Hi peeps,
How are you all?
It has been a little while since I shared a batch of Daily Doodles!
I have no been doing great with keeping up with them, in all honesty.
Not only was I a little sickly the past couple of weeks because of my iron deficiency, I have also hit a strong bout of burnout, and have been feeling a bit apathetic. Getting myself motivated to pick any task up has been incredibly hard, ESPECIALLY creative ones.
I am slowl...
2020-12-15 17:46:42 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
Here are the designs I chose for the November and December Mini-Prints!
They will all go out next week!
I hope you are all well and taking good care of yourselves. :)
Love,
M
2020-12-09 15:14:00 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
Here are the stickers for December!
I will be sending them out next week. :)
In the meantime, I hope you are all well?
Personally, I've been a little under the weather the last couple of weeks, feeling very weak and nauseous almost all the time so things that should have taken me a couple days took me a week to do. I strongly suspect this was d...
2020-12-09 14:47:55 +0000 UTC
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Hello lovely people,
I woke up and it was December and frankly, I feel a little stunned, haha.
Time this year was...weird...
I was hoping to share a few things with you before the end of November, but unfortunately, the month got away from me, and I was unwell for the last few days (not Covid, don't worry), so I didn't manage to post as much as I was hoping, I apologise.
2020-12-01 14:58:46 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
So as you'll be able to tell from the title of this post, I have decided to stop creating polls for the mini-print of the month.
Part of my reason for this is how much work they are.
They might not seem like much, but coordinating rewards between months and making sure I have 3 designs to offer every time, and then creating them early enough in the month that I can leave them up for a couple weeks, and then only having...
2020-11-23 16:40:49 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here's a little update on the piece I am in the process of painting, "Shelter".
This concept was initially supposed to represent the head in the stomach with the hair flowing out and turning into silk, but something about it didn't connect with me and I didn't feel excited to paint it, so I decided to go back to the drawing board completely and redesign...
2020-11-20 17:43:43 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
Here are the sticker designs for this month!
I decided to go for a little throwback this time, as I was browsing my past Inktobers feeling nostalgic.
The design on the left is from my 2019 series, and the one on the right is all the way from my 2017 series!
I will be shipping the stickers next week. ...
2020-11-20 17:17:14 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here is another batch of Daily Doodles!
I went into November with the best of intentions, fully intending to complete every day of the month. And so far, I have missed more than an entire week. XD
It has been equal parts of completely forgetting because I am slammed with work, and feeling a little helpless and like everything was pointless.
I am trying to pick it back up at the...
2020-11-13 10:53:57 +0000 UTC
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Hello lovely peeps!
My annual end of year holiday sale is now live on my shop!
SHOP LINK
As usual, you get a chance to peruse everything before everyone else (Sale will go officially live on Monday).
As patrons, you also get a special code,...
2020-11-07 17:11:58 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
How are you all?
My dear US based patrons, are you holding up ok?
Let me know how you are if you want to, I am thinking of you.
This post is a little update regarding all the plans I mentioned in my previous update post, and a quick overview of how things are going so far.
First off, let's start with some art.
...
2020-11-06 15:12:21 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
I have an update post coming soon to give you more in-depth news on what I'm doing, but in the meantime, I had a fun bit of news (at least for me, haha), that I wanted to share with you!
I have a piece available for purchase on Every Day Original!!!
This is super exciting to me, but probably means little to you, so here's what that is all about :
Every Day Original is a project...
2020-11-05 10:19:52 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
The 3rd painting is done!
Here's "Struck"!
This one went through a good amount of changes from the initial concept to the finished piece.
As you can see, I didn't end up following the branches/mushroom-head line of thought, and ended up turning the character into a stump burning up from the inside, in the manner trees struck...
2020-10-31 20:12:13 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here's another batch of my Daily Doodle Diary!
I haven't managed to stay on top of the drawings this month as well as I did in September. Some days I was so busy I literally forgot to draw and others I was simply too exhausted.
October has been trampling me so far and my brain is full of holes!
So this batch is a little patchy but there are a few ideas I like, namely days 12 (head with roots), 15
2020-10-26 16:44:14 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
How are you all?
I finished painting #2!
Here's "Nurture".
I was happy with "Nephila", and I am even happier with this one.
The direction I wanted to take value and colour-wise was unclear to me up until the very last minute, which could've gone quite badly, but it worked out better than I hoped.
I painting this on...
2020-10-22 11:46:58 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
So, after a bumpy start on this small painting series and failing my first painting attempt, I managed to finish this piece and I am pretty happy with it!
This one is "Nephila".
I included some progress shots below and will ultimately have a Process PDF and timelapse of it all.
I am al...
2020-10-15 16:49:51 +0000 UTC
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Hi lovely people!
I spent the week-end getting the October stickers ready and here they are!
The first one will be of the sketchbook painting you lovely $1 folks have as your tier image, and this one is a regular white vinyl sticker.
