Sarah Trafford

Beautiful move, reminded me so much of what I love about the book 💔

More mechanical pencil practice #tombowpencil #portrait

New painting, featuring Kitty 🐱

Testing out a new graphite brush in Procreate. If you haven’t seen Sinners in theaters yet, go now. It’s hauntingly beautiful.🩸 #Sinners

Thanks Jameela!! 🥰

#portraitart #pencil #ayoedebiri

Tombow mechanical pencils changed my life #portraitart #pencil

Happy belated Valentine’s Day! 💌 #cupid #valentines #watercolor

Still thinking about Nosferatu. Watercolor on 300lb hot press paper 🖤

Love this adorable void cat!

QRP with your starry art ✨

I really love the floral element you added to this. Beautiful illustration and concept

Cross-stitch rendition of the famous Unicorn Tapestry

kinda want to recreate this as a halla study, but i'd have to fiddle around with the posing a little

[ #Artist challenge ]

Traditional version
I also paint with watercolors to make my #art! ✨

Thanks Jameela!! ✨

QRP with your skull art ✨💀✨

[ #Artist challenge ]
if you see this i dare you to share your program and #art! ✨

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Atlas Obscura Wild Life, Dinosaurs at the Dinner Party, Every Living Thing, Alien Earths, Becoming Earth, and Deep Water

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Frostbite, The Inner Clock, How to Kill an Asteroid, The Great River, The Last Fire Season, and Hoof Beats

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are The Serviceberry, Not the End of the World, Nature's Ghosts, Meet the Neighbors, The Light Eaters, and Our Moon

A collage of book covers of new nature & science books. Featured here are Turning to Stone, The Weight of Nature, What If We Get It Right?, Waves in An Impossible Sea, The Tree Collectors, and Why We Remember

I was deeply disappointed by the lack of nature/science/climate/enviro on many major end-of-year book lists—so I decided to make my own!

Introducing: ✨🎁📚 The 2024 Holiday Gift Guide to Nature & Science Books ✨🎁📚

Please share: Let's make this go viral in time for Black Friday / holiday shopping!

QRP with your green art 💚🌿

If you see this, post your orange art 🍊

#kidlitart #art #illustration

Love the concept and the pink background 💖

Please share your blue art! 💙🦋

Thanks so much Jameela! 🥰

Thursday #artshare time! Share the art that feels most most quintessentially YOU

Here’s my take on a book cover for Emma by Jane Austen! Started with a pencil sketch as the base. Dreaming of illustrating a historical fiction cover one day! 🌸 #Emma #JaneAusten

Art drawn by people who very rarely make art and think they are “bad at art” is 1000x cooler than AI art. It’s life-affirming. It’s often unexpected. I cannot overemphasize how much I love when people just go for it. You do not need the machine for this human endeavor.

Please share your blue art 🟦 ❄️

#kidlitart #art #illustration

One of the reasons I love working traditionally is because it requires a lot of problem solving, *especially* with mixed media. You need to know your materials really well, know how to layer them, how they work together and you need to have a decent grasp on color theory.

#arttrain ✨
QRP with your sketch vs final artwork!

Sketch versus final illustration, my kid’s lit take on the Cartoon Saloon Film, The Breadwinner.

Thanks so much!! 😊