Note: This is an archive release from July 2023; see my July 2024 notes at the end of this post. Please enjoy! The Art Update: July 2023 Learning to paint greenery and finding the right workflow for my commissions! Hello friends! So much has happened in the last month (basically two months now, oops) – including a lotContinueContinue reading “The Ruby Walker Art Update: July 2023 [Archive Release]”
Author Archives: Ruby Walker
Why I Quit Using Instagram as an Artist
I recently got off Instagram, which I know is the most annoying thing to make a huge announcement and fanfare about. I don’t expect that the platform will collapse without me. But when I was thinking about quitting, I found it helpful to read blog posts from other artists who had made the same decision.ContinueContinue reading “Why I Quit Using Instagram as an Artist “
The Ruby Walker Art Update: June 2023
This is the back-issue of my email newsletter! I’ll be posting each of these montly newsletters about a month late for posterity. And so that the only posts on this website aren’t my silly MS Paint doodles and pretentious essays from when I was 17. (I just read through all of them and realized IContinueContinue reading “The Ruby Walker Art Update: June 2023”
A short comic about anger and joy.
Celebration! ‘Advice I Ignored’ is available as a paperback RIGHT NOW!
Click here to go get ’em! Tell your friends, tell your sister, tell your dad, tell your teacher. And leave a good ass review if you like it! It’s such a strange feeling, to be putting the book I started writing in my notebooks at 16 out into the world. I’m proud of my workContinueContinue reading “Celebration! ‘Advice I Ignored’ is available as a paperback RIGHT NOW!”
Quick update – Advice I Ignored is live on Amazon this week!
Rejoice! Advice I Ignored, my lovely baby child of a book (with 100 ink illustrations and it’s so good read it blah blah) will be LIVE on Amazon within 72 hours! The paperback is a gorgeous little tome, and I’m so proud of my work. Tell your friends to tell their friends. And most importantly,ContinueContinue reading “Quick update – Advice I Ignored is live on Amazon this week!”
Five Steps to Feeling Human Again After You Go On A 28-Hour Internet “Research” Bender And Forget To Eat, Breathe Or Sleep
If I were a better, more honest person, I would deal with life’s pressures appropriately as they arise. That’s the kind of person everyone wants to be, right? This girl tackles every challenge head-on. She keeps twelve different houseplants with varying humidity preferences healthy at the same time. She goes to bed at 9:30pm, moisturizedContinueContinue reading “Five Steps to Feeling Human Again After You Go On A 28-Hour Internet “Research” Bender And Forget To Eat, Breathe Or Sleep”
The Five Demons You Must Vanquish to Actually Finish Something
Have you ever been three steps from completing something monumental, and then suddenly you’re more stressed than you were in the beginning? There is less work to do than ever, but the end seems at once far, far away and frighteningly close. In the murky depths of that coffee-fueled haze of stress and ambition, you must overcome five demons in order to finally see your work through…
Essay: Tell A More Interesting Story
Wildflowers are a sign that I’ve lived another year. I can’t seem to believe it until I see them blanketing the grasses by the roadside, those little strips of the Texas prairie that civilization has allowed to survive.
Update: It’s Almost Armageddon
AKA: I’m actually finishing a project, could this be a sign of the Apocalypse? I’m kidding. But according to my spreadsheet, I’m on track to finish this manuscript in less than a month. Finish! I will have have actually achieved the result I set out for an entire year ago. I know some peopleContinueContinue reading “Update: It’s Almost Armageddon”
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