新年快乐! Year Of The Ox 🐂🧧✨ Also, Here's The Previous Years I've Done So Far 🐀🐖🐕

I sit with my grief. I mother it. I hold its small, hot hand. I don’t say, shhh. I don’t say, it's okay. I wait until it is done having feelings. Then we stand and we go wash the dishes.

-- Callista Buchen, from Taking Care

恭喜发财! 🐷

To better myself as an artist, I decided to set a daily goal: speed painting! These will be done each day for 30 minutes, so they will appear rough… which definitely takes me out of my comfort zone 😬! But that just means that it’ll help me focus on lighting and color.

Many thanks to @goro.fujita and his insightful guest lecture at the SHM Club a few weeks back; I’m motivated to get back to speed painting! This will be a long rigorous journey, but I’m sure it’ll be worth it 🔥 Here’s my pieces from Day 1-9

"Where Jellyfish Come From," a screenshot study of a cute and sad story

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival ✨🌕🐇✨

Today is my birthday! (11/23) So I would like to gift you all with this announcement:

I have (finally) created my own food blog! @comfydarkeats ✨🍽✨

Food and art are both things that I greatly enjoy. When I was asked what my dream career would be, I answered that I'd want to be a food illustrator.

I say "finally" because, to be honest, even though they are my passions, it took me a while to just get started. Maybe it's the fear of making mistakes, or that the results won't turn out the way I want it to. Does anyone else feel this? 😭

A very wise friend told me, "Why not start with a 'bad drawing'? Why not paint a 'bad thing.' And just keep going until you finally get something good." In other words, I won't know if the piece is bad if I don't get started at ALL.

I'm also trying to apply this mindset in other aspects of my life. I admit to not accomplishing a lot of goals (let alone daily tasks) because of this fear of failure, fear of not getting it right the first try, which causes me to stop on my tracks and just be stagnant overall.

I know this is something I need to work on, but as I'm getting older, I'm learning that it's okay to make mistakes, as long as there's the eagerness and acceptance of bettering myself. I'm also trying to take in this saying, "There's no better time than the present." It's been said so many times, but I never really had that sink in until now.

Creating this blog is a small step, but it's important to me that I initiate at all instead of going, "someday." So here's to starting new things that may turn into accomplishments!

Is there something that you've been wanting or needing to do?

Prompt #1: Mushrooms/Meditative

I've been going at a much much slower pace when it comes to drawing, but when I do, I'm following the #chilltobember prompts! It's perfect because this event is all about slowing down and (re)learning to enjoy the process.

These original prints (size 3 x 4.5 in) are available for sale so feel free to DM or message me ✌️

I hope everyone is doing well during this chilly autumn season! 🍂

I completed a Color Palette Restriction Challenge a while back, I’m pretty happy with the results!

It's that time again! Join me on this #inktober journey :)

Day 1: Poisonous. Inspired by the Black bat flower 🦇 

Just a little time Just a little something else instead Just a little time Just a little something up ahead I'm dreaming of... A #dtiys a while back 😭 This was such a memorable show with heartfelt songs, story and lovable characters. I'm grateful for this masterpiece ❤️ Are there any shows that you're currently watching? I hope you're having a nice Sunday, and have a good week!