Some sketches I did yesterday from photos I took of the food I ate over the weekend (my partner and I went out a couple times to celebrate our anniversary 💕). I was in a pretty good mood over the weekend until I checked the news. What can I say? Call/email your reps 🗣️ #art #artsky #sketchbook #food

My best friend who is a man, kindly calling me the other day: Happy international women’s day!!!!! Me: Is it…happy? It’s certainly international women’s day.

This 😏👇

A couple things… The “conflict“ in Iran *IS* a war. It is a war of choice. It is warfare without conscious. It was unprovoked. And I’m sick and tired of people suggesting & implying the only tragedies herein are that US Service Members have died. The people of Iran are innocents in this conflict!

The morally bankrupt Trump administration has partnered with another morally bankrupt authoritarian to declare an unprovoked war on Iran, already killing scores of civilians. We need an immediate vote from Congress on a War Powers Resolution. Then articles of impeachment.

Lizard head sketches plus a couple attempts at dragon heads #art #artsky #sketchbook

I know that this might seem obvious (and it is) but, in my quest to drawing cooler looking dragons, I’m finding that drawing lizards is actually really helpful (1/2)

Went digging into my digital art folder and found this sketch exploration I made of a chiton (a type of clothing from Ancient Greece—can’t say this sketch is terribly accurate for sure but I tried) and I never used it for what I intended to reference it for… (1/2)

My brain says that if dragons were real that it might be dangerous. My soul says it would be really really cool though. I think these dragons would be more cute than dangerous tho lol (1/2) . . . . #art #artsky #dragon #dragonart #digitalart

Drawing some dragons. Or like, you know, trying to lol . . . . #art #artsky #drawing #wip #dragons #digitalart

Just brewed myself a cup of tea using the last teaspoon and a half-ish I had left of a tea my parents got me when they went on a cruise around Asia last year. (1/2) #tea #teasky

A mermaid! But what do they need that net for?? (1/3) . . . . #art #artsky #digitalart #illustration #characterart #mermaid

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Me to myself looking at my wip: don’t delete yet, just trust the process, don’t delete yet, just trust the process, don’t delete yet, just trust the process 🥲 . . . . #wip #art #artsky

A digital sketch I drew a couple years ago. I should maybe make more still lifes and studies 🤔 . . . . #art #artsky #sketch #digitalart

I realize now that I was very intent on adding stars to everything I was drawing last month lol. (1/2) . . . . #art #artsky #illustration #digitalart #characterart #stars

A little #wip. . . . . #artsky #art #digitalart #illustration

So I’m learning French and sometimes when I’m searching for a French word in my head the years I spent from elementary to high school in Spanish classes bubbles up from the very bottom of my mind, surfaces, and provides me with a word instead even though I haven’t studied Spanish in years. (1/2)

#iceoutmpls #iceouttacoma #iceoutcomics

#wip but I’ve decided to leave this very unfinished. If I pick this idea up again I’ll probably start from scratch. . . . #art #artsky #digitalart #stars

Kare 11 local news just read, in full, this statement from Michael and Susan Pretti, the parents of Alex Pretti. "Please get the truth out about our son."

The guy who first dressed as Portland Frog, a major symbol of our protest and then other national protests, has been arrested while peacefully protesting. Prints of this painting by Simran Gleason are being sold to support his defense. www.simrangleason.com/prints/p/por... #pdx #protest

First finished drawing of the year! In the past I usually haven’t made many goals for new years and usually, when I have goals for the new year, I talk about them, but this year feels different. (1/4) . #artsky #art #portrait #illustration #digitalart #drawing

I've seen people say that the officer who murdered Nicole Good should be charged with murder, and to that I add that every officer who kept medics from arriving, who barred doctors from helping should also be charged under conspiracy doctrine.

Some of us have been trying to explain to some of y'all for like, forever, that armed agents of the state do not make communities safer. Defund the police was the compromise position.

