Nine of Wands - Sketch

Hello my beautiful patrons, 

It feels good to be back and to engage with the community. Welcome to all the new faces! I'm so glad to see that more and more poeple are joining. :]

I've been gone for a while to work on a freelance job (completing 5 pieces took a while) and to take a week off after that. Now I'm returning to my regular schedule which revolves around tarot cards and small originals. I'll be doing a lot more watercolours soon, which I'm excited about! 

What you can see here is the sketch for the Nine of Wands tarot card. It stands for the following things:

• defending yourself & protecting others
• perseverance
• stamina

So in my mind, the image of someone walking through thick snow seemed fitting. Also, the character is holding a baby fox and protecting it from the cold. 

I hope you like it!

Since I've been absent for so long, there are a couple of things that I didn't get to talk about yet:

• I'll be hosting a giveaway on my Instagram (@djamilaknopf) to celebrate reaching 100k followers. I haven't picked a date yet, but I'll let you know!
• I have a couple of new prints in store 
• Aaaand on a completely non-art-related note, I have had an amazing success in my personal life. I think I have mentioned it briefly before, but I've been fructose-intolerant as long as I can remember (but diagnosed in 2011). That meant that I couldn't eat anything that had sugar in it. And sugar is in almost everything. So I had to cut out probably 90% of foods that regular people eat. I was left with grains, dairy and meat basically.
  And now I've tried out a therapy that I stumbled upon online and... IT WORKED. Now, after years of struggling and horrible stomach pains,  monotonous food and vitamin deficiencies, I can finally eat whatever I like and for once I feel like a human being. I've been shoving strawberries in my face all day. You cannot belive how happy this makes me. So, I wanted to share it with you. ^_____^

Have a wonderful day/night and thank you for everything. <3