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"Sometimes the bridges that are hardest to cross lead to most magical places. "-anon #painting #originalart #art_aristina.z #aristina.z #digitalpainting #illustration #autodesksketchbook

Doodling will give you ideas for projects that you didn't expect. The characters for my book, Flight of the Silk, came from sketches. This picture is one illustration for the book.

I wish dodo birds were alive again,they would have made amazing pets like chickens except slower and more bigger in shape and possibly aggresive too.I just love drawing birds.

This is probably a 15 minute sketch, maybe less, done in a drawing session in Victoria, B.C.

A twenty minute posed captured in a figure drawing session in North Vancouver.

started whit pencil,then colored whit oil,,,no reference,,,hope you like!

Giving it a go with artist colored pencils for the first time. Finding it challenging to keep a point on the pencils and anyway to recover if what should have been a white area gets too much color? Do most colored pencil artists use solvents to blend?

sink or swim

New commission in progress

Pencil and gel pen

I woke up in the middle of the night, and I said to myself, "Chocolate milk and lemons" so, I decided to make a drawing. Wow. Hahahaa

Doodles, doodles, doodles. THIS IS NOT MY ORIGINAL DESIGN - I do not know who the original artist is but was inspired by some doodles I had seen on my Instagram feed. I definitely really enjoy these kinds of doodles, so relaxing and not so STRESSFUL as some of my charcoal realistic portraits can be.... might do some more :-)

Nightmare about losing a friend

Charcoal drawing from photo ref. More about her https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amrita_Sher-Gil

it seems that whit his deamon wing he is hiding the light, n screaming for vengance,,hope you like!

Last from garden perennial series. Watercolor and pencil.

A little experiment with composite realism of sorts.

Burrowing Owl watercolor made for my aunt.

Watercolour painting with a theme Christmas.

"There's no angry way to say bubbles." Art process video is up at : https://youtu.be/19GhrxR3rYQ

“Whirlwind 2”, an original drawing. Micron pens on archival paper. Size: 4” x 6”. Title, signature and date in the back of the drawing. The original post date on this drawing was September 2, 2020.

watercolour, gestural

Project for my health class. It's supposed to be a fingerprint, and the words written in are all postitive things, whether they are quotes or things I like. Thought this would be fitting for the "doodle" aspect. Drawn with FireAlpaca.