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Good morning ! https://www.instagram.com/p/CZCKCmyriAd/?utm_medium=copy_link

It's not every day, thought the Cat, when you get to be a cosmonaut and fisherman at once. https://www.instagram.com/p/CZAVtVdpJ5Z/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Meadhbh massaging her neck kink after posing. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen on Archival 9” x 12” paper. Model: Meadhbh (Maeve).

My sketch on the "Sunday" Shygal. (Female version of Shyguy)

Robots are weird. I am combining botober2021 and transmundane Tuesdays because that's the way I roll. https://www.instagram.com/p/CU-Xr9Og0Db/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This is a Royal-Enfield Classic 350 bike. Most favorite brand and model of most of the current Youngsters. It is an Illustration done in acrylic medium.

Not a ‘robot’ per se, but an android/replicant. From the classic movie Blade Runner about an alternative future 2019-2049 and beyond. Replicants were used as slaves for humans. Red Bic4 Ballpoint Pen on Archival 9” x 12” paper.

Abandoned drawing of Ellie wearing a black turtleneck. The lighting in the room was terrible and the black fabric hid a lot of the shadow detail of the folds and it frustrated me. That’s my excuse anyway… Model: Ellie.

Watercolor painting just for fun

I'm working on finishing this with watercolor and pen. It symbolizes growing up and the important relationships between old and young. Critiques are appreciated.

This rabbit likes to rock out! 10 x 10 watercolor + marker & pastel. I had fun adding texture in this one.

Beginning This may be hard to believe, but giraffes are very particular about their boots. https://www.instagram.com/p/CPtkGO3B328/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Hand and drapery sketchbook drawing. This combo never gets old for me. Faber-Castell PITT pastel pencils, charcoal pencils on 9” x 12” Strathmore Toned Grey sketchbook paper.

I’d say my main focus for this was to practice hair, but as always, critique is welcome on it as a whole ^^

A little grid of gouache paintings. I'm going to make these into stickers!

Commission #1 is complete. 5x7, watercolor and pen. To whoever will receive this as a gift, happy birthday!

everybody is watching but no one sees

She has much power, for she holds a solar star in her crown.....

Backgrounds is alcohol ink on canvas and took a pic to finish in Procreate.

An illustration for a Grimm's Fairy Tale in a Moleskine notebook. This one is for a kind of obscure story called The Companionship of the Cat and the Mouse. Just graphite.

Many beginnings. Beginning 5. Frederick was contemplating geese flying south for winter and dreaming about moving to Florida. * Starting is easy, it's the middle that is often a muddle. And I won't even mention the endings. Here are some beginnings for children stories that flitter through my head. https://www.instagram.com/p/COu0fRFhvBo/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

This doodle of a cat means to Neal more than all the artworks of the world because it is a gift from someone important to him.

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

Things I learned from fairy tales. Being first is not always good. Being second is worse. And so, slow down and enjoy not being the fastest! https://www.instagram.com/p/COa3tsAhAWf/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link

Life is hard enough already without anyone else having a say in it. But when you are judged by the world so constantly, you learn to shut yourself out... you fake a smile, but deep down inside you just wanted to be appreciated...