The more time I spend with my sketchbook
The more time I spend with my sketchbook, the less I want to be online. It's all so boring, blogging, reddit, youtube, all of it. I want to be all the time in the real analog world, with paper and pen...
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Escoda Versátil watercolor brushes
My Escoda Versátil watercolor brushes have arrived!! I got the round brushes in sizes 10, 6 and 2 to get started :) Looking forward to painting EVERYTHING I see!!! 🎨🖌️
Today on Draw With Me
Today on Draw With Me, Charles Dickens' Ghosts of Christmas Past! Happy Holidays! 🎄🎉🎨🖌️
Moving on from this. Colored pencils are beauti...
Moving on from this. Colored pencils are beautiful, but slow! I think my next one will be a base of water markers with the pencils on top. 🎨🖌️
First day doing the free course over at [Sketch...
First day doing the free course over at Sketch Loose and my first urban sketch ever! Learned to simplify shapes and draw from a reference image 🎨🖌️😍 Can't wait to learn about watercolors!
I have just discovered the concept of loose lin...
I have just discovered the concept of loose lines sketch and look at this! I have filled a page with vegetables, pens, a water bottle and two plant pots! I CAN DRAW! Stick figures, no more! 🖌️
Finished reading [We](https://micro.blog/boo...
Finished reading: We by Yevgeny Zamyatin 📚 One of the first dystopias, came out in 1924 and inspired many down the line. A totalitarian regime, literal glass walls, state assigned lovers, where mathem...
Finished this page with water markers! Next up:...
Finished this page with water markers! Next up: colored pencils! 🎨
I've been living for the past 15 years with a m...
I've been living for the past 15 years with a massive question mark: to blog in English or Portuguese? EN is my main language for everything, web, books, movies, work and even marriage! PT BR is the l...
Did an allergy prick test yesterday. Tested pos...
Did an allergy prick test yesterday. Tested positive to a ton of stuff some known: birch pollen, dust mites; some suspected: almonds, cypress pollen; and some surprises: all other kinds of pollen, nut...
Watched [Alien: Earth](https://www.themoviedb.o...
Watched Alien: Earth 📺 Full of plot holes and nonsensical things, moderately entertaining. The best actor was definitely the octopus eye, such a character! 👽🐙👁️
Already gave myself my own early xmas present: ...
Already gave myself my own early xmas present: a Disney colour by number book and a box of crayola markers! 🎨🖍
No desire to blog this week, but just wanted to...
No desire to blog this week, but just wanted to write for posterity: started driving lessons last week! Drove all over town and on the highway too! Anxious and insomniac AF over this, but also having...
My sourdough starter died! 🥖 With the travel t...
My sourdough starter died! 🥖 With the travel to Italy and our mothers here trying to take over my kitchen, I ended up not baking for 3 weeks, and now Ryan is gone. Completely moldy, smelly and beyond...
"Drawing... it is the best thing that I ever ...
"Drawing... it is the best thing that I ever do. First of all because it gets me to be so silent. To not be blurting out what I think about this or feel about that. Second, I become an open observer,...
Finished reading [How to Make a Journal of Y...
Finished reading: How to Make a Journal of Your Life by Dan Price 📚 Inspiring. He can definitely draw, though his style looks deceptively simple. Loved the mix of text, sketches, photos, plants… I fee...
Watched [Murder Mindfully Season 1](https://ww...
Watched: Murder Mindfully Season 1 📺 Loved it! I’m fully convinced about the power of mindfulness and will get back to my daily practice, as I have many great things to accomplish! 😂 Looking forward t...
Watched yet another [inspiring video on illustr...
Watched yet another inspiring video on illustrated journals by Danny Gregory and signed up for his course! 🎨 Between this and the 2 books I read this past week, my drawings have improved a lot already...
Finished reading Draw Your Day
Finished reading: Draw Your Day by Samantha Dion Baker 📚 I saw this video by Danny Gregory on illustrated journals and now I’m on a quest to learn to draw and sketch so I can have an illustrated journ...
A time to go long, a time to go short...
"There is a time to go long, a time to go short, and a time to go fishing." — Jesse Livermore