Catie R ✰

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Catie • She/Her • Freelance Artist And Illustrator • ✰ Available For Work! ✰ • catierowley.com • crowles90@gmail.com • c-rowlesdraws on tumblr

🎨 a digital painting of Anchor Root, a character from Paizo’s Strength of Thousands adventure path. She is a small anthropomorphic aardwolf girl wearing african fantasy-inspired clothing, smiling shyly up at the viewer. Several sketches of her making different facial expressions surround her.
🎨 a loose digital painting of the interior of an abandoned house. A large, empty living room with broken linoleum and wood floor branches into a foyer and a galley kitchen. The scene is lit in aqua blue and cold blue daylight from opposite ends, with a lamp coloring the center of the picture in warm yellows and pinks.
🎨 a photograph of the same bathroom as depicted in the painting
🎨 a rough digital painting of a ruined bathroom. The pale blue toilet and sink are covered in dust. The beige linoleum floor is also dusty and strewn with rubble from the hole broken in the pink-panted ceiling. The medicine cabinet mirror sits open. The room is a colorful mix of bright red tile, yellow paint, light blue pant, and pink paint.
🎨 a rough digital painting of an underground, industrial corridor, painted in dank greens and purples.
the poster for The Shining, a TV miniseries written by Stephen King and based on his novel of the same name. It features the very large face of Steven Weber as Jack lit in spooky oranges, purples, and blues, with a small and very brightly-lit Danny in the foreground. It is very cheesy.
a screenshot from the 1997 PC game “Orly’s Draw-A-Story”. It shows a colorful hand-painted tropical scene of a green and yellow house with a red tile roof, with distant mountains dotted with similar houses curving around a bay full of small boats, under a blue sky. In the foreground, in front of the house, stands Orly, a young Jamaican girl with beaded dreads and a wide smile, waving to the viewer. A frog with a rastacap on sits on a nearby boat and gives a thumbs-up.
A photo of Will Smith, edited to shrink his eyes and mouth to a tiny size.
🎨 a digital painting of a grungy white chapel with boarded windows, in the middle of a clearing surrounded by brown, treeless woods. The sky is a bold red sunset, reflected unnaturally in the red-colored window at the top of the chapel.
a photo of my dilute tabby-tortoiseshell cat cutely curled up on top of a colorful quilt over my legs.
the cover of Helpmeet by Naben Ruthnum, showing a dark, moody painting of a woman in early 20th century dress entering an unseen room of a dark house at night. Sickly yellow light pours out from the room.
a screenshot from episode 1 of the webshow “Don’t Hug Me, I’m Scared”, showing a fabric notepad puppet with eyes, arms, and a mouth, who is using a pencil to gesture to a clump of rainbow yarn sprouting from its binding like hair.
a photograph of a pink axolotl at a vet’s office. It is out of water, on top of an absorbent pad, with one person gently squirting water over it while another person (both wearing purple rubber gloves) gently holds it steady with a hand on its back. The axolotl looks goofy, limp and bug-eyed.
a poster for horror film “silent night, deadly night”, showing a santa claus-costumed arm clutching a double-headed axe emerging from an icy chimney atop a snowy roof
a screenshot of Varang from Avatar 3, a lanky alien woman with pale blue-gray skin, minimal clothing, lots of bone jewelry, dark hair in many thin braids, and a large headdress made of fanned-out black and red feathers. Her intense yellow eyes are rimmed with black makeup, and a stripe of red paint accentuates her leonine brow and nose. She is backlit by a blurry on-fire something in the background.
the “I gotta focus. I’m shifting into soup mode” meme of George Costanza from Seinfeld, edited to say “cookie mode” instead
a screenshot of an ad (Promoted post) on Reddit by u/SamsungMobileUS. The text reads: “Flipping a water bottle isn’t luck, it’s physics. Ask Google Gemini on Galaxy Tab S11 Ultra to breakdown (sic) the science behind the challenge visually so your flips actually land.” The image below shows a bottle of water standing upright on a white table, with “TA DA” composited behind it in translucent letters designed to appear made of water. A subtitle on the image says “Whoa!”
a closeup photograph of the head of a wrinkle-faced bat (Centurio senex). It has a pinkish bald face with lots of intricate skin folds, and small, widely-spaced eyes.
