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Katie Shanahan

Katie Shanahan

@ktshy.bsky.social

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Story Artist/Director. Sometimes comics. 🇨🇦 KatieShanahan.com Instagram.com/ktshy

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Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Sep 7

Swordtember Day 4: Scale 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Sep 4

Swordtember Day 3: Automaton 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Sep 3

Thanks Faith!

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Swordtember Day 2: Moss 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Thanks! He’s a lil guy 🗡️🦀

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Sep 2

Swordtember Day 1: Shell 🗡️ #swordtember #swordtember2025

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Kelly Turnbull @coelasquid.bsky.social · Aug 31

Sometimes we’re unsatisfied with a thing we made because when it only existed in our head, we saw all the things it could have been and when it’s done we know all the things that it isn’t, but we can’t see the way it expands into a million new things when someone else unpacks it in their head. 🖊️🦑

Frustrated little dude gripping a pencil saying “how do I pack this down into something I can actually share?” While swirling rainbows labeled “INFINITE POTENTIAL” float around them.

Little dude frowns at a tiny grey box, exclaiming “all that work for THIS?!”

Little dude shoves the grey box into another little guy’s hands; Frowning, stomping off, and saying “Here you go, I made this, it sucks.”

Second little dude cracks open the box, swirling rainbows project out onto their face.

Second little dude stares in awe at all the swirling rainbows now floating around them.

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks Molly!

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 31

Thanks Matt! It’s a lovely and peaceful place

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 30

Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden #studies

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 28

Caleb’s adventures with fish-Essek are so cute! 😆

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you Amanda!! 🥲🙏

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 26

Sunset beach park #pleinairpainting #studies

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 18

Gesdrawparty 229- Koyo Yamamoto #studies

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 17

A few more #Jinx figure drawings with #zeet_studio_sketch #studies

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Hannah Vardit @hannahvardit.bsky.social · Aug 16

hi this is my favorite writing advice, it's from former simpsons writer john swartzwelder (i think about the crappy little elf all the time) www.newyorker.com/culture/the-...

screengrab of a portion of new yorker interview with former simpson's writer john swartzwelder:
Mike Sacks: How much time and attention did you spend on these scripts? Another “Simpsons” writer once compared your scripts to finely tuned machines—if the wrong person mucked with them, the whole thing could blow up.
Swartzwelder: All of my time and all of my attention. It’s the only way I know how to write, darn it. But I do have a trick that makes things easier for me. Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible, putting in crap jokes and pattern dialogue—“Homer, I don’t want you to do that.” “Then I won’t do it.” Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done. It’s like a crappy little elf has snuck into my office and badly done all my work for me, and then left with a tip of his crappy hat. All I have to do from that point on is fix it. So I’ve taken a very hard job, writing, and turned it into an easy one, rewriting, overnight. I advise all writers to do their scripts and other writing this way. And be sure to send me a small royalty every time you do it.

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Evan Palmer @evanpalmercomics.com · Aug 8

Listen, I had to.

Anne of Green Gables kicks Frieza in the face.

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Animation Obsessive @ani-obsessive.bsky.social · Aug 4

How Hayao Miyazaki storyboarded the car chase in The Castle of Cagliostro (1979), dir. Hayao Miyazaki, Tokyo Movie Shinsha

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 5

Another fun and expressive Amita Hachidori session with #gesdrawparty #studies #sketchbook #figuredrawing

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Aug 1

Jinx figure drawing session with #zeet_studio_sketch #arcane #studies

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Jul 25

Sketchbook speed run Nov ‘24-July ‘25. Figure drawings referencing #zeet_studio_sketch #Gesdrawparty #studies

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Jul 23

#gesdrawparty figure drawing #studies

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Jul 22

So excited for this! 👏💖🙌

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Jul 22

Wow!

Katie Shanahan @ktshy.bsky.social · Jul 21

#GesDrawParty figure drawings #studies