Trying To Get Back Into The Habit Of Drawing For The Sake Of Drawing, Rather Than Drawing For A Finished

New sketchbook!

Messing about with markers

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Quick doodles of faces and experimenting with marker and color pencil.

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I didn’t know that!! Thank you for the additional context! It adds another layer to this that I wasn’t aware of. I am delighted!

I have a new comic – a real, physical one – up for sale on my Etsy!

It’s $6 + shipping, and you get a sticker!

Because I have brainworms and want to infect everyone I can with them, I will be posting the whole thing here but the draw for the hard copy is a pretty color cover! And a sticker!

Read the whole thing below the cut and then maybe buy a copy.

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Second study, using heavy body acrylics this time.

So far I like the opacity, but I prefer how smooth the open acrylics feel and that they stay wet on the palette for longer.

I’m trying to move away from my natural inclination towards fussy details and get more of the big strokes that you see in Uglow, Saville, and Freud.

Just dropped these pieces of at The Factory for “Through the LooQing Glass”

I’ll be taking some comix over too!

Opening night is 6/13 and the Pride party is 6/27

https://www.facebook.com/events/380836725860305/

(Apologies for the lack of activity. I moved and still haven’t gotten internet set up.)

More sketchbook doodles

I love how awkward and layered and mismatched dancers' rehearsal clothes are.

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Like a Big Cat Purring

36"x20", mixed media weaving, utilizing a crochet shawl made by my late cousin, before her death, 2024

detail one

detail two

detail three

details from "Amateur Psychoanalysis."

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Your comic about how you used to love to draw.. I sympathize so much. It must be so difficult to process those feelings during times like these. If it is any consolation, the space your art takes up is a joyful, meaningful one in a lot of people's hearts. It's like a language guidebook that creates the foundation of a second language in the mind of the reader. I know how poisonous it can be to think of your art as needing a function, to be small and disposable yet widely used, I hope you are feeling better these days with your art and that you are able to heal. Your art has helped heal a lot of us, but more meaningful is if it is able to heal you

Thank you for sending me this.

Honestly, I think disenchantment with, and then falling back in love with, art-making has been (and probably will always be) a cyclical part of my life. It’s my own little myth of Sisyphus wherein I laboriously roll my absurd art boulder up the hill, convinced that this task matters, only to watch in despair as it rolls back down the hill. I accept that I must do this task again, that my labor doesn’t matter, but pushing the art rock up the hill was fun so I might as well do it again.

Hand of Benediction

elderflower

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