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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

I'm fully In It, learning how to make patterns for wallpapers. This is the spiritual successor to my beetle and cicada that gave me pattern brain fever. Really inspired by artists like Morris, Dearle and Voysey lately. Help me name it please! "Beetle2" doesn't seem very.. poetic.

A repeating pattern in dark teal colors of a flowering plant and a beetle in flight

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Wild Tulips: my new seamless repeating pattern. Inspired by some wild tulips I saw on my walk to work one day. They're dramatic, beautiful flowers. I'm studying Arts and Crafts style pattern structures and I'm in love. #patterndesign

A repeating pattern in teal and fuchsia featuring hand-drawn or block print looking tulip blossoms

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 13/03/2026

Tonight's "zen tangles" as @jooblee.bsky.social coined them. Don't call the art police on me, but I'm having a lot of fun with this project.

Eight sketched rosettes with plant and insect shapes

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

Very unpolished, but wanted to share my sketch of the night. I'm learning more about design.

Six sketched rosettes including a big one in the lower right that incorporates some shapes from the bleeding heart plant

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

The process for this one was involved but fun! I drew each layer and then vectorized them and stacked them on top of each other to create the final file. Still deciding on color schemes I love best, which is the most addictive part of the process.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 09/03/2026

Manzanita: a "false half-drop" repeating pattern that I may use for wrapping paper. I'm on a wrapping paper quest! I want at least one design I love done by July, when holiday buying season for retailers starts. #patterndesign #repeatingpattern #wrappingpaper

A repeating pattern featuring manzanita leaves, white berries and a reddish brown color scheme

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 03/12/2025

"Insomnia" I drew plants I pass on my evening walks home from work, in my little neighborhood. I wanted something quiet and dark for this, because sometimes we're just quiet, and dark. #patterndesign

A repeating pattern in blues and muted purples featuring hand-drawn plants and flowers intertwined with a dark blue hummingbird

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 26/11/2025

Have you been eyeing the Chromatic Fates #Tarot deck? Please check out this sick 25% off sale I'm running for Black Friday right now. I'm also adding my Bright Queen dot-grid sketchbooks to the sale. Every sale supports me and my ancient cat's pretentious diet! www.etsy.com/shop/Egyptia...

A close up picture of a small present with a gold ribbon, advertising a black friday tarot sale

A sketchbook with a cool queen on the cover, with the words Winter Sale over top

A tarot deck photograph advertising a winter sale

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 07/11/2025

I'm tabling at Geek Girl Con this weekend in Seattle, if anyone's planning to go! I'm making some Tarot gift bundles. Everything needs ribbon.

A little present made of a tarot altar cloth and gold ribbon

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

"Oh, Lord, I feel the reveling I feel a change on the rise." Tyranny the demon, from Critical Role's new campaign. She's only dimmed a few times this week. 🩷 #criticalrole

A pink demon lady in a big teal ruffle dress. This is what's In now, I don't make the rules.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

All the paint tubes in the world can't disguise this shit

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

"Now we as a society have to rely on one--"

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Quote with your gold art! I still like this one, and need to do more 👏🏻 gold 👏🏻 shit 👏🏻

A gold skull, staring right at you. But in a friendly way.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

I have a very specific fascination with leaves and flower petals that fold over on themselves.

A sketch of some dahlia flowers drawn with a micron pen

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 18/07/2025

Cat Show Cat Show! This is my drawing Egyptian Blue, featuring a cat skull (I try to pair pigment history to its region and symbolism, in this case obv Egypt) My website is www.stephaniecost.com Thank you for cats!

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Corrupted Six of Coins, for Wyrmwood's Corrupted Tarot Halloween event deck a few years ago. I helmed this project's theme/writing and art direction and it was harrowing at times but insanely rewarding. The #tarot cards were all based on their reversals. 🌳🖤🔪🪙

A sinister woman in a vibrant fushia dress and crown of gold leaves

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 09/07/2025

Hi Bluesky, I decided to do a #PortfolioDay with patterns instead of illustrations this time around, because I'm getting SO obsessed with designing these and would love to find work in the future with them. #surfacepatterndesign #patterndesign My website is now at: www.stephaniecost.com

A repeating pattern tile of mugwort leaves and cicadas and beetles in blue, green and dark plum colors

A dense dark purple repeating pattern tile of orange blossom drawings

A really busy painted repeating texture of blue and white flowers that bloom at night

A repeating pattern tile featuring owls moons and poppy husks

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 09/06/2025

Drawing. Watching current events unfold and feeling completely useless. Be safe if you're in LA.

A sketchbook page full of doodles of flowers

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

I just finished a big pattern that's a companion to my Indanthrone piece, called "Night Blooming". While I work out where it'll fit in my first pattern collection, please enjoy it as a phone wallpaper background. You can buy it and support me and my extravagant habits (eating) below. 💜💙

A preview image showing two phone mockups side by side, with a painterly blue floral pattern used as the phone wallpapers

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 30/05/2025

Very rarely I take commissions- dark elves are my absolute favorite.

A dark elf with purple blue skin holding a small blue drake, with a whole lot of triangles in the background. So many!

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 20/05/2025

I illustrated the Winged Sentinel (Seraph) subclass for Darrington Press's #Daggerheart! I was humbled to work with Leesha Hannigan as my Art Director @leeshahannigan.bsky.social And I appear in the book next to Jenny's Divine Wielder ✨🗡️ so go check hers out as well! @hijennyt.bsky.social

A warrior woman with enormous wings backlit by the sun, wearing armor and a long flowing drapery thing that was extremely hard to draw even after I figured out I could use tissue paper and an art mannequin as reference

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

One of my absolute favorite parts of art is portraiture. The human face is so soft and nuanced and the way light interacts with the forms is so cool. I'm reworking "Amber" for Mermay this month. If you're a Patreon member (even a free one) you can see this one's progress this month over on Patreon.

