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Made a full illustration of my sign from this weekend. Should I put a shareable, screenshottable version in my story? What’s the best protest sign you’ve ever seen? If you DM me a sign, I’ll share it on my story!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #bridgetmakesstuff #activistart #protestart #womensmarch #askmeaboutmywhiteprivilege #whiteprivilege #queeractivism #dcthings
Guys, I did not have a good Monday. Nothing catastrophic happened, but a lot of small frustrating things still adds up: I’m having problems transferring my car title from DC to MD, I shopped for the worst customer of all time, I‘m still untangling my financial logistics from another person’s, and I had to do Title IX training that feels absurd given the Betsy DeVos clusterfuck. I couldn’t quite release my anxiety and my OCD rituals are more intense than usual as a result.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ Enter the return of #homwork. The prompt this week was to make a list of stuff you love and build it into a lettering and illustration composition. I’d made my list a couple nights ago, and as I went through the list doodling and fitting elements together, I was reminded of a bunch of stuff that makes me happy AND I realized how many of them were part of my shitty day today.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I don’t think anyone needs to try to make themself happy when they’re not — which is great because I can’t — and I find gratitude posts often pressure us to hide genuine and reasonable feelings, but even though things aren’t perfect and change is hard and I’m anxious a lot, I have a life that let me engage with 18 of the 29 good things in this piece today without even trying. And that’s pretty dope.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lettering #illustration #wordart #entrepreneur #smallbusinesslife #keepitconsistent #digitalart #digitalartists #dcart #dcartists #acreativedc #202creates #goodtype #thedailytype #handlettering #artistsofinstagram #handmadefont #letteringdaily #bridgetmakesstuff #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #gratitude #anxiety #honesty
This week’s #goodtypetuesday prompt was to join in on the #morethannumbers campaign, which was started by @florifama and @aftrisletter to encourage insta artists to focus more on all of the benefits of sharing their work on Instagram — not just the number of followers you have. •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I had a lot of fun playing on a #fullmoon motif 👉🏻 for my process video! • 📱: @procreate 🖌: #durango by @hollypixels ✨🖌: nebula and starfield by #miksks on @creativemarket • #lettering #illustration #wordart #entrepreneur #smallbusinesslife #keepitconsistent #digitalart #digitalartists #dcart #dcartists #acreativedc #202creates #goodtype #thedailytype #handlettering #artistsofinstagram #handmadefont #letteringdaily #bridgetmakesstuff #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro
One of the most shared pieces I have is the goal-setting post I made that says “sell more art,” so I made this so you can encourage the people in your life to help us achieve that goal! What kind of art do you sell? What makes you money? What do you wish made you money?⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ .⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lettering #illustration #wordart #entrepreneur #smallbusinesslife #keepitconsistent #digitalart #digitalartists #dcart #dcartists #acreativedc #202creates #goodtype #thedailytype #handlettering #artistsofinstagram #handmadefont #letteringdaily #bridgetmakesstuff #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro
This weekend I handmade very strong signage and curated a very gay vibe. Genuinely happy to discuss my white privilege in the comments 👇🏻⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #activism #protestart #womensmarch #legalizegay #askmeaboutmywhiteprivilege #queeractivism #dcthings #dcaf #dcasfuck #bridgetmakesstuff
There are a lot off problematic things about the #womensmarch, but I think it’s better to show up and speak up than it is to tap out of the conversation. I promise to keep showing up until I run out of people and populations being affected by the Republican Party BEFORE I run out of space to write them down. And I promise to hold myself and my fellow liberals accountable for our statements and actions. See ya out there, #dc.
