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Here’s just a small highlight reel of some of my favorite recent sketches!

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Recently watched Bram Stokers Dracula!!

The costumes are so incredible, I loved this scene with Lucy as a vampire sooo good

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Combined yesterday and today for this page!

I’m a big supporter of big pant tiny shirt, my ootd was so cute and I love my new short hair! I feel so put together and cute.

The gate on the upper right with the pots of donkey tail succulents made me think of melted wax, which I found quite interesting.

Lower half are some sketches for this little illustration plan I have called “urban flora” where I explore ways in which plants have settled and thrived in urban areas. I observe this a lot in my usual walks and im always fascinated by plants’ resilience.

Final thoughts are… I LOVE THIS DAMN PEN SO MUCH

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Hi blog,

I recently bought a new brush pen and it has quickly become my favorite tool.

I like having different materials to work with depending on the mood I’m on, my sketchbook is looking varied and visually interesting.

My Venus Flytrap has recently started sprouting leaves after a few months of it looking dead. But I didn’t give up, I kept watering it and giving it lots of sunlight and finally saw the new growth, im so happy! Really taught me a lesson in perseverance.

My husband too, he kept watering and taking care of his sticky monkey flower for months, and even though it was losing so much of its greenery, the tips looked healthier than ever, to the point that it now has bloomed some gorgeous looking pink flowers, with more to come!

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A bit of a combo move with 3 days melded in one page.

During my walks I like to take mental snapshots of things I would like to draw, so naturally I draw a lot of plants, I find weeds and wild little plants to be the most interesting. It’s so beautiful to notice spring around me, looking how everything slowly blooms and just lives in its own little way. I want to capture that. Especially these beautiful purple flowers that I see every day, that they seem to open during sunlight hours and close when the sun goes down.

It’s just so nice to see plants being alive like that.

Some more other thoughts are that I am taking care of my hair differently this week by braiding it before going to sleep to protect it and I notice how nice and textured it gets in the morning! Makes me feel so pretty to unravel the braid and admire the texture and general “tameness” of my hair now. Huge boost to my self esteem.

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Hi Blog-

Inspired by the Author Austin Kleon I want to give this blog a revival and show my sketchbook again.

Luckily I haven’t stopped sketching since last time I posted so I believe this won’t be a hard “end of day” task. (:

Something easy for me to get me sketching is to “capture” moments in my day to later sketch from the best of my memory.

I’ve been watching “Rosemarys Baby” in little bits and pieces while I eat dinner so snapshots of that have been showing in my head too and I love drawing hollow scary faces for some unknown reason.

Finally, some thoughts on what I want to do with my art which have been buzzing in my head non stop.

Anyways, I recommend you check out any of Austin Kleon’s books! “Steal like an artist” is my favorite. To the point that I have written down so many passages in my notebook for future reference. A short book but crammed with so much wisdom and cool quotes.

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Hi blog! Long time no see!

Since my last post, I actually finished another sketchbook and I’m well into a new one! I haven’t posted any pages cuz I forget but I’ll try to get back into it again (:

Today I have had such a beautiful sunny happy day! I needed to paint something extra yellow and bright to commemorate. I have also started therapy after so long and I enjoy the self growth I have experienced so far.

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12/23

It’s been busy days, yet today I had the chance to sit down and catch up on habit making. I’m happy to say I have achieved 5 days of consecutive exercise and I love feeling like I have removed all the weight from my day after finishing a workout.

Part of habit making was my sketchbook and although I have a hard time drawing hands or remembering what dandelions look like, this is more an exercise of creativity and imagination for me so anything goes, doesn’t matter right now the polishing or technique.

Had extra time since I’m on a “vacation” from my freelance job so why not ink the whole page?

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12/08

Having some heavy confidence and self esteem issues, don’t even know how to address them to other people I just want to be alone but at the same time I want people around me, just existing. Strange mental state to be into right now.

Anyways, more fairies and also went to sketch at a local coffee shop. Had a day off and finished most of my to do list, including calling mom. I feel cold, distant and disinterested with most people in my life, I wonder if that is the truth or just another mental distortion.

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12/07

Shopping for clothes and looking for inspiration, making my wishlists in addition to listening to some romantic novel audiobooks makes me feel feminine these days.

It’s been fun to draw my future ootds in a fun fairylike way- I mean this sketchbook somehow turned into the fairy sketchbook and im not mad! It’s helpful to at least want to draw something all the time and start with that you know?

Anyways, no music today, just a recommendation to watch this essay YouTuber called Jordan Theresa, love her content lately! 🌸

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12/04

Well hello again blog!

I finally managed my time better and finished many pending projects, now I have time to do sketchbook again! I missed the feeling of the creative juices starting to move around as I just draw whatever.

I’ve been reading more too, recently finished this really sweet romance novel and I’ve been feeling so dreamy lately, just so much love around me, even in my current projects, it’s nice.

I hope I get to work more efficiently so I have time to draw mindlessly again before going to sleep.

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"ai is making it so everyone can make art" Everyone can make art dipshit it came free with your fucking humanity

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9/21

Had a difficult day at work but managed somehow to change mindset and actually be productive and mindful the rest of the day, so that’s something.

I saw this video about sketching and making it fun again, something that stuck out to me was the fact of drawing things you like to draw over and over again, and that’s plants for me. So I decided to draw what I want my living room to look like in the future! I have this monstera plant I’ve been cultivating and growing to turn it into a room divider someday.

Bottom part was just a little comic idea that came up while drawing a bathroom (?) Again, creativity can really just derail in magical ways.

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9/20

The mind is funny sometimes. I don’t know what made me draw a playground but here we are. Exploration sketching always takes you places.

I decided to ink this one too since I had so much fun doing the last one. I like the organic wobbliness brush inking gives you.

Feeling like I have lost control of my schedule and days but I can still hang on to having an 8hr work day, my freelance job and sketching before going to sleep. I’ve heard around there that sleeping more helps creativity so I might start sleeping earlier and using this damn phone less. Let’s see how much I can keep it up!

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9/19

Tried my hand at brush inking again with some imaginary specialty cocktails 🍹

I love the texture and organic lines I can get with this technique, I was excited to do this again. Hand hurts after just a few minutes, I gotta get myself a hand cushion or something for this tiny brush.

Feeling sensitive still but have been deep in thought about my reaction to conversations and mi perspective on my personal work ethic.

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9/18

A magical convenience store managed by the mean pixie and the regular witch with her trusty “service dog”

The other sketch I drew it while talking to my mom on the phone, a sort of pleinair without having to concentrate too much. I actually liked to do it this way. I can still concentrate on our conversation and sorta sketch away what I’m seeing at that moment. Will do again.

Having some terribly sensitive days I really don’t know why I can’t feel blissful like before.

Can’t help but feel ungrateful for all I have and yet feel like I feel now. Definitely hasn’t helped with this slump in my sketching but eh whatever.

Sketching as meditation I call it. Stream of thought art.

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Had a couple of difficult mental days but I’m back in balance. So much thought and realization.

At this point in my life I really just want peaceful days no matter what. I’m tired of pressing myself to what I think people want from me when they have never asked for it. My goal is to be chill girl that’s it.