Something’s cooking! well, technically the drawing is done, the short process video I filmed that added seemingly hours on to what should have been a relatively quick piece is not. . . . #artsky #art #illustration #digitalart #videoediting #plzidontwanttocolorgrade #butiwillifihavetomaybe

JUST IN: Mamdani, a democratic socialist and state assemblymember, will make history as the first Muslim and South Asian person — as well as the youngest in over a century — to serve as New York City mayor.

Emergency Protest today in NYC

First day of autumn calls for a nice cup of chai and queer horror (this newest addition to my personal library- Hello Sunshine by @keezyyoung.bsky.social- just came in the mail today, a day earlier than I anticipated!! I’m very excited!!!) #booksky #graphicnovel

Decrying violence against political opponents rings a bit hollow when you pull Secret Service protection from your political opponents.

The murder of Charlie Kirk was criminal, wrong, and should be condemned. And Charlie Kirk was a horrible, hateful man who spent his life radicalizing young people to embrace their worst demons by targeting women, people of color, immigrants, and the marginalized. I refuse to sanitize him.

I am SO excited about this and I am planning to be so insufferable about it when this comes out.

Little late night sketch of me sketching in bed. I swear I love this brush pen so much I can’t believe it took me this long to find out that bristle brush pens actually exist 😭. I’m sure I’ve said that before but I’m still in shock that it’s a thing #art #artsky #sketch #sketchbook #brushpen

From here on out I am on a book buying ban. No more new books— my physical tbr list is ridiculous at this point and I simply don’t have the space…except for the books I already have coming in on preorder… and also the books/graphic novels I’m already invested in the series of…

"To the members of the press who are assembled here today and listening across the country – I am asking for your courage to tell it like it is. This is not a time to pretend here that there are two sides to this story." Governor JB Pritzker

Some sketches I drew of the beautiful light fixtures and wine bottles at the French restaurant my partner and I ate at over the weekend plus a head that was part of some decorative part of a really amazing (but waaay expensive) dresser drawer we saw at an estate sale. #sketchbook #artsky #art

I discovered that I don’t actually have to be an NYC resident to get a Brooklyn Public Library card (I already have the NYPL one because of that very same reason) and now I have 4 library cards on my Libby 😎

I was singing Voilà by Barbara Pravi to myself and I just realized that I have no idea who won Eurovision this year—I usually check in during May, but, things have been so emotionally draining/hectic for me personally and also in the worldwide sense(🫠), I just totally forgot

I saw the exit door And I floated Toward it In a dream #micropoem #micropoetry #poem #poetry

My Thai chili peppers are doing very well 🥰.

With the awful news from the last couple hours, this post from the political optimism subreddit helped to break through a bit of the despair fog. Repubs know this is political suicide, ICE's support is crumbling despite the budget increase, and there's a myriad of ways to fight back. Keep strong.

RUIN. THEIR. LIVES.

If you just look at social media instead of news sources, you might believe the “big beautiful bill” has passed already. It hasn’t. It still needs to go through the House, where it has a strong chance of failing — so yes, feel as sad and angry and scared as you need, but PLEASE CALL YOUR REPS.

If there’s anything history has taught me, it’s that we’ve got to keep moving, keep living, keep creating, keep fighting. Call your reps. This isn’t over—like actually this bill still has to pass the house. CALL YOUR REPS.

hey I am posting this because I didn't know it, and so others might not either: but the BBB has NOT PASSED YET-- it's passed the senate & now it must pass the house. It's time to call reps RIGHT NOW. Johnson is going to push the vote ASAP before backlash can form so the calls need to start NOW.

Things are looking pretty rough right now in the world 🫠 but here’s the last of my self-portraits. #art #artsky #sketchbook #oilpastel #artist #selfportrait

Meant to post this yesterday but was a little emotionally drained: Added a new I voted sticker to the back of my sketchbook! I’m so relieved at the results of the primaries in my city and in NYC. Idk what’s gonna happen in the general election, but I feel something like hope.

As I continue my quest of trying to build a mental reference library for drawing fierce, majestic dragons, I ask the important questions… #art #artist #sketchbook #dragons #artsky