#artblogging

Hiya! I hope you've had a good April. Me, not so much. The month started still heavy with artblock and outside of art I've also not been feeling great. At the very least I've kept up with regular life drawing but I decided pretty early on to focus on making progress on things I needed to get done unrelated to art. It's possible I did just need that time to rest as in the last couple of weeks the artblock has been going away! I've been able to slowly make progress on my art pieces without hating every step :) In other positive news the tree outside my kitchen window has fully regrown its leaves & there are lots of beautiful flowers growing on my regular walking path to the pool. 

2023 Sketchbook

The finish your project jam helped give me that last boost I needed to finish putting together my 2023 sketchbook pdf, which is a mix of my physical sketchbooks & misc digital art from last year. You can get a copy on itch.io.

2024 Hourly Comics Day

Same as above, I did the last couple of steps I needed to finish my hourly comics day pdf, also up on itch.io. 

There's very little new there, I just wanted to have all the hourly strips together in one easy to read place + share the printable booklet version that I made for myself in case anyone else was interested in printing themselves a copy.

Impractical but Cool Fantasy Swords

I've been chipping away at this zine in my off time for a while, now I just have these last 6 swords to finish shading and then finalizing the layout for the whole zine.

​Hopefully marking this as done will help push the last bit of artblock out of my system and I can get back to drawing new things rather than just finishing old art!

Life Drawing

I don't normally share day to day life drawing in these updates but since it's pretty much all the art I've got to show this month here are a few of my fav sketches from April:

Plans for May:

​Zines

I currently have 4 small-medium zine ideas bouncing around my head, I'd like to finish two of them this month but I'm undecided which two.

Don't Wake the Sleeping Dragon

some fanart I drew, inspired by my maiko fic graphite and tea, in which Mai is an artist who draws Zuko at The Jasmine Dragon. We have wait-I-actually-like-him Mai and grumpy-but-she’s-very-cute Zuko!

I haven’t actually drawn in three months, so I’m very pleased with how these both turned out! Also, I realised that I think I drew Mai left handed? So, uh, new headcanon?

(just to cover my bases: do not repost. reblogging is fine! Also, image ids are included below)

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[Image IDs: both images are digital art illustrations. They are a set, as if each image in in the POV of the other person. The first is of Mai. She is shown from the chest up, as if sitting behind a table, staring forward. Her expression is surprised, as if she is realising something for the first time. Her eyebrows are slightly upturned; her mouth is slightly open; and she is blushing faintly. There is a sketchbook laid open in front of her. It has some faint sketches on the pages and she holds a pencil to the paper with her left hand. She wears a purple textured turtleneck and her hair is styled with two buns and tails of hair over both shoulders. Her bangs hang into her face, but do not cover her eyes. The background is textured/painterly light green with a Victorian-esque wallpaper pattern, and the table is a textured/painterly light purple.