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Meeeoooow, Monday! Haven't done much art stuff in the past several years... life stuff kinda makes it difficult to be in the creative mindset. Managed to do and finish a portrait recently. Haven't done one in years! This is Miguel Bose, one of my fave singers... I used winsor and newton cotman watercolors, staedtler black mars lumograph for the dark details and derwent watercolor pencils for the highlights. Have a lovely and meowy day!

Meeeoooow, Monday!  2026... another year has begun.  Happy New Year!  Hope 2026 will be a bit nicer and kinder to everyone...  Last year, on top of real life issues/problems, there were earthquakes and typhoons with flooding in Cebu.  Thankfully, the municipality where I live, we weren't affected much from those!

As mentioned previously, I haven't been feeling creative the past several years... unpleasant life stuff.  Gets in the way of creative stuff. I have many unfinished/unrendered sketches in my art pad that have stayed in pencil-sketch stage for years.  This clematis is one of them.  Sometimes it's just procrastination, not knowing how to proceed to the next stage... Color is one of my weaknesses, which is kinda why i do a lot of black fineliner doodles.  I love color but I often get stumped when deciding on what color combos to use, despite having 800+ color pins on my pinterest for inspiration. So I would scroll and scroll and scroll and scroll through my color pins/board, yet still unsure!   For this one, I decided to just play with it, including the background.  Not quite feeling this color combo and background, but i can always draw and render new ones!

Meeeoooow!  It's been another long while since I've posted my art... It's October and the year's about to end!  Haven't been feeling creative/artsy for the past several years...life issues.  Anyway, slowly getting back into art, eventhough I still dont feel like it most of the time.  Have started drawing in my sketchpad again.  I got a new one a few months ago... it's in blue!  My fave color!  Also got a few new art supplies - Kuretake's Gansai Tambi gouache paints, Ohuhu's journal markers and a couple of new finetip brushes and fineliners.  Used the Kuretake for this October lettering.  Haven't tried the Ohuhu markers yet.  I have this habit of buying art supplies/mediums to try out but end up not using and stay untouched for years.  Many of them are still in their sealed original packing.  Fortunately, they're inexpensive student-quality stuff!  And if I've opened and tried them, I only used them a few times at most.  I seem to keep going back to my usual mediums - watercolor pencils, fineliners and pencils/graphites.  

Meeeoooow, Monday! Felt like doing a pet portrait of one of my cats.  Meet Sugus,,, he's a stray that was hanging around the yard.  Named him after the Sugus candy from 19-something, childhood memories... hahaha... His coloring and personality made me think of that candy.. cuddly and yummy!  I seem to like naming my cats after food - Pickles, Soba, Burrito, Skittles, Pawpaw, Coffee, Jams, Meiji (Japanese chocolate brand), Kewpie (the Japanese mayo, not the doll), Tori (Japanese for chicken), Charamel Torta (she's tortoiseshell cat - charcoal black with caramel drizzles, Chewie Mentos (literally chewy, been bitten 5x by him!).  Yeah, I have lots of cats, but not as many as years ago.  Currently have only 7.  They're all strays or descendants of those strays.  Have a lovely and meowy day!  

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Meeeoooow, Monday!  Another fashion runway illustration from the Fall 2024 Couture collection by Giambattista Valli.  Have a lovely and meowy week!  😺😺😺

Meeeoooow, Monday!!!  It's been some years since I've last done a Fashion Week runway fashion illustration.  Fun!  This one's by Giambattista Valli, for his Fall Couture 2024 collection.  Lovely collection! 

Meeeoooow, Monday!!!  Hello, hello, hello!  It's been a loooong time since I've last posted here...  Here's a greeny, leafy and very swirly Hello from me to you.  Did this one earlier this year but only posting it now.    Have a lovely and meowy week! 

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Meeeoooow, Monday!  One of my fave flowers to draw... sakuras!  Quite a lot of dots, took a bit of time but a lot of fun.  Have a lovely and meowy day!

Meeeoooow, Monday!  A variation on the leafy doodle from my previous post... Have a lovely and meowy week!

Meeeoooow, Monday!  Happy 2022!  Another new year, hope this one is going to be a good one, or at least a neutral one.  2021 was rather scrappy.  Anyway, drawing a different style of foliage this time...  still in black ink of course!   Been wanting to do colors but haven't gotten around to buying new inkpens.  Not quite fond of the colors I currently own.  Sooooo, it's all black ink for the mean time!

Meeeoooow, Monday!   Meeeoooow, December!   Another dotty and inky floral frame design.  I'm loving this dotty pointilism style.  Have a lovely and meowy day!  Stay safe and healthy!

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