🎨 a digital painting of a sunny day on Peanut Island, Florida, showing a gray stone path leading through a field of scrubby green grass to a stand of darker green trees.
the Oscar Meyer Wienermobile driving down a road on a sunny day, with a green field, trees, and mountains in the background.
a still from Cheech & Chong’s “Up In Smoke”. Tommy Chong, in a red headband and denim shirt, stands next to Cheech Marin, who is wearing a red beanie and, like Misty from Pokemon, a cropped yellow tank top and red suspenders.
a photograph of two large, roasted frenched or tomahawk pork chops in a dark nonstick pan, with an artfully crumpled kitchen towel, a two-tined fork, and little bowls of multicolor peppercorns and pink salt arranged around it. There is a watermark for the company “Nordic Catch” overlaid on the photo.
a photograph from my perspective, showing my lower body reclining on a couch under a yellow blanket. There is an open sketchbook in my lap, with a dilute tabby-tortoiseshell cat sleeping with her fat ass plopped directly on top of the sketchbook like a slug. Her sweet little face is visible at lower right.
a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Try Forge - Buy 2 balms, get 4 free. Act fast, stock only lasts until midnight”. The ad shows a cluttered Amazon page for a skincare product in a jar, with “Excellent 4.7/5 - 18250+ trusted reviews” circled and overlaid text reading “MASSIVE Black Friday SALE - Buy 2, Get 4 FREE - SAVE $230”. More overlaid text reads “ Achieve visibly youthful skin with Beef Tallow Formula”
a screencap of a youtube shorts ad for “Photo Revive AI - Convert pictures and generate vivid and alive video”. It’s an AI-animated, colorized version of an old photo of two soldiers sharing a cigarette.
🎨 a digital illustration of a large gnoll (anthropomorphic hyena) with broad shoulders and a fluffy mane. He has albinism: his fur is cream-colored with faintly-visible spots, and his eyes and nose are pink. He is smiling down at the mortar and pestle he's using, and sitting cross-legged on a striped blanket. He is adorned with bracelets and jewelry and has leaves in his fur. There are more ritual items on the ground around him, including a sage bundle, a hollow bone, and bowls of herbs and seeds. This was a commission from 2022!
a screenshot of a tumblr text post by me (c-rowlesdraws.tumblr.com). The header shows my username and that the post was made 3 hours ago. The body of the post reads, “you see, a “spoon” is like a smaller bowl that you dip into the big bowl to bring the wet food right to your mouth”. The post is tagged “#soup instructions”. It has 253 notes.
🎨a digital illustration styled to look like a painting on a whitewashed wood board wall. The painting centers Dani, the main character of the film Midsommar, dressed in a heap of flowers and a four-pronged flower crown, with a wide an unsettling grin on her face. She is flanked by the triangular yellow ritual building and the flower-decorated maypole from the film, with a stylized background of a green field, round trees swirled with colors, and a blue sky with puffy cartoon clouds. In the middle of Dani's flower-slug body, in a yellow circle, is the rune seen painted on the inside of the ritual building.
a white woman with short brown hair and glasses (me!), holding a quart cup of lemonade, dressed in green overalls and a floral blouse, peeks cautiously out from a wall of dry yellow corn stalks
a picture of a concrete slab in Boston Common, with a spray-painted stenciled message reading “OLD DYKES AGAINST TECH BROS”
Boston Common: a man dressed as the red power ranger strikes a pose in front of six people each holding signs that spell: L O V E + a heart
🎨three digitally-drawn busts of Aximili Esgarrouth Isthill from the Animorps series by KA Applegate, drawn in a flat, comic book style. He is in his human morph, as imagined by me: an androgynous-looking teenager with a mop of cinnamon-colored curls, medium-brown skin, and hazel eyes, dressed in a tan shirt under a blue hoodie. The first drawing shows a surprised expression; the second, Ax chewing on a hoodie string with a focused expression, and the third, looking up inquisitively.
🎨 a digital drawing of a hot pot pot of the kind that sits in the table, with a divider separating two kinds of broth: a red, spicy one, and a white, herbal one. Various ingredients, with little arms and legs, sit in and around the pot: a cluster of shimeji mushrooms, fish cakes and rice cakes on skewers, a prawn, baby bok choi, a slice of beef, and a chicken egg holding a quail egg by the hand.
