June rewards! and a touch of introspection about life?

Hello everyone!

Welcome back to my Patreon, let's enjoy some art together! :D I didn't get to draw as much as I wanted to these past 30 days due to the move, but I do sense that my work is changing subtly! Oh, before I get ahead of myself you can download the .zip file that's attached to this post, unzip it, and you're ready to look through all the rewards! I don't want to spoil anything, but get ready for a lot of process photos. ^^

But yes, my style has been changing this past month and I feel like it's moving in the right direction. I'm feeling content with my sketches and specifically the way I'm drawing faces. I hesitate to use the word content because I just know I'll have something to gripe about in a month, but I've learned to be okay with that. I think it's good to enjoy accomplishments and not get caught up in being overly self-critical. I think I'm starting to understand that life isn't made of absolutes. You don't achieve a goal and just...stop learning. I'd like to think I'm an advocate for life-time learning and that education doesn't stop even though you may no longer attend school. I'm really enjoying just being an open receptacle of knowledge and taking in information from all sorts of places. I don't think art is just the lines you draw or the shading you do. It's so much more. It's the experiences you have, the people you meet, it's everything you do. 

I'm officially one year out of graduating college and I think that's significant. Considering I was rather resistant to learning after I graduated (I'd just completed 16 years of schooling, I needed a break!) I held myself back from enjoying a lot of things. But I'm starting to see that art isn't created in a vacuum and your body and mind need outside experiences and new knowledge to fuel your work's evolution. I felt stagnant in life and I'm seeing parallels of how that reflected in my work. So, I'm making efforts to learn more, to ask more questions, to listen more and to just take things in and turn them into something else through my own eyes. The world is both large and small and I feel grateful to see just how large it can be at this point in my life. It feels exciting, like champagne bubbles trying to hop over the edge of the glass. 

Anyways, I hope you all have a wonderful rest of your day and thank you so much for your support! My heart feels so full every time I get the chance to share something with you, so thank you for the opportunity. <3

Love,

Vicki