Tess Monty Art

tessmontyart.carrd.co Australian Digital Illustrator and Crafter who regularly runs convention stalls around the country 💖 Used to be rockcandypassion!

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Incase anyone was wondering why I’ve been so quiet lately 💕

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Commission for my partner’s sister 💖 Thank you for commissioning me!

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🎨 2025 Art Summary time! 🎨 I was so worried there’d be empty months this time around, but there was only one; March (the drawing I put there was actually done in April, shhhh 🤫) This year I felt the full effects of working on 3 animated productions in a row, pure exhaustion 😭 I only did 3 conventions in 2025, as opposed to 9 in 2024 - I even had to turn down a few artist alley acceptances because I didn’t want to overwork myself! It’s been nice not having to stress over cons though ☺️

Last year I didn’t have any art resolutions, just “💖Have fun making art 💖” which I think I’ve managed to achieve!

✨2026 Goals✨

I don’t really have any since I’ll likely be busy this year too 😅 But I would like to make more animations, even if they’re just animated emotes 💖 let’s see how I go!

This is the 13th year documenting my art like this, and it’s always fun seeing all the art summaries together! 💕

Will put previous art summaries below when tumblr lets me copy links 😅

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🍓Strawberry matcha latte Miku! 🍵 I designed her outfit using inspiration from Sakura Oriko’s “Design Ideas Notebook” - highly recommend! 💖

I started this a while ago and it wasn’t originally gonna be a Christmas pic, but I thought the colour scheme fit too well so tried my best to finish it on time for Christmas! 🎄 Also tried experimenting with a more textured lineart brush😮

Hope you all have a wonderful holiday season full of love, good company and good food 💖

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💖 Birthday pic for my sibling @biscdraws 💖 Based on one of my fav photos they’ve taken of their adorable doll Lyrica 💕

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Very large Beauty & the Beast themed commission for Janelle’s wedding anniversary 💖 Thank you Troy for commissioning me! 🫶

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🦖 My partner is off to Mongolia tomorrow for a university trip to dig for dinosaurs! 🦕 I’m so proud of him, what a crazy cool opportunity! 💖 His dad commissioned me to draw this to celebrate 😊

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🎨 Some commissions from SMASH! 💥 I know it was a while ago haha; I’m so busy these days :’)

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My darling has set up my table for me and is running it today! 🥹

I'm travelling to Sydney after work as we speak, I might be able to catch the end of it - if not I'll definitely be there Saturday and Sunday 💖

Level 4, Row O, Table 7! ✌️

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🌸 Managed to squeeze in 4 new badge designs for SMASH! 🌸 Cute Bluey & Bingo "Hooray!", and my fave derpy tiger & bird from K-Pop Demon Hunters 🐯

Seeya at SMASH, level 4, row O, table 07!

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I’ll be at SMASH this weekend! Level 4, row O, table 7 💖 I hope to see you there!

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💖 New Sonic print for SMASH 💖 I’ve been very busy so unfortunately only had time for 1 new print, but I hope you like it! Seeya at SMASH this weekend! 🦔

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💛 My artwork for the '2 artists 1 ref' collab I posted about recently 💛 I love Rin & Len so much! 🥰

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Inspired by @lanajay_art, I wanted to try out a ‘2 artists 1 ref’ collab too! 💖 My good friend Hannah picked out the reference photo, and we both drew them as Rin & Len 💛 It’s so fun to watch the different processes and art styles!

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Melb OzCC day 2 💖💖 come get your wigglies! 🕺🕺 AA43!

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We're ready to go at Melbourne Oz Comic Con day 1! Seeya there 💖

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And the last standee is Miku! 🩵 I love how these standees turned out, they're such fun little desk ornaments to play with 😊 available at Melbourne Oz Comic Con and Sydney SMASH! 💕💖💕