👩🏻🎨I’m Shannan, the ADHD creative 🌈 genX illustrator behind Hippie Dark Arts. 🧙🏻♀️🎨 👩🏻🎨🧞♀️🔮👩🏻🏫👩🏻🎓🐈⬛🪴📚🎶 Grieving the loss of my son, Caleb. This is my journey of art and grief.
🖌️I have a multitude of interests but I mainly create cute illustrations, storybook style. I use watercolor, gouache, colored pencil, and procreate for my illustrations. I love focusing on folklore, fairytales, and mythology. I’d love to illustrate children’s books in the future.
🐈⬛ Some other things about me: I live in the US with my 4 cats, dozens of plant 🪴 babies. 🧙🏻♀️🎨.👩🏻🏫.👩👧👧.👩🏻🔬👩🏻🎓🪴.📚🐉.🌈💜.🫖💜.✊🏿.
I am an artist/illustrator, an intuitive, a seeker, and a hippie looking to find new ways to form her reality. Always a teenager at heart and looking for that sweet spot where creativity meets spirituality.
I am a lifelong teacher and student who firmly believes that there is always more to learn in life and is in search of those new avenues constantly, currently working to finish my PhD.
I am neurodivergent (ADHD, Anxiety, and likely Autistic) and can often be found enjoying one of her many interests including (but not limited to) fountain pens, planners, journals, tea, coffee, books, tarot, plants, cats, D&D, MTG, and her 5 grown children.