Hello darlingest and dearest Patrons, and another happy Friday to you!
I am back baybee, from my family trip to the southern Caribbean. That’s right, back in Seattle where the lovely PNW summer weather has finally set in. Lots has happened and there’s lots to do coming up. Thanks for joining me in this update!
I can hardly believe it but this past week I completed A...
2018-07-27 19:57:26 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and happy Friday! How was your week? How’s it goin buddy?
I‘m writing from The Caribbean yet again, I’ll be here until next Wednesday! I’ve been spending the week with family celebrating my grandfather’s 75th birthday. Swimming, eating fruits, drinking wine, family scavenger hunts, playing Cards Against Humanity, trying out water sports with aunts, uncles, cousins, sisters, and parents.
But of course I’ve been working on the art for my first ...
2018-07-20 15:17:13 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, happy Sunday!
I’m writing to you from a tiny island off the coast of another tiny island called Antigua In the southern Caribbean. I’m sitting outside on a bar stool, with my feet propped up on another bar stool while my cousins play in the pool, my aunt floats on an inflatable pineapple, and my sister walks around taking pictures. I’m on vacation... But, I definitely have Work to Do!
2018-07-15 15:10:20 +0000 UTC
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Hey friends happy Wednesday! I have another process video/ speed paint for you guys! This is another style challenge, this time based on a piece by the incredible Janice Sung. She digitally paints such beautiful and fashionable ladies. It was an interesting challenge to interpret a piece like this.
My version has be...
2018-07-11 18:03:34 +0000 UTC View Post
I made a vlog! It's very rough, all made on my ipad (ha ha), but I wanted to see what we thought about a vlog edition of these updates!
Stick around because about halfway through I have an exciting update, and at the end some kitty surprises!
Let me know what you think, do you like these or the written updates more? This took a while, so I won't make more unless you love this!
Some links:
The #drawthisinyourstyle craze continues on instagram! This time I drew a version of artist Yaroslava Apollonova’s (@odnatamyara) character:
I’m excited to say that my version of her drawing is my first post to reach over 1,000 likes on instagram! It was only last month that I reached my first 100 likes with my Harry Potter childhood week drawing! It is exciting and also a litt...
2018-07-04 18:06:34 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello hello Patrons, happy Friday! How’s your week been? Is it getting hot there yet? It’s pretty cool here but everyone is still swimming and wearing shots and sandals like they do in the PNW.
This week has been a more productive week than last, I am feeling much better from my cold!
(Image from Seattleartists.com )
The major update this week is that...
2018-06-29 20:02:27 +0000 UTC View Post
My second most popular drawing on instagram is of this lovely character by Laura Bernard, laurabeedraws on the internet!
There’s been a meme floating around we’re artists draw a character and then invite other artists to draw their character in there own style! It’s fun, spreads the artist love, and allows you a clear practice for your own technique and style. You can see tha...
2018-06-28 19:52:38 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and happy Friday! I hope you have had a wonderful week, a lovely summer solstice, that it hasn’t been too hot or too pollen-y for you!
I had a very eventful start to this week that sadly resulted in a cold through the end of the week. After a very busy weekend I spent much of the week training for a new part time barista job at a local cafe (to help stop my gradual descent down through my savings.) Between recovering from my cold and training at the cafe, I...
2018-06-22 18:51:48 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello and happy Thursday, Patrons!
I have submitted my piece for the zine Hazel published by Cottonbook Press, and the zine will be published later in the summer and available for wholesale. This will be the third issue of the growing Hazel zine, and my first participation in a publication. I am so excited! AND I wanted to give my patrons the opportunity to read and view my piece first.
Hazel is themed...
2018-06-21 19:36:55 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons and happy Friday! I hope you’re doing well!
This week had one main focus: finishing updating my social media presence. I hadn’t updated my bios, intentions, or information since I started this business only three months ago! I feel like I have a much clearer vision of what I want now so it feels good to align my information and branding with that!
Hello Patrons!
So my previous goal here on Patreon was to learn how to make and release pins! I finally got started on sculpting and painting my first ever batch of pins, made out of polymer clay and painted with acrylic. They still need to be glazed, the pin glued to the back, and photographed before I can officially put them up for sale in my shop, so their release will be next week!
I wanted to offer them up to you all for presale, with the reminder of a 10% discou...
2018-06-15 00:51:30 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, Patrons!
So it's been exactly three months since I launched this business, and as you know much has happened in that time!
To reflect the changes in my business and the things that I have learned, the ways that I am able to spend my time working, and my goals for future improvement here on Patreon, I have made some adjustments to my rewards. For total transparency, I wanted to list them here:
$5 Reward Tier
Access to WEE...
2018-06-08 23:24:10 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello Patrons, Friends, Family, Countrywomen! Happy Friday, another week achieved! I hope you’ve had a good one wherever you are!
I’ve had a relatively slow week when it comes to immediate commissioned work, which has worked out fine because I always have things to fill that spare time!
The biggest portion of this week has been spent on the bi-yearly art challenge hosted by artist and illustrator Bea...
2018-06-08 18:49:52 +0000 UTC View Post
I also wanted to welcome our awesome lovely hilarious new Patron friend Zöe to the group! Thanks for joining us here, I hope you like it!
Attached up there is a commission I did for Zoe and her boyfriend Nate back in February for Valentine’s Day! I would explain what it is but it’s a very complicated inside joke that I don’t think needs describing.
xoxo
Ragon
Hey Buds! Special mid-ish week video for you guys, a special process video for my most popular Instagram illustration to date!
I’m participating in an Instagram event by artist Beatrice Blue called Childhood Week, where she provides a list of prompts to inspire illustrations based on your childhood! This was the first day and the prompt was “Magic”, so of course I drew a tribute to Harry Potter.
