets, so I had hoped they'd at least stream it.

Instead I get the whiplash of missing it as a concert and as an Experience™️ where my longrunning Fandom is real for a night.

Like I get not airing the episode early, but not streaming the concert itself? Wtaf @amc

[aropride]

please god let chatgpt die out like nfts did. With a fast and graceless fall into irrelevancy

[bladespark]

Like to charge, reblog to cast.

[conservethis]

Casting with all my might

[ruinedchildhood]

[bymossypine]

Happy Pride 🏳️‍🌈✨

[jerreeeeeee]

not every mutual fits neatly into an archetypal medievalism but there are some mutuals that im like yeah addressing you as “my liege” would come strangely naturally

[jerreeeeeee]

what mutual is prev

my liege lord

my loyal knight

my wise wizard

my evil advisor

my brother in arms

my lady muse

my wild mermaid friend

my fellow alchemist

my dashing rapscallion

my monstrous foe

Remaining time: 2 days 22 hours

[stephpotterart]

I'll be honest. I'm burned the fuck out. And my neurodivergence is giving me that anxiety where I feel the pressure where I feel like I have no time. It feels like a creative/metaphorical guillotine over my head.

Like I really want to art for TVL, but my creating well is dry, AND it feels like with the premiere so close I feel like I've missed my shot, which is also ridiculous.

I want to create but it's almost impossible. So, I'm taking June off officially, as a birthday gift to myself (I'm 36 on June 16th), though I will have posts on patreon, my shop will still be open, etc., all that is ready to go. I just... need a break before my health collapses.

I also hope that taking this time off means I can indulge in my other Fandom hobbies, over on @achilles-the-roman

[gruntsandpoetry]

jacob anderson and sam reid as louis and lestat in the vampire lestat

[camewiththeframe]

[persephonesstrap]

This is worse. Looking at these you can tell they have no significant monetary value. They were confiscated as a fear tactic. Nothing more.

[arithanas]

This picture breaks my heart everytime it appears in my dash. It’s a fear tactic, alright but—

The first one in the left corner: It’s a first communion rosary, and it’s not cheap.

The black one in the first line: That’s a widow rosary and it’s old.

The white one in the second line:  is a commemoration rosary. It has a miniature picture in the round part. I haven’t seen that since the 70′s.

In the third line, multicolor one: It’s an Anima mundi, I have only seen those in the hands of Rosary ministery’s old ladies. The oldest ones are from the 80′s after Juan Pablo II came to Mexico for the first time. It’s one of the old ones, I know because the crucifixes are different.  The third one on the fourth line: Red and gold. The style is old, the metal is dark, that’s a 50′s rosary, probably a quinceañera one (or it’s maybe older, from the 40′s when the brides carried red roses with their offerings).

The fifth one on the fourth line: It’s a quinceañera rosary with Ignatius’s tear. The style is old and in my part of Mexico is orphan girls who used it. At least it was when I was young. The third one of the fifth line: the blue one with the anchor. That one I have only seen in Veracruz and it doesn’t look new. The fifth one on the fifth line: That’s a 90′s wedding rosary. Black and white patterns were popular on that date. The fourth one on the last line: That’s a first communion rosary from the 30′s. It’s delicate and most probably silver. The rest wrench my heart too, the humble everyday rosaries with wooden beads and knots. Those are cheap and bear the wear and tear of their user handling. But those  I described are much more.

Those are mother’s rosaries.

Those are not just rosaries. Those are mementos, that’s the proof of their families stories. They are taking from them the only portable things they can carry to feel the connection to their families. It’s not a fear tactic. Call it like by its name. It’s dehumanization.

[lkblackham]

There is absolutely nothing ICE could have gained by confiscating these rosaries. Absolutely nothing. They did it to be cruel. It is, indeed, dehumanization.

[stephpotterart]

The charm orders have shipped out, so now the leftover sale has begun!

I only have one left of each!

3.5” (8.89cm) tall bag/key acrylic, double sided, charms of your favourite AMC version Vampires! I created multiple designs of each character, so this is just the first release!

Sold separately, or in pairs!

[stephpotterart]

I've dropped the price for these charms and the shipping price!

[stephpotterart]

PRE-ORDERS for Series 2 of the bag charms are officially OPEN!

3.5” (8.89cm) tall bag/key acrylic, double sided, charms of your favourite AMC version Vampires! I created multiple designs of each character (though Claudia and Maddie are the same as Series 1 for now) so there will be more to come!

Sold individually, in pairs, or as a full set!

Orders will close on July 1st 2026, and charms will ship around September!

[stephpotterart]

I've dropped the shipping price on these!

[stephpotterart]

PRE-ORDERS for What We Do In The Shadows bag charms are officially OPEN!

3.5” (8.89cm) tall bag/key acrylic, double sided, charms of the main WWDITS characters!

Sold individually, in pairs, or as a full set!

Orders will close on July 1st 2026, and charms will ship around September!

[stephpotterart]

I've dropped the shipping price on these!