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Hooray~ Here's my Sketchbook Bus for the 'Doodle Caravan, Drawing Challenge'. We're stocked with art supplies, good music, lots of coffee and creative friends! Let's enjoy this artistic adventure together! :)

My current sketchbook is the lovingly titled "Blue Sketchbook." Feel free to enjoy its many, many pages, plus two bonus zoom-ins of favorite spreads! Let me know if you have any questions.

They need love.

We continue the #inktober environmental issues series with the #day19 word: #scorched and for this word I tried to illustrate the Urban Heat Island effect. This takes place in metropolitan areas that are warmer than the rural areas surrounding them. The main cause of the UHI effect is the alteration of land surfaces (concrete and asphalt). Heat waste produced by people and their tools (like vehicles and industry) is another cause and also the decreased amount of vegetation. UHIs often have lower air and water quality that have a negative effect on the environment of these areas. It is also considered to be a possible contribution to global warming. © Maria!Bălan, 2018

Sketch was completed in a local coffee shop that also sells cactuses and succulents.

The observational sketch was done in ink. One of my few urban sketches. The grandeur of the entire cathedral was too large for me to capture in my drawing but here's a little of what I did.

sitting in a japanese restaurant and these two caught my eye! pen, ink, watercolor ane gouache on paper

In this photo I drew two Betta fish, a clock and a female in a dark background. Drawing this picture was more of a self expression. The two betta fish expressed conflict; the clock expressed running out of time and the female I guess would represent myself. I was in a dark period while drawing this, but happy to say, I’ve managed to pull through my obstacles =)

This is a “Draw This in Your Style” sketch I did for artofflore_ on Instagram of her OC, Stella.

Done with graphite on a page of my sketchbook.

She bites

A bear who cannot sleep.

Done with Prismacolor Colored Pencil on Toned Tan Paper

Done with Prismacolor Colored Pencil

Ink and watercolor on 30 lb watercolor paper.

Waiting for the phase to pass ..Waiting for December the 14th..keeping the calm and going on.

Here I am, standing in front of the future. What are his plans for me?..

'Music Cot' Sketchbook 2018. Coffee and Ink. @Ania Pawlik

When frustrated to the core and you wait for the one and only day, December the 14th,time goes slower than the usual and you can't do anything about it.

For day 15 the inktober word was weak so I decided to approach the subject of hunting for trophies. It is not the animal that's weak it's the human that's cruel. A lot of species become endangered because of our need to kill. We should love and protect all the animals, not put them on walls (real or virtual) only for our pleasure and ego.