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 hi!  one of my last posts here on my blog was ins & outs for 2025 so I'd like to go through them and see how I did!  2025 art ins! - how did I do? ✰ hand-writing intricate and unusual fonts  I started January 2025 strong with these sticker designs  ⬇️  but that's about it for this one. I do like the look of handwritten text but it just didn't show up a lot in my 2025 art. ✰ comics about the mundane and being a human YES!!! I made & released red eyed and blue , a stream of consciousness comic about vices and habits. I spent a lot of time on this comic & love how it turned out. you can read it in the oat bag issue #2 or on my substack . you can also read this interview that just came out about the comic! here's a look at some of the pages! ✰ poetry (in comics or elsewhere) I did start Writing more! I made an active effort to write down any phrases or ideas that had  potential , or at least seemed like they did. I also made an eff...

  hello !  my partner got me these empty paint markers years ago. I filled 4 of them with acrylic paint + water and I liked them! but I kinda forgot about them for a while. after finding them again, 3 years later, I had the idea 💡 to put india ink in them!  I added a tiny bit of ink to each the empty ones, and filled the rest of one of them with water. so I have a gray and a black ink marker! so I tested them out ! this page is just the gray one. I was instantly Shook how fun it was. the lines were easier to control but it still Looked like ink wash.  (this is the ink I used btw) so I used the gray one on random lil line art drawings in my sketchbook!!! I really like the super dark gray and the black together. usually when I tone something with gray I choose a medium or lighter gray the dark gray shadows kinda make it look like really harsh lighting   I even did some line work just in the gray marker. I feel like these would be great for comics. this one ...

 hi friends!  the other day I was walking by the easter basket stuffers section of the store & came across these bad boys for like $4!!! I hadn't bought art supplies in a while (ive been known to buy too many art supplies that I don't need) so I decided $4 wasn't too unreasonable for these lil markers. I just love the color selection!!! plus, cheap water-based markers (washable markers) are so fun. and can be used for a bunch of different stuff! I will have to try styrofoam printmaking with them soon. so I drew this lil doodle of some of my ocs walkin  im really happy with it / the markers in general!  I used them on mixed media paper and let them dry a couple minutes before layering them  I would recommend doing that, because I also tried them on thinner sketch paper and Did Not wait for each layer to dry and it made the paper all pulpy and weird.  here's another oc doodle but wait . I also bought these while I was out: I've wanted to try tempera paint...

  hiiiii have you heard of mapcrunch ??? it's a website that plops you somewhere random in the world via google streetview.  like this: this is today's default location. I THINK everyday they pick one pretty/interesting location for the default one, but you can look at as many as you want . something I used to do a lot was draw those locations! I used to treat it kind of like plein air painting, where i'd try to capture The Vibes and draw/paint accuratelyish.  today I planned on doing that. but then I realized I was Not in the mood to draw directly from a reference.  so I tried something different ! I spent a small amount of time on each drawing, and just simplified each image like A Ton  here's the first page I did: I used markers ! I kinda wish I saved the reference photos from these  this page isn't as cute. but I liked picking out my favorite parts of each image and drawing it in a way that made sense/was fun  anotha one.  short post but I hi...

 hiiiiii!  here are some designs I made in my sketchbook today! I think im gonna make stickers with these items on them :) 

hello!!! happy new year and belated holidays 🍾  i have a lot of small art things to post . None of which feel blog-post-worthy but maybe all of them can add up to a blog post ! first of all, have you seen those ins and outs lists people post? I made one for art, specifically, for this year.  I think I made one last year but I have absolutely no idea where it’d be lol anyway. Here’s 2025’s list: 2025 art ins! ✰ hand-writing intricate and unusual fonts  ✰ comics about the mundane and being a human ✰ poetry (in comics or elsewhere) ✰ choosing colors and materials based on what feels right / or just randomly ✰ line art in a color other than black ✰ water soluble graphite pencils (specifically in comics! but also in other things!) ✰ posting art on social media - to share my art and inspire, not just to get Views and Likes (( tbh I didn’t have a lot of outs and I’m also trying to work on being less Negative so I’m just not gonna post any outs for 2025. )) kinda unrelated/kinda...