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September in Ragonia (2022)
Hello Patrons and pals, and happy OCTOBER!!!The summer has been holding on TIGHT to Seattle the past month, with unseasonably warm temperatures, smoke from wildfires drifting from the mountains, and no rain in sight. :( But you know the Halloweeny spirit is still strong here at Ragonia studios, and has been for weeks!Settle in y'all, and let me share with you what I got up to in September!1. SHOP UPDATE!Updating my shop is something I really struggle with in my business. I've discovered ...
🎃 October Schedule 🎃
Hello Townies and Local Legends! Happy OCTOBER, the BEST MONTH!!It's time for another month of making art together! The schedule is attached above.❇ Here's the Twitch!❇ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!❂❂❂ Next stream: 11AM and 6PM PST tomorrow, October 12th! ❂❂❂The PRACTICE PROMPT for October is: HALLOWEEN/AUTUMNAL SELF PORTRAIT!Throughout the month use the prompt to make something new, and share it with your fellow Art Town Residents on the Discord, and tag ...
August in Ragonia (2022) ECCC!!
Hellooo Art Town Residents, and welcome to a new month.And new SEASON, the best, spookiest season! I am fully transitioned emotionally to autumn (I'm listening to a Halloween Focus playlist while I write this) but I'm going to force my brain to travel back in time to tell you about AUGUST!Let's get to it!1. EMERALD CITY COMIC CONPart way through August I had my first convention since 2019, and it was a BIG ONE!ECCC is the largest comic con in Pacific Northwest, and one of the largest...
🍂September Schedule🍂
Hello Townies and Local Legends! Happy SEPTEMBER!It's time for another month of making art together! The schedule is attached above.❇ Here's the Twitch!❇ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!❂❂❂ Next stream: 11AM and 6PM PST Sept 14th! ❂❂❂The PRACTICE PROMPT for September is: THREE-DIMENSIONAL.Throughout the month use the prompt to make something new, and share it with your fellow Art Town Residents on the Discord, and tag it on social media with #ragoniaarttown !...
July in Ragonia (2022)
Hello Art Town Residents and Happy August!I hope you are enjoying your summer and/or are feeling that Autumn's-almost-here excitement (I know I am!)I've had a very busy and eventful summer so far, and I'm so excited to share with you some of the things I've been up to. So let's get to it!1. CLIENT PROJECTSIt seems like 50% of an illustrator's job is working on big projects that you aren't allowed to talk about, and that's totally the case this month. I'm happy...
★ August Livestream Schedule ★
Greetings Townies and Local Legends, happy August!It's time for another month of making art together! The schedule is attached above.★ Here's the Twitch!★ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!☆ Next stream is in about 15 minutes, 6PM PST tonight! ☆I’ll be back next week with the August in Ragonia blog, Art Town Wednesday and our August Practice Prompt Results!See ya soon pals, and thanks as always for your support!! I've made SO MUCH art at these streams it's CR...
June in Ragonia (2022)
Hyello summertime Art Town Residents!Summer has officially arrived in Seattle, and I'm enjoying it best I can before I start longing for my beloved Autumn. I'm in my summery dresses, the fans are whirring, and I've already drank a whole pitcher of fresh watermelon juice (my favorite summer bev.)My apologies for skipping out on the podcast part of the newsletter the past two months, I hope you still enjoy a written newsletter! Sometimes I just need the quickest, most accessible versio...
★ July Livestream Schedule ★
Greetings Townies and Local Legends, happy July!It's time for another month of making art together! The schedule is attached above.★ Here's the Twitch!★ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!Please note: I’m still traveling this week so no livestream, I’ll see you next week!☆I’ll be back next week with the June in Ragonia blog, Art Town Wednesday, our June Practice Prompt Results, and…I did get a chance to clean up the pictures I took of all my high school and colleg...
Process Video: Art Town Banner!
Heya Residents, hope you're doing well!I wanted to share the process I went through to make the banner for the Art Town branding revamp! I went through a couple different versions before I landed on the final.Here's the still iterations along with the final:In the future I'll share more process for other elements of the revamp, cause I'm really proud of the art I made for this.(P.S. The next livestream is in about 40 minutes, 6PM-8/9PM PST if you want to make some art with me! tw...
May in Ragonia (2022)
Friday's greetings to you, Residents of Art Town!I'm writing to you from the slowly warming Seattle. Flowers are blooming, rain is currently falling, birds are singing, and the nearby arterial street is full of the noisy whoosh of heavy tires on asphalt speeding towards their weekend camping trips in the mountains, and that means it's late spring!I had a busy and eventful month, which I'm excited to share with you today. What did I get up to in May, and what's coming for the ...
