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For small, frequent doses of serotonin, consider falling in love with specific flora and/or fauna local to you.

Source: I get a brief jolt of happiness every time I see a crow. Every. Time.

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I actually came back for real this time

and also I’m gonna be at TCAF next week at table 2031 (second floor next to the stairs) so like come by and say hi if you’re going!! I’ll have new pins and a new book of creepy ballet people :)

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I’m returning from Twitter because it is a hellscape that causes me daily anguish. Who’s still on this site?

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Issue 2 of Demi, released at TCAF 2019.

So I made more comics about being demi. I’ve actually started and stopped a lot of comics since making my first a year and a half ago.

Putting into words my feelings, anxieties, and anger, about the way the I’ve felt limited and boxed in by expectations outside my control has been a very difficult task. I always try and make these relatable - to have something in them that others may find bits of themselves in, no matter how personal the comic may be. And a lot of my stalled comics were too personal, too angry, too much just rants against a society that made me confused about who I am.

So eventually I got here. A comic about navigating the world when you’re not heterosexual, but the default is to just assume I am. I have, in the two years since I started coming out, become more and more overt in the fact that I am queer. I’m confident and proud of that fact, and I’m just not willing to deal with people’s assumptions about me any longer, but I still live in a world where my existence is uncommon, and even within the gay community I’m an outlier.

But, making these comics has been very cathartic for me, and it’s been wonderful meeting so many other ace-spec people! Having them relate to my work, and seeing the joy on their faces when they find comics about them. I plan on continuing to make them until I run out of gay angst, which I expect won’t be for a while.

As we enter Pride month this year I hope that all my ace-spec friends out there find their place in the world, whether it’s people with similar outlooks, a partner or good friends, or even a place when you can be yourself or gain peace of mind. Be confident in who you are, my friends, make your own space, and support each other. Be the gays you’re meant to be.

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Find me this weekend at table 260 in the Toronto Reference Library for TCAF! I’ll have some new stuff, and old favourites! Stop by and say hi!

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Some more of my (favourite) work from season 3 of Workin’ Moms, first shown in episode 6, Narls In Charge, at a women’s health clinic.

Those of you who know me well know that this kind of tongue in cheek sex-related stuff is Right Up My Alley. This set was done in a super crunch period, so I had a lot more leeway since everyone was super busy, letting me put more of myself into it than I normally put into a set. All the information in the posters is factually accurate. If anything written on them seems applicable to you please see a medical professional!

The showrunners praised the set for looking like a real women’s clinic - honestly the highest praise you can get in film since we make things on non-existent timelines with vague hopes of it fooling the viewer into suspension of disbelief.

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art vs. artist meme

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Artwork for a children’s book I made for the CBC series Workin’ Moms Season 3. Typically art for film/tv uses stock images since our timelines are very tight - for context, I did all 4 spreads in a little over 12 hours total. The style for this book was based off this stock image by Toru-Sanogawa, a look that was approved by the various heads of the show.

The final book had thin vinyl inserts that went over a real book’s pages. I made my work to fit the pages, printed the vinyl, and seamlessly inserted it into the books (we always make at least 2 copies of every prop). My background in book design/zines had me doing a lot of book inserts/making over the course of the season, hahaha.

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I’m doing research for a proper book of Pervert’s Guide to Mycology for TCAF this year and... my bros... my dudes... mycologists just make it so easy. If you or a loved one are a mycologist you have my thanks. Also please check back in a few months and I’ll have a book right up your alley. Or, you know, come to the Toronto Comic Arts Festival and find me on the second floor May 11+12th.

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Illustrations I did for a book of stories from the author’s childhood growing up in 1910′s Newfoundland. I was commissioned by the author’s daughter to make a set of illustrations for 10 stories he had written down before his passing. Over the next few months I’ll be printing and binding the story and illustrations for a small print run - most of which will be going to a museum in Newfoundland dedicated to the author.

More details to follow at a later date!

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I got into TCAF!!

Get ready for comics about ACE ANGST in May!

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2018 in review.

