||Sable's Hollow||

Howdy! I'm The Painted Sable, a 21 year old traditional art hobbyist. This blog will serve as a general art blog, kind of like a sketchbook. Expect sketches, finished paintings, concept artwork, general info-dumping, and maybe a little bit of silly fanart!

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Welcome to the Den!

This is my Sketchbook and Miscellaneous artwork blog!

Howdy, I’m The Painted Sable! I’m a traditional art hobbyist, and this is my art blog! I mostly tend towards mixed media, and I’ll do my best to tag the general materials I’ve used on a piece beneath any particular post. You’ll likely be seeing a lot of watercolor, marker, colored pencil, and ink, though! I happily go by the nicknames Sable, Painted, Jack, or PJ! But I’ll honestly respond to almost anything. I am an adult. I will do my best to tag and censor my posts appropriately whenever necessary, but I do illustrate gore and harsh themes from time to time. If I have a mature warning on a post, heed it. If not for your own sake, then for mine.

Masterposts

Magic the Gathering: "Rat Bomb" / "Snail Bomb" Proxy Project

Sable's Sketchbooking Masterlist #1

Sable's Sketchbooking Masterlist #2

My Other Art Stuff #1

Organization tags, external links, and alternative blogs are below the cut!

Common Tags

Sketchbook Tags, to view work from a particular sketchbook: #Sketchbook 29, #Sketchbook 30, …

#Sketchbook, or #Sketchbook Spread to just see all the sketchbook spreads

#Bookbinding for any bookbinding endeavors

#artfight, #art fight, #artfight[Year], or #art fight [year] for anything regarding the annual July competition

External Links

My Toyhou.se which serves as a one-stop-shop for a lot about me! My links, characters, stories, commission status, species involvement, Terms of Service, design and art examples, etc.! All of it should be able to be found on Toyhouse, just until I figure something different.

My Artfight! I may or may not be participating whenever you’re seeing this, but I might as well have it linked just in case! Annual art trading competition in July.

My Instagram and My Deviantart, which are only to serve as archives. I do not intend to post on them unless necessary.

Alternative Blogs

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This post is for the pieces under the flaps of my big sketchbook spread! :) They are literally all of bikers. Because I have a problem. Net 0 motorcycle in my life. I need to learn to draw motorcycles to cope.

I also censored the gore lol. Last post = full spread with gore (just blood), this one has no gore visible.

The rest of the sketchbook spread is here, and my Art Fight account is here!

Omen belongs to cr0ok3d!

Bailey belongs to PoopyFlyMaster

Ron (+ ravens) belong to moonval

Luperca belongs to Sonderduck, and Jack belongs to me

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ART! FIGHT!!! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAYA!!!!

A particularly massive spread for this year's Art Fight! Putting a cut before the closeups this time, since there's a lot! Im honestly going to need a second post lol.

Post of the front flap sketches | Post of the back of the flaps

My Art Fight account!!!!

Luna belongs to hhanna!

Milkyway belongs to Weeb_a_woof! YEAR THREE OF COMMITTING TO THE BIT OH YEAH >:)

Jack belongs to jackscolorlessgreen!

G. Devil belongs to Killbot!

Luperca belongs to Sonderduck!

Silverkoi belongs to HEDGE_H0AX!

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Guess who got to post exactly FOUR attacks before the site did its annual explosion :)

Lady Unga belongs to Adamsketches Hedgewitch (+ hedgebaby) belongs to Stephasocks Yaardstick belongs to DIYBrainSurgery Thimble belongs to Thimble_the_Slug

I will add the proper links to the above when the site is back up and running at normal capacity.

I decided to do something a little different this year, and designate my first few attacks to "warming up." Restricted myself to a very maximum of 30 minutes each, and tried my best to vary the materials across what I plan to use most often. This does mean I was focusing a lot more on the material I was using than the style I was drawing in, leading to a lot of texture.

These are going to be a part of a larger sketchbook spread, but they sit on a flap so it's a lot easier to post them like this.

Art Fight - ThePaintedSable's Profile

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ITS ART FIGHT SEASON AGAIN!!! TEAM TRAGEDY FOR THE WIN!!!!

I'll be doing my best to participate again this year! I don't know if I'll be able to go as hard as previous years due to class and work, but I sure will be trying. Already making my list of characters that will hopefully still be there at the beginning of the game.

As always: I do revenges, friendly fire, and am always open game to give out (+ happy to receive) mass attacks. My artwork is traditional and pretty experimental, so don't always expect the same types of attacks from me.

Responding on this post in some way may get me looking at your profile ;)

Art Fight - ThePaintedSable's Profile!!!

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THREE! HOURS! UNTIL! THE! FIIIGHGHGHTHHTTT!!!!!!!

Have your pencils ready, characters bookmarked so you don't lose track of them, and remember to get those reference sheets screenshotted in case the site goes down!

I am very excited about this year, lol. I've been needing some real motivation for drawing ever since my summer classes started, and Art Fight always pulls me out of it. I even got my Toyhou.se sort of in order, after having been in the same state for almost four years now.

