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passage of the tiger’s-eye comet

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HART & KEY  •  my postcard for the PIN6 group exhibition at Nucleus Portland. The motifs of burial/unearthing have been on mind recently and I think they gradually crept into this piece as it progressed.

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caterpillar & feast 🍎🐈

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thinking about the frog from the beatrix potter ballet always. hope he’s having a good day

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sparrow-heart couriers

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blue animalia

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travelling maison of snail 🐌

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pleasantries of the flower-eater!

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festivities of bonsai (late) holiday card design for this year! of course it’s been a difficult year, but there’s a lot to look forward to. wishing everyone a safe and warm holiday, & let’s keep growing into next year.

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fossil record patisserie

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over the garden wall, down the harvest stair

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are you getting the little prince print back in stock? :)

hahaha yes i forgot to keep a copy during last print run, so the little prince print will return once more in october :^) thanks for your interest!

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BUG CHOIR  •  late summer,  budding harvest

ー recently XP-Pen kindly sent special edition Innovator 16 for review for their 15th anniversary. It’s the perfect time to stew in nostalgia for summer’s end, so I drew some noisy little bugs to try this tablet. The full review can be found below.

  I’ve been very taken with Dvorak’s piano pieces as of late, so I tried to incorporate some of his works into the backgrounds and motifs for these pieces. You can glimpse some of the sheet music (waltz op.54 no1) particularly in the stag beetle/kabocha, and night’s journey (allegro moderato, in cicada&yam) is a really pretty piece too.    The anniversary edition tablet came with cute stationery - pen, stickers, postcards, keychain - centered around the theme of “identify your colour”; everything was packaged very nicely and a joy to look through. The Innovator 16 itself is surprisingly light. It doesn’t quite fit into standard laptop case, but the daring may tuck it into a bag ー I’m clumsy, so won’t push luck taking outside! it also has 8 shortcut keys + mechanical&virtual wheel (though i didn’t really get into habit of using both haha)     For this tablet too, I was struck by the vividness of colour display, it may have been a little crisper than even 13.3 pro. While adjustments were made to mirror the laptop screen, colours nonetheless seemed to hold more depth on tablet. To this point I’m still not sure which screen depicts more ‘accurate’ colours; regardless it helps to have multiple points of colour reference while drawing. I really think that the colour display is one of XP-Pen’s strongest suits. The drivers ran smoothly the entire time, though it should be noted that mirror mode isn't supported fr left hand use; I continued using extend mode.

(i wanted to record drawing cicada, but got carried away and only remembered to record yam leaves :-o !!) the drawing experience wasn’t so dissimilar from analog.    

(for the morbidly curious, this was the state the sketches were in before starting illust. am trying something fresh and fun called not obsessively helicoptering control over sketch lines, and working on display tablet gives a lot of freedom to consider composition more directly.)   Taking into consideration tablet size & attributes, i do recommend Innovator 16 for those aiming to move further in digital projects; the quality of experience is on par w/industry-type tablets at an accessible cost - moreover, they seem to be holding an anniversary sale on their tablets, if anyone is interested in checking out. I feel very fortunate for having had the chance to try this tablet, and my sincere gratitude to XP-Pen for this opportunity. links to XP-Pen shop: US: https://bit.ly/33Z87Wf AU: https://bit.ly/2DRVIZx UK: https://bit.ly/310wUrf EU: https://bit.ly/2DRVIZx

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seasonal quartet ice bars  

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would you ever draw more studio ghibli?

ohhh when the insp strikes again i might ! maybe when the next movie comes out..? :^))

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Loving your art!! Your color palettes are so beautiful😍😍

ahh, thank you so much!!! 💕💖

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biology of summer fruits