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July 2025 Studio Hangout + AMA – Art Fight, OC Art, & My Fave Tropes

Time for July’s Studio Hangout! It’s coming to you a little late because I wanted to give the Art Fight art feature room to breathe, but here we are with the monthly wrap-up of everything you might’ve missed in July!

Feel free to watch the video above or read and enjoy this article at your own pace below. A transcript of this video (attached to this post) and captions.

Personal Updates

  • Layoffs suck, AI sucks, tariffs suck, and life is rough on our end for many reasons, but I’m tired of being mad and sad about it. Tell me something good that happened to you in the comments! (I’ve thankfully got some happier news below in the Announcements)
  • Keep your head up, friends and fellow artists. Let’s take it one day at a time!

Announcements

  • Upcoming Convention Appearance! I’ll be appearing as an official Guest at Multiverse in October! Read more here. I’m back at cons after 6 years away!
  • New Poll! Free & Paid Patreon members, I want to know your thoughts about how you’re liking these Studio Hangouts! Only a couple of folks have responded thus far and I’d like to hear from more of you.
  • New Ask Me Anything Archive. We’ve accumulated quite a few Q&As over the past few months, so I’ve finally started listing them in one handy location organized by category. Ask and ye shall receive!

New Art in July

Art Fight 2025 – Go Team Crystals!

Art Fight happened in July and led to the creation of many fun emote portraits of the amazing characters created by the Art Fight community. If you want to deep dive into the reference art created by others not shared here, check out my art feature of Art Fight.

The Attacks on me by other artists featuring my characters (You can get a full view of each of these images at the Art Fight feature):

Character Commission – Cassius for Psycheen on BlueSky

This was prize art for another commission giveaway winner, Psycheen, who gave me free reign to play with their design of their solarpunk-themed character, Cassius. Find out more about this character’s tragic backstory and watch a timelapse of this piece’s creation here.

Cassiel’s Servant WIP – 3D Modeling

I’ve been very art-blocked on this piece and it has taken me FORever to make progress on it! Likely because I decided it was past time I taught myself how to use Clip Studio Paint’s 3D model posing tools to create reference for myself for the complex aspects of this piece, such as the daggers in perspective and the foreshortening of the main figure.

It took a lot of shouting at the interface to get it right, but I arrived at something very useful for my purposes! I’ll likely be covering this part of the process in a future Secret Sketchbook entry for paid members, so keep an eye out for it.
(Watch the video on this post for some more cool things that I discovered how to do in CSP).

Ask Me Anything

Q: (From Psycheen on BlueSky) What is your favorite trope and why?
A: Watch the answer here. SPOILER ALERT for a 20 year old show (Avatar the Last Airbender)!

Q: (From Psycheen on BlueSky) What do you want to draw, but haven’t yet, and why?
A: Watch the answer here. Lots of Elden Ring: Nightreign gushing!

Q: What art of yours would you like to redo?
A: Watch the answer here.

Happening in August

  • Kev’s surgery. With our health insurance finally sorted out, my husband can finally get the surgical procedures he needs! I’ll be focusing on his care, first and foremost. With luck, everything will happen this month without being prolonged any longer and we can be on the road to better health!
  • Finishing up the “Cassiel’s Servant” cover. I have the reference completed after much fighting with Clip Studio Paint. It’s finally time to get to the meat of the art-making process!

Links in the video:

  • Mimimaru – Artist who did Zelda and Arcane character art in the style of Klimt.
  • Christian Angel – Artist of the Elden Ring art done in a classical style.
  • Sam Hogg – Artist of the reference art of my character, Nils.
  • Psycheen – Artist and creator of Cassius.
  • The Uncrucified – My Exalted TTRPG blog

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Here’s to another month of surviving. Hang in there, everyone!

<3 Ang

[VIDEO] Studio Hangout July 2017 – Coloring Book, DragonCon, & Kickstarter!

This video ushers in my return to sharing monthly Studio Hangouts with you guys!

In this month’s Studio Hangout, I talk about the epicness that has been July thus far!  From my first coloring book published this month to all the fun things happening in the near future. 

Plus, get a look at my studio chaos as I prep for DragonCon.  I keep promising a proper studio tour, but it’s been so very messy!  

SOON!  Really!

Also, for the Q&A section I had planned for my monthly updates, I have decided to post them as separate short and sweet videos to make the questions easier to find for people. 

The topic I’ll be posting soon is the question I have received quite often this month – How did I get my work published with Impact Books and Anthem?

My video answer will be coming soon later on this week!

Links in the video:

– Colouring Heaven Magazine 

– My Birthstone Series, the Ladies of the Months 

– My Kickstarter Profile 

– Drawing Art Nouveau Hair Tutorial 

– The Uncrucified Story and Art

[Recording Posted] April 2015 Studio Hangout + Giveaway Winner!

The recording of last night’s Hangout is up! You can watch the video here:https://youtu.be/G3EtwryBqLk

Here is a summary of the topics and links:

TOPICS this Hangout:

– Medical issues, motivation, and art.- Female character redesigns.

– NEW Etsy shop!

– Women in Fantasy Illustration Facebook Group- Graphic Artists Online

QUESTIONS answered:

– How long does it take you to paint an angel?

– How do you study?

LINKS from this Hangout:

My New Etsy shop – http://angelasasserart.etsy.com

Proko’s Life Drawing – http://www.youtube.com/user/prokotv

Pixelovely Life Drawing Tool – http://artists.pixelovely.com

My Book Reviews and Resources hub – http://themuseslibrary.blogspot.com ImagineFX Magazine – http://www.creativebloq.com/imaginefx

And finally, as for the giveaway winner for this quarter, I’ve decided as long as I have only two eligible winners, I’m going to switch back and forth between them until there’s more competition. So that means Caitlan is my winner! If nobody else is donating at the $10 tier during the next giveaway, Vanessa will automatically be my next winner (and so on and so forth).

So let me know what you’d like, Cait! You have a choice of a sketch based on a two keyword prompt OR a 50% off coupon at any of my online shops, both art and artisan.See you guys next time and thanks, as ever, for your support! As long as I have Patrons here, these monthly Hangouts will continue.:)