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It is a sketch on a sleeping cat.

A quick painting and birthday gift for someone I'm very close with. The week is almost done, just in time for it to start again. Here's to the fact that I'll finally get to do double backs on Saturday, and that's getting me through the week. I don't know, today has been great and horrible all at once. I feel like I need to catch my breath, but I can't.

finished work, mixed media.

Salama wearing a floral crown arrangement.

Colored pencil and ink on pastel paper.

Group portrait of the monster management team. Ink on watercolor paper. I pushed the contrast and colors a little in digital post-processing.

Here is a painting I made from observation on the top of Mont Bélair in Canada, just before sunset. I am painting those in a 5x8 very convenient moleskin watercolor book. I previously eyeballed the dimensions of this book at 4x6 when I had no ruler to verify but I was slightly wrong. Now the info is exact. :)

This watercolour painting was inspired by another artists brilliant work (I'm afraid I don't know the name). Absolutely loved doing this piece. My mother asks why I always do sad paintings and thinks I should do more happy ones. What do you think? Comment Below

A working page for a book i am developing about vampires. i starts with a raw ink sketch, gets scanned and i work them up on a xp pen tablet - but this is just experimental - and not final.

The one that guards home.

The 'mallows are trying to escape the volcano's explosion of fire and lava. 11 x 14 acrylic on canvas board.

Doodle in metallic ink on Coal black paper

Here's the latest I've been working on, Illustration A0110. I've been messing with a cool Linocut brush I found for Procreate. Also digging the new text feature they added to the app! Made with Apple Pencil + iPad, tracked time: 7 hours and 30 minutes.

Some dudes that have no clue where they are.

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.

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

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

For the past two months ive been participating on the #drawthisinyourstyle challege at instagram. Here are some of the ones i made. Many more on my instagram account @mjdaluz_illustration

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

Awesome doodle

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

I love drawing old houses, another monochromatic study in ink and gouache.

First time i’m using iPad pro to doodle. This artwork still on progress.

Watercolor and gauche of a place I walk around sometimes to digest my lunch

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

Some Disney Fan Art I did years ago, Acrylic on canvas.

It called to me on a rustic fall day. Doodling with watercolors.

"Faux-tanical" floral doodles in a vintage Beginning Norwegian text book.