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The most magical little store with Rootles buying all their wizardy essentials...I love the tiny toads 🥹

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The beginning! For the next week we are letting you into the process of how our next wimmelbild comes to life.

This is the first attempt at drawing a scene. It has dwarves, dirt, some crystals and mine carts! It was important to try out different shading techniques for this one as there is a lot of dirt and I want the dwarves to be the focus, I tried my normal lines shading at various densities and even some pointillism!

The pointillism although a great alternative texture just doesn't work for our goal, the Doodle Director thinks it looks like tiny crawling creatures...I think it gives mossy vibes that would be great for small areas but not all over like this.

Check out all the photos to see the different stages.

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I turned a cute cottage photo into a inked wimmelbild style Rootle Homestead. It's available as a print and other things on my Redbubble 😁

These cute little rootles have their own home! Can you find them all?

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Thought I'd join in Art vs Artist this year and also do a little intro for any new followers.

I'm Laura, the artist behind weebird20art, and I love to illustrate the weird and wonderful! I also like to dabble in handmade book binding and creature sculpts!

This last year has been a whirlwind of new things for me as I've illustrated a children's picture book titled 'Miss Perilla Magilla and Her Marvellous Desk', about a steampunk inventor and her crazy creations.

I really love to create intricate ink drawings, and this year I learned they're called wimmelbilds, a german term meaning 'teeming picture'. My first wimmelbild, Castle Teapot got accepted to be displayed in a gallery! It's still there on display in the Ulster Museum until Jan 23rd 2023.

I took part in Game of Shrooms in June and hid my very first Rootle sculpts around the grounds of Belfast Castle (though back then they were called Root Dudes) for people to search for and find to take home and enjoy. I met some lovely people as they joined in the fun and hope to take part in June 2023!

I've started up an Etsy store selling my wimmelbild illustrations, custom portraits and leather books and have these things as well as my little Rootle sculpts in a local shop that sells handmade goods.

I hope you all stay with me going into 2023 and thank you so much for all your support by liking and sharing my posts as well as purchasing my art....it allows me to spend more time doing what I love and creating magical things!

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My Illustrated Guide to Rootles is now available on my Redbubble as stickers and badge pins!

If you want to support my work, picking up one of these adorable rootles and giving them a home will do just that!

Click here to see the Rootle Collection in all their cuteness!

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Meet Rusty the Rootle! I sculpted this one specially for my sister as she loves autumn time. It has a removable pumpkin head, is covered in bracket fungi and holds two little autumn leaves 🥰🎃

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Redbubble are doing a 25% off Boxing Day Sale! So today is a good day to support my work by buying some rootle or wimmelbild stickers! Check the link in my bio 😁

And I have a new addition today.

ART ROOTLE!

This little guy is all ready to start painting something! Probably itself from the looks of things.

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Laura McKenzie Atkins is an independent artist creating amazing designs for great products such as t-shirts, stickers, posters, and phone ca

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Day 5 of my illustrated Rootles drawing challenge is a little witchy one. Look at the tiny pumpkin it carved all by itself...they did such a god job!