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Still drawing wonky faces in boxes. I’ve just finished (or close enough) a bunch of projects so I have decided to take some time to muck around in my sketchbook. These birds are from an old drawing zoom from @emmacarlisle_ ‘s Patreon. I’m slowly working my way through the fabulous exercises and such. Emmas got loads of super inspiring exercises for getting outside of your comfort zone and trying new things. #paynesgreyclub #kidlitart It’s time for the annual post of my favorite photo! Happy TWELVE years @quanpants. I don’t know how we made it this far, but look, we did! I’m glad we are at the point in our marriage when you get excited that part of your anniversary gift is a fancy garbage can for your office. Love you. 😘 One of my goals for the next few months is to play with my materials. What works, what doesn’t? Does this work with that? Can I find new ways to make marks that I like? I don’t have any set structure to this exploration, it’s more just allowing myself to follow where things lead. Yesterday I was working in graphite pencil, usually I work with watercolor, can I combine them? Does that work? That was the question I was asking myself when I made this piece. Does it work? Maybe, but it is definitely worth exploring more. Am I obsessed with this exercise? Yes. Haha. A friend said the last grid of faces I did (Hi Alicia!) looked like a yearbook page and so I had to do another in black and white like my old yearbooks (are yearbooks still in black and white??) haven’t done something in graphite pencil for a long time and I forgot how fun they are. Was very inspired by @veronica_mang‘s I adorable pencil artwork for her fantastic spy chapter books! I’m getting to the end of a marathon of book projects and in some blast of sanity and self care, I built in a bit of downtime for myself to play and doodle and dream and maybe start writing some stories of my own again. So for some extra inspiration I joined @sarahdyer_illustrator’s Patreon for a bit, she has lots of fun sketchbook exercises to loosen up. This is one of those, just a bunch of gridded faces. As someone who loves the idea of repetition, this exercise was perfect for me. Will definitely be doing this again and again.

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