Good luck, y'all!

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I am older now. Yuck.

Had a friend get SUPER excited about me being born 21 years ago, and went and planned a whole party and invited a bunch of our shared friends. She had this going MONTHS in advance 😭

The only downside to any of this is that my one and only request was to go rollerskating. I did not care if I was alone or if there was a party, I just wanted to be at the rink. This was fine, but majority of our group did NOT know how to skate lol. Im just lucky they all humored me for a couple hours.

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Opossum Comic Part 2!!! He is on his little adventure in the woods! But oh no! Bird!

First part of my favorite spread in this whole thing. Yet again, there is no telling how many mediums touched this page. I used literally anything and everything that was in front of me to get this done and procrastinate studying for like 3 different cell biology exams. Yes I was working on this that long.

Part 1 | Part 3

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Opossum comic! He is little and has a big dream of being cool like the silly little man in his book :)

This was partially started as comic practice and partially as a repetitive thing to color in to kill time to force myself to not stress about studying. I couldn't even tell you all of the mediums I used on these pages. Inks, watercolor, water marker, alcohol marker, pens, crayons, oil pastels, paints of several kinds..... It was a lot.

Heads up: There is no gore in this part, but there WILL be gore in. like. Part 3? He does not get hurt but he is on a big adventure. Don't look at the tags if you dont want spoilers.

> Part 2 <

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ITS ART FIGHT SEASON AGAIN!!! TEAM TRAGEDY FOR THE WIN!!!!

I'll be doing my best to participate again this year! I don't know if I'll be able to go as hard as previous years due to class and work, but I sure will be trying. Already making my list of characters that will hopefully still be there at the beginning of the game.

As always: I do revenges, friendly fire, and am always open game to give out (+ happy to receive) mass attacks. My artwork is traditional and pretty experimental, so don't always expect the same types of attacks from me.

Responding on this post in some way may get me looking at your profile ;)

Art Fight - ThePaintedSable's Profile!!!

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Another sketchbook spread! Not very cohesive, but it'll do.

Right side is my previous post, left side is just a bunch of random doodles + me acquiring a pet tortrice. His name is Yamaha. Yes, he is named after a motorcycle brand. No, I do not have a problem.

Still thinking about motorcycles. Still thinking about opossums. Still thinking about playing Magic: The Gathering.

School has me very burnt out again, unfortunately. Not a fan of online courses at all. No matter how interesting the information is, the presentation method is just never good enough to keep me motivated. And let's just say that one of the classes I'm in, I find neither interesting nor particularly useful for my personal career goals. PUT ME IN A ROOM PLEASE ;o;

At the same time, The Dog In Me is a High Stress Animal that cannot rest soundly until All Work Is Done. Meaning I am not spending my free time drawing, and rather staring at a wall trying to will myself to do things I do not want to do.

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Commemoration artwork for the finale of The Amazing Digital Circus! I wouldn't say there's anything spoiler-ish in here for the actual last episode, but it definitely pulls a bit of inspiration from episode 8 and 9 together.

MY THOUGHTS ON THE EPISODE BELOW (NOT SPOILER FREE; I dont say exactly what happened scenes, but I be yapping):

I thought the last episode was good. Started off pretty slow, and I felt like some of the more trying-to-be-emotional scenes overstayed their welcome a *little bit* too long, but the second half was pretty nice. Not a fan of the "info-we've-already-seen" flashbacks, but the "new-information" flashbacks were stunning. They had good, organic acting in them :) Felt like I was listening in on actual conversations; even related to them a bit.

I *do* think that the way we got to the "new-information" flashbacks (and the associated scenes leading into them) could have been introduced a little better, or at least had a bit more context for how we got to "I need to do [very self destructive action that has never once been discussed or shown to help prior in the series (opposite, actually), with no way to fix it afterwards, despite being framed as a good idea by the narrative]." Most other things remaining unexplained is fine and honestly good for the story, but this one was a little strange.

The ending was good. I liked the twist, and I like that the twist didn't feel like it changed since so many people already guessed it. Kinda wish they would have committed a little more to Jax's Thing in terms of his life outside of the circus, but I also understand flawed people take time to grow and accept themselves, and that's probably the angle they were going for.

I dont understand why people are so pressed about most of the attention being on Jax and Pomni when we were WELL warned that he was one of the main characters. I don't understand why people are acting like this is the worst thing in cinema history, either - It wasn't the best thing I've ever seen, but it was fun and followed with the themes we had set up.

I had fun :)

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Annual deer post:

If you see a fawn laying down on the ground all alone, leave it alone. It is not lost, it does not need your help, do not pick it up, do not move it.

This behavior evolved to keep deer young safe. The baby is very small, very quiet, and hard for most predators to see. A young fawn cannot keep up with a fleeing mother deer, which is their primary problem-solving strategy. So while the mother goes elsewhere to graze, the fawn stays safe and hidden. The mom will be back.

Leave the fawn alone.

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Some old cards I realized I didn't post!

RAT BOMB PROXY PROJECT MASTERLIST

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Rat Bomb deck. Again. Not so fond of the Mountain, but I really like the Shivan Reef.

RAT BOMB PROXY PROJECT MASTERLIST

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You will never guess what I made more of.

Two non-rat creatures this time! Very fond of Ratcatcher as I had to do some experimental stuff as I forgot to account for the background. RAT BOMB PROXY PROJECT MASTERLIST

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MASTERPOST: My Other Art Stuff #1

Things not from my sketchbook! Oldest POST first, newest POST last!!!

There is absolutely more art that exists before my "current" posted "sketchbook era" spreads that I included in this list, but I am kinda too lazy to compile all that. You'll just have to scroll back for those lol.

LINK TO SKETCHBOOK MASTERPOST #1 LINK TO SKETCHBOOK MASTERPOST #2

OUTSIDE of the SKETCHBOOK Artwork

Mochi Raptor Raffle Prize

CHIIKAWA POSTER!!!!!!!!!!! (Chiikawa fanart)

Wildlife Sticky Notes #1

Doodles of Caine in my Physics Notes (TADC fanart)

Birthday Cart: Opossum in Cake

Christmas Card: Wildlife Christmas

Christmas Card: Grey Squirrel

Christmas Card: Great Blue Heron Cookie

Christmas Card: Biker Squirrel Santa

Christmas Card: Opossum Christmas Pudding

Christmas Card: Drunk Squirrels

Christmas Card: Wildlife Christmas Tree

Christmas Card: Gibble

Christmas Card: Flying Squirrels

Christmas Card: Op + Mushroom

Christmas Card: Woodpecker

Christmas Card: Maid Cats

Christmas Card: Chicken

Christmas Card: Fat Raccoon

Christmas Card: Wildlife Cookies

Christmas Card: Owl, Whip-poor-will

Christmas Card: Fox

Christmas Card: Opossum

Digital Doodle of Caine (TADC fanart)

Wildlife Sticky Notes #2

Wildlife Sticky Notes #3

MTG: RAT BOMB PROJECT MASTERPOST

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SABLE'S SKETCHBOOK MASTERPOST #2

Just a simple masterpost for all of my Sketchbook stuff so it's easier to locate in this mess! Skips in pages are probably intentional!

Art exists before my "current" posted sketchbook spreads, but I am kinda too lazy to compile all that

LINK TO MASTERPOST #1 LINK TO "OTHER ART STUFF"

Sketchbook 31

3 - 4: Planning paintings, Jumalanpelko fanart

Closer look at the previous Jumalanpelko fanart

??? - Many, Many videogame fanart (pokemon, cuphead, Goose game, etc.) + Christmas themed Mochi Raptor designs

7 - 8: Core Keepers Fanart

9 - 10: Copperhead (OC) full page spread

??? - FULL SPREAD Mochi Raptor Painting

??? - New Years Journaling

??? - Doodles, Requested drawings

17 - 18: It snowed in Florida Journaling

19 - 20: 100% accurate Jumalanpelko fanart

21 - 24: Skull, Cuphead fanart, so many doodles

25 - 26: Journaling but make it comic practice

27 - 28: Doodles, journaling, OWLS!!!

29 - 30: Doodles, journaling, School Project, Character concept

31 - 32: Hellmo, journaling, Pressure fanart

33 - 34: Journaling

35 - 36: Doodles, School, Pokemon doodles (Pokemon fanart)

39 - 40: Face Practice

41 - 44 : More practice, Journaling

45 - 46: Pressure OC, Sebatian concept (Pressure Roblox fanart)

47 - 48: Wildlife doodles, Journaling

51 - 52: Sketchbook Posters (Chiikawa, tamagotchi fanart)

Artfight 2025 Introduction

Artfight 2025 #1

Animation from Artfight 2025

Artfight 2025 #2

Artfight 2025 #3

74: ZOMBURGER PAINTING

69 - 70: TADC doodle, Warrior Cats OC

71 - 73: Chuck-wills-widow character concept doodles

ARTFIGHT 2025 #4

???: Doodles (Undertale fanart)

89 - 90: Work Journaling

87 - 88: Doodles, Gargoyle Concept

Singular Inktober Entry (Inktober 2025; Jumalanpelko fanart)

97 - 98: Doodles, Journaling, Squirrels

99 - 106 : Many, many doodles

Sketchbook 32 (Most Recent)

2 - 3: Raccoon Comic

6 - 7: Christmas Journaling and Doodles

5: Flying Squirrels Page

4: Dungeons and Dragons Doodle

14 - 15: Doodles, Motorcycles, Squirrels

16 - 17: Doodles, Drawing Friends

19: Pressed Flowers

20 - 21: Mostly Vent / Journaling

22 - 23: Doodles, Yamaha (the tortoise), and TADC

23: TADC fanart closeup + Finale Thoughts