Still Here! Painted Quirky Doodles, a Sketch, and a WC WIP

 My creative passion and muse is taking a looooooong vacation it seems! I am still in a slump and can't want to do anything, plus I haven't been feeling well. So, the other day I decided to make myself paint some of the quirky doodle sketches I had previously shared. I got out my watercolors, markers, pens, brush pen India ink, water spray bottle, and sketchbooks and just literally started throwing paint with a wet brush, letting it run and settle on a few of the sketches, thinking it would jumpstart my creative juices again. When they were dry, I added the other media. I enjoyed it while I was doing it, but it hasn't helped me want to continue on, or start new, projects yet, plus I can't get back into my daily sketching practice.

Usually, doing a few quirky doodles or buying a new class does the trick. I haven't bought a new class, because I have about three already that I haven't started yet, and quirky doodle sketches are even alluding me right now.

Anyway, here are my feeble attempts at creativity over the last few weeks. Hope you enjoy them!

The quirky doodle sketch below and the painted version above done with a mechanical pencil, Kuretake watercolors, and an India ink brush pen in my hot pressed mixed media sketchbook from Sophie's Art Supplies online.

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"Alone"-The sketch above and the painted version below were done in my Arteza mixed media sketchbook, on the textured side, with a mechanical pencil, black gel pen, Kuretake wc, a Zig black marker, and Posca markers.

"Me and My Shadow"- The above quirky doodle sketch and the painted version were created with a pencil, a black gel pen, a Zig marker, Kuretake wc, and Posca markers, also in my Arteza mixed media sketchbook, textured side.

"Scotty"- The quirky doodle above and the painted version below created in my Sophie's hot pressed mixed media sketchbook (very smooth pages) using a brush pen filled with India ink over a mechanical pencil sketch, with a little blue colored pencil on top after it was dry.

An accidental painting made by testing a couple of colors of Kuretake watercolors, which are in cakes, with my wet brush. This lady appeared, so I added a face. Later the cat appeared and I added a couple of pencil lines. I like it!

Work in Progress- A background using Kuretake watercolors brushed on with a wet brush, then sprayed with water and let dry.

The only sketch I've done lately. She's imaginary, and I was trying to find an easier way to draw faces, so I used a mechanical pencil to sketch a square instead of an oval, marked the feature lines for eyes etc., added the chin and forehead over and under the square, sketched in the facial features, hair, and ears, and this is what I came up with. I kind of like her. 

The new sketchbooks I'm trying out here for part of the images are from Sophie's Art Supplies online. They have hot-pressed mixed media pages, which I thought would be like hot pressed watercolor paper, although it didn't say that. The pages are 140 lb, very smooth and white, and they are for acrylics, watercolors, pen and pencil, which I like, but it's kind of like drawing and painting on thin smooth cardboard, kind of slick. It also doesn't say it's acid free. I got three for about twenty dollars, 30 sheets each, so I should have known it wouldn't be watercolor paper. A little disappointed, but I will still use them for sketching and journaling, so it's ok.

Anyway, hoping my creativity energy returns soon and I can finish up some of these projects and start some new ones! Plus, I'm now seven stories behind for the Storyworth memory book my niece gave me for Christmas. They send a prompt once a week.

Thanks again for visiting! I truly appreciate it! 💖