One of the many nights my sister and I spent hidden away in blanket forts reading fairy tales by flashlight. (Watercolor and Colored pencil on Arches 300lb cold press)
I tried to keep it simple since painting glowy light is very new to me, but might revisit this again after I watch some more classes and feel like I can add all the things I wanted to.

Keep to the path through the wood and don’t ever stop!

Materials are watercolor, Colored pencil, cut paper, and chalk. I don’t have any digital capabilities so I’m experimenting with ways to use traditional art and still have the depth and dimension I want.

I asked my 10 year old what she would do in a mushroom village and she didn’t even hesitate, “play hide and seek!” So, here it is. Hide and seek in the mushroom village. I should have done the whole thing bigger. Sorry if it’s a bit blurry. It’s watercolor, colored pencil and cut paper. No digital because I don’t know how. ️

I’m not sure if I took this one too far... but I got a little excited. Does a poster style mashup with Labyrinth count? I did a few more than 4 characters.

I've actually been planning and sketching and working this one out in my head for quite a while. I love cut paper and tiny things so I made this candy tin illustration/ diorama (inspired by Neil Gaiman's "Neverwhere")this month. It feels like you open the lid on a tiny magical world. I'll definitely be making more. It took a lot of planning to figure out how I wanted the layers and then I had to paint and place all these impossibly small elements, but it was really fun.

Here’s mine! Aside from seeing the growth over a year, highlights for me include actually finishing the Draw 50 things assignment, having Mindy Kahling share my sketch on her Instagram, and participating in MerMay.

I also can't figure out how to post more than one photo at a time. Grrrrr. Me and technology.

This little sketch was probably my most honest and vulnerable piece this year. And, as unplanned and quickly done as it was, I love how simple and true it is.

Wondering about updates on this. Amazon keeps moving back the ship by date. I’m guessing it’s just a giant legal mess right now.

These are great. Well done.

This is adorable @Gary-Wilkinson so colorful! I love the lighting effects too. Well done!

@donnamakesart welcome to the forum! I hear you , I’m an introvert too. But, lockdown has me craving adult interaction almost as much as alone time. Especially since most of my day is filled with managing distance learning kids. good job on sticking with Inktober this far! 30 drawings for 30 days is not as easy as it sounds.

@Shell-LeDrew welcome to the forum!! ️

Help!!!
Here’s the beginnings of my composition for my selkie illustration for folktale week. There’s going to be a seal in there somewhere and more fish. I’m just wondering if it’s getting too crowded? How’s the composition so far? Any critiques are very appreciated. Also, does anyone know why my images are lousy when I export them out of procreate? They’re all sharp and clear and then they are crap. I don’t know about digital anything, so I feel like I keep ruining images. Just know for now that it is a lot clearer than this.

Here’s the link
Tiny Chef

Nothing to share myself, but apparently the tiny chef is getting lots of fan art today because of the chef prompt. . I thought his Instagram video of looking at his art was adorable.

This was so good. Do you think it’s normal to experience burnout just consistently for a few years? More of my personal experience with burnout is less with my artwork and more with general life stuff that then steals my ability to push myself creatively. I really appreciate what Lee said about how he took time off and just did architecture and life drawing when he was in burnout... just because you don’t have to figure things out as much. I’ve never put my finger on it before, but I’m finding myself doing portrait pencil sketches all the time (when I know that I actually want to illustrate stories). I don’t understand myself, because I have so many ideas for full illustrations, but I, more often than not, just grab a Pinterest photo and sketch that instead. I’ve been trying to just be okay with where I’m at. But, it’s discouraging when I’m not even motivated to do what I know I want to do. I feel like I know why i do that now. Thanks @Lee-White It’s very eye opening.
Also, on a side note, speaking of wildlife, while I was listening to this podcast, I kept having to pause it because there was a moose in our yard and the dogs were freaking out. We also have a pair of great horned owls that live on our property. Living in Alaska is crazy.

@JessicaStauffer Thank you! I think I need to work on my canvas sizes in procreate. It looked way fuzzier and out of focus when I posted it here and on Instagram. I’m loving my iPad, but I still have a lot to figure out.