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Sorry for the long silence-- life got busy and I’ve been thinking about where I want my art journey to go. 

This is another DTIYS challenge piece for zombiefacesarah on Instagram! 

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A birthday commission for @ellorgast of her half-orc cleric character Bluebell!

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I'm much more in my element with Copics! 

A #drawthisinyourstyle piece for @onlyou718 from Instagram. The original is the last one.

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Have a "poisonous" Thane Krios sketch for Inktober!! ❤ My October is insanely busy and I don't like following prompts, so I'll be drawing whatever / whenever I can for the month!

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Caduceus!

It’s not the greatest but I had fun colouring him. I love this chill pastel cleric. <3

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The first work of 2019!! Playing with shapes and shine with watercolour! I actually painted this over a week ago but I've been too busy to post it. This is my 7th watercolour piece ever. :D

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My first Draw This In Your Style challenge! This character belongs to madie_arts on Instagram! It’s tough to render a digital artwork into traditional but I think it turned out okay. For a more detailed look, check out my Instagram (same handle)! <3

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Playing around with watercolour techniques on a drizzly day.

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Another Draw This in Your Style! This one is for faiha_kuntum on Instagram. 

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Been working on a Jester cosplay veeeeery slowly over the last few weeks! #jesterlavore #jesterlavorre #criticalrole #laurabailey #tiefling #emberfens

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I just wanted to work on something nice to destress after work and Portia happened!!

Portia is from The Arcana game by Nix Hydra Games.

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Progress!! <3

I have been drawing almost regularly for a few weeks now! This is significant because I’ve had trouble drawing regularly for years due to continued hardships (and trauma in some cases). The longest and most all-consuming art block I’ve ever gone through.

But I’m getting there -- when I start focusing on content creation again, I know I’m getting back to myself as a creator. Writing, comic creation, and character design were my forte when I was creating regularly. 

As for why nothing is being put up? I’m putting my relationship to art before my relationship to the online art community. The pieces I put up on this blog look so... dull and low-skill compared to what I know I’ve done and can do -- I was forcing myself to draw when I felt terrible about all of it. It showed and it made me feel even worse. So I’m building my private relationship to art first.

I did start a ko-fi page!! The link is up. I’m thinking once I figure out my style and comfort, I will start out by doing sketch commissions through ko-fi. But for now, thank you so much for supporting me and my wildly random updates! <3

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A mindless doodle of a tiefling NPC I'm hoping to use in a campaign that's forming in my head. #tiefling #npc #dnd #roleplaying #doodle #sketch #emberfens

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A quick, sleepy sketch of my runaway noble character, Falere. He's from a homebrew roleplaying campaign my partner and I are writing / playing. Sketching in bed in Thailand!! #vacationdoodle #sketch #sleepysketch #originalcharacter #oc #roleplayinggame #homebrew #dnd #emberfens

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I’ve been trying out Symmetra on CTF more often lately! 

Please forgive the terrible quality! I can do so much better than this but my aim was to test out different things in Clip Studio (painting styles, lining, tools, etc.) while shutting my perfectionist brain off. 

I almost wasn’t going to post this at all but I felt half the original picture was good enough. I’m still working on letting go and posting terrible art -- I’m not there yet but there’s progress!! (๏д๏)

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A quick Inktober sketch of Haru Okumura from Persona 5.