☆ June Livestream Schedule ☆
Hyelloo Townies and Local Legends, happy June!It's time for another month of making art together! The schedule is attached above.★ Here's the Twitch!★ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!Please note: I'll be traveling the last Wednesday so that week's streams will be on Tuesday instead!☆ALSO, I shared this during the streams but I've adjusted the stream structure slightly:Instead of having a different practice prompt every week that we work on together, I'l...
Livestreams: WPA Poster and A Halloween Cat Extravaganza
Why hello there, Residents! It's ya pal Raglioni and it's time for a recap of the last two week's livestreams!☆Two weeks ago the prompt was making your version of a classic work of art! I chose an amazing Works Progress Administration-funded 1930s Fruit Shop poster.Towards the end of the AM stream I got distracted by showing some of my and Zach's childhood toys, items, and reading from my middle school DIARY!! If you want to see just that part, head to 52:14 in the AM Stream VO...
Livestreams: Armchair Ghost and Goblin Bike Buddies!
Greetings Residents! It's time for a recap of last weeks livestreams!☆Last week I worked on two more POSCA marker paintings and had an absolutely lovely time!In the AM Stream I worked on the Armchair Ghost and chatted with the usual morning pals all about the story of me and Zach's engagement day!In between the two streams I got really inspired and sketched out an idea for a Goblin on a customized bike waiting to meet up with a friend, with two other buddies in tow.During the PM stream...
Livestreams: 5-Minute Faces + GUESS WHAT
Howdy Residents! It's time for a reeeecap of the last two weeks of livestreams!☆Two weeks ago our prompt was 5-Minute timed Portrait Practice and boy was it a doozy! We put up faces from Say Yes to the Dress (which I've been watching on Youtube just for fun,) and then did 5-minute rounds of sketching the faces, and boy was it HARD!A couple brave souls joined in the practice and we all felt either rusty or totally new to drawing faces like this, which I think is a great sign that it'...
☆ May Livestream Schedule ☆
Howdy Howdy Townies, I hope you're ready for another fun month of becoming better, happier artists together!★ Here's the Twitch!★ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!Vote in the poll for what you think we/I should work on the last stream of the month! Poll closes 5/25/22 !I hope you enjoyed the livestreams last month, I'm having a super fun time working on some art with you all every week.How're you liking it so far? Is the day/time working for you? Are the VOD's...
April in Ragonia (2022)
Well HOWDY THERE Art Town Residents, and happy Friday!I hope you had a glorious springy happy April, I hope where you are flowers are blooming and warm weather is looming.Enjoy listening to this month's Newsletter Podcast, and/or check out some highlights:1. ART TOWN - The Great Ragonia Patreon Remodel Arrives!!Art Town is here, I worked really hard to make it look awesome, and I hope you like it!Not only is the branding all new, but we've got all new tier rewards to match too:★ Sights...
Livestream + Process Vid: Character Design Master Studies!
Howdy Residents! Thanks for joining last week's livestreams!I had seriously fulfilling time doing studies of Yzma from Emperor's New Groove and Milo from Atlantis on Procreate. Anytime I do Master Studies from animated characters ( or anytime at all really,) I feel like I learn so so much about design and illustration. And it's so fun! We'll definitely have to do it again.Here's my two final studies, each took about 1.5 hours:ALSO: Art Town Townie Carli joined the Master Stud...
Livestreams: Floaty Ghost, Rain Ghost, and Emotes
Howdy Residents! Thanks for joining last week's livestreams (even with a couple technical difficulties!)I had a lovely time drawing two more ghosts using POSCA markers, which I've shared above. I especially love the Rain Ghost, something about the drippy puddles feels especially cozy to me. Other Residents joined to work on work work, paint their dog, and make their version of their Resident ID Cards!☆ Here's the AM Stream VOD! ☆☆ Here's the PM Stream VOD! ☆(And a reminde...
▦ Art Town Resident Card! ▦
Heya Residents! It's the Art Town MAYOR here (Mayor? Do we like Mayor? I was pretending to be mayor of my ACNH island for a while so...) with an activity for you to celebrate the opening of our new town!▦ Your very own Resident Card! ▦It's a coloring page, a Meet the Artist, an art project, whatever you want it to be!Just download one of the .PSD files and open it up in Procreate, Photoshop, or whatever art app you use.+ The Art Town Resident Card file has multiple options, it has te...
☆ April Livestream Schedule ☆
Helloooo Townies, and happy April!I hope you're enjoying your new home in Art Town so far, and have had a chance to look around at the renovations. I'll be posting a more detailed tour of the changes next week, but for now I wanted to share with you this month's livestream schedule!Because at Art Town we do WEEKLY livestreams! :o★ Here's the Twitch!★ Here's an invite to the Art Town Discord!Vote in the poll for what you think we/I should work on the last stream of the mon...
