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We continue the #inktober environmental issues series with the #day19 word: #scorched and for this word I tried to illustrate the Urban Heat Island effect. This takes place in metropolitan areas that are warmer than the rural areas surrounding them. The main cause of the UHI effect is the alteration of land surfaces (concrete and asphalt). Heat waste produced by people and their tools (like vehicles and industry) is another cause and also the decreased amount of vegetation. UHIs often have lower air and water quality that have a negative effect on the environment of these areas. It is also considered to be a possible contribution to global warming. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

I added a background, with scribbles. It's fun at times to not care if things are "good enough". Art isn't meant to be perfect.

Sometimes being a designer for a living can make designing unfun. That's when I run to my sketchbook where there are no right or wrong answers. A place where my work is no longer being judged by the world, but a place of expression.

"The tree-dwelling species are more solitary"

I saw on the Samantha Bee show that there's an association between vintage cartoons and minstrelsy, and I can't stop thinking about it now. So I drew some mean looking white person mice in retaliation. These are your suburb mice that are complaining that the Whole Foods line is taking too long.

Tiny starflowers under trees are one part of macig at Finnish woods. This works point is more at illusion than realism

Road trip! Peter and his friends are starting off on their winter vacation

If you can summon inner chubby, you can accomplish anything, and if you can summon three, you are Darth Traya / Kreia

Vintage toys have amazingly quirky and often so-joyous-they're-creepy faces.

Bringing the inner peace with sketch. Nearly did after an year from my last art work. In a complete learning phase. Critics are highly welcomed and appreciations too.

Fun lettering piece on a logo for Pinner's conference made out of sprinkles.

yes, but don't ask... the answers are going to be ... weird ... heck, ask away

Remember when Billy Shears showed up to replace him? Nah, me neither. I wasn't going to wreck my record to hear them say it either. I know the prompt was warm colors, sadly if I did the jacket in pink or red it would've been George or Ringo. Anyway, a quick but fun sketch. "See the worst thing about doing this, doing something like this, is I think that at first people sort of are a bit suspicious. 'You know, come on, what are you up to?'"

Our local antiques store had a huge treasure trove of vintage Native American themed toys and gifts this weekend. I realized that 1) I'd owned a lot of them and 2) none of my friends had. It never occurred to me that my collection was particularly large or unique. Doesn't every kid have a fixation on this country's indigenous population? Apparently not. I love the visual language of the Navajo and Hopi especially. My Kachina doll collection was the bomb.

Follow me on the gram, if you want to see my progress #embracingnightmares

Colored pencils are my usual way to add color.

There are many old lovely fishing villages in Hailuoto. Korkea Sunikari is one of them

Is that a Kiwi in your drawing or are you just happy to see me?

what are you fighting

Drawn using 0.03 and 0.05 fineliners, this one is for a book cover so cannot reveal the finished image yet! I do love trees, they are so fascinating to draw.

Purple hair don't care.

New studio for me. 1300 square feet. I’m already painting.

I've always loved wild Hares so creating this image was such a joy.

Floral colourful doodle created using Posca pens in my Moleskine sketchbook

Unaware - i don't think there's a good way to find out you're a robot...but having your skin melt off your arms to reveal a metal skeleton is probably not ideal.

Hello, hello, hello. I feel stupid and contagious, here we are now, entertain us. ⁠ Daily drawing 670

Squares -Micron PN pen

I've been playing with gesture drawing of humans and animals. Here are some quick pencil sketches of horses in motiion. 2B and 6B pencils on Canson sketch pad paper.