Evie's Sketchies

I recently started watching Sofia the First and it has become my number one Mood Booster ™ .  Seriously, if you could bottle all the happiness that I get from this show and sell it, no one would ever be depressed.  It is the nicest, sweetest most positive show I have seen since MLP:FiM Season One.  Just, it’s so... uplifting?  Sofia is my new hero.

“This is not an easy concept to explain without sounding sentimental. Perhaps the old myths and legends capture it best when they say that before being born each soul has been kissed by God, and then goes through life always, in some way, remembering that kiss and measuring everything it experiences in relation to that original  sweetness.  To be in touch with your heart is to be in touch with this primordial kiss with both its preciousness and meaning“ -- “The Restless Heart” by Ronald Rolhieser

“Inside each of us, beyond what we can name, we have a dark memory of having been touched and caressed by hands far gentler than our own.  That caress has left a permanent mark, the imprint of a love so tender and good that its memory becomes a prism through which we see everything else.  This brand lies beyond conscious memory but forms the center of the heart and the soul.”  -- The Restless Heart by Ronald Rolheiser

“The conception and birth of a child are a new awakening of the heart, they enlarge it.  The parents are called to grow in greater love and openness, and give of themselves.  The beautiful side of belonging is how it calls forth what is most precious in the human heart.  Belonging is equally beautiful for the child.  She knows she is loved and that she brings joy to her parents.  Her body, her growth, her nourishment, her language and her security all come from belonging.  It is through this sense of belonging that she begins to discover who she is and who she is called to become.” -- Becoming Human by Jean Vanier So I drew this, but all credit should really go to @paterxumbra and @materxnatura.

Go wild!

I wish I had a better answer to this!  I really don’t sadly.  I have a lot of headcanons about the Lunanoffs, but when it comes to Nightlight and Katherine, I’m so uncreative XD  I just take what Joyce has written and read it over and over like a true fangirl!

This is kinda a heavy subject to talk about on my art blog, and I think this ask was sent a while back, but if you are still interested, anon, please message me and we'll chat about it!  This is a very complicated subject that requires a lot more specificity and detail than I can provide here.To put it simply though, Jesus loves people and knows the struggles they face and the battles they endure more than anyone else can.  There are ways he would have them live, but if they choose not to live in those ways, I don't think he gets angry so much as disappointed-- so long as they are only hurting themselves and not others.  I think he never stops trying to help them meet the needs they have, which are the source of their anguish, and what drive them to do things that might not be best for them.  Ultimately, God wants his creation-- human beings-- to thrive, and there are a lot of ways that people chase after things that hinder them from thriving, whether it's a relationship, an identity, a material possession, etc. and as much as God loves them, he would have them pursue Himself instead of those things.  Any time you have a doubt about a particular lifestyle choice, it's good to read in the Bible the kinds of ways Jesus says to live-- if it doesn't line up with his teaching, it probably isn't in your best interest.  If he is silent, then I take that to mean he'd rather you focus on the things he's teaching than on some other question.  Pray, and seek the Holy Spirit, and if you have peace then rejoice about that.  If you don't, keep going to God and asking Him.  I hope this helps!

“Too much?” “...you had to ask?  And that’s coming from a person dressed head to toe in spandex.”

MiM and the Guardians, Face-timing before it was an app.

A follow up from this post!

“You’re no good to your brother if you’re dead!” “I was never much good to him alive either.”

The Star Pilot and the Queen of the Clouds (From ROTG and Over the Garden Wall!)

A commission for Frosticeleste of her character Symphony in constellation form and Jack Frost in Nightlight’s uniform.  Symphony is a truly beautiful character inside and out and it was an honor to draw her again!  Drawing Jack in Nightlight’s uniform kind of made my brain do a somersault but he sure looks cute! Commission information is here!

I know I already had one side of the living room decorated, and the bathroom walls, but my students had to retire their original copy of Jack Frost and I wanted to commemorate it somehow, now that they have a new one. Remember that time even I thought I was only joking when I said soon my whole house would be covered in Joyce’s art?  So do I, rip me--

“Your poetry is very sincere, Wirt!  I’m sure Sara will want to read these.  They’re all of your deepest thoughts, but put into words!  That’s a priceless treasure.” When Greg and Wirt return Kailash to her Mother Goose, it turns out that Katherine has found something of theirs as well.  An exchange happens, but not before she can give Wirt a literary review.