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Nuki News #17 - Addiction to Twitter

 Let me start by saying, I do really enjoy using Twitter! And I’m sure quite a few of you follow me on there as well! It’s no small part of my art life and business either. Recently I hit the 3,000 follower mark there, and about half of my commissions are from folks there. But I also thi...

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Nuki News #16 - Work Ethic

Growing up, my mother had to take care of 4 kids by herself. We had seen the amount of work she put in to get where she is today. To me, her success came when she got her Master’s degree and finally paid off her student loans, and no longer had to work graveyard/night shifts at two hospitals &n...

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Thank you! To Patrons & Ko-Fi supporters!

Read more to see all 38 portraits! Link to the full sizes below. :3

I did these during a week off of my day job, it was really amazing and fun to get to stream and talk to folks while working on these. Sadly, I cannot get a week off my day job every month, but perhaps I can do projects simi...

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Nuki News #15 - A Story Worth Telling Part 2

Thanks to folks here and on Twitter and in private conversation, I decided to take action on a particular story idea I had many years ago- a decade, in fact. I took a week off of work to make the time to do this, and these are the results of that week! But for context, if you're just joining my a...

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Ask Artie Anything - Answers! May Edition

Woo hoo! It's that time of the month, where I answer questions from my $5 tier patrons. :3 Thank you Sunny, Regdeh, Gorgilisk, Danuki, and Bryno for your questions!

 Ah man, infinite money sur...

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Nuki News #14 - The 2 Minute Rule Applied to letting go

I watched a video recently about the 2 minute rule! With last week’s  conclusion that I need to let go of my expectations with art to be more loose and free and true to myself...it just takes something as simple as being ok with a terrible drawing. So every day I’ll spend a minimum of 2 ...

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Ko-Fi!? Streaming?! Free Portrait sketch?!

Just wanted to let Patrons know ahead of time, you're eligible to a portrait sketch of your Fursona if you show up to my stream I'm hosting on Picarto from May 13th to May 16th! So set times, but it can range from anywhere from 10AM to 2PM PST when I start )that's 1PM to 5PM EST) Follow me here i...

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Nuki News #13 - A story worth telling?

Here’s some concepts and art of….yeah, you guessed it, another story I have. I even had help from my dear friend Imagine Ink in writing the first chapter for it- all this was drawn in 2018. You know how it goes - you get side tracked, doubt yourself, and then don’t execute on the next step....

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Nuki News #12 - Quantity vs Quality?

So, if you happen to have shown up in one of the last streams I had before I moved out of the old apartment, I was expressing a struggle I was dealing with on my approach to art, discussing it with viewers of the stream. It can be summed up as a debate between what I perceived as quality vs quant...

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Ask Artie Anything - Answers! April Edition

I have a monthly AMA for the $5 Patreon tier! I've expanded the spots available, so if you were thinking of joining for next month, now's the time! I usually open a post for questions in the first week of the month, and then post the answers for all patrons to see in the middle of the month! Here...

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Nuki News #11 - Moving: Luck and Toil

 

I didn’t need to cross my fingers! It’s done! I’m finally moved into the new place. Whether the place is good or not will ultimately be determined by how I make the most of it. I’m a bit desperate for normalcy to reform itself in my life, so I’m glad I’ve got these NukiNe...

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Nuki News #10 - That’s 3 out of 12! How’s it going?

 

Yep, 3 months have gone by, and it’s been the roughest start of a year I’ve ever had the displeasure of experiencing, and I'm sure that goes for a lot of you. Though it’s mostly chalked up to the pandemic and having to move during it. My fingers crossed that 7 days from now I...

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30 hugs of Support!

Thank you for your support!

We’ve done it! To celebrate a year on Patreon I’ve drawn hugs for everyone who pledged this month and commented on my previous Nuki News post or reached out to me. Drawing these hugs has really helped me during these hard times we’ve all fo...

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Nuki News #9 - Crisis and Calmness

 

So, there are some prompts I think about, and write down for me to talk about later, this being one of them. There is no shortage of tragedies in the news and social media, after all. Often I do what I can to avoid reading or watching these sorts of things. Not out of apathy, but mor...

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Ask Artie Anything! - Answers! March Edition

For those joining my Patreon this month(thank you!!) I have a monthly AMA for the $5 Patreon tier! I usually open a post for questions in the first week of the month, and then post the answers for all patrons to see in the middle of the month! Here's this month's questions and answers! x)

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Nuki News #8 - A Year on Patreon!

