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Finally something new and fresh, again it was my first time to draw an animal with fur, which seemed always so difficult thing for me and still is, but now I'm not afraid of it anymore.

A Lunar Chinese New Year Entry - 2018 its the year of dog! Woof Woof~

"And I Can't Get It Out of My Head" Watercolor I feel like I may be cheating since the song I was inspired by is not so simple, but I'm pleased with the result. To be completely honest, this was the piece I needed right now. The past week has been interesting for me, I've found myself in a peculiar slump. There's not one thing I'm thinking or worrying about, it's a constant buzz of thoughts streaming through my head. Sometimes I can get the buzzing to quiet down, other times it gets overwhelmingly loud. I've always found art to be a release, it fills in the blanks when I can't figure out how to make my words work. Lately, it's been more of a challenge than usual, but I think this piece says all I've been wanting to say.

My completed 100 day project all in one place. 4"x4" - watercolor

I've been having a lot of prickly thoughts lately...but at least there's still the tiny bee who visits occasionally.

White and sanguine conte pencils on toned paper. These ruins captured my drawing itch with the quality of the light filtering brilliantly through the tangled growth outside, and the open shade within. At a metaphorical level, the image is about the sense of having a laborious path set in stone for me by custom, convention, and culture, while way is wide open to the chaotic fertility of nature, should I choose to follow my own feet and heart.

I was tired of carrying around a bunch of Microns. I want one or two refillable pens so I started with buying a new Lamy AL-Star Fountain Pen. I love it. I got the medium nib and am able to get a nice range of line width from it. This and maybe a fine nib and I'll be all set for a travel kit. This is the first page I drew with it.

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.

Personal project with one of my little moon children characters . As usual, coffee and ink.

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!

A couple of winter tree drawings.

I have been really enjoying this motif lately of mixing geometric shapes and linework with the fluidity of watercolor.

This image was created to be a limited print to go along with my new book, 10 Years of Daily Drawings.

Finished full version of an image I did in three parts, adding to it to create three separate images.

Morning sketch. So I was waiting for a go ahead on a 20 illo project. One of the illustrations in the project is a pair of “Chucks” so in the meantime I did a much crazier than they will be wanting version. Sometimes you just have to please yourself without all the boundaries.

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.

I had a lot of fun with this one

What is stored in your heart will inevitably come out...

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

I didn't have my sketchbook on me.

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.

My newest doodle, created out of quarantine boredom and re-opening anxiety :0 oh well!

Sketchbook, ink, coffee and onion

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

I have never loved drawing anything city related because I am lazy when it comes to perspective. However, I have learned that I actually like the wobbly nature of my more recent attempts. Or, I simply embraced my laziness. Either way it has been fun!