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恭喜发财! 兔年快乐! 🐰🧧✨

Wishing you all a healthy, refreshed new year ❤️

Who have you been listening to?

More importantly, who do you want to listen to this coming new year?

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! 🍂

Day 24: One dozen

Here's something Valentine's Day themed 🌹 Inspired by the Haunted Mansion's Bride design ✨

Also, does anyone else get excited for discount chocolates??

For this post, I wanted to highlight someone who I've recently been looking up to, and that is: Rowena Tsai!

I get so much encouragement from her posts, and she just seems like a kind, genuine soul.

I find it humbling when Rowena talks about her personal struggles and flaws in her YouTube videos. She provides a positive, gentle take to those issues, along with book/article recommendations and inspiring quotes.

For that, I'm thankful for artists and bloggers who use their own vulnerability and put their narratives out there that I really resonate with.

One of the phrases that she uses the most is, "voice hug!" so I like to think that this is a creative way of giving her a hug!

Thank you @rowenatsai for all that you do 😊

Happy Chinese New Year ✨🧧🐀 新年快乐!

It's been pretty fun designing them, so I'm looking forward to see how they'll all look like in one chart!

Day 23: Slow

Revisiting one of my old inktober pieces ✨🦥

And relating to the prompt - can time just slow down a bit? January's almost over!

Day 22: Little

I wanted to focus on the idea of aging and growth for the two prompts. How did I do? ✨🦌

Day 21: Big

Inspired by deers that have an irregular growth of antlers. What's seen as deformities, I see as something unique ✨🦌

Happy holidays, everyone! ✨🎄✨

I hope you all stay safe and stay warm ❤️

Day 20: Squeeze

At this point, anything with snakes and angel blondes (combined) is considered Good Omens fanart ✨🐍✨

Day 18/19: Escape/Flight 🕊

Over the Garden Wall 🍂

Here's a revamp I did from an old piece of mine. This is one of those shows where I can watch again and again for the autumn aesthetics ❤️ Same goes for their soundtrack!

Day 17: Battle

(He probably needs to go to bed anyway.)

I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving! Here's an updated list of what I'm thankful for ✨

The list definitely got bigger - some are old, some are new, some are silly, a lot more are of food 👏 but more importantly, they're reminders to appreciate what I currently have, counting the blessings not just today but every day ☺️

I'm also thankful for you all! 🧡

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?

Day 16: Wet

Day 15: Relax

Day 14: Tree

Inspired by the concept of burial pods

Day 13: Scared

Day 12: Worried

Day 11: Transport

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

Day 10: Jump

Two prompts combined ⛰

Day 8/9: Rock/Broken

Happy Mid-Autumn Festival ✨🌕🐇✨

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Day 07: Lost

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Day 06: Hidden

Day 05: Sad

Yum

Day 04: Hungry