The second design is a bit experimental.
I bought transparent sticker paper
2020-10-12 10:13:26 +0000 UTC
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Hello everyone,
Here's another batch of Daily Doodles!
I've been keeping up with those sketches well, and managed to complete September, which I was really happy with. I hope to keep that up with October and hopefully the rest of the year too.
I have been doing a bunch of quick lighting studies lately, as I find that studying how light hits can reveal and teach me a lot about the structure being lit. ...
2020-10-09 10:24:15 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here is your October Sketchbook PDF!
Sorry for the yellow cast, this sketchbook is quite old so the paper is now a little yellowed.
I quite like that personally, as I find off-white paper more enjoyable to work on, but it is difficult to get rid of in scans.
Most of the sketches in this batch are exploratory drawings for the painting projects I have been sharing with you the past few weeks.
I have sta...
2020-10-08 16:14:34 +0000 UTC
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Hello lovely people,
Here's a little something that isn't part of my 5 paintings project.
This little ink drawing is for the annual "Blackletter Ball" event, organised by a few of my peers on Instagram.
The event takes place during October, and is hosted by a few of us Instagram artists.
It is a themed art even...
2020-09-30 12:21:36 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here is batch #16 of my Daily Doodle Diary!
Still haven't missed a day in September, whoop!
I have been riffling through this Diary a lot the past few days, looking back on all my sketches so far, and I loved seeing the evolution between the beginning of the year and now. I went from suing a lot of pencil and black and grays, to the colourful mess you see here.
I used to be so shy with colour, but these doodles have really help...
2020-09-28 09:48:15 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
Here are the sketches for paintings 4 and 5 of this small series.
NEPHILA
I decided to work on this concept instead of the more complex "wolf faces" one I had initially embarked on (which you can see just below).
I had been working on the concept below for a little while, and just could not settle on a pose and compositi...
2020-09-25 17:29:50 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here is piece #3 from my small 5 painting series.
This one was the most straightforward so far, and was the one I made the least amount of preliminary sketches for.
The idea initially stemmed from a sketch from a little while ago, as most of the pieces in this series did, which you can see below on the left.
The sketch on t...
2020-09-23 17:26:23 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
Here is your Sketchbook PDF for September!
I have been enjoying a good bout of sketching lately, and this batch of sketches includes thumbnails, original idea sketches, as well as bunch of gesture studies in pen, which is an exercise I have been using to warm up every day and has been really beneficial to both my mental health and artistic health.
Please forgive the yellow cast and crinkly pages, the sketchbook I am using has yellowish...
2020-09-18 17:00:04 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here are some pictures of my progress so far with the 2nd piece in my 5 painting series : "Nurture".
The sketch on the left above was where the concept originated. It was a quick drawing in a now completed sketchbook, and never quite left my mind as an...
2020-09-17 17:07:55 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here is the Process PDF for "Parasite", the painting above!
The PDF contains a detailed step-by-step of my painting process, as well as all my references, and if you would like to know more about the supplies I used, you can refer to these posts :
- My F...
2020-09-16 10:37:11 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
Here's another batch of Daily Doodles!
I have managed to keep up a bit better this time.
I've been making a conscious effort to draw each page first thing in the morning, which has helped alleviate the stress of getting it done, as well as allowed me to stay consistent and draw every day.
I did miss a couple of days at the end of August, but since the beginning of September, I have managed to complete ...
2020-09-12 14:00:03 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
So, as you may know, I am working on a big painting at the moment.
I suspect that piece will take a little while to complete, and it is not one I feel I can rush on.
It is an intimidating painting that I want to be able to take my time with.
So while I work on that, I also want to get some smaller pieces ready. Having less ambitious items to focus on, on and off, helps me keep myself fresh and ente...
2020-09-11 12:13:45 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps!,
Here are the stickers designs for September!
I will be sending them out to existing patrons in the next week or so, and anyone can sign up to the Sticker Tier before the end of September to qualify also.
I hope you are all well!
Take care everyone <3
2020-09-04 10:47:37 +0000 UTC
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Hi peeps,
How are you all ?
I thought I would make a little post about a variety of things going on right now, as well as my plans going forward for the rest of the year. :)
I'll also share a few of my current favourite things with you, and would love to hear about you, how you are doing, what you are loving, and all those sorts of things, if you feel like sharing.
So here we go.
The serious stuff first.
2020-09-02 16:40:07 +0000 UTC
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Hi everyone,
Here's another batch of my Daily Doodle Diary!
I tried to keep up with the doodles while I was on holiday, and oddly enough, I managed that better than keeping up with them after I got back home.
I missed a few days after we got back, mostly out of pure exhaustion and lack of motivation. There is something so difficult about getting back to the rhythm of things after a break, isn't there?
Plus, I have always found that after some ...
2020-08-29 10:01:00 +0000 UTC
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