Hey there!
My name is Allie and I’m a 27 year old freelance artist from Kentucky. I’ve always loved drawing, and if there was any silver lining to the pandemic, it’s that I had a LOT of free time to practice. I contracted long covid and became disabled in 2021. It was incredibly difficult, and if I didn’t have art as a way to cope with it, I don’t think I could’ve gotten through it.
It started with pet portraits! I decided to give watercolor painting a try and did a (terrible) painting of someone’s dog. They loved it, and someone else asked for one. To those of you that supported me in my early stages, god bless you, because some of those were ROUGH. But it gave me the confidence to keep practicing and moving forward. I started experimenting with colored pencils and decided I liked them a little more. You have a lot more control with them, and as someone with tremors, it’s easier for me. My current favorite medium is alcohol markers and colored pencils together, which is how I did all my illustrations for my prints.
I’ve had the opportunity to do some pretty cool projects. The biggest one was when I was commissioned by my city to do some illustrations for the sesquicentennial (don’t worry, no one knows how to say that, it means 150 years) celebration. I created a commemorative postcard as well as event maps. I’ve done dozens of pet portraits, wedding portraits, and various commissions. Each one brings me joy.
Whether you’re here because you’re my friend and I guilted you into checking out my website, or if you’re someone interested in my art, thank you. This is truly my passion and I’m grateful to every single one of you that supports me. Enjoy!
-Allie
allie@anwartanddesign.com
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MY MESSAGE TO YOU, ASPIRING ARTIST!
Everybody sucks when they start. You WILL hate the thing you’ve made. You’ll want to throw it in the trash and never touch your pencils (or brushes or whatever) again.
DON’T GIVE UP.
You keep practicing. You learn from your mistakes. You’ll want to give up, but don’t you dare. It’s discouraging to look at your art and hate it. But you put your soul into it. You took the time to make it. You used that creative energy.
And you should be proud of that.
The gallery below is to show you my progress in a span of four years. The things I made when I first started were terrifying. But now look!

2020. Nightmare fuel.

What even is this?

Late 2020...progress?

2021. Getting better

Now we're getting somewhere!
2022. These actually look like people's pets now
2023. I really want to figure out my cartoony style

Super proud of this one. Rest in peace, Lizardman.
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2024. Still trying to get that cartoon style
RIDICULOUSLY proud of this one. It was my first "realistic" portrait
I never thought I’d be capable of something like this