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Watercolors and fineliners on Aquarelle, 300 GSM. Fantasy has always appealed to me ever since I was a kid, and I often find myself lost and wandering around in the fantastical world of "could've been's"

My entry for the Urban Explorer drawing challenge.

Lulu + cat

Drew this for a professor that mentored me on my first research paper! You can also find me on facebook www.facebook.com/sonialaiart for WIP and updates!

Acrylic on canvas board. I used a photo for reference.

Outside my drawing table window are straight and weeping birches. We lost one of the birch trucks and, tragically, a beautiful OLD Japanese maple during an ice storm a few years ago. The third trunk is still in my mind's eye.

I've been so impressed with the ball point pen art that I have seen on this site, that I decided to give it a try. This is a Betta fish (Siamese fighting fish) done in red, blue, and purple ball point pens. Obviously, I have much to learn....but it was great fun and I have ordered some more colors since I plan on experimenting more. I've enclosed a photo of the work in progress and the various reference photos I used. The colors are more true to the final scan than in the flash photo of my drawing table.

Lost

A slightly older pencil drawing from last year, untitled.

Part of the drawing a day challenge - somedays I deffo feel like this!

Draw series of pines at Hailuoto island. There is many beautifull pines. Not a tall but quite thick and hardy stubborn trees

Gorgeous little Rupert the West Highland Terrier. He was drawn using black fine liners on A4. Love doing the animal portraits... I love it when their little eyes suddenly peep out the paper! Available as an A4 print.

WIP. Pandemic self-portrait series. Portrait No2. There are always a couple of ways to look at a situation.

I was on the fence of whether or not I was going to make a piece for the prompt, but I'm glad I did. I tested out some watercolor pens I had recently gotten (I definitely have to practice with them a bit more). I didn't really have a plan for this, and it was a bit fun to do something so spontaneously.

Yellowbelly Voiceless Treefrog. Charadrahyla altipotens. Main source: https://www.instagram.com/camilojulianc/

Étude chromatique colorée à l'aquarelle dans le cadre du cours de dessin à la deuxième session. The final result of a color study exercise made in class. This piece got sold not long ago.

Let the sun pamper the leaves, let the rain wash off the love,then the winter will wrap you in.Such is life and love and pain".-Sanah Rizvi #aristina.z #originals #digital art #autodesk sketchbook

Lazy day

This piece was done with watercolour crayons, crayons, fineliner, acrylic paint and a touch of posca. I was showing that love can be blind and sometimes almost arrogant and selfish, the arrow has hit the spot on the second attempt but the scars are still to be seen. Although the person playing cupid aint always an outside force. I enjoy playing with the titles and am constantly changing and thinking of what it will be called when doing the piece, but i do like my wordplay. this one was a play on horticulture and felt it all tied in to the final design :)) This is available as an a3 sized print.

Spontaneous doodle with Pentel Brush pen on 3x3 wooden cube at MAP Fest 2018 in Publika (Malaysia). The dripping paint was unintentional.

I dug up this rock while hiking the Negev desert in Israel last year. It’s sharp and kinda chalky and it feels like it has stories to tell when you look deep into its lines and layers.

There’s a carnival going on inside my head.

Here's a floppy disk I recently painted. I love bringing old, discarded and forgotten stuff back to life.

Seemingly trapped indoors and inside your head indefinitely, the possibility of living a normal life after COVID seems like a fevered dream. Still one of my favourite drawings from 2020 and a technique breakthrough. Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper

African bull elephant with broken tusk. Derwent white charcoal on 8x10 toned black mixed media heavy-weight paper.

"Hold your head up, you silly girl. Look what you've done. When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you, silly girl." Frustration, frustration, and the anxiety that goes hand-in-hand with it. It's hard to let these things go.