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Annette Kiesow's avatar

This is awesome! I need a whole coloring book of nightmares and monsters.

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Sharon Hays's avatar

Me too! Great idea!

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Sarah Fowler Wolfe's avatar

What does it say about me that I think he's cute and probably just needs some cuddles?

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N. Cody Ruch's avatar

You're a brave soul who is willing to go in for a struggle snuggle with a creature made of pure anxiety. The world needs more of us.

And yeah I would totally adopt that creature and take it on walks and show it off at the... whatever park you take that kind of thing to...

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Sarah Cauble's avatar

You’re not bad at this. You make us feel not alone. And I can’t think of anything better than that. I LOVE the dark drawing!

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Jeffrey Michael Melby's avatar

Nice picture,and totally looks like how I feel when I wake up realizing I forgot something important the day before.Which is increasingly more possible the older I get.Happy thoughts and cheers!

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Sarahd's avatar

Surely I am weird but even your scary illustrations remind me of the ones in the books I read as a kid. So I still love them and find them comforting:)

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Patty Norman's avatar

This is definitely what hangs out on my bed at 3am when I suddenly wake up wondering about my disabled son's future.

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seawren's avatar

My first impression was that anxiety was a cute little owl with a white tummy, but then I realized it's not an owl and the white patch is probably its mouth, and it got a whole lot less cute. I still love it, though. It's less scary than my evil cat, who also likes to sit on my stomach in the middle of the night and glare at me.

And I had a boss I loved who used to cram his entire email message into the subject line, so extra-long titles give me happy flashbacks.

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SuddenlyJamie's avatar

Titles are the worst. Always the hardest part of a post! Yours are delightful, as are your creations ... even this horrifying little 3AM beastie. Makes me wonder if I could bribe it with a cookie.

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Prism's avatar

I wish we could get a book of your updated doodles for coloring or just as a coffee table book. 💞

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roger hawcroft's avatar

So horrible it's great!

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Sharon Hays's avatar

Loving it! I would probably draw something like the dream I had saturday where I was naked taking a shower and the gardeners were in the bathroom and I was trying to get them to leave, and well, if I did draw that, I couldn't post it. I like your's so much better!

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Christine McIntyre's avatar

I love it and you're title was perfect 👍👍 your monster is I am sorry to say not scari at all it's kinda cute actually

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Pam's avatar

And to think all these years I thought that was the cat staring at me at 3am when I woke up and saw those eyes reflected in the moonlight.... maybe it was the cat and he's really a scary gremlin kind of monster in disguise (makes note to stop feeding the cat after midnight).

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Zach Hively's avatar

Just ordered mah books. Goodness, the one for my sister is going to be the perfect ending to a saga spiraled out of control. Thank you, thank you.

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Livi C.-Hall's avatar

I love the dark one! (I figured we would, being your fans) 🌻🌈💜

Thank you so much (ALWAYS) for listening to us and sharing your talent and thoughts!!

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Penny Ramirez's avatar

Whoa! That is a quite accurate representation of the anxiety that comes to visit as I'm drifting off to sleep (or making a valiant effort to drift off to sleep). I agree with Annette - this would make an awesome coloring book!

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