Well, technically a year since I made this Patreon account! I’ve learned a lot since then, and admittedly I’m excited to find out what Future-Me a year from now will have learned when he looks back on where I am now. I think that’s going to be the best thing about these NukiNews posts, gett...

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Nuki News #7 - Why am I an Artist?

 

Wow, what an existential question for a title, haha! But not to worry, I’m not doubting myself or feeling blue or anything. The question was sparked after I had a conversation with a friend of mine about what it is I aim to do with my art.  If anything the title ought to be "W...

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Nuki News #6 - Blocking out Time

 

I’ve found myself having to suddenly rearrange some things in my life! Well, not too sudden, since we’d been planning on this happening for half a year now; I’ve gotten a new roomie! Not only that, around the same time(which was unexpected) my day job has graciously ch...

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Joy to the World

Click for more sketches!!

So story ideas aren't something I come up with often, I have a collection I keep in my head for a while to marinate upon, and then at some point i try to take some kind of action on them, or I don't and leave them be. 

This story I'm just going to call "...

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Ask Artie Anything! - Answers! February Edition

Horaay, the 2nd AMA is here! Big thanks to Shotking and Regdeh for their questions, and you $5 patrons for supporting me.  $5 Patrons can ask me anything in the question post, and I'll draw my answers. :3 

It means a lot! Don't be afraid to ask silly or serious questions either~ <...

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Nuki News #5 - Food? Food.

 

You can probably guess I was hungry when I wrote this. You’d be right, too! As an artist that draws pleasantly plump characters, food is something that comes up often in conversation. It’s not uncommon for food to be in the fat-fur dialogue. 

I’m a bit different; it...

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Nuki News #4 - January Review

 So goes the first month of the year, already! It’s always hard to realize how time flies. This is going to probably be the more “new-sy” of NukiNews issues. It’s good to assess where you’re going and where you’re at. This year has a lot of changes in the first 4 months - I’m g...

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Nuki News #3 - Game Design my Game Plan

 

I’ve come to appreciate more simple designs in games.  My boyfriend recently got the chance to borrow a GameCube to play Fire Emblem: Path of Radiance. My boyfriend wanted to show me how, compared to the latest Fire Emblem game, 3 Houses, was a worse game, des...

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Nuki News #2 - Art Exercises

Previous Issue of Nuki News:  https://www.patreon.com/posts/32996988 

In my pursuit to getting used to drawing on a laptop, I’ve been doing these exercises! There’s a huge difference(for me) going f...

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Ask Artie Anything! - Answers! January Edition

Thank you all for joining me in the first round of Ask Artie Anything, AAA for short!  $5 Patrons can ask me anything in the question post, and I'll draw my answers. :3

Thanks to Macxi, Regdeh, and Bored Panda for their questions and support! Hope you find the answers amusing, hehe! I'...

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Gucci Nuki - Artie (Finished Illustration below!)

So, a sort of on-a-whim thing I came up with last week, was to do a series of images under the umbrella 'Gucci Nuki'! (Which was a lil joke thing me n some friends made last year)

Basically, I take someone's sona, in their casual outfit, and then in a real fancy/gaudy outfit. I was thinking...

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Nuki News #1 - Accountability; A mental shift!

Why take a chance at patreon like this? I want to give a bit more value for pledging, and that means giving more of myself.. If you’re here, you’ll be coming aboard my journey to being a successful furry artist. It’s a bit of an insane goal, but it’s 2020, why not? Thank you to th...

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NEW YEAR, NEW PATREON!(Tier Changes, new tier?!)

Hey everyone! Happy 2020, I've spent all of today, the 1st day of the new year, and I've decided I'm going to double down on Patreon in a big way. 

First though, I want to th...

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Figure Drawing - December

Wanted to share some practice stuff I'm doing while I get used to drawing on my laptop on the couch. My models are a nice cat lady and a fair tanuki lad!

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More Laptop Sketches

It's still a ways off of getting used to using this thing, but it's a hurdle I'm gunna be committed to. I just think of how amazing it's going to be getting to draw on the couch or anywhere I want or need. At the same time, I can't get ahead of myself either that I get frustrated on trying to str...

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