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Artist // Professional // Varied
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Bronze Fragment: If this was the Olympics, you’d have made the podium!
Super Albino Llama: Llamas are awesome! (104)
My Bio
Natural History Illustrator, 2D inventrix, instigator of KimoNovember, Dachshund X keeper, professional visual creative
Current Residence: Terra Australis, Newcastle.

Personal Quote:
At service by Pen, Brush and Sword,
also by spindle, saddle, spoon and bow.

Illustration tip jar:
www.patreon.com/papertigress

Tools of the Trade
Blood sweat, tears and a mug of milky tea
Other Interests
Drawing, writing, riding, archery, sword fighting ...
It's been a busy past week - I've been attending an SCA crown event around setting up and launching my etsy store for commissions and steampunkery at long last: The Copper Menagerie. https://www.etsy.com/shop/TheCopperMenagerie If you've had a hankering for one of my clockwork beasties here is your chance to commission one for a Holiday present for yourself or a loved one! I have also rejigged my 2008 DIY 3D paper clockwork bird kit as a digital download so you can print off and construct your own! I’ll be creating a construction video for the bird kit and sharing it on YouTube some time in the next fortnight. Some time in the new ye
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Dr Illustrator

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As of last Tuesday I may now officially prefix with Dr and suffix with PhD! This means if someone passes out/gets damaged I will NOT be raising my hand when they shout "Is there a Doctor in the house?", though I may counter-call "Any nurses?" because they are probably or more use in a first aid situation anyway. I'm an illustrator not a medico and will be keeping well out of the way to allow those with the proper skills to do their stuff. In other news I'm just about to kick off my second annual KimoNovember - in which I wear a kimono each day of the month of November because I want to (and to raise awareness for various charities for those
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Please consider coming and throwing some silver in my tip-jar to help fund the personal projects I've had waiting in the wings for the three years doctorate: www.patreon.com/papertigress If nothing else come and throw popcorn at my intro-video - you'll get the opportunity to see what I actually look like :) Not just the fruit of my fingers - some of which I have posted for all and sundry to see on the site. I will keep updating here and sharing my finished work but Patrons will get to see stuff half finished, access to colouring book pages I'll be making and more goodies including, in the near future, some time delay sketch work.
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Happy Birthday.
happy birthday.
Happy Birthday
Cheers - I've been away for *some* time.
Dose Bifur get a motorbike
Yus. Bifur, Bofur and Bombur share a bike but Bifur drives :) I'll share it in a second.
Hope you've had a great birthday, and that things get even BETTER from here!