🎉WELCOME TO ART TOWN🎉
Hellooooo Patrons, I want to welcome you to the new and improved Ragonia Patreon, now known as ART TOWN!I‘m currently traveling until the 5th, so I just wanted to slide in to let you know that all the new branding and tier rewards are live, but I’ll be posting again when I’m home to share more exciting updates and to share the new tier rewards!So take a look around your new home, and I’ll see you next week!CHEERS, RESIDENTS!!xoxoxoxo Ragon
Livestream: Two more Chair Ghosts!
Hellooooo Patrons, happy Monday! It's time for a livestream recap!. . . . . . . . . . . . . . .It was a close poll, but ultimately you voted on Traditional Materials for the Arty Activity, so I broke out the POSCA markers to make two new versions of the chair ghosts from Inktober last year.During the AM stream I worked digitally on Procreate to make the sketches for the day, including a ghost with a cat in it's lap and a 90s inflatable chair and lava lamp as suggested by Shannon (@gothic...
March Livestream! What should we draw?
Hey-o Patrons, and happy March!I wanted to remind you that TOMORROW is March's draw-together, creativity-boosting livestreams!When? March 9th, 11-12AM PST and 6-8PM PST! VOD will be posted here after.Where? The Ragonia Twitch and the Ragonia DiscordWhat? Two choices: Traditional Art! Break out the markers, paints, pencils, and paper, cause we're working analogue. You can work with whatever traditional materials you like, and I'll be making a couple more posca marker ghosts like these...
February in Ragonia (2022)
Helloooo Patrons, and happy Wednesday Eve!I hope you've had a lovely February and/or are doin' alright out there. Here's a couple of things I got done this month in my Arty Business:1. PATREON REMODEL ANNOUNCED & PROMPTLY MOVED TO APRIL!The Patreon's getting a Remodel, launching officially April 1st, with a total new focus on making art and making art TOGETHER. Instead of the educational articles I'll now be doing regular livestreams, frequent art challenges, and a lot more a...
Ragonia Draws: Wizard of Barge DTIYS!
Eeeey buds enjoy this process video of me drawing a Goblin on a Unicorn!Original art is by Dakota Cates, who makes rad and funny fantasy and metal inspired art.And here's my version! Line art? Who are they??LIVESTREAM REMINDER! 11-12 AM & 6-8PM PST tomorrow (2/16/22) on the Twitch, I'll be doodling/sketching your requests! Bring your work, your sketch book, your tablet, and at the least your fun and funky prompt ideas, and let's loosen up our art muscles together! Don't forget to...
Livestream: Drawing Goats and Goat Guys
Hello again Patrons and Pals!So as I've shared, going forward the new main $5+ reward will be bonus content for regular Twitch livestreams that you can take part in, or watch later. Which means you'll be getting a lot more art from me and a lot more posts here on the Patreon!For $5+ Patrons, after livestreams I'll aim to also share: The Video-on-Demand (VOD for short) replay of the livestream. My finished work/sketch/WIP from the stream. A sped-up process video of what I created. Fin...
Remodel Update + Upcoming Events!
Heya Patrons, how's it going? I've got some updates for you!I'm working hard on the Ragonia Patreon Remodel this month. However, I've had some unexpected family things come up and I'm going to have to launch the update on April 1st instead of March 1st. I was really excited to launch the full thing in March but I want to give it the full attention it deserves, and that's gotta happen in April.So the official launch will be on April 1st, BUT that doesn't mean the Art C...
2021 Year in Review
Hello Patron Pals and Happy 2022!The dust has started to settle from the hubbub of December, the whirlwind promises and dreams of New Years has sifted into the reality of every day. Which means it's the perfect time to wade into my annual tradition of reflecting on the year.Every January I like to look back on the projects, themes, and achievements for each month to see (and share with you) how much (or little) I get done in a span of time. Whether you're an aspiring illustrator, a seaso...
*** Big Announcement! ***
Hi and hello Patrons, Happy 2022!! I hope you had a wonderful holiday season!I have something BIG that I'm finally ready to announce! Drum roll please.... Coming up soon is...The Great Ragonia Patreon Remodel!Launching March 1st, 2022 (to coincide with the 4 year anniversary of Ragonia!)That's right, this Patreon is getting a remodel.Away from articles and towards making more art, more regularly.The Real Arty Business articles were the friends we made along the way...No but seriously, I&...
One hour till party time!
See you on Twitch in a little less than an hour, buds!Prep your most festive bev, grab your art materials, log into Twitch and Discord, and join the Arty fun!Check this post for more deets! Can’t wait!!xoxo, Ragon
