Every and anyone who knows me personally knows I NEVER finish my art, and when I do, I either give it away or it stays in a sketch book packed away.

My mom might be the only person who has a bit of my art that she’s collected over the years when I was a teenager.

They are mostly paintings

I don’t paint as much as i’d like to, canvas is annoying, I prefer wood and always have since I was a kid. BUT I can appreciate a nice sized canvas when I have one.

Most of this art is not finished

I’m often hard on myself when it comes to creating and always think I’m going to ruin it if my mood or focus shifts too often.

I also think I should be more prominent of an artist than what I am at my age but that’s just me.

Open to ideas on how to finish them!

I RECENTLY LOST A VERY IMPORTANT ART PAD OF MINE SO IM SORRY FOR THE OLD DATED ONES. it’s been a true loss.

THE ART (phases)

I use:

Soft cover Moleskine A4/A3 - 8.25x11.75 in/ 16.5x12 in ( 20-35$)

Prismacolor pencils - 132 color set (100$)

Crayola crayons - 120 color set (10-20$)

Pentel Arts oil pastels -36 color set (5-10$)

We are just going to jump right in because I don’t know how to do this.

This small journal (not a moleskine) only has the fruit series that I did back in 2019, and of course some other random art i’m slightly proud of.

My main focus was trying to personify moldy fruits or vegetables, as if something possessed them.

What inspired it was the job I had at the time, constantly coming across molded produce since everything was locally sourced.

I was going for a semi-realistic but cartoon look

I cannot tell you how or why I draw the things that I do, no I don’t have a consistent style that I like to stick to, and yes I use a lot of color pencil.

I often mix crayon, color pencil and ink in drawings.

The following collection was from a time I decided to redraw old doodles I had on random pages.

The first drawing was done with crayon and markers in a class when I got bored, I held onto it for some years and wanted to challenge myself with reinventing the idea with adult crayons. (oil pastels)

I was VERY satisfied with the outcome and have been wanting to see prints or at least frame it for myself.

The second drawing I had started in high school but ultimately didn’t like the way I arranged the colors so I decided to redraw. It came from the same journal the previous drawing was in.

The last one is from a sheet of paper I got bored in geography with.

It was quickly done, also didn’t have the tools I needed to execute my vision so I worked with what I had .

I held onto in knowing I would comeback to it.

I really played around with the texture and blending of colors, keeping with that semi-realistic feel to it.

The next few drawings are from my semi-new moleskine (large), I wanted to use it as a day to day journal but its now my tattoo journal as well. here are some of the unfinished day-to-day doodles.

I’m not really sure what i’m going for in this one.

The first drawing is supposed to be framed with the planets in their own faces, and a constellation in the top corner but I just filled it with stars for now.

The second drawing was a memory exercise of what I could draw from just seeing that day. A house on the hill, a rosenbergs bagel, the death character from adventure time, my hand holding the heart hanging in my car, and the rear view mirror of my car.

The third drawing was not really anything specific, I might have just been experimenting with the medias, I was also trying to use colors I don’t normally use.

The Coraline drawing is still up for discussion, I want to make it really dark close to where she’s crawling, but don’t know how to. I might go into deeper blues and grays but for details I might draw the skeleton of the cat sitting next to her.

The Fifth doodle is also a don’t know, was testing out a certain pen and was satisfied with it.

THE FROG I wanna color it in so badly but I know I can make it soooo much better, possibly a future tattoo. The rabbit she’s still being worked on as well, I want to add a huge green jewel hanging on her fur.

My moth boy is so not even, I might be able to fix that with shading, don’t know what else to put around it.

The next few are clippings of my favorite pieces i’ve saved from old journals or random pocket sized journals.

The first one was me trying to figure out how to create the translucent look with color pencils, if you look closely you can see where I sketched the petals but got too scared of ruining it and never overlapped the yellow.

Second clipping is a picture I took on film in a moving car, I thought oil pastels were the proper tool to execute that blurry look.

The uneven fox drawing was the result of watching The Golden Compass for the hundredth time in my life. Funny thing is just yesterday someone asked me what I would want to be in my next life, I said a fox.

The ST Mary’s Glacier drawing is from sitting in front of a fallen over tree on the edge of a lake. The roots were grown around rocks, I was using fall themed colors.

FALL COLORS, what a cute lil doodle, probably one of my favorites recently.

Again following the color schemes

I was thinking about how the sun goes away in the winter, I tried to imagine her cooling down but still lighting her way through the forests to find a place to hibernate. I like to think of her staining the aspens with life of yellow and orange right before they fall.

A mountain range in complete dots, I remember starting this in high school and still haven’t finished it yet. HA. OH Mr. Riddle. (if you know you know)

The last drawing is one of MANY bear drawings i’ve done. Every year for Valentine’s day, Mother’s Day, Father’s Day, Her birthday, and Christmas I hand make a card with a bear drawn in a different way on the cover for my mom.

I always sketch them out before hard drawing.

Lastly the random pages I saved from tossing whole journals that have potential to be prints.

The first two drawings I remember so vividly in the middle of my amazon induced insomnia I was obsessed with crayons and wanted to draw with nothing but that. I had this wild image in my head of wanting to draw a face in thermography form, I kind of succeeded just didn’t use any blue.

The painting on a page, I want to say this is a feeling I have often, that is all.

I like drawing hands, I was thinking of my red string tattoo and how to conceptualize it without including it. I was also listening to Use Somebody by Kings of Leon.

Another moth boy in blue ballpoint pen, I think one of my first times doing a drawing in all pen. Since i’m left handed I try to stay away from ink, and yes i’ve tried the paper under the hand thing I don’t like it. As for the note I don’t remember writing that.