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PandaErica Newsletter 02

#GentleComicHabit: Happy Birthday, Maxwell! 🥳

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PandaErica Newsletter 01

#GentleComicHabit: My Picture Book “Go Away!” Is Officially On Submission

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I’m super happy, almost giddy about this pet portrait. Here’s why…swipe along for an interesting tale about mistakes can turn into wonderful opportunities for creative solutions. 💜 1. Final cleaned up digital scan 🥰 2. Close up zoom of digital art file 🔎 3. Zoom out of actual illustration 🔍 4. The illustration IRL (in real life) 🥸 5. The final presentation with a flap splash page on top. I haven’t cut/taped a presentation page on a piece of art since Don Brandes’ advanced media class back in college. 🤓 6. I mounted the water soluble crayon and colored pencil illustration on Strathmore recycled sketch paper to a thicker card stock and glued down the lavender construction paper die-cut on top because guess what…? 7. The original had the dog’s name spelled incorrectly!!! 😱🫣 8. Quick behind the scenes showing a looser study of Rhodey’s head in my sketchbook. Comparing the two makes me want to paint and draw WAY bigger from now on. Something I was forced to understand every day at college was how much more impressionistic scribbles and looser mark making can look. You can only achieve that kind of free flowing movement and looseness when you paint and draw BIG. I drew that study of Rhodey’s head in like 30 or so minutes. So freeing, so quick, & it looks amazing and fun (IMO, in my opinion). 9. The culprit prep ink sketches I was practicing at 100% scale a few days before I sat down to work on the final…clearly I was distracted that night…that pesky random “D”! Who the heck is Rhodney?!? 🙈 10. I swear I knew Rhodey’s name from the get go. Y’all saw my post of the original sketchbook explorations, right? 😳 Long story short, I would like to thank that erroneous N because it made the final illustration like 10000x better!!! Don’t you agree? 💜 • • • #PandaErica #kidlitart #petportrait #dog #dogsofinstagram #gooddog #crayon #colorpencil #constructionpaper #beautifulmistake #lifeofanartist https://www.instagram.com/p/Cqc5rshOmKM/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Yo. 🐼🌸 Here’s a new self portrait for the 1000+ followers I somehow acquired over the years. Hello! I look forward to y’all getting to know me better through my art. 👋 How did you stumble my way? • • • #PandaErica #selfportrait #art #kidlitart #digitalart #digitalcollage #meettheartist #markers #mixedmedia #purplehair #flowerwreath #artist #illustrator #artistsoninstagram #artistsofinstagram https://www.instagram.com/p/CpebKQBuzRF/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Dog sketching from the last week of February. Added some digital colors on top of the inked sketch pages using the Photoshop for iPad app, which is just as finicky and janky as the desktop cloud software. 😂 side note: Can @adobe and @apple please just get along and make sure their OS and software play nice together? That may be too much to ask. Anyways, I might stitch together my time lapse videos of me sketching these pages. Let me know if y’all would be interesting to see those blooper vids. Dog models are perfect for practicing 10-, 5-, and 1- minute sketching. Especially Max, who was super fussy because he has a healing cut on his toe that was bandaged up and pissing him off all last week. 🐶 • • • #PandaErica #dog #dogsketching #sketching #sketchbook #personalart #artforfun #digitalpainting #AdobePhotoshop #ipadart https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQ6wCRvU8S/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Playing around in my sketchbook this past weekend with some new metallic markers and a weird white blender marker. Always an interesting time testing out new materials. Not sure I hate them but not sure I love them. Overall just grateful I squeezed in some time to draw live and outside for a change. Thanks to my@model and friend @yangabriella for letting me draw her. • • • #PandaErica #TheYEAGirls #friendsdrawingfriends #artistfriends #sketchbook #livedrawing #experimenting #sketching #penandmarker https://www.instagram.com/p/CpQj4CpPUih/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Playing around in my new dotted journal which has great paper that takes Prismacolor markers really well. I have some new art cooking slowly and surely that I am excited to share soon, but my fall back muse still continues to be the furry love of my life, Maxwell 💜 There once was a time when my entire Instagram was ONLY Maxwell content. 