Creative Flow

In september 2017 my love for drawing and painting got renewed. I've always liked to draw since I was a kid and still have many sketchbooks and drawings from earlier times. Last year it all started out with handlettering and bullet journaling. I came across videos on YouTube, tried it and then wanted to become just as good as people on there 😂, who already did that for a long time. It didn't take that long for me to find out that bullet journaling isn't really 'my thing', I began to draw more in journals rather than keeping up with dates, trackers and thoughts. So my first bullet journal quickly transformed into an Art Journal, and I loved it. I started watching more and more artists on YouTube who were just drawing and painting and knew that this was my 'new' hobby. I learned a lot from tutorials online and quickly bought my first 'real' art supplies... and after a little while I bought some more.. and more and also got them as gifts, art supplies really are the BEST of gifts to be honest. I began to love drawing with (coloured) pencils, inks and also painting with watercolours and even acrylics. I think I developped my own style after a while, which is not drawing realisticly, but more in an illustrative style and sometimes cartoony even?

My first drawings were pretty OK, and I got some nice reactions on Instagram and Facebook, which of course, helped with my self asteem in drawing. I participated in Inktober, an Instagram challenge and it was fun to do, but also a very good way to improve my art. In november of 2017 I put myself up to the task of drawing my own Christmas cards. I ended up drawing / painting about 40 cards, with different media, and I honestly was pretty proud of the outcome. 

This year I'm doing the christmas thing again, but now just for fun, not to achieve anything, just to learn and to be creative. Because that's one of the things that I've always been sure of, I need creativity in my life. Whether it's drawing or painting, or digital designing, or designing jewelry... I need to translate my thoughts and feelings into something creative. 

Below are 4 cards I drew this year, they are done with alcohol based markers, the Winsor & Newton brushmarkers (also some Copics and much cheaper versions!) an inking pen a Pigma Micron, and a white Posca paint marker. 
I've retouched them digitally in Photoshop, to maybe even use them as a printed card, but that's something I still need to figure out, so maybe I can do that for next year's Christmas. 

For now, I'm just enjoying my current 'creative flow', who knows what may come up next? 😉

Aren't they cute? ðŸ˜ƒ








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