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...I may have a problem with starting too many projects at one time 😬👀 /// This little piece is the beginnings of something that’s been rolling around in my head for the last four - five months. I’ve been sidetracked and only have the most basic of base colors and shapes, but I’m excited to get back it sometime in the next few weeks and just /finish/ it, you know? I really love the concept - I’m just such an obnoxiously nit picky individual that it’s not quite turning out how I want it to 🙌🏻😂

...after a ridiculous amount of procrastination I finally finished the moths for this illustration. Now to go and finish/work on the skin 🤦🏻‍♀️😂 /// Yesterday was a church day - and can I just say that I love my church family? I was able to cry and open up about the hurt and anger I had been harboring towards God for the last six months or so - and it was the most freeing experience I have had in a very long time. Find yourself a tribe...they remind you of your truth even when you can’t see it for yourself 🙌🏻🙏🏻

These little wave studies are some of the most fun and interesting little studies I’ve had the privilege of doing! They’re really stretching me and teaching me to see values and understand how values shape and create three dimensional forms...I’m thinking I may start a #30daysofwaves challenge and try to do a 15-30 minute study of waves every day 🤔. We’ll have to see 🧐

#30daysofwaves

To do lists are my lifeblood, can I just say that? Without them I don’t think I’d be able to function 😂🤷🏻‍♀️ /// This week has been one filled with a lot of school and art work-and has been emotionally exhausting. There hasn’t been anything externally wrong, but there have been some things that I realized I’ve been neglecting. In order to accomplish my todo lists I didn’t listen to what my body and mind needed to be healthy, and as such I hadn’t gone on a walk or even ridden my horse in months simply because ‘there were better and more productive things to do with my time’. While, yes, productivity is important and /good/, it isn’t what makes life /worth/ living. So, last night I decided to read a book instead of work on school or draw. And today I decided to grab coffee with @periwinkle_ps139 for a few hours instead of cranking out a paper. It was much needed, and now maybe I’ll be able to get those papers done quickly without feeling as burnt out and exhausted as I was feeling 👌🏻🙌🏻

Over the past three years I’ve slowly acquired bits and bobs to create a workstation that works for me...and after my birthday yesterday I have finally achieved workspace nirvana 😭. The only thing you can’t see is my iPad Pro (aka my baby of all babies). All of my acrylics, oil paints, and watercolors are in the pink cart to the right (along with my iPad and DSLR), and to the left of my desk I have a little cart filled with all of my favorite books, teas, electric tea kettle, and diffuser 👌🏻. My @artisul_official D16 is on an ergotron arm and I can finally work on digital pieces sitting or standing thanks to that wonderful, wonderful new addition 😭

Stick around to see an album from these three drop this summer 🙌🏻😂 /// Another picture from Christmas-this is one of my favorite of the boys. Will thought he was all that and a bag of chips posing with the ‘big boys and Teem’ like they were ‘superheroes’ 💜😂 /// ...I’m sorry Tim and Garrett-but you let me take these photos and as such they will now be posted everywhere 😂🙌🏻

I recently drudges this black and white study up from the dregs of @procreate on my iPad...I had made it just a few months ago, but as I started looking at it I saw so many mistakes and issues that I had been unable to see before-so I decided to fix them. It’s finally starting to read in a way that I wanted it to read, and it was really nice to look at something and realize just how much I’ve grown and learned as an artist just in the last few months 🙌🏻👌🏻

Late night Secret Life of Walter Mitty doodles make my heart happy 💜 /// When I feel down or like my inspiration is fading-all it takes is watching that movie to once again be ok with the world and to look forward to the future. We’re all just a choice away from a completely different life-and sometimes all that’s holding us back is fear. Simply taking a step of courage can completely change your trajectory-for better or worse. /// I’m also trying to work on creating a sketchy, line work heavy nature style similar to @jordan.e.clark and @samlarson but with a bit more tonal variation. We’ll see how it goes 💜

For the first time since my color theory class I decided to pull out my acrylic paints...I’m not unhappy with the result for a five minute acrylic doodle 🤷🏻‍♀️. I’m finding joy in using traditional media, and for Christmas I received quite a few acrylic and oil paints to try out (as well as some watercolor tubes). I want to experiment with using mixed media over the next year and coming out of my strictly digital art comfort zone.

I’ve still got a few things to change here (a few of the values are off and his lips are wonky), but I’m going to say that this is done for now 😎🙌🏻

I’m slooooowly carving away at this piece. All I have left are the eyes, lips, and hair...but can I find the motivation to finish them? Nope. Not even a little bit 😂. Today’s goal is to finish the lips and get the blocking done on the eyes...we’ll see if that happens or not 🙈👀😂

I’m trying out a new way of doing my skin tones to try and bring a similar tone throughout the entire piece. So far I’m not mad at it, and I’m enjoying these facial studies to try and attempt likeness in a piece (which is something I very much struggle with). We’ll see how this new ‘style’ I’m working with turns out, but so far it’s going pretty well 😏 /// I started a new term yesterday and one of my classes is an accounting class. I was not particularly thrilled when I found out, but I watched a lot of YouTube videos on Excel yesterday...so hopefully I survive 😂

I normally draw/paint/whathaveyou pasty white females. It’s what I am and is something I see and study every time I see my own reflection. The other night I decided to do a quick study with a different skin tone, and I have to say I learned a lot, and I’m not mad at the outcome 👌🏻

...my insomnia’s been acting up a lot lately so silly little late night doodles have become a large part of what I do with my life. This one was sketched up about two-three weeks ago and was the result of way too little sleep and a lot of crappy sci-fi movies 👌🏻😂

I’m about halfway done with this [what was supposed to be] quick autumn landscape study. The new @procreate update is insanely helpful in creating textures and streamlining the landscape process...just saying 👌🏻 /// The last few weeks have been a whirlwind of school, kids, friends, and a multitude of other things...but through it all, for the first time in years, I’ve managed to open my Bible and /study/ it. Every day. I’m surprisingly proud of that accomplishment-God’s showing me how to walk in contentment and how to both enjoy and love where I’m at in life, without the fear that I’m going to stall out and stay here...because he does say that he will COMPLETE the good work in me 💜

Lately I’ve been working on my anatomy...specifically arms. They’re not my strongest point (legs make more sense to me for some reason ?) so the last week or two has been spent sketching the skeletal and muscle structure of them...I’m slowly starting to understand how they work, move, and what muscles ‘bulge’ out when 💜

‘i have been bent and broken but - i hope - into a better shape’ /// ...using greyscale is something over never done digitally and something that I haven’t worked with in a long time. But I have to say, I’m learning a lot and enjoying the process 👌🏻

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