😂 Can you blame me though? My dog’s freaking adorable even at the ripe age of 12. Who is the furry or slimy or scaly animal love in your life? Comment & chat below. 🐶 • • • #PandaErica #sketchbook #prismacolorexmarker #markerart #dog #dogart #MaxwellParrish #ilovemydog #ratterrier #jackrussellterrier #dogbandana #sketch #doodle https://www.instagram.com/p/CnknkAoPwwK/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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“The Tony Hawk of Intruders” 🛹 A 3 minute pen doodle of one of my favorite jokes in “The Intruder” HBO special from @atsukocomedy . It seriously resonates with my 32-year-old soul. Tony Hawk was THE athlete in my childhood. To those too young to know who Tony Hawk is please insert another relevant athlete. 😂 • • • #atsukookatsuka #comedy #HBOcomedyspecial #TheTonyHawkOfIntruders #TheIntruder #comedy #jokesfor30yearolds #LOL #sketchbook #inkdrawing #PandaErica #sketch #doodle https://www.instagram.com/p/CmIALtdvfjr/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sketchbook squiggles of my studio window view at sunset a few nights ago. The 2nd pic with the actual view is from this morning so the sky/lighting doesn’t match but still fun to compare. Filling myself with as much inspiration and chill vibes as possible these days. I want to empty my “cup” of past expectations for myself and fill it back up again with wonder, inspiration, and a renewed vigor for creation that is fun again. Art just for me. Art that explores without judgement and pressures. When I find any time in my day to just sit at my drafting desk and look out my window, taking in my new FL views, I feel content and warm inside. I hope to create new pieces with this feeling at its core. 🧡 • • • #PandaErica #selfexpectations #art #sketchbook #carandachecrayons #watersolublecrayons #crayons #windowview #sunsetsky #inspiration #artforme #hope #floridasky https://www.instagram.com/p/Ci2jep_AIkw/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Feeling exhausted and yet the stress just keeps on giving. Posting an old sketchbook page that epitomizes how I feel today. 😵😵‍💫😴 Oh, to be a cute dog with the freedom to nap day in and day out, not a care in the world besides eat, sleep, play, repeat. ❤️‍🩹 What do y’all do to recover and recharge? I’m a fiend for reading manga/manhua, comics and books all day everyday if I didn’t have other things to do. My base form has always been that of a book 🐛. How about you? • • • #PandaErica #ENFPA #recharge #rest #relax #sketchbook #dogsofinstagram #dogsdreqma #lifeofadog #JRT #ratterrier #ilovemydog https://www.instagram.com/p/Ch2amWyuYJi/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Sending out feelings of gratefulness into the universe today. Amidst the chaos I am always thankful for the fullness of life, thankful for my experiences so far (good and bad), and thankful for the freedom of choosing how to live the life I was given. 🌟 • • • #PandaErica #climbingoutofthedarkness #thankful #thankfulgratefulblessed #thankfulthursday #originalcharacter #kidlitart #Lyon #thankyou #pencilsketch #positivity #countingblessings https://www.instagram.com/p/ChsNo7qODk0/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Hello! I painted this adorable portrait earlier this summer for a scammer who tried to rip me of commission money. They spent the time to go thru all the steps except signing a contract and paying via mailed check or digital bank transfer/Venmo. Super suss when they asked to have money sent to an unknown bank account that I did not specify. In today’s day, all legit clients know how to use Paypal, Venmo, or bank transfer. All legit clients can easily go to ask for a bank check, can nullify/void incorrect checks and provide new checks at the correct payment amount requested. If they can’t do that simple, basic business transaction or refuse/unreasonably delay signing a contract, it’s a scam. Give them a short deadline to respond to contract and payment email and if not, move on. Don’t let scammers waste your time. 💖🌸🌟 That said this painting is heavy, smooth watercolor paper, with watercolor and gouache paints, and colored pencil. It’s perfect for a 4x6” frame. DM or email me if interested in purchasing. Set price is $50 + shipping. ☀️ #PandaErica #portrait #kidlitart #painting #commision #frelanceart #artforsale #artist #watercolor #gouache #coloredpencils #mixedmedia #iamaprofessional #goodbusinesspractices #getpaid https://www.instagram.com/p/Chc4XsrOSPE/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=