A painterly digital drawing of a saturated yellow woman's head with her eyes closed

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 19/04/2025

This may not be what you're looking for at all, but I've been working on pattern design for apparel (It's super fun).

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

I 💙 Color palettes so I wanted to make one.

A color palette with blues on the left side and a painted artwork of blue flowers on the right

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 02/04/2025

The Empress My card for Chromatic Fates #Tarot. This one means a lot to me and I find myself coming back to the card a lot this year.

A painterly drawing of the empress from tarot, a woman seated on a fallen pillar wearing a reddish pink dress with pomegranates and a shield at her feet

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 25/03/2025

Curious how I go about making patterns and what my thought process is? I'm in the process of converting my Patreon to a pattern blog. This post is free to the public! (The image here is a work in progress 💙) #patterndesign #natureart www.patreon.com/posts/125096...

A repeating pattern tile of a light blue background of painterly hand drawn flowers with a white swirly design over top

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 27/02/2025

I'm thinking of eventually selling leggings- I had a POD sample sent to my house of the two Cicada colorways. Anyone a leggings fan? Any favorite brands or types?

A photo of leggings with a dark blue and purple cicada pattern printed onto them

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 30/01/2025

I didn't get too far on this but I enjoyed it nonetheless. Making a goal to do #Birdwhisperer monthly drawings this year.

A digital drawing of a loon done in a painterly style with a dark blue background

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 24/01/2025

This one really cemented "hey I want to draw patterns" as a goal. My best friend told me about a dream she had featuring a blue beetle, and I was inspired to make this! Cicadas, Mugwort (to promote visions), beetles. Drawn in Procreate 💕

A dense repeating pattern of hand drawn green mugwort plants and cicadas and beetles over a dark reddish purple background

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

A few years ago I stumbled across pattern design and discovered I REALLY enjoy it. This was my first pattern, just for fun. 🥰

A repeating pattern of barn owls and plants and moons drawn over a cream colored background

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

🌱The Island Seed🌱 This was drawn in Realistic Paint Studio on the ipad. I loved working on her face, probably my favorite part of this piece.

A painterly digital drawing of a Black woman in an orange dress holding out a magical orb that contains a tiny floating island.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Drawing some plants tonight, just because. I'm struggling a lot lately with just making art for its own sake, and my own sake. Trying to embrace just the act of making.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

HI. Do you live in the EU? I have bad news, shipping is a hot mess. If you've ever wanted Chromatic Fates, the first tarot deck I directed (78 artists who all kick ass are represented!), NOW is YOUR TIME. Etsy is running a 25% off holiday sale. Capitalism forces me to make these little graphics. 🩷

A somewhat artsy photograph of a tarot deck near a candle and some dried flowers. Somewhere in the distance an artist is sad about marketing.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

I know y'all love Tarot. We're launching Stained Glass Tarot in 2025, and I want to invite all of you who want to make a deck to joinnn meeee as I start to do art reveals and blog about the unhinged tribulations of producing a deck. I'll be featuring your cards alongside ours. Get cozy.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

QRP with your skull art! This is "Egyptian Blue". 💙💙💙

A painting of a cat skull surrounded by blue and brown and green leaves

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

First Hummingbird. After losing my main computer a few years ago, I started working on the ipad for everything. Severely impacted how I draw digitally, I’m still kind of mourning the loss of my photoshop workflow. It’s harder to draw now but I really like the few pieces I do make.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

I can't make your brain weasels go away, but I CAN show you this picture I just took of my Cleric of Woubble ribbon propped against my tolerant cat. I hung onto it because it makes me smile, as does the rest of your work. Kick your brain's ass 💪

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

🌳 Isalspire 🌳 drawn for @reilena.bsky.social when she made her own game (!!!!) I learned a thousand things while drawing this and am so grateful to her for giving me the opportunity.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

I organized Chromatic Fates a few years ago! This image was used on our certificates of authenticity. It's an anthology deck, each of us had one card to illustrate. Thanks for asking!! Ahh are you a tarot fan/maker?

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 18/11/2024

This is "Camper", a good friend's doggo. Drawing a black or white animal is always challenging- they still have tons of color and light bouncing around in there. I used the ipad app Realistic Paint Studio to draw this one. Highly recommend it for sketching and slower working.

A digital painting of a black dog named Camper, who has enormous triangle ears and is a Good Girl.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

✨The Bright Queen✨ This Critical Role fanart is both my favorite and was my most popular on Twitter (bye twitter!). Crit Role dragged me through the worst depression of 2016 through being an "essential worker" in 2020 and this drawing will always remind me of that blend of hope and fear.

A regal drow queen bathed in cold blue light stands in front of a massive crystal throne, looking down at a humble hobo wizard. Illustration of the Bright Queen from Critical Role.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

✨ Quote repost with your art that has stars ✨

A seascape with a lighthouse and several small houses along the cliffside.

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Stephanie Cost @perstephane.bsky.social · 13/11/2024

I've always loved folklore about the huldra. A few years ago I wrote a short story (!!) snd drew an accompanying series. I showed this one to my grandmother once and she was like "ohhhh... I don't like body horror" so uh, sorry grandma. 😭

Huldra sitting in the forest. A woman with a hollow tree in her back.

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