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YamPuff’s Chibi Tarot – The Major Arcana – New Coloring Book!

YamPuff’s Chibi Tarot – The Major Arcana – New Coloring Book!

Back in 2020, right before the COVID pandemic and lockdown became a thing, I published Flowery Dreams. I remember taking the photoshoot of that coloring book in the outdoor grassy area of my workplace, empty as everyone started working from home. That summer I published the Dreams Collection, a coloring book of all my 'dreams' themed coloring books gathered together in one anthology. After that, however, (more…)
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DTIYS Challenges and New Coloring Page

DTIYS Challenges and New Coloring Page

I've had a great time this summer with some DTIYS challenges on Instagram. It's been a really fun way to kind of kick back and get creative without having to design a character, think of a pose, or come up with an outfit. As well, I've enjoyed trying to let the art style of the DTIYS challengers influence my chibi style. I've tried to be a little more fluid and less same-y with the chibis I've drawn. I think as artists it can be easy to get stuck into a kind of comfort zone or style that just works for…
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Happy Holidays! Christmas Coloring Pages

Happy Holidays! Christmas Coloring Pages

Happy Holidays everyone! It's been an absolute crazy roller-coaster of a year and I'm sure we're all ready to bid 2020 goodbye forever, may it never return. In the meantime I thought I could share some holiday cheer with two brand new, free, festive coloring pages! They're a little late but still just in time for Christmas! New coloring pages to color over your Christmas break, with a mug of hot cocoa and some cookies to nibble on! (more…)
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Dreams Collection: A Coloring Book Retrospective

Dreams Collection: A Coloring Book Retrospective

Five years ago, in 2015, when Kindle Direct Publishing was still called Createspace, I self-published my first coloring book: "YamPuff's Stuff". I had no idea what I was doing, but my coloring pages were popular online and I had received requests from fans to make a coloring book. So I drew 24 original coloring pages and compiled them together. And my first little blue book was born. I've written before about the process that goes into making my coloring books, but not really about the long journey I took to get here. It was one of the hardest things I'd…
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Aerith and Tifa – Free Coloring Pages

Aerith and Tifa – Free Coloring Pages

I'm sure you've all been inundated with more 'stay safe' messages than you can take so I'm not going to get on your cases with even more. 2020 has been an absolute rollercoaster of a year, and here's hoping we can all get through this with our health and sanity in tact! As some of you know, I teach full-time, and since school has been cancelled for about 2 months at this point and will not be resuming till next academic year (if then) I have found myself, as so many others, working from home, social distancing and with hours…
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Flowery Dreams: New Coloring Book Release!

Flowery Dreams: New Coloring Book Release!

A long time in coming, it with great pleasure that I can finally announce the release of Flowery Dreams! I've been wanting to complete a trio of 'Dreams' books since publishing Carousel Dreams & Sugary Dreams. My first concept was Flowery Dreams, but I lost interest and dropped it. I then gave 'Galaxy Dreams' a try - it was fun but I ran out of ideas quickly and ended up with just a handful of illustrations. Time passed, and I found myself thinking about flowers again. I made a new file called 'Flower Coloring Book' and decided to give it…
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A Decade of Chibis

A Decade of Chibis

Hey everyone! Happy New Years - and happy new decade! Yep, 2020 is finally here, we are in the future, it's official. I've been working furiously on Flowery Dreams, you know, the coloring book I've working on for the past 100 years? Yeah that one. I am now confident in a 2020 release, and am nearly done with all the pages. All that left is the cover design, book formatting, promo images, checking proof copies, making flipthrough videos, collapsing from sheer exhaustion and overwhelming artists' block. It's all gonna be great! *two thumbs up* (more…)
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Beautiful Brides Free Coloring Pages

Beautiful Brides Free Coloring Pages

It's been an absolutely crazy year for me - and the year is nearly over, can you believe it? The decade, as well. It's December, the holidays are upon us, and 2020 is around the corner. And I still haven't finished the coloring book I've been promising for approximately the last 100 years. What have I been up to? Well, doing a distance learning program to become fully certified as a US licensed teacher. While also keeping up with my full-time job as a teacher, and of course some freelance work on the side. Flowery Dreams (my upcoming coloring book)…
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Magical Girl Digital Coloring Pack

Magical Girl Digital Coloring Pack

One of the best things about having an ongoing project - like the coloring book I'm currently working on - is being able to procrastinate on it by doing other, newer, unrelated projects! Nothing is quite as motivating as working on something when you're supposed to be working on something else, am I right? The struggle is real I'm nearly done with the groundwork for my flower-themed coloring book Flowery Dreams - I have 18 coloring pages sketched out and things are coming along nicely. Or at least they were when I suddenly decided that I really wanted to draw…
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#MerMay – Mermaid Coloring Pages by YamPuff!

#MerMay – Mermaid Coloring Pages by YamPuff!

Warm weather, springy vibes, and artists everywhere drawing mermaids daily? Must be MerMay! I've always wanted to be one of those artists that can organize themselves in such a way that they can have daily output during a month like MerMay or Junicorn. I've been participating in Inktober for about three years now and the maximum I ever reached was 17 out of 30 drawings for the month. It's just not my thing. In any case, until such a day comes when I can start churning out art like it ain't no thang, I went through my linearts to find…
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