#tbt to this thing that I JUST posted, but only so I have an excuse to zoom in on my fave details: my freckles, my tattoos, and my space hair.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #drawthisinyourstyle #bridgetmakesstuff
Some wise words from noted bisexual Rosa Diaz of Brooklyn 99. Make your decisions accordingly.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #brookyln99 #rosadiaz #bisexuals #lgbt #queerquotea #queersontv #advice #crushes #dating #bridgetmakesstuff
One of my first series on this account was illustrating a TON of alphabets and I loved it so much. So I’m working on fonts! This is the lettering style I’ve been messing with for the last few days, but as a vector-based font! Keep an eye out for a downloadable version in the new few days!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #lettering #font #fonts #fontbuilder #type #typeface #typesetting #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ifontmaker #ipad #ipadpro #bridgetmakesstuff
This is such a fucking cheesy thing to letter, fam — and that’s not usually my style — but I was talking to some friends from college the other day and it felt like a convo worth celebrating in some way.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ I’m pretty different from who I was when we were in school together one hundred years ago. I mean, ideally we all are, right? But, it’s impossible to understand how different I really am, unless you’re Val. Who spent the first few weeks of our friendship sitting next to me in a trench coat in a hallway — we got BAs in theatre together; it’s fine — and talked to me about whether I should be with my boyfriend. After he had already cheated on me. Like AT LEAST a couple of times. To this day, I’m embarrassed about how much shit I tolerated from him because I was so scared no one else would ever love me or understand me like I thought he did. He would cheat on me and try to break up with him and I would explain to him why he didn’t want to do that. I would remind him that he loved me so much that he to stay — but not so much that he’d treat me better. And I was SOMEHOW still DEVASTATED when we finally ended it for real. But most of the people that see me on the reg weren’t there watching any of that unfold in real-time.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ So when I gave my college friends the update and it included the sentence “There’s nothing to like want to have back after someone behaves that way, ya know?” there wasn’t really anything else for Val say except that I have reached “whole new person status.” She has seen. some. shit. and it’s impossible to overestimate how validating it is for people that watched me be objectively Not Good™️ at respecting myself to overreact a little bit about how far I’ve come.⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ •⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #digitalart #digitalartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #florals #inspo #selfesteem #growth #yougotthis #yougogirl #bridgetmakesstuff
Okay, y’all. My art is v much not photo-realistic and it never will be — that’s just not my jam — but I have been trying to incorporate illustration elements that aren’t plants to build up my confidence a bit and widen the scope of what I can do. @sarahdayarts did a #drawthisinyourstyle at exactly the right moment to push my boundaries a bit. Sarah makes art that I often feel particularly connected to — check out her new pendants — so I’m glad to be playing off of an artist I 🖤 and trust to be super respectful of the artists around her. Check my story for the original prompt and enjoy my quasi-self-portraited version!⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ 🖤 #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #womenwhodraw #digitalart #illustrationoftheday #artistsofinstagram #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #bridgetmakesstuff #space #magic #nebulahair #freckleseason4eva #bralettes #croptops #bodypos #fatchicks #womenwithtattoos
I wrote a very long caption about the fact that, through a lot of therapy and meds and friends, I’ve learned not to sacrifice myself to extend my relationships beyond their natural conclusions. It also had some fun jokes about how poor I am because of my more recent ex and did you know I have a @patreon and an @etsyshop #linkinbio. • But the main point was: You have exactly as much of a right to be on this planet as anyone else; don’t let a boss or a partner or a weird amalgam of all the people on Instagram that you invented in your head convince you to sacrifice your space so they can have extra. • ➡️ to see this come together! • 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 to @stefankunz and @ianbarnard for their #gridbuilder and to @truegrittexturesupply for the dot brush I used for the pop art effect! • #illustration #lettering # font #fonts #handmadefont #strengthinletters #dcart #dcartist #acreativedc #202creates #womenofillustration #queerswhomake #procreate #procreatelettering #ipad #ipadpro #bridgetmakesstuff #queerswhomake #gayart #biandboujee #feelingmyfeelings #selfdiscovery #selfexpression #takingupspace #bts #florals #inspo #yougotthis #peptalk #peptalks

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