Taija's Drawing Board

I draw random things at varying times and post them here on Tumblr. You can find me as taijavigilia on most social media.

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Started in a new job and it’s been hectic so relaxed with gentle gouache painting.

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Bought the cheapest suitcase and decorated it myself with three sharpies and some paint markers.  Homage to Tove Jansson’s illustrations from Moomin books.  Husband added the very happy bat in the sky.

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Haru from Beastars chilling in her garden

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You spend your life building walls and then someone tears them down in a matter of moments is one of my favourite tropes in stories (and one of the worst things to happen in real life).

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Beauty and the Beast fluff based on the new anime ‘Belle’.  I don’t know anything about this film aside from the trailers but I’m already excited, I loved the same studio/director’s ‘Wolf Children’ and ‘Summer Wars’ so this should be good.

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Why can’t my brain let this thing go?

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I am so looking forward to Mamoru Hosoda’s Belle.  Beauty and the Beast but in an MMO virtual reality setup, I need it for personal reasons. 

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Thanks for all the comments on my fox family comic!  I followed the family with the help of the cheapest trail camera no money can buy so everything I know of them was pieced together from short and fuzzy 10-second video clips that it would unreliably record.  They had dug a den under a wooden walkway and only came out at night.  Both mum and dad left at dusk and then only popped over to drop off food and left the kits to play in the garden overnight by themselves.  There were four kits, one had at some point lost an eye or was born with just one but it didn’t seem to slow it down in the slightest.

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Fox family part 2 of 2.    I feel for the mummy fox, she always looked so tired coming back from the nearby park mouth full of dead rats and mice. 

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This past spring I had the privilege of being able to follow the antics of a fox family that kept visiting a garden I looked after.  Part 1 of 2

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Mermaid and a Fisherman part 3 of 3

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Mermaid and a Fisherman part 2 of 3

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Mermaid and a Fisherman part 1 of 3

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Found this in the adult content guidelines of what is permissible. "Examples of exceptions that are still permitted are exposed female-presenting nipples in connection with breastfeeding, birth or after-birth moments, and health-related situations, such as post-mastectomy or gender confirmation surgery." (part 1)

Fair enough!

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Do you have an Instagram by any chance?

I do but it’s mostly cats and gardening.  You can find me there and Twitter as taijavigilia but be forewarned my twitter is also mostly gardening and Brexit.  With maybe a dash of community volunteering.  Pick your litter folks and stop killing the planet!