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All the happiness you ever find lies within you

What I hate about myself is - some odd day like today, I’ll have a memory of an elephant. Instead of trying to forget, I try to remember and accept what the emotion is trying to convey #anniversaryreminder #randomquotes

This is a mashup of art styles. I'm not even sure how to describe it. Started with the main mushroom that is outlined and then went crazy around it. Also experimented with water reflections a bit.

A5 pen and ink for Night of 1000 drawings

7" x 10" ink and graphite on paper

Didn't know the outcome of this piece, just started and never stopped haha done with marker.

Inktober 2018 – Day 28: The Nubian VVitch Made with inks Faber Castell and a pinch of color pencil on A6 paper

Missing the evening sunsets over the Pacific no thanks to the time change in California. Drawn on my iPad in Procreate.

Added some color to an ink sketch from the recording session I recently attended.

I made this grid for a small daily doodle, and I really loved it. I'm still note sure If I should color these or not.

And~ another print

These are my two oldest grandkids, as they looked the last time I have seen them, almost 10 years ago. Right then Yoshua was 8 and Emma 6.

A meet the artist meme of me!

8" x 10" pen and ink

Two little love birds enjoying each other's company, painted with watercolour...

Inktober 2018 - Using the inktober prompts by furry little peach

My entry for the Urban Explorer drawing challenge.

I've combined Inktober and Drawlloween to create a bunch of big ink-wash paintings of horror themes. I'm really excited about these!!! I can't wait to have 31!

Self portrait based from the roots of my genealogical test results.

Posca & Liquitex paint pens with Windsor Newton brush markers on Typhoo tea bags... Tea addict - got to make use of the abundance of tea bags somehow.

Beware of the Jellies - magic roundabouts ../

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

This is the book I made which contains the educational paper I wrote and illustrated about my trip to China in the summer of 2017. I gave a lecture entitled, The Sketchbook: Let's Connect at ICON10, The Illustration Conference in Detroit, MI this past July. I gave a few of these books out along with pocket sketchbooks to the audience. Below are a few spreads from the 40-page book.

Goddesses don’t just do yoga. They skate & box too!

The Grand Budapest Hotel is one of my favorite Wes Anderson’s movies. I’m going to draw the women and the building too!

Butter # Who knows ny more? : The Scotch Angus. I gotta say, bottles a NOT easy subjects!.... And neither are butterflies. So a tricky one whichever way you look at it. This was certainly one to have fun with :) New slightly improved version here : https://www.doodleaddicts.com/uploads/13873/

Part of a personal side project for an illustrated calendar of Literal Butterflies. Starting with the Marbled White :3

This is part of a series of postcards that I have been creating to mail to my mom everyday. She is in assisted living about 3 hours away so I can’t see her every day. I mail her the postcards to give her something to look forward to.

Fruits have insecurities too. From the series "Forlorn Fruits"

https://www.behance.net/gallery/66951945/BITE-MEAL-snack-bar-package-design more about the project it was used