A bit of a sporadic year - one mostly filled with a lot of self-exploration, gaining self confidence, and slowly realizing how fucking bad my late 2017-early 2018 depression/burnout was. As a result I don’t feel like I did a lot this year - which isn’t true, I just did different things than I’ve done in the past and a lot of my work is currently under NDAs until episodes start airing. I look forward to sharing my work from season 3 of CBC’s Workin’ Moms in the new year.

I think this is the first year where I’ve been comfortable with who I am and what my work is - realized the point of doing what I do isn’t to appeal to everyone and fulfill every whim of those around me, but to do exactly what I want and find people who like what I am (what my work is), the way I look at things and interpret them. Which 2018 was good for. I met a couple of those people and they had a very big impact on me.

Next year I’m going to try keeping a daily sketchbook - one where my obsession with perfection has no place - and try to work towards getting work doing costume illustration for Toronto’s film industry. In all this year’s stress and digging out of burnout I realized how much I enjoy it, how it’s as easy as breathing, and realized that it’s a niche I’m very much in the right place for. I got my start this year doing illustration for film/TV doing work for Workin’ Moms, Baroness Von Sketch, and Kill Joys, so here’s to doing more in 2019!

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Reminder as we live through the final day that if you’re leaving tumblr you can find me elsewhere!

To all the queer content creators (especially of queer erotica), thank you and I hope to find you all again on another platform in the near future! I will continue skirting under the line of what’s allowed on this site until it dies.

I have removed the offending subjects from my archive, Tumblr. In the unlikely event my blog gets deleted - lets be real I’ve never been a thirsty artist but I do like drawing naked people and that’s a risk - you can find me here:

Twitter: @inkandandroids

Insta: @jess.sheridan.illustration

My Website: jess-sheridan.com

I have no intent to leave this site. I love it, the trashfire that it is. I am, more visibly active on twitter and instagram. You can hear my occasional ramblings on my Twitter, and more of my traditional art in progress on my Insta (along with Insta Stories about the dogs I meet and the weird shit that happens to me).

If you happen to be a colleague or potential employer confused about my robot pin-up: rather than dealing with the mass of porn-bots, Tumblr enacted a new policy restricting sexual content and nudity including female presenting nipples. And while I am normally a pretty chill and not at very snarky person, I can, when prompted, be a cheeky little shit.

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While I’m navel-gazing (because what does main blog/side blog really mean in the state of Tumblr right now?), upon looking at the offending content on my blog I’m stunned it took me as long as it did to realize I was some sort of gay, because there’s definitely a Very Strong trend in the gender divides of the naked people on this blog, and it’s not in favour of heterosexuality.

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Honestly, one of the saddest things about Tumblr’s potential collapse is that I won’t be able to see the full extent of Evangelion being unleashed upon a new generation, because lets be real, Tumblr plus EVA would be utter chaos.

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Since the naked/smut ban is incoming it gave me the drive to draw the borderline scandalous things I’ve been thinking about drawing.

Earlier in the year I replayed DAII for the millionth time with Varethane and then, once thoroughly emotionally compromised by Fenris (again), found the lovely works of Bullfinch, who sadly jumped ship got deleted a few weeks ago from Tumblr. I love his trans Fenris, and have wanted to draw him as such ever since! So here we are, a spicy elf for all of you to see (until the 17th).

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I have removed the offending subjects from my archive, Tumblr. In the unlikely event my blog gets deleted - lets be real I’ve never been a thirsty artist but I do like drawing naked people and that’s a risk - you can find me here:

Twitter: @inkandandroids

Insta: @jess.sheridan.illustration

My Website: jess-sheridan.com

I have no intent to leave this site. I love it, the trashfire that it is. I am, more visibly active on twitter and instagram. You can hear my occasional ramblings on my Twitter, and more of my traditional art in progress on my Insta (along with Insta Stories about the dogs I meet and the weird shit that happens to me).

If you happen to be a colleague or potential employer confused about my robot pin-up: rather than dealing with the mass of porn-bots, Tumblr enacted a new policy restricting sexual content and nudity including female presenting nipples. And while I am normally a pretty chill and not at very snarky person, I can, when prompted, be a cheeky little shit.