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Onward , Untitled Hero !

We're not having Carnival this year on the streets here, but it's still alive on the internet! There's no reason why you can't disguise yourself all the same, it's the best part! Here’re 8 ideas for costumes this Carnival.

Yesterday I saw my good friend and I went to the park(I see her all the time but this time our mom and little siblings came) and it was just like old times we played laser tag with the littles, and talked, and swung on swings and climbed trees and it was so fun so I drew us afterwards. I also drew our masks halfway on so we could see our faces. I HATE COVID! I also really dislike wearing masks and distancing and stuff so this is a way of getting around that. Idk if that makes sense.

Now wait a minute, Susie... A Nightmare on 34th Street. Entry for the @hallowedwinter Instagram challenge.

a pencil drawing of a tree

a tree drawn with markers

A few moments to try out my new brush at Ortega playground after lunch with my son

My half of the art trade with OptimisticJerk (https://www.deviantart.com/optimisticjerk). The trade was to draw a monster as made up by your counterpart without seeing a reference image, based only on the description. Here is her half (which is awesome): www.deviantart.com/optimisticj… For mine, I had to draw a monster called a "niter" based off of his description: "Niters communicate in whispers. Nocturnal. Shy away from light. They’re black and oily and emanate a bluish glow. Large, looming 6 foot shadow things with massive hind legs, clawed for climbing trees and they have ‘maws’ instead of arms, claw-like appendages they stab people with and only one gaping blue eye. Their mouths open up and they swallow their victims whole." What's funny is that I didn't see the fact that they emanate a bluish glow until now. So, the glow from the eye is purely by coincidence. Figuring out the hind legs of this creature was difficult, and so I sought reference images, and of all things, the koala turned out to be a pretty good reference. For a while, there, it was looking like Carnage from Spiderman, but I toned down the reddish-hue a bit. The intention was to give the appearance of motor oil. So, now to find out how badly I failed at drawing this... This art trade was fun, though, and I would do a similar one, again. But I am le tired.

just practice

a tree drawing

The bird vs bird are on both trees. They're about to fight, but they actually didn't. Instead they had a normal day.

A beautiful house in the residential area of Jerusalem, drawn from across the street, and rendered,of course, in coffee.

Working with soft pastel pencils

A tree in Florida.

He dies with the honor of his ancestors, among the trees, not strung up on a dead one like his brothers or forced to work like a slave as his sisters. He dies a proud alf. His are the kin of the trees. The others that live on in the cities are traitors! Their blood is poison now. He takes as many knights as he can. Tonight the Elvin folks perish.And so ... Goodknight

Using newspaper print paper and crayons to create this lovely pattern of bricks and London street rubbings. Try it!

A drawing of a scenic street in the beautiful city of Visby, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.

Quick watercolor palm tree sketch.

Hey Pine Tree! Shooting Star!

Trying a wimmelbilder with my own twist

A watercolor tree sketch with varying layered shades of blue and green.

The sketch is based on reference photos of different blooming trees. Guess, no botanical realism here.

KNOTTED TREE + GROW YOUR IMAGINATION

I find backgrounds in paintings challenging so I deliberately tried to make a more complex background with this one. I sometimes have difficulty deciding when to finish and in this case maybe I overworked the background a bit too much. Still, I feel I learned a lot from the process.