What crowdfund sends out rewards before the campaign is done? We do!
Spent all day, cutting, printing, cutting again, scoring, folding, and packing the 2025 little Drummer Bird Christmas card set for earlybird backers! And several cards didn't print properly so there will be extra pictures to give the other backers.
You can still back to get cards for next Christmas, art, sculptures, and of course the picture book that will be made! The campaign page is here.
So, five sweeping towers were a distinctive feature of this royal season's abode. The living sculptures that hung along the delicately patterned ice brickwork were too beautiful to be called gargoyles. Of course there were hollows and overhangs for those beloved creatures of the Queen, the white as snow polar bats and their far larger cousins the polar batters.
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Here and there wide bridges weaved themselves between the towers over the palace gardens in the palm. The Queen even when she had been more twisted than a funhouse mirror adored sledding and sleighs so naturally her palace castle had routes throughout to play with, indeed having no need to keep her abode warm, grand wide passages meant that if she desired she could ride her sleigh everywhere within and without the grounds. Naturally many of these routes ended abruptly in the sky, for she loved flying and spreading snow only slightly less than sleighing and sledding.
Finally finished, an illustration for The little Drummer Bird by Snowyteller, an Advent/Christmas story which we are crowdfunding to make a picture book!
This is the fourth illustration I've finished and will be part of a set of Christmas cards we're sending to backers for this Christmas; the rest of the rewards will come with the book itself for Christmas of 2026.
This is the values-and-temperature marker layer for The Snow Queen's Palace Castle, an illustration for The little Drummer Bird by Snowyteller. We're making a picture book of this beautiful Advent/Christmas story; back the campaign here!
I'm sharing this in-progress work before the finished picture because it's taking me longer than planned--I blame the stars! This is the last illustration for the set of Christmas cards for this year; that reward is no longer available since they now need to be printed and shipped as soon as possible.
But there's still the chance to get Christmas cards for next year, which will have many more pictures to choose from, and of course to get the book itself next Christmas, original art, and sculptures!
Tomorrow at 7 p.m. Central Standard, Snowyteller and I will be on the Superversive Fiction livestream to talk about The little Drummer Bird! They might even let me draw!
Back the campaign soon to get Christmas cards for this Christmas!
The marker under-layer for "The Soldier and the flame", an illustration for The little Drummer Bird by Snowyteller.
We are raising funds for a picture book, there will be over 30 illustrations, and if you back it within the next few days you can get four of them on a set of greeting cards for this Christmas!
On one occasion, he saw the flicker of light in the dark, peeking through the trees, like lit wick of caged lamp. So, he flew closer towards it, and there sitting by a waning campfire was a figure.
Somewhat of a giant, a soldier whose skin was white as snow and coat was red as blood.
"Hello, Mr. Bird, just for you I'll build this fire up again, you should last a little longer in this long night, even if I don't."
Another illustration for The little Drummer Bird by Snowyteller, one of the pictures that will be on the set of Christmas cards you can get for this Christmas by backing the campaign to make a picture book by Nov. 25!
If you're looking for fun Christmas presents, several Paper Doll Veronika images have just be added to my Redbubble shop, including a set of stickers I've wanted to produce since the beginning:
Also available are many objects bearing the image of the Princess Oto doll, which I'm told is the prettiest paper doll of them all:
And Veronika herself makes an appearance!
Not to mention the most recent chapter cover artworks, some of the best so far in my opinion.
And best of all, the religious drawings I did for this year's Inktober:
Finally, if you're seeking a wonderful Christmas present not for this year but next, do take a look at the campaign for a picture book of The little Drummer Bird, a beautiful Advent tale.
