hiya it's gaby!

21 y.o. animation and illustration student from the US ❤︎ || in love with colorful fashion, magical girls, cozy video games, and being a pisces

[gabymepng]

this is gonna clash so bad with my feed rip 😫😪☕️ I hate Sundays Im so tired and I have so much to do it’s a mess ;; Got a lot due this week too r i p

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more alice in wonderland snippets 💝 today’s been busy but fun, hope your Saturday is the same! 💫

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#lavendercontest1e 💝🌈 I hope you like my entry!! Kurimu’s so cute it was so much fun drawing her oml ✨ you guys should go check out @_.lavender_cloud._ ‘s account and enter her contest bc her art is super cute!! 💖💖 side not this makes me want to do more prints haha

(posted on IG, oc belongs to the insta acc @ _.lavender_cloud._)

[gabymepng]

💫💜 I drew @ sapphirereaper’s (on instagram) oc Nami for her contest!~ Her design is so cute and this was super fun to draw (๑˃̵ᴗ˂̵)♡ You should check out her account because her art’s beautiful! And she’s into love live too ohoho 👀✨

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I’m finally finished with this painting!~ This piece if very different from my usual work, started on a snow day when I had lost my tablet pen… It’s a little rough but I’m proud of it overall. 💫

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This is the first I’ve done in a series of sticker designs for the shop I’m planning to open! I’ve worked really hard on these designs (so far 6 are completed) so I’m excited to put them out there 🧡 Who’s your best girl? Mine is Honoka ohohoho #lovelive

[gabymepng]

hi there! I changed my profile around a bit the other day and I’m a lot happier with it! to kick off my new look, here’s some pictures from part of my latest animation. Alice vs the Queen of Hearts! ♥️👑

[gabymepng]

“come on, baby, don’t let it break your heart”

some mylo xyloto themed art from last month ╰(*´︶`*)╯♡ hope everyone’s doing well!

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Hitting you with some old art from way back in June! It doesn’t feel that long ago though. Posting this one because I just got through writing an essay on witches! Ojamajo DoReMi was the first magical girl show I ever watched... back in the days when I didn’t have homework and could come home from elementary school and watch TV all day ♥ I miss this show some much ;;;

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I don’t think I’ve ever posted about my ocs on here!? Here’s Jun! She’s part of an idol group, 5suit, which I’ll post the refs to and explain a little more later 💜

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My first illustration from my precollege program ~

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Castle In the Sky and High Fashion

These are part of a series of color pallete requests I got on Instagram! :)

Here I am saying I would upload everyday and I’ve only made 3(?) pieces of art so far ;; I gotta step up my game

[gabymepng]

Today’s OOTD sketch! Hope everyone has a good day :) I still gotta study for finals starting tomorrow I’m so fucked help

[gabymepng]

This is pretty old by now, but I wanted to upload something!

Summer’s rolling around (I’m in the last week of school!) and although I’ve been busy with exams I’m looking forward to getting some free time again.

I think this summer I’m going to try to make it a goal to upload either here or on my Instagram once a day. I don;t know how well I can keep that up but I want to try! 

[juliedillon]

note to self: just because someone did the thing you were thinking about doing, and did it way better than you could ever hope to do, doesn’t mean it would be stupid or pointless to go ahead and try to still do the thing anyway. 

[lizardywizard]

Also, when it comes to creative things? There really is no “better”.

Sure, someone might be more technically accomplished than you - you might not be able to colour as nicely or craft a sentence that rings as poetically - but art is only really secondarily about that. It’s firstmost about what you, uniquely, have to express, and how the precise way you express it might be what others need to relate to it - even if it’s less flashy, less “beautiful”, and gets fewer notes.

I promise you this: there are obscure fanfics with only a handful of notes that are the read-and-re-read favourites of someone too anxious to comment. There are drawings done by 14-year-olds in poorly-blended markers that are someone’s favourite because they spoke to something that nothing else did. There are covers of songs where your voice cracks and you cringe every time you hear it but someone thinks the way it cracked just at that moment added beauty to the song. There are angsty three-line poems you wrote at 4am that someone once called “pretentious emo trash” that are loved by someone else going through the same thing as you.

And I guarantee you, there is something unique about your art. Even if you’re “saying something someone else has said”. Even if you’re the thousandth person to take on the subject. Even if you feel like you’re not at all unique. You’re bound to express something, however subtle, that didn’t exist until then.

Art is about connection. And the more you create, the more chance you have of finding other people who experience the world the way you do.

[writedreamlie]

“But the one thing that you have that nobody else has is you. Your voice, your mind, your story, your vision. So write and draw and build and play and dance and live as only you can.“ via @neil-gaiman

[hazeldomain]

The “two cakes” theory of content production. 

[poorly-drawn-madoka]

Kill witches, get bitches.

[blink182]

Thanks, @BarackObama! 🙌🇺🇸