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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 11m

Day 17: "A storm that speaks your name."

What I thought of was how it feels to care so deeply about someone or something, that you just can't hold the feelings. I feel this a lot.

Caring is sometimes the most punk thing in the world.

#sketch #drawing #art

A drawing of a person with their head thrown back, crying.

taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 22h

Day 15: "Something watching from the attic."

I feel like this one is really basic, but I like it anyway.

#art #sketch #drawing

A drawing of an attic door, partly open, with a dark creature peeking out.

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 22h

Day 14: "Forgotten offerings."

I used to leave offerings for the fae, when I was a kid. I suspect they remember - I have uncanny good luck even now.

#sketch #drawing #art

A drawing of several small items scattered around the ground in a cave near two mushrooms.

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Personal sketching challenge, day 13: "The forest that hums."

#sketch #drawing #art

A sketch of a young person with a forest tattoo on their neck, and a forest and mountains in the background

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Personal sketching challenge, day 12: "A visitor after midnight."

This one was fun. I don't do much horror art, so this was a good challenge.

#sketch #art #drawing

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Personal sketching challenge, day 11: "Footsteps leading away."

#sketch #drawing #art

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Personal sketching challenge, day 10: "The locked drawer."

#art #sketching #drawing

A sketch of a desk drawer with blood around it and a bloody key on the floor

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Personal sketching challenge, day 9: "A lullaby with no singer."

I don't ever draw babies, so this was weird, lol.

#sketching #art #drawing

A drawing of a sleeping baby and swirling music notes

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 1d

Personal sketching challenge, Day 8: "The path that wasn't there before."

#sketchbook #drawing #art

A drawing of a man holding a torch, looking back at a procession of hunched figures

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 8d

Day 7: "Shadows at the edge of the firelight"

#art #illustration #sketch #sketchbook #traditionalart #drawing

A drawing of a shadowy creature dancing through flames

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 12d

Art for the idea "The mirror that won't show your face." I'm proud of this one.

#art #drawing #sketch #inktober #sketchbook #illustration

A drawing of a person's reflection in a mirror, with no facial features

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 13d

Sketching from the idea "Beneath the old willow."

#sketching #sketchbook #art #drawing #illustration #traditionalart

A drawing of a sleeping person with willow branches draped over them

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 15d

The drawing prompt was "The house that remembers." I thought about the childhood home that always pulled me in when I went back.

Might redo this one at some point with better framing, but I like the idea.

#drawing #illustration #art #sketchbook #traditionalart #spooky

A drawing of a house with shadowy clawed hands reaching out of the door, windows, and chimney

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 16d

More sketchbook stuff, to the prompt "Lanterns in the fog." Just trying to get back into using my sketchbook. I've had the same once since 2023, and I haven't finished it. Aaagh

#sketchbook #sketching #doodling #art #traditionalart #drawing #illustration #sketch

A scene with floating lanterns rising into the sky, and a woman gently releasing one herself

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 17d

Doing some daily drawing efforts to try to get back into my sketchbook practice. Just drawing from random prompts right now. Today's was "Whispers through a keyhole."

The "lyrics" are not to any real song, just words of mine.

#drawing #traditionalart #sketchbook #sketch #art #artist

A pencil drawing of a woman holding her hand up to her face to whisper through a key hole

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 22d

My new zine "Flightless" IS DONE!!! AAAAAAHHH

Go check it out on Etsy: periwinklepaladin.etsy.com/listing/4378...

#zine #zinemaker #diyprint #selfpublished #fairytale #fable #faerietale #drawing #illustration #zines

Four copies of a zine titled "Flightless", printed on four different colors covers, held in a person's hand

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 23d

Inked like mad this morning and got a few more pages done. Flightless is almost complete! Holy crap

Drawn in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq

#zine #comic #indiecomics #selfpublishing #diyprint #art #artist #digitalart #drawing

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 24d

Weekly art blog is up! Art this week, plus an upcoming zine I'm proud to be a part of. 💓 #zine #artist #artistblog #TheLanternZine

taylorjohnson.art/2025/09/27/a...

Art blog: Shifting focus + zine preorders open!

I’m shifting my focus from a project that isn’t working to one I’m really excited about. Plus, preorders are open for my first collab participation!

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · 27d

I did this illustration for my planner - I use a completely DIY #a5rings, and thought I'd try making my own cover illustations. This is October.

Done in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq

#drawing #digitalart #illustration #art #Halloween #Samhain #witchy #cozy

An illustration of a woman with red hair sitting holding a cup of tea, with a black cat leaning on her leg.

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · Sep 11

I'd originally planned to color the figure in this in full color, but it looked so striking like this that I'm leaving it as it is.

Inked in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq
Colored/shaded with #Copic #alcoholmarkers

#art #drawing #illustration #zine #zinemaker #perzine

A drawing of a figure falling into a chasm

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · Sep 5

I have too many concurrent projects, so I'm trying to focus on just one at a time. Safe Places' color edition won out for now.

Inked digitally in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq. Printed & colored with #Copic #alcoholmarkers.

#art #drawing #markers #markercoloring #illustration #zine

A person wearing jeans and a gray coat, sitting on the ground crying

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · Sep 4

Our intrepid human off to fuck shit up.

Inked in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq. For an upcoming #zine, Flightless.

#illustration #art #drawing #digitalart

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · Sep 3

I might use a modified version of this piece for the cover of Flightless.

Done in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq.

#art #drawing #digitalart #zine #zinemaker #illustration

A half-bird woman looking out from a cage of interlaced branches

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · Sep 2

This one is sad, but was fun to work on.

Inked in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq. Image for an upcoming #zine project, "Flightless."

#zines #author #artist #art #digitalart #drawing

A half-bird character sitting in a tree, surrounded by interwoven branches, crying.

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taylorjohnson.art 🎨 @taylorjohnsonart.bsky.social · Aug 31

New style who dis?

In other news, this character has taken over my brain 😭

Pencil on paper,colored in #clipstudiopaint with a #wacom #cintiq

#art #digitalart #drawing #portrait #artist #oc

A portrait of a young woman with olive skin and brown hair in a braid

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