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Shannon Stamey

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Professional freelance traditional artist and illustrator. Golden Age, fantasy, horror, pulp, film. Human playlist. French fry enthusiast. Just making pictures and lattes during the Apocalypse. COMMISSIONS OPEN. No AI. patreon.com/octoberillustrations

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Sep 2

Prelim sketch to finished artwork.
Oil on canvas. 25”x36”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 15h

August Gallows: Over the Moon
2023.
Graphite and charcoal on watercolor paper.
25.5”x35.5”.
All the white areas are exposed paper. I started with a charcoal base and erased my highlights as I worked.
Currently on display at Animazing Gallery in Las Vegas.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 15h

Thanks. It was a (mostly) fun shoot and the piece turned out nicely.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · May 2

How I turned myself into a bog witch:
1. Setting up the reference shoot.
2. The reference shoot. Probably 20-30 shots. In costume, ‘acting the character out’. Sounds so pretentious.
3. Preliminary sketch. This is where I flesh out the character and give them their identity
4. Final artwork.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · May 17

Vampire doll. 2022.
Pencil, ink and charcoal on paper. 3”x5”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Aug 12

Headless Horseman sketch.
2012.
Watercolor, pencil and ink on paper.
11”x14”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Aug 13

The Moon and June.
2007.
Charcoal and pencil over oil on paper. 18”x24”.
Still one of my favorites I’ve done.
I’d like to do some more Ziegfeld Follies-style work again soon.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Jan 18

Hoggle. 2024.
Pencil and oil over watercolor wash on paper. 11”x14”.
#art #drawing #labyrinth

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Apr 25

Worms Headley. 2023.
Charcoal and pencil on toned paper. 11”x14”.
With details.
I should get paid to illustrate more zombies.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · May 13

Early stages of August Gallows: Over the Moon.
2024.
I laid down a charcoal base and work with graphite over that, using an eraser for the highlights instead of white pencil.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 19h

Gold.

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Roland Loch in the Dead Star Forest. Study.
2022.
Pencil and marker over charcoal on toned paper.
11”x17”.
SOLD.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Apr 10

Luna. 2019.
Charcoal on newsprint.
18”x24”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Jan 30

The Stage. 2002.
Pencil, oil and pastel on paper.
12”x18”.
24 year-old me was just finding my legs as a self-taught illustrator and this was a piece that helped shape a lot of work that came after it.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Sep 12

Green Halo Absinthe.
2024. SOLD.
Pencil and oil on paper. 18”x24”.
With details.
The only thing in oil is the outer green border. Everything else is rendered in Derwent lightfast pencil with some of the tiniest flecks of white in the wings, hair and sugar cube in ink.

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Dan H Artworks @danhawk333.bsky.social · 1d

Congrats Val! 😎🍷
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Pen drawing of a ghostly upper torso, neck, head and shoulders of a bald human emerging from a mass of organic shapes that suggest organs, musculature, veins and other structures. Facing left it is looking with solid white eyes and a third eye towards an area of alien writing and shapes in white on a black background next to what appears to the left half of a viewer facing grey style alien being in an embryonic pose in a container and hooked up to wires and is propped up by the same structure of the background

Pen drawing that is mostly black and white focused on a humanoid figure with many different organic growths coming out of their back that contain eyes, while the upper part of their face is covered by a solid plate that has the skin of the lower part of the face connected to it by rivets. The rest of their body is covered by strange techno-organic growths and in the background is another figure reclining and holding their hands above their head into the arched walls that frame the scene. The surrounding area makes an oval portal like shape that filled with a yellowish hue and a number of orange ringed elongated eye like shapes with white centers with black filaments.

Pen drawing of a stylized, thin, feminine figure with a face that is just a black void with three white orbs sitting cross-legged in tattered black gown floating under an arch surrounded by runes and vegetation. They are floating amoung ruins flanked by a winged figures with bodies made of starry sky with smaller beings with animal skull type heads in black robes in the foreground of the floating figure. The wings of the crouching figures are in front of organiseh-yellow portals in the blue and purple sky while a feline humanoid figure slinks in from the right in the foreground.

Pen drawing of a standard 'grey' alien type behind a beige coloured console with organic texturing with a glowing set of holographic interface. Various devices and bundles of cables surround it with green and blue circular portals embedded in the rounded metallic background.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 1d

Yes.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 1d

I’m not sweeping leaves off the porch.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 1d

Probably nothing. As thrilling as that sounds.

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HerRoyalBOO👻bies @ourflagmeansbeth.bsky.social · 1d

Can everyone kick in 1-5 bucks? Juniper doesn’t have electricity and she’s a single disabled mom of four kids! This is an emergency!

Juniper @coffinfairy.bsky.social · 1d

THIS IS URGENT WE HARDLY HAVE FOOD AND NO HEAT AND ELECTRIC. I WAS ABLE TO PAY PROPANE BUT WE CANT EVEN HAVE HEAT BECAUSE THE ELECTRIC IS OFF!!!! PLEASE GOD REPOST HELP WHATEVER YOU CAN

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 1d

(Pukes violently)

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Innit.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 2d

Dusk at the barn.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · Aug 13

Cthulhu Mona Lisa.
Private commission.
2019.
Sepia and dark brown pencil on tea-stained parchment.
11”x17”.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 18d

Friday gallery crawl.
This is a small collection of pieces from over the years.
All are oil, pencil, watercolor and charcoal on paper, canvas or wood.
The earliest piece in this collection is The Moon and June from 2007 with the most recent being the Redcap goblin from this summer.

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Shannon Stamey @wsstamey.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Friday, mongrels.
WIP. Private commission.
Oil and pencil on paper.

Unfinished artwork of a woman’s ghost floating through a redwood forest.

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