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Hello my dear Patrons, and happy June! I hope you all are doing well!
This week was my first full week back in Seattle after travel, and it feels good and important to be back.
The first big goal I had this week was to release more products on my etsy using art that I had already designed and painted. Basically monetizing work that I have already put in, and making more things available to customers! Stickers had been something I had been hoping for for mo...
2018-06-02 18:00:45 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey guys, I hope you had a great long weekend!
With the start of my sales of stickers on my Etsy I wanted to say thank you to you all with a free sticker (on sale for $5!) Thanks for your support here! Email me at ragondickard@gmail.com or comment with your sticker choice and your address so I can mail it!
Hooray, you’re the best!
xoxo
Ragon
2018-05-30 04:19:06 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again Patrons, and Happy FRIDAY!
This week went by at super speeds, because now I am back in Seattle super excited to get this art train rolling again!
My travels to Mexico and Colorado (and Utah) have partially satisfied my traveling desires, partially stoked the deep joys of mine that I haven’t pulled up in years. It’s like I forgot how much I love to see new places, to hike and explore the natural world, to move and exercise and sweat, to be active and co...
2018-05-25 18:30:48 +0000 UTC View Post
One more thing, I made a special wallpaper for you guys for this month! Summery and colorful, with a message I’m trying to remind myself, and for you guys!!
Tablet wallpaper:
Phone Wallpaper:
Hello and happy Saturday, Patrons! I’m posting a quick update today because I’ve spent the last three days in Moab, Utah with my sister!
We tent camped in a Bureau of Land Management campsite beside the Colorado river for $15 a night. There were no showers and no water but we managed by filling up empty jugs we brought at the National Park and.... not showering for three days. It always hurts my heart to see people buying those 24 packs of individual plastic water...
2018-05-19 18:02:09 +0000 UTC View Post
Helloooooo from Denver, my beloved Patrons! I’m in my sister (and Patron’s!) apartment, and I have been here for one day! Yesterday it was rainy and mostly lovely to see Kenna, and tomorrow we are leaving on a road trip to Santa Fe, so I haven’t really gotten to see Denver much. I’ll update more as my trip continues!
Anyway! I wanted to share with you all my first official attempt at a comic strip! It’s about my gradual transition to caring a lot less about ...
2018-05-15 14:43:05 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello hello Patrons and Friends!
As I’m writing this Pumpkin is very agitated because she sees another cat sitting outside, and there’s a teenage girl sitting and texting in her car who thinks I was looking at her because I was looking at the cat.
This is my week home after visiting Tulum and before visiting my sister in Denver. I of course meant for it to be very productive and busy but I got a HEAD COLD from the airport on the way back. It’s been interesting t...
2018-05-11 19:16:31 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey Patrons! This week after returning from Mexico I am working on creating sticker sets, as a part of my big overall goal to make more products to sell!
Above we have some of my brainstorming sketches for stickers that I think would be fun. One of the results of that thinky-storm was the idea to make themed sticker sets rather than just random! I have a bunch of ideas but I want Y...
2018-05-10 01:26:39 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi Patrons and a happy Friday to you! I hope you’ve had a wonderful week!
I’m going to try to keep this short because I have been in Tulum Mexico with my parents and youngest sister this week and today is our last day here!
Tulum has been relaxing, inspiring, fascinating, colorful and warm. The vegetation is absolutely dreamy, it’s amazing to see the same houseplants I have in my home in Seattle growing like crazy in the wild here. The bird song is loud and vari...
2018-05-04 12:16:42 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello patrons and happy Friday!
Today’s update will be brief as it was a relatively uneventful week, trying to wind most things down to get ready for my week of vacation. During which I plan to PLAN on winding things UP with my business even MORE!
Part of this week was spent on my largest commission to date, a 16x20 ‘traditional’ colored pencil house portrait of the client’s childhood home. It still needs an hour or two more of refining. the idea of work...
2018-04-27 19:08:56 +0000 UTC View Post
Hey hey hey Regret welcome to the (honestly Very Quiet) party!
Thanks for joining us here, I hope you enjoy it! Let me know what you think, how you found this, what are you interested in seeing? That always goes for all of you patrons of course. Let’s talk! Let’s hang! 😬
To celebrate our little art family growing I wanted to share with you guys a little doodle I’ve been doing to cheer myself up while working on long commissions. She’s drawn in Procreate and...
2018-04-25 01:42:21 +0000 UTC View Post
Hi guys! Happy Saturday!
I’m home alone on a cloudy day and not supposed to be working but I made a new process video for you!
I learned where and how to download royalty-free music that is actually really great: YouTube free music archive in their creators tab! I think you might have to have an account for it but ya know, worth it.
Also tossed in a little outro/icon thing at the end! Let me know what you think!
xoxo
Ragon
2018-04-22 00:36:57 +0000 UTC View Post
Happy Friday, Patrons And Friends! I hope you’ve had a happy, and satisfying week!
This week in art business has largely been working on the results of the portrait sale that I put out last week! I am so happy that I had seven orders from four different people, and I was reminded that I absolutely love doing portraits. I love getting to understand a someones personality, what makes them unique and interesting and beautiful. I absolutely adore the process of sketching, wat...
2018-04-21 00:45:02 +0000 UTC View Post
Hello again, Patrons! Happy Friday!! I hope you’re doing something super satisfying and fun and relaxing this weekend.
So it has been a productive week looking back. After a week of relatively little commissioned work or pay I decided to release a Mother’s Day Sale for portraits, and of the ten openings I offered I got six commissions back! I am so happy with the results and have thus far had a great time working on them. I really love doing portraits of people, and mos...
2018-04-13 16:50:38 +0000 UTC View Post
