Glass Quill Studio is the home of imaginative works by artists and storytellers CallyAnn Hamilton (Callyann Creates), L.C. Ireland (According to LC), and HallieKate Briggs (Art of HeKate).
Disney’s “The Emperor’s New Groove” is among my top three favorite movies of all times. It’s just so funny and fresh and clever! It’s one of the few movies that I can quote line-for-line. Yzma is a star. Her character design is so striking. Eartha Kitt’s voice is pure perfection. I always cackle with delight when she’s on the screen. Once I started my Disney Villains series, she was added to the top of the to-do list. She was surprisingly hard to draw! It took a lot of practice to get the many angles of her skeletal body just right. But I am so proud of the final look!
I adore Ursula. Her iconic voice, incredible design, and banging music number make her among my favorite of the Disney Villains. I really struggled to draw her face. Ursula’s design is based off of drag queen Divine, so I studied men’s faces to finally get the structure of her features right. I am very proud of this bookmark design. And she’s been popular! She’s one of my best-selling villains.
I had tons of bookmarks that would appeal to little girls, but very few options for boys. The most common request I received my first year offering bookmarks was to create more designs with boys in mind. So I decided to stretch outside my Disney-princess comfort zone and draw an iconic comic book hero. It was SO hard, but I’m proud of the final product.
The character of Wendy has always intrigued me. When drawing her bookmark, I wanted to capture that feeling of longing, of pining for a magical world and its brave but flawed hero. I studied many a screenshot to capture Wendy’s feminine body language.
Rosalina had such a beautiful, stirring introduction in Mario Galaxy. I’ve been very pleased with her inclusion in many games, including Mario Kart and Mario Party. Happy to see more female characters in the series!
Jack Skellington was so fun to draw! I just had to forget everything I’d been trying to learn about human anatomy and stretch the living daylights out of this skinny, skinny boy. Honestly, the most difficult part of this bookmark was drawing the pinstripes.
If you hold the Sally and Jack bookmarks next to each other, they are looking at each other. I drew Jack with a closed rose and Sally with an open one to represent how Sally is the one who opens Jack’s heart to the possibility of love and happiness and fulfillment in his own world. D’awww. These two look really great together and sell quite well as a pair.
I am blonde with blue eyes while my sister is a redhead with blue eyes. We spent many, many hours of our childhood playing Mario Kart: Double Dash as the iconic princesses. Any game where both characters are featured makes us very excited. So I knew I wanted to combine both princesses onto one bookmark. This bookmark is dedicated to my bestest sister ever.
Peter Pan is such an interesting character who honestly scared me as a kid. I wanted to capture both the innocent boyhood and also the mischievous wildness of this iconic character.
I cannot tell you how much work it took to recreate Sally’s patchwork dress! I spent so much time squinting at screenshots, pics of official Disney merchandise, and other artists’ fanart to figure out exactly what patterns and colors exist where on this dress. Everything else came together really well. I do believe that Sally currently holds the record for longest eyelashes in anything I’ve ever drawn.
I went through a HUGE Tinker Bell phase as a teen. Basically, as soon as I started earning my own money, I immediately began blowing it on every piece of Tinker Bell merchandise I could get my grubby little hands on. I was obsessed with the Disney Fairies book series, which featured Tinker Bell living in Pixie Hollow with many other fairies and sparrow men. The books featured beautiful, detailed illustrations that helped my imagination soar. Tinker Bell’s friends had so much character and personality and their world was so imaginative. I was even an avid player of their silly online game in which you mostly just flew around collecting things and expanding your wardrobe. Right in the midst of my collecting, the first Tinker Bell movie came out. The movies changed basically everything, including ditching most of Tinker Bell’s friends and replacing them with much more boring, generic characters. I was SO disappointed. Then, to add insult to injury, all of the gorgeous watercolor illustrations of Tinker Bell were phased out and replaced with overly-rendered 3D crap of her in the same two poses over and over again. I collected for a while longer, but my heart just wasn’t in it anymore. I eventually donated my whole collection to my cousin’s little girls.
Designing my own Tinker Bell bookmark was healing haha. I took a lot of inspiration from David Christiana’s interpretation of Tinker Bell and her world from the book series I loved so much as a kid.
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CallyAnn Hamilton
@callyanncreates
L.C. Ireland
@accordingtolc
HallieKate Briggs
@artofhekate