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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.

"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.

Ball point pen portrait photo reference by Lee Jefries

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

Acrylic on Moleskine sketchbook paper - hardback book

Quizás, quizás, quizás

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.

Watercolor rainbow carrots in my sketchbook.

Patternz - series 1

Part of the drawing a day challenge - somedays I deffo feel like this!

Amber Rose Revah as the character Dinah Madani in the Disney+ (Netflix?) series ‘The Punisher.’ Moleskine Sketchbook Sketch

Troye Sivan 'BLOOM' album portrait.

My second ever attempt at charcoal.

WIP. Pandemic self-portrait series. Portrait No2. There are always a couple of ways to look at a situation.

57 x 69cm Ink & pastel on paper 2020

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

Gold and Blues

Seemingly trapped indoors and inside your head indefinitely, the possibility of living a normal life after COVID seems like a fevered dream. Still one of my favourite drawings from 2020 and a technique breakthrough. Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper

Created a pet portrait of my friend's puppy in Harry Potter gear!

The one subject that I don’t like to draw, so I have to force myself to draw them. Whenever I do draw them, they end up looking weird.

Reference photo by @omar_et_julie

Hmmm

Sketch with colored pencils.

This is a painting I did in Procreate based on another artists' character.

Scribbling with my eyes closed.. and then creating an image out of the scribbles.

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

Imagining a better future in the time of COVID isolation seems like a fevered dream. Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Sanrio Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper

Ink on water color paper.

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

Bic4 Ballpoint Pen, Sanrio Novelty 10 Colour Ballpoint Pen on Archival 8.5" x 11" paper. A breakdown of the Bic4 pen and No-name 10 colour pen layering that I’ve used. Drawing in a single direction instead of using back-and-forth movement alleviates some of the blotching that happens when using ballpoint pens. The back-and-forth method usually deposits the gunk that builds up on the tip of the ballpoint, smearing them in unexpected and unfortunate places on the drawing. When using the back-and-forth method, I usually have a napkin handy in order to clean the tip of the pen. Model: Meadhbh (Maeve)