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"Hold your head up, you silly girl. Look what you've done. When you find yourself in the thick of it, help yourself to a bit of what is all around you, silly girl." Frustration, frustration, and the anxiety that goes hand-in-hand with it. It's hard to let these things go.

Sketch with colored pencils.

Grungy doodle of the day. I felt inspired to do something smudgy and decorative and colorful.

Man, I’ve been random lately. I think my mind’s eye sees stuff that normal people don’t. That might make me abnormal. I’m kinda comfortable with that. Guess who’s going to be watching some Clint Eastwood tonight?

I drew based on a photo. It became a little darker than the original. I drew as an exercise. Tools: Derwent graphite pencils ; Paper size: A3

Pencil and fineliner sketch of a eucalyptus tree

Done first using pencil and then added color in Photoshop. Angel Ganev's challenge on Instagram.

Neil was the first author whose words I first fell in love with.

Some crazy Moleskine doodles for the day. I haven’t been doing enough of these and really need to kick my butt harder. Not sure why because it’s so dang enjoyable.

Pink tulips on toned tan sketch paper. This was my first time burnishing. I used the toned tan paper so that I could better see the effects of burnishing with a white pencil. I used Prismacolor soft core pencils.

My imagination in purple

I've been seeing lots of new bird species around my neighbourhood, like robins and magpies! I like to think this bird is watching me from the sea of uncertainty, and looking at all the things I will create in the future and secretly telling me to go on, without me knowing how they will turn out. And strangely, that is some kind of motivation for me. : .

A little blackberry in colored pencil.

Pastel, charcoal pencil and graphite on watercolour paper, 29 x 36 cm

A pink fox admiring what grows from the ground.

A rabbit wondering about what he sees around him.

1st drawing for March 18 - part of the drawing a day challenge

To do list. I usually hate them but this one was kind of fun.

Doodles and notes I started at a regional NJ chapter of SCBWI conference this past weekend. Then just kept adding stuff to the page this week. I learned a lot and met some great people. Looking forward to June!

Which attractions would you visit in Autumn Park? If you follow the key on the lower left, it may inspire your choices!

Pencil, sketchbook on a park

Daily sketch , while sitting in from of a fresh mint growing in a lovely vintage bucket.

Charcoal, charcoal powder and carbon pencil.

Pet portrait commission in charcoal and graphite.

I actually finally got round to framing this piece I did and hanging it up on my wall the other day, which made me really happy :). Tool used: acrylics, colouring pencils, posca markers on brown A4 card.

Man oh man, it's been a week. The chaos is strong with this one. It was really fun to draw this, there's something so calming about shading with graphite; it felt like the only time I was present this week. But hey, I suppose that's why art is here. As a side note, thank you so much for 70 followers! It's truly incredible to part of an amazing community of artists, and I genuinely appreciate everyone's support and feedback. Here's to creating more art!

After struggling with horse anatomy from photos, I finally decided to search for white horses, figuring that I would be able to see details more easily than on darker photos. It worked out well, the details were much more discernible.