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First sketch for my finished artwork. I revise the head on the left to rabbit + duck and human head on the right.

Octopus tentacles representing thoughts which are tangled together. the whole art represents consciousness.

The idea for this portrait came to me when I was looking at a packaging of soap - it was very glossy and it looked like it could look like pearls. As well as the soap packaging, I used white ink mixed with acrylic paint (for opacity) on black paper.

One of the most difficult practices is being ready to accept anything and everything that comes, without judgement, staying in the moment with our experience. This is a powerful practice. I tried to express some essence or feeling of it.

Another "Cuphead" themed fan art imvolving a "Drawtober23'" theme. This time it's posession. Every now and then, Timothy T Cup does get his commupence. But after while, he'll still get revenge.

Bulldog portrait. Graphite on paper.

Looking through a book about cats and studying their body language. Does this look like the right mix of realism and whimsy?

Scrap paper corals and fineliner fishies.

Illustrated with Ink and Ink-Pens on Paper. Urh.-Nr:1811955 Copyright  by Carolina Matthes

Situational awareness is important these days. Pre-pandemic, I sometimes take my doodles to coffee shops during my lunch breaks and relax for half an hour or so by mindlessly scribbling/shading with my Bic pen. People usually leave me alone but this drawing made me realise that not everyone wants to see a man drawing a naked man. A few people took exception to my subjects’ lack of clothing and made their displeasure known by telling me. Suffice to say, I try not to go into coffee shops anymore while working on subject matter that might offend anyone. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen on 9” x 12” Archival paper. Model: Malik_E

Watercolor whale whimsy

#Mindless prompt for Inktober. I'm late with uploading here, so if you'd like to see my illustrations for the previous days and and early look at today's prompt #build check out my instagram.

I love metallic sharpies

Drawn on one of my bike trips in Belgium, done on A6, with ballpoint pens

I drew this girl on a napkin at lunch and liked her enough I had to give her a home.

This is victor from Arcane, I recently watched Act 1 of season 2 and love his character development.

'HI' KIDS

Only Schrodinger's cat truly knows existential crisis

Another illustration for today!

Clemence was supposed to be the only child but to create more conflict I decided to give her a younger teen sister name Calamity,who's blue,figuratively and literally.she's not goth,she just likes wearing black.Calamity,like most teens,has self-esteem issues and has no hope in herself and thinks the future is going to be grim.

Chandra was a wonderful model who posed for me in North Vancouver years ago.

Late night . Lots of neon, smoke and mist . Then this dame walks through the door . Tells a story about a man, see ? A bad man . Its a new case .

Been a busy couple of weeks, school holidays are always a bit tricky to find time. I have been working on some illustrations for a software product that my husband and I are building so I can't share those at this stage but I was back at the gallery today sketching with my new drawing group, I spent most of my time with a bunch of Mesoamerican statues. I am starting to not get so freaked out by people watching me draw :)