🎨 a digitally-painted sketch of a sea otter-shaped lamp holding a scallop-shaped lightbulb in a depression in its belly
a photograph of a package of Himemaru brand soy sauce rice crackers, next to a small bowl of the same. They are golden brown, with a bumpy texture.
🎨 a full-body painting of Misty, a character from the Critical Role campaign Age of Umbra. She is a carved stone sculpture of a tall, veiled woman in a long, flowing classical gown, with four pairs of stone wings. She is half-seated on a stone plinth, feeding bluebirds from a bowl of seeds she's holding in one hand. Her left foot is propped on a broken stone urn. Blue flowers, forget-me-nots, bloom around her feet. She is framed by a gothic stone archway.
🎨digital fanart of Adelia Pruitt and Skreev from the ttrpg webshow and podcast Critical Role's Age of Umbra campaign. The art style is sketchy and scratchy. Adelia is a pale nine-year-old girl drawn with simple, cute features, wearing a torn and stained black and purple dress and holding a doll wearing a similar dress. She is gently holding two fingers of a much taller, more menacing figure: Skreev, a pale, lean human with a hunched posture and an unsettling grin. He's dressed in torn black trousers and has metal rings pierced through the skin of his chest and upper arms.
🎨 a two-panel comic of Adelia and Misty from episode 5 of Critical Role: Age of Umbra. In the first panel: Misty, a stone statue shaped like a tall woman, reaches above her head to touch a metal cage in which Adelia, a small, pale human girl in a fancy dress, is sitting. Adelia looks down curiously at her. In the second panel: Adelia smiles and reaches through the cage to hold two of Misty’s fingers in her hand.
a photo of a dilute tabby-tortoiseshell cat, dozing on a rumpled yellow blanket on a green couch surrounded by pillows. The cat has folded her body in half like a shrimp, her upper body mashed against a pillow with her forelegs extended.
a screenshot, cropped from the shoulders up, of Kira Nerys from Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, played by actress Nana Visitor. She is a white woman with big brown eyes and short brown hair, and wrinkly nose makeup indicating that she is a space alien.
an ink and grayscale drawing of Meiko, a character in Inio Asano’s manga Solanin. She has shoulder-length black hair and a melancholy smile, and is drawn in a loose, delicate art style against a dense poster collage backdrop.
🎨 a ballpoint pen sketch on white paper, colored in roughly with mostly yellow, purple, and blue markers. A girl with short, choppy hair, goggles, and baggy clothing sits astride a hairless, bipedal creature with a wormlike neck and toothy starfish-like “face”. The creature resembles a plucked ostrich and also has some clawed small limbs folded in front. The characters are standing in a stony desert landscape with a few structures silhouetted in the distance. In the sky above are a large gas giant, the sun, and some orbiting wreckage.
Breadhead from Glitch Productions’ “The Gaslight District”, a being with an enormous loaf of sandwich bread for a head, two big googly eyes, and a wide-open, horribly toothy mouth, holding a gleefully deranged Mel, a ginger-haired human girl, in one hand as though he’s about to take a big chomp out of her.
A movie poster for the French film “La Tour”. It shows a tall apartment building with figures in the windows silhouetted by burning yellow light. An ominous orange glow comes from the letters of the title and around the building.
a protest sign reading “Boston runs on Dunkin’ & Democracy! #We Won’t Go Back!” with shooting stars drawn around it
two people standing in front of Faneuil Hall in the snow, holding two large protest signs. One says “A KING AND A FOOL MUST NEVER RULE” with a picture of Musk and Trump edited to look like a king and a jester, respectively. The other sign says “ONLY BUTTERFLIES SHOULD BE MONARCHS”, with large butterfly stickers.
🎨 a loose digital drawing of the artist, a white woman with red-brown hair, lying in bed with the yellow striped duvet pulled up to her chin and a dilute tabby-tortie cat curled up on her chest. Assorted items and a geometric lamp sit on top of a white dresser beside the bed, and above the bed is a window showing big raindrops falling outside against a dark, stormy sky.
a screenshot of my bluesky notes page, showing a thumbnail of my fanart of Ed from “Jentry Chau vs the Underworld”. The note says, “James Hamilton and 2 others reposted your post”