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Monday Mood

Sarah Kerrigan from Starcraft fanart

No one knows where it is or why it exsists, but some believe it is a realm of wonder, where magic lives and evil consumes every inch of its vast desert.

white bear (polar?) in circle

Inspired by the Nintendo Switch game, Gris, this drawing features the main character and her little 'block buddy'.

I've been re-reading the Harry Potter Series, and now am on a quest to do a small illustration for each of the books. This one is from "The Sorcerer's Stone" and features Mrs. Norris, my favorite evil cat.

Drawn with a black pilot pen using many strokes.

30 x 40 cm / acrylics, oil + some splashes of nail polish on canvas

The monsters we create A collection of creatures born from our impact and existance on Earth. This is a work in progress project, it doesn't yet have a name, but the story becomes more clear every day. Soon I will have more details about it, until then take care, this runner is taking a real shape and it's after you. He is the money maker, the greedy, the selfish buyer of unnecessary things with money he doesn't have. Sounds familyar? 7x7 cm linoprint © Maria ! Balan, 2018

fishes drawn with a pentel brush pen

Illustration painted with watercolors and outlined with pink pen. The borders were achieved with washi tape (low tack and unlikely to tear up your paper.)

Inspired by my 90s nostalgia and the movie "Reality Bites"

Monochromatic portraits using blue gel pen

"His heart turned off when his mind needed to listen." ~ A blackout poem from a recycled page of Riding with the Hides of Hell, now titled Burnout.

Watercolor and crayon on bits and pieces of paper

I thought of Edward Hopper when I came upon this view but a daytime version of his corner etching. I used watercolor, pen, and colic markers

Slow journey. Personal work. Pencil drawing and digital

Sunset castle done with fineliners

It's a mad world we're living in

Playing with some experimental media while drawing from life with my students last spring. Gearing up for new sessions in a couple weeks.

Part 3 of my China sketchbook from last summer.

Work space desk and inspiration

Unlike beer, love doesn't taste good when its cold