Hai, I’m Panda,
a really awkward, roughly-panda sized, award-winning minipainter and streamer. I paint a large variety of models featuring bright, bold colors, wild metallics, and fun color-shifts.
Welcome to the new website!
We’re still under construction.
About Me
Who I Am
I’m just an awkward, panda-sized, midwestern painter building a community surrounding the hobby we all love. I’m openly a part of the LGBTQIA+ community and Disabled. I live in Greater Chicagoland with my partner, our youngest daughter, and our two pup who are well loved fixtures on my streams. Awoo-woo-wrooooos from Seger, anyone?
What I Do
Me and my AuDHD take a chaotic, dopamine providing, work on a ton of projects at once approach to painting. At any given time I am working on five or more projects. Usually I am working on 1-2 competition pieces, 2-3 commissions, and a couple of just for fun.
Upcoming Appearances & Events
I will be at Adepticon 2026!
Appearances at the con:
Wednesday 3/25: Content Creators Meet & Greet | 5-8 pm | Baird Ballroom Pre-Function
Saturday 3/28: Turbo Dork Featured Painter | 2-5 pm | Booth 404
Come Say Hello!
What Folks are Saying
“In my short time in the mini painting community, few people have been as welcoming and supportive as Panda. She has been there to cheer my successes and help me piece myself together at the lows.
She has been kind, enthusiastic, and a generous collaborator. Sometimes the best art is made in the (real or digital) company of friends and peers, and I am glad to count Panda among mine. She's been great for bouncing ideas off of, and to be inspired by her streams, art and community.”
Nymarra / @nym_paints
“Trish [AwkwardishPanda] is a wonderful streamer, is someone who walks the walk and talks the talk of being an upstanding member of the LGBTQIA+ community in streams, their discord, and online. They are a wonderful and kind crafting streamer, who makes everyone welcome and quickly gets rid of anyone who shows they don’t fit in by being rude, racist, sexist, etc. She’s also done charity streams and TTRPG shows benefitting charity on her channel and elsewhere. She’s exactly the kind of up-and-coming start that I think the Gayming Awards should recognize for her work, community building, and being an outspoken advocate for others that are in the LGBTQIA+ space and who have different/more axis of marginalization than herself.”
Gayming Magazine Rising Star Streamer Nomination, 2021
Get in Touch!
If you have questions, comments, or want to work with me, click below and let’s chat.
Brands I Work With
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If you are looking for the best color shift or colored metallic paints out there for your hobby needs, look no further than Turbo Dork.
Use code PANDA at check out for 10% off your order!
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Looking for some highly pigmented nerd juice to help slay the gray? Check out Monument Hobbies!
You can use my code PANDA for a 5% discount on your order!
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I'm an affiliate for Fanroll Dice (formally Metallic Dice Games, the makers of my "lucky" dice from GenCon 2021).
Use code PANDA for 10% off your order!