Heyy everybody and welcome in! Grab your coffee and a blanket, and make yourselves comfortable ❤️
Hey bitches, bros, and nonbinary hoes I’m Thorns&Thistles, your local artist and actress. Great to see you’ve struggled your way to my pocket of tumblr <33
As a self-taught artist, I’ve worked in all manners of art mediums, both traditional and digital. I use acrylic paint, gouache, watercolor, acrylic/alcohol markers and ink, though I’ve found digital art to be my love.
After SIX YEARS since I got my first iPad (rip covid 😭), we’ve gone through two more iPads, an absurd amount of file storage, an ungodly amount of coffee, and a few crashouts, but here we are now. Enjoy!!
About my Art
*When/how did I start drawing?: I’ve loved drawing since I was pretty young, but I first got my hands on an iPad about six years ago. It was my nanny’s old one, and she let me keep it, which further fueled my interest. Since then, I’ve just kept practicing!
*What do I use to draw?: An A16 iPad, an Apple Pencil, and the Adobe Fresco app. Adobe Fresco is COMPLETELY FREEE and it has lots of brushes and features, I highly recommend it yall.
*What do I mainly draw?: I love animals and wildlife biology, so I focus mainly on creatures of all kinds! Cats in particular (influenced by being in the Warriors fandom), as well as anthropomorphic animals and furries.
*Favorite/least fave mediums?: Aside from digital, I LOVEEE love love gouache for its delicious texture and ease to work with. Ink as well! I adore calligraphy. Last favorite has to be oil pastel, they be getting all over my hands yo pissing me off.
About the person breaking their back doing the art
Hey yall, you can call me Thorns, Thorn or Liz!! Thorns, or any shortening of my username is cool, and Liz is my irl nickname; so please only use if we’re moots <3
Greetings to all my fellow Americans who wish they lived literally anywhere else right now, because I feel you man. Living in us has its benefits, but public schooling is DEFINITELY NOT one of them yall. As a full-time student and part-time artist, I have virtually no time for anything at all ever, which sucks because I have a bajillion hobbies and absolutely no time lol. Some favorites include mapmaking, calligraphy, painting, and making sure my cats don’t walk headfirst into a door because god I know they would. Theatre also takes up a good chunk of my time, which I am not that mad about honestly. If you ask me, there is absolutely nothing like the first dress rehearsal and the final performance. Got me crying everytime lol.
As artsy as I am in terms of hobbies, biology is my academic passion. Science is my strong suit, and wildlife biology as well as environmental sciences are my specialties. As much as I love art, I could ramble on about those topics all day if you let me haha
A lil bit of trivia about me 🖤
Sun Sign: Capricorn
Moon Sign: Scorpio
Chinese zodiac: Dragon
Favorite…
Animal: Amur leopard
Drink: Brown sugar black tea
Food: Fettuccine Alfredo
Color: Dark red
TOS and DNF/DNIs
General rule for any interaction you might have with me: don’t be an asshole please ❤️ just be chill and everything’s cool!!
Art requests & trades TOS: General politeness, do not rush me! I often have a list of requests, so expect a wait. I will respond to every request I can, I might just take me a bit.
I don’t do comms at all <3
DNI/DNF: DO NOT INTERACT WITH ME IF YOU ARE IN ANY WAY RACIST, HOMO/TRANSPHOBIC, SEXIST, MAGA, FAR RIGHT, OR ANIT THERIAN/OTHERKIN/FURRY!!! There are no exceptions; if you are going to hate on